The state chronicle., 1893-05-23
Col. Harrel!'s Rejoinder.
Editor of the News and Observer.

nave no COutIOVoI6y, OA W0As
Is you have choosed to term it, to
wage with the Greensboro Record,
which seems to be ignorant OF the
ordinary courtesies of life and per-
,ists in calling discussion an Sat
tack"), or any other newspaper in
North Carolina, as they are all my
The fact that my statement
in Saturdays paper brought a tele-
graphic response from the Record
shows that MIR. McIver "pressed the
button" and the Record "did the
rest" OF course the reply is just
the kind that was expected from
that direction. Persons Interested
have only to refer to and compare
the Biblical Recorder of May 18th
and the Greensboro Record for
proof SIS to how much of the edito-
rial in the Record was manufactured |
for it by MI. McIver, and as to what |
Dr. Bailey said in the Recorder and
whas MIR. McIver tried to make him
there say. We have closed our dis
cussion of that matter with this
reference to the proofs.
For more than ten years I have
Leen working and writing for the
establishment of State institution
for thoroughly training the intelli-
gent young women of North Caro-
lima in the highest art of teaching.
The legislature of 1891, crowned all
these years of work with success by
establishing in response to frequent
petitions from the Teachers Assem-
bly,, the Normal and Industrial
School for Young Women, for the
special and only purpose of prepar-
ing our educated girls for teaching
or for earning living in practical
lite. All the machinery for the
management of the institution was
fully outlined in the Act which es-
tablished it, and in every detail it
was entirely satisfactory and graft
flying to the teachers and ell friends
Of education in North Carolina. I
was specially pleased with the &C.
ton of the directors in selecting
the beautiful city Of Greensboro as
the LOCATION for the school and
have so expressed myself On many
occasions.
| When Mr.. McIver was elected
president of the Normal School the
teachers were greatly disappointed
to see from his "prospectus" that he
had totally disregarded the law and
the object OF the institution, and in
tended to divert it entirely from its
original purpose in order to make
it simplXan ordinary female semi
nary with State patronage so as tc
secure the largest possible attend.
ance of boarding pupils There is
no place in the educational economy
of our State for such an institution
but great need for a normal school
We then protested, and do now pro
test, against this total disregard ot
law OF the part of Maj Finger
president of the Board of Directors
and Mr.. McIver, president of thu
Normal School, in arranging the
course of study and plan of work.
Mr.. McIver says that real Nor
NAL School, such as the State in
tended and desired to establish
! (page IS of his report) "would be {
practical failure in North Carolina.
The people do not think 80, ant
therefore they are demanding tha
the State Normal School shall be j,
fact a Normal School to do for gu
young teachers the precise worl
, that the Legislature and our hon
. orable Board Of Education intended
should be done, and the work tha
is so greatly desired and needed b,
: our teachers. The school at Greens
: boro, under Mr.. McIver's manage
ment, is not doing, nor is it tryin,
to do. this work; and every intelli
g gent person in North Carolin
. knows and admits that in it's entir
course it is nothing more than q
= ordinary seminary for girls, bu
without the usual advantages c
art and music.
As to whether or not Mr.. MI
j lver's State School at Greensbor
= conforms to the law we are perfectl
. willing to discuss the matter wit
a the proper persons and in th
proper manner, and then let th
public decide the case. In the di
= cussion there will no doubt be man
J., very interesting plain facts sui
q mitted to the people in regard
- the management of the affairs i,
4 that institution, both before an
- since it opened for business last O.
~ tober.
I am daily in receipt of lettel
from the most prominent people
North Carolina most heartily el
- dorsing the position of The Mort
10 Carolina Teacher in regard to tn
= school, and I may publish some
. . these letters during the process
- !. this discussion simply to show tn
u the popular sentiment of our peop
- is decidedly against the present
- - legal character and management
L, the Normal and Industrial Schos
" ~ When the president and directo
- shall fully realize that the Norm
u and Industrial School was esta
9 lished by law for the girls and n
as companion to the University
ss any respect whatever, the taxpaye