The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-06-27
HENDERSON. \. c.. THURSDAY, JUNE ~, 1895.

order The average students expenses
not exceed $500, and many students
who receive scholarships live on less than
500. Nearly ten per cent. OF the stu
dent body support themselves by labor
OF some sort. even while pursuing their
studies. The university offers no en-
ployment, but the students find it in the
village and among themselves. The
whole institution presents Il remarkable
spectacle OF self reliance and economy.
But living is cheap where good servants
NAV be had at Sc 4 month and eggs re-
tail at ten cents a dozen, where houses
with ten rooms rent for So a month,
md acre lots may be had for two Or
three hundred dollars.
The endowment OF the university vas
destroyed by the war, and the annual
expense account has prevented any accu-
mutations. In 1875 the alumni donated
money for its revival. In 1884 they
erected Memorial Hall at cost of $40
600: in 1890 they endowed a chair OF
History Four women have given SGT >
900 within ten years, mainly to estab-
liSh scholarships The total invested
funds are less than 100000. Not a
dollar of invested funds has ever been
lost, either principal or interest, since
the revival of the university in 1879.
Students of very limited means are aided
by loans OF sums as small as twenty
dollars, and the number OF those aided
goes far up into the hundreds, yet there
are no losses. The influence of the uni
versity upon the State is most marked
and salutary. 1t is serving as power
ful force to build up a system CT public
schools, to leugthen the school terms, to
improve the teachers and to strengthen
the profession 1t has department OF
pedagogics for the training OF teachers,
and Il summer school for teachers who
cannot attend the regular sessions. The
work OF the institution is largely ham
pered by lack of funds: and ignorance,
prejudice and sectarian fanaticism have
AGAIN and again sought to cripple or
destroy it. But it stands for popular
education for broad culture, and 1T must
win the battle eventually.
The centennial of the university was
celebrated June 9TH. The programme
included an Grafton on the Old unlver-
sity 0195-1S6S), by Hon. Alfred Moore
Waddell, OF Wilmington; an Grafton on
the New University QS75-95), by A. ii
EIler, Esq, of Winston; Centennla
Song, by tOrneila fnlllpS spencer, zen
| tennial Ode, by James D. Lynch; Cen
tennial Sonnet by Henry Jerome Stock
ard: an address on the University during
the War (1S61-1o65), by Henry A. Lon
don, Esq; and an address on the Uni
vc~sity Alumni in the War, by Stepher
b. Weeks, Esq. There was also class
reunions reaching back to 1884, and al
| alumni banquet. -,
| George T. Winston, LII. D., is th'
President of the University ; he is native
North -Carolinian, a graduate of Cornell
| University, and formerly midshipman IL
the United States navy. Under his ad
ministration the university has grown rap
jdiy in numbers and equipment Of teachers
! He was elected by unanimous vote o
! the trustees in 1891, when the student rol
numbered 1873. 1t increased to 2ls, SIG
! 3S9, and 40 in four successive years OF III
administration. He is still in the prime 0
/ life. and is in full accord with the mos
| progressive ideas in education.