The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-06-21


tions. 1t cannot be too early impress
ed upon children, that while they are
led into the pleasant gardens of science
and made to pass along the beautiful
walks of philosophy and letters. there is
yet some little altruism in life, and
that neither the highest sanctities of
our fallen nature are to be profaned
nor all that is most beautiful on earth
and most sacred in religion to be buri-
ed under the rough granite of materi-
al civilization.
In order to help the cause of popular
education we must take hold of it in
directly as we'll as directly; for the
advancement of primary education
depends in no small degree upon that
of higher education. The whole sys-
tenn is a connected unityand thatwhich
lifts the superior departments tends
also to raise all the rest. The COM
mon schools of our state can never be
prosperous till they receive that stimu-
lus and guidance which higher educa-
ton alone can furnish. Society as a
harmonious whole must betake itself
to the state for the establishment of
higher education to meet the modern
needs. 1t must have a wider and
truly public character, and this alone
the state can give. Recent statistics
have proven conclusively that the
greatest and weaithiest states are those
that have the most young men persu-
ing higher education. Many of our
people think that North Carolina is
ready for great university. Not an
unhappy compromise between that,
and college-but university in its
full and broad sense.
From the rich and varied fields of
science-philosophy literature and
history the university of the future
must supply the world with fresh and
living thought. By the persistent eft
forts of some, the meager appropria-
ton to our present institution, was
much reduced, and, to those that are
striving to cripple still further the
Alma Mater of our fathers let it be
said "that they are beating down the
market that they may purchase ignor-
ance cheap" When we estimate the
wealth brought into the state by such
men as DR.. Mitchell and Prof Kerr
or think of the honor, that though our
University, CASTOR, Badger Polk,
Mangum, Vance or Ransom has re-
fected upon our state, we are led to
appreciate the value and power of
higher education. Without it their
names would have been "Unwept,
unhonored and unsung."
Before leaving this subject it would
be we'll perhaps to notice the great
need of a more thorough system OF
female education in our state. Early
and humbly should the daug ghters of
North Carolina understand that
through tenderness, purity and moral
influence they are the main stays of
the nation. They do not need su-
perfcial education, which l fear, is an
error too often committed ; but an
education that is based solely and
thoroughly on the Savoir fare. Too
many OF US are laboring under the
delusion that woman is made of cotton
and crinoline The small head which
surmounts her vast circumference
should be radiant with thought-the
| dome of pure and broad visioned
soul. 1t is her divine right not only
according to the part-''To sing, to
dance, to dress and troll the tongue
and roll the eye" but to develop every
faculty OF the physical, mental and
moral nature, to such an extent and
completeness that she may always be
sunshine in the shady places of life
to elevate the tone of social inter
course and purify the currents Of life
at their fountains. In every home
and every school she shonld be taught
to think and act like living intelli-
gence-conscious of her power and OF
her responsibility.
When the people of North Carolina
have thus been educated, we will la
Dor with quickened energies and q
higher intelligence; we shall make
our homes glow with a new lustre-
attractive for their flowing plenty snd
artistic beauty-the nurseries of every
manly excellence and womanly virtue
/ JOHN S. HILL.