The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-25
rae a UNIVERSITY.
A Committee Issues on Report of What
Has Been Done and Whatit Costs.

A Committee Issues a RePert Of What
Has Been Done and 9Whatit Costs.
As the University QfAhe State, its
management, etc., haVetbeen the sub
ject of some commence iD1the public
prints, and as the executive committee
Tin the absence of the boardl are especi
ally entrusted with its;Welfare and r
required to look into its internal lar
agement, they deem it their duty to
make to the public a statement Of facts
about the institution. u
1. The University 1,A State institu-
ton and is State propeFtHa There are
"a State universities in the Union-one
in every Southern StataJoIt is a part
of the plan of public education in North
Carolina, which plan includes the free
public schools, the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, .thBtN Normal and
Industrial School, thea ulldwhee Nor
NAL School, the University, the colored
normal schools at Fayetteville, Sails
bury, Goldsboro, Frat1klinton, Ply
mouth and Elizabeth City, and the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
for the colored race The State also
maintains at Raleigh o, school for the
support and education(o of the blind; a
school at Morganton far the deaf and
dumb, and also a school for the colored
deaf and dumb and blind Rt, Raleigh
The University property has been
largely donated to the State by friends
of higher education. These donations
have been made in TRUST, to be used
forever for higher education, and the
State has accepted the trust. This
property includes about six hundred
acres ofland, twelve buildings, alibrary
of 40, 900 books, valuable apparatus
and funds invested to'heIp support the
institution and educate young men
without means to educate5 themselves.
1t cannot legally be used for any pur.
pose except higher education. Wise
ard liberal management will attract
larger philanthropy andcreate a larger
power for usefulness; but dwarfing
now by scanty support will repel phil,
anthropy and impair usefulness.
2. The State is pledged to maintain
it. The constitution, adopted in 1776,
declared that 'tall useful learning shall
be duly encouraged and promoted in
one or more universities" The Legis.
lature of 1879, which granted the char
ter, said: In all well regulated govern
ments it is the Indispensable duty OF
every Legislature to consult the happi
ness of the rising generation, and en-.
deavor to fit them for the honorable
charge of the social duties of life, by
paying the strictest attention to educa.
ton and whereas, an University sup
ported by permanent funds and well
endowed would have the most direct
tendency to answer the above purpose, >
etc. In pursuance of this purpose the
State established this institution at
Chapel Hill and gave titan endowment
of about 5000, 600, arising from land
grants, etc., of which about $3.50, OOC
was invested in funds yielding about
50, 900 income, which helpedto support
it, until swept away by the results Of
the a =
Article 8, section 6, says: THE Gen.
eral Assembly shall have power to pro
vide for the election Of trustees of the
University of North Carolina, in whom,
when chosen, shall be vested all the
privileges, rights, franchises and en-
dowments thereof, in anyWise granted
to or conferred upon the trustees Of
said University; and the General AS
sembly may make such provisions,
laws and regulations, from time to
time, as may be necessary and expedi
ent for the maintenance and manage
ment of said University
And section z of the same article
says: THE General Assembly shall
provide that the benefits of the Uni
versity, as far as practicable. be ex
tended to the youth of the State free Of
expense for tuition; also5 that all the
property which has heretofore accrued
to the State, or shall hereafter accrue,
from escheats, unclaimed dividends, OF
distributive shares of the estates of de
ceased persons, shall be, appropriated
to the 8 of the University"
Under the provision of both the old
and the new constitution, the ,Univer
sity has been aided by the State for one
hundred years.
8. The wisdom of the Stats in estab.
fishing the University, the Agriculture,
and Mechanical College and the Normal
and Industrial School, and the popular
demand for these schools are shnwn In