The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-07-31
HIGHER EDUCATION.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CARO-.
LIMA.
Advantages Offered by this Institution
to the Young Men of the State and
Elsewhere.

The area Of patronage of the Uni.
versity is unrestricted by sectional,
sectarian or political lines; and there
fore the student-body represents what
is best in North Carolina in character,
intellect and home culture. 1t is we'll
established that education at the
, University produces manly and self
reliant character, a liberality of spirit
and a courtesy of department which
are equally as essential to success in
life as purely intellectual culture. The
University graduates are easily recog-
nized everywhere as leaders of public
thought and promoters of public pro-
gress.
During the entire history of North
Carolina the University has been
identified with all that is noble, useful
and honorable in our annals. There
has been no popular movement nor
public work that has gone forward
without University alumni, trustees or
professors as leaders and active work
ers. From the Presidency of the
United States down to the humblest
sphere her sons have performed every
duty with honor and distinction. The
recent Centennial Celebration of the
Charter was the occasion of the most
brilliant assemblage ever known in the
State, and the story told of the Uni
versity's life in the Memorial Volume
would do credit to any institution of
learning in America.
The corps of professors numbers
twelve and one more is to be elected.
There are six instructors and assistants.
These teachers received their training
at the Universities of North Carolina,
Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Yale,
Harvard, Bonn, Gnttingen, Berlin
and Paris. 1t is believed that the
teaching equipment and the methods
of instruction will compare favorably
with the leading colleges of the land.
The annual income represents an
endowment OF s5oo,ooo. The build
ings, apparatus and books are valued
at 5000, 900. There are several en-
dowed scholarships and two general
funds, the Deems Fund of SIS, 900 and
Francis Jones Smith Fund of about
$4,000, from which worthy students
can be aided in meeting the expenses
of their education.
Free tuition is offered to the sons of
ministers who are dependent for sup
port upon ministerial labOrs, and also
to young men preparing for the minis
try. Notes with approved security may
be given when circumstances warrant,
and, when allowed by the Faculty,
the personal notes of students without
security will be accepted. The Deems
Fund is loaned in small amounts at s
per cent. to poor students whose record
justifes the assistance. The B. F.
Moore and Francis Jones Smith schol-
arships provide free tuition to limited
number of students.
The library contains thirty thousand
volumes and the increase during the
past year was about one thousand vol
umes. Five hundred dollars is expended
annually in the purchase of new books.
The library is kept open five hours
daily, and reading room attached
to the library and supplied with all
the most important papers and periodi-
Gals, at an annual expense of one hun
dred and fifty dollars,i is open ten hours
each day.
The gymnasium is one of the best
in the South. 1t was erected by the
University Gymnasium Association at
a cost of over three thousand dollars,
and is furnished with the most i'm
proved appliances. Three hundred
dollars was expended for apparatus
during last year. A competent in
structor, nominated by the Y. NJ. c.
A, has charge of the physical training.
The classes under him during the last
session were large and enthusiastic and
showed great progress at the Spring
Exhibition.
Natural science can be thoroughly
taught by experiment only. The
classes in Chemistry, Physics, Miner
alogy, Geology and Biology are re-
quired to do earnest experimental
work, and to this end the University
| has fitted up at considerable expense
laboratories in each of these depart
ments. Over forty five hundred dol
lars has been expended upon apparatus
and furniture for these laboratories
during the past year alone.
The alumni of the University
throughout the United States are the
leaders Of public opinion and promi-
nent in all matters tending to the in
tellectual and material development
of the country. Their patriotism and
loyalty to their alma Mater and their
intelligent appreciation of her great
need induced them at the last COM
mencement to endow Chair of His
tory. This gives the University an
exceptional position among Southern
institutions for instruction in this high
branch of learning.
Postgraduate instruction in all the
Academic Departments is offered free.
The number of postgraduate students
has steadily increased since 1880.
Last year the catalogue shows fourteen
post tgraduates. The training furnished
by the University is not merely the
general culture of college. As far
as possible it isspecialized and adapted
to the needs and talents of individual
students. Students in all the regular
courses are encouraged in the junior
and senior years to perform advanced