The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-10

This building was erected by the founders in 1881 and was used for a school
building for half a century. After the erection of King Hall and the transfer OF the
academic work to that building Founders Hall wasr emodeled and carefully arranged
and furnished for girls suy and lodging rooms
The kitchen ant dining room area at the rear CT tnso uudng ana WY ana girls axe
their meals together, al arrangement which tends to good order and gives opportu-
nifty for pleasant and usefu. social enjoy nent at meaEume.
Young aides have most ample accommodations in Founders Hall and are under
the constant oversight of an experienced, cultivated woman as mahon, with asss.
lance Of Governess in Immediate charge and tht OF three other LADY teachers all OF
whom live in this building. Every arangementin thus made for the comfort pro-
and instruction of girls in all things useful
Young men have their study and lodging Don in Archdae Hall erected tor that
purpose and are under the charge ola competent devoted Professor out ofs school hours"
IN the first day twenty five boys and twenty-five girls. These equal num-
.bers fifty represent the equal advantages which have been given to both sex throgh-
out thu history of the school, and the opportunities which are now here ofGedl IN
the college work. For a time after 1887, boys and girls rected IN separate classes
together At length, however it wa found more onomi OF teaching
power and more stimulating in study to class students irrespective O sex; and upon
the whole, the ability of girls in every department OF study mas been toQn6 quail TO
that of boyg and the apt6ess and industry Of girls, together with their deicacy and
strength of cha4ter, form a powerful factor in favor o. refnemen Of manners good
order, ant stimulus to work
To run two schools side by side, one for boys and one for girls indicates a want
nature which ought not to find, and will not long find tolerence in the present state
of enlightenment in the science OF education n he ideal home, are found both
bows and girls: and those boys who have ever been blessed with the following In.
.Auence of sisters love, have been tut off from one of the most potent factors OF
td influence of one sex upon the other is always good and good continually. Girls
need to be shown that they can cope with young mon, and that they need the same
training for their development that young men need and IN n 10 other way can this
be shown so well rs in school IA college
If ONE are afraid the refinement of gnsW Will e bunedO y the ruQeness OF Boys
are IN error for N nearly every casey young men will respect the presence Of
women, and leave off their own rudenesS and thus while at school or college be
the qualities of social poiteneSs AM easy manners In the presene ot women,
which in isolated male colleges are rather supposed than tosered, ad the young
chance to fall in with We have no ground for distressing the system OF coeduca-
ip for fist the only natural system, and any system lot natural is unsdentf;
strained, and in the end disastrous No man can give areasonw which viii be Sep-
ted by thoughtful scientific educators, for Fakng young men away ron the refine
.mnto of godv parents and sisters and shutting them u by themselves to study books
for te symmetrical development all of their powers to fit them for the active duties
of life. Still less show of reason car be seen IN founding colleges for men nut OF