The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-02
WINSTON GOES TO
TEXAS.


vote of the Regents of that institution.
In this acceptance, North Carolina
loses her foremost educator and her
first scholar, and this announcement
will be read with unfeigned regret in
every section of the commonwealth.
His departure is a great loss to the
peoDle of the State-a loss that cam
not be measured, but will be felt
more and more ON as the years go
by, and his master hand is missed.
DR.. Winston is in the prime of life,
strong in mind and body, and is ami
mated by the spirit of progress that
is typified in the largeness and liber-
of public education. He is man of
the highest natural endowment, and
to this adds the best education to be
had in the schools and Universities of
America. He was the best scholar at
Horner's famed preparatory school;
lead his classes in the United States
Naval Academy; and was the best
scholar at Cornell University. Upon
these foundations, his constant habit
of mastering all problems, supple
mented by travel in this country, Eng
land, Germany, France and Italy where
he studied old world methods of edu
cation and civilization, have enabled
him to build a structure of scholar
ship that give him rank among the
dozen foremost college presidents in
this country.
President Winston is not only well
equipped by nature, education, and
success as a college professor and pres
ident, he also possesses executive abil-
ity of high order. He has the genius
of directing strong and vigorous
minds, and makes his impress not only
upon the student body and the faculty
but with the public as well. He is an
organizer of great capacity, having
the University of North Carolina,
nearly trebled the attendance of stu
dents, the number growing from 200
to nearly $50. Naturally this evidence
of his success as a college president
has given him great popularity and in
fluence in the State. He numbers his
friends by the thousand and there are
few enterprises or interests in the
State that have not felt the value of
his counsel and cooperation. What
ever makes for the glory or prosperity
of the people has found in him an
earnest supporter DR.. Winston's So
cial gifts have made him always well
come in the homes of the people. One
of the most accomplished women in
the State, who has intimately known
public men in this and dozen other
States, at a dinner recently made this
remark: ''The nearer you come in
contact with great men, the smaller
they seem. know but one man who is
not dwarfed by intimate acquaintance.
He grows greater the better you know
him, and as this is the surest test of
real ability and scholarship, I count
President Winston the foremost man
/ have known"
President Winston does nothing by
halves. He throws his whole life into
whatever he does. He has never
known such thing as failure. He
despises half success. When he be-
came president of our University his
high ambition was to make it take
rank with the first in the land, and
he saw that large attendance as well
as a high standard was essential to
this high end. He leaves the Univer-
sity at high water mark in numbers as
well as in scholarship.
The secret of the great success
achieved by DR.. Winston lies in his
breadth There is nothing narrow a
bout him. He has broad sympathy
with life. He is a scholar but not
recluse. He is a man of the people,
a man of affairs. He has had the best
culture that life offers, but has still
kept in touch with life in its deep,
strong currents. He loves humanity,
believes in the people, and labors for
their uplifting and education. He
has not confined his interest in educa-
ton to increasing the attendance and
usefulness of the University. He has
been influential in all educational en-
deavor, going into the remote counties
as well as in the cities stimulating the
people to deeper interest in public ed
ucation, from the little log school
house to the University. He is one of
the most effective platform speakers
in the South, combining the humor
and pathos of the orator with the
fulness of information of the professor
and scholar. He talks education like
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