The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-11-21
AGAINST MOVING TRINITY,
Co.. Alspaugh Gives His Views Plainly and
Forcibly.


[F1om the High Point Enterprisel
Col. J. w. Alspaugh, the tried and
true friend of Trinity College, has
written timely article in the Chris
tan advocate against the removal of
the college. he leaves no stone un
turned, and presents his views in
plain, logical way that cannot be mis-
understood He shows in unmistaka-
BILE terms the difference between the
circumstances that surround colleges
IN northern cities and those that sur
round college situated in a southern
city. he then reviews the mistaken
idea Of the people of the South concen-
trating and consolidating in towns and
cities, and says it is ali evidence of de-
moralization rather than development
As to the immediate effect a removal
would have on professor and student
he wisely says:
practically, there is another ques-
ton at issue in this matter of removal.
The professors in our college cannot
live and support their families upon
the salaries they are now receiving at
Trinity College,in the city of Raleigh.
All argument to the contrary, in the
knwIsdge and experience of men, must
60 for Haught. In the first place they
will be called upon-ihose who own
homes At Trinity-to sacrifice them
for property at the old stand when the
college is gone will be but a name
Like the echo of song when the mu-
sic is hushed,' it will be dead. Where
is the once beautiful village of Olin,
where you, MIR. Editor, received the bet
ter part of your education, where the
immortal Clegg once taught? This
was Methodist institution that has
been removed. Does its walls now
constitute hiding place for the bats
and moles? No! Like was said of the
city of Jerusalem once, mot one stone
is left upon another ; and property
there is neither sold or bought, but
simply occupied by those who will.
When our professors get to Raleigh
they will have to pay a rental equal to
large proportion of their salaries.
Then, they and their families will
have to dress to suit society there. If
they do not, we all know the conse
quences. At Raleigh everything they
live on will be to buy, while their sal
aries come in periodically. How will
they manage in this respect? Pay in
advance! $1,000 a year will not go
half way. $4,000 year then? Where
is the money to cone from? Have
| the trustees got it? Can the confer
ence raise it? Will Raleigh pay it
What is said of the professors in
this respect may be said of the stu.
dents For we must remember that
they too in Raleigh are to o into so.
ciety; into halls of legislation, into Su'
preme Court rooms, and as we'll into
places of public amusement This is
the argument, and these all require
more money and more fine clothes.
If our boys, when the college is re.
moved, get to Raleigh and do not have
these advantages, do not 60 to these
places of pulic amusement and of ad
vantage, but have to remain cooped uE
in their own quarters, what advantage
will they have then over what they
now have amid the hills and laure
groves Of Randolph county, where th'
college is located?
But surrender all our argumen
based upon the observation and expe
rience of the past, and admitting tn
correctness of the conclusions of tn
advocates of removal, we say that tn
terms upon which the Board of Trus
tees agreed to remove the college ha
not been met by the proposition 9
Raleigh, neither can it be, with tn
sum of $40, 500, only for building pun
poses."
In face of these facts it would cer
tainly be useless sacrifice to remov
the college. As We have said time an
again anything less than $4,000
would be inadequate, accepting tina
all else were equal.
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