The state chronicle., 1893-01-11
THE STATE NORMAL AND IDUS.
TRIAL SCHOOL.

President Mclver appeared before
the joint educational committee OF th'
Senate and House yesterday afternoon
nv their invitation and addressed them
in behalf of the State Normal and In
dustrial school. Among other inter-
esting facts brought out in his address
were the following:
Numbarcf Students, l9S
AyeI,se age OF ,tude"ts, essr,so iEsh
Number OF Z adu, tes of other institu-
Numi er who have taught. ~
Numhpr who are deifaylng their own
expenses, 90
The report shows tha. forty tw,
stude t. are the daughters of widows.
that seventy four are farmers daugh
ters and that the others come in small
Ter number rom families of all classes
In his report to the Board of Di-
rectors, which met yesterday, b.
So AXIS OF the patronage of The institu-
ton in the following language:
"The Board OF Directors, and all
who are intereste in our work, are to
be congratulated upon the character
Of the patronage that has a,ktd for ad-
mission into the Normal and Indus
trial school. mention this first, be
cause more depends on the qualit,
than on the quantity Of the material
that an institution is called upon t6
develop. 1t would have been pecu
liarly unfortunate if our patronag'
had ,een drawn exclusively from ou1
wealthier and fashionable circles. /
would have been equally unfortunat.
if it had come exclusively from classe
too poor to 20 elsewhere. The sta is
tics which have collected, which sp
pear further on in this report, shov
that our students represent socially
financially and educs.ionally, ever
respectatla class Of North Carolin
people. They came from ali secti IN
of h State, and among them AT
gradua' es of our leading insli .uti IN
Tor girls; graduates from the grade
schools; those who have been prepare
by their local private academies; an
others whose only educa ional oppo
tunities have been there offered by th
public schools Of the State. Som
have come because they could n,
afford to 90 elsewhere. Others a.
here because they want to prepa
for teaching or industrial pursuits Al
prefer an institution v h pse main pu
pose Is to give such preparation al
whore th- general surroundings are
harmony with their purposes"
III. number Of students now in
tendance is more than two hundr
and nearly that many more have a
piled for admission, but could not
admitted because of the lack of ro'
to board them in the domitories. T
institution began it's work in Octol
and the large number Of students in
Gates the real need for its establi
ment. 1t is a very popular institut
and deserves to be We endorse W
Governor Holt says so well in his n
sag:
81 would recommend that the G
eral AS emily deal literally with tt
Normal and Industrial School. Ev
dollar invested in such an ins.itut
as it gives promise OF b-coming will
pay the state ten told Moreo,
there il no reason why the Safe she
deal less generously with it's daugh
than it does wi h is sons. This is {
at all times, but und,r present col
tions, when the State has two inst
tions for men Of the white race,
six for bDlh sexes of the colored r,
when the leading religious denom
tions have endowed colleges for n
but none for women, the Normal
Industrial School ought to find it
essary only 10 show its needs for ca
ing OUT its great purpose, to secur
LIBERAL response from an intelli,
body of Lpps latorso