Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-06-11

] president or the State university,
recently delivered at the COM
mencement exercises of the
| Goldsboro Graded School in the
Messenger Opera House in this
city:
| The Goldsboro Schools are not yet u
years old, but they are old enough to
have grandchildren The children Of
| the first children of the school are with
us tonight, DIS pupiis of The Colds boro
| schools; SO that we have entered such
| an age of respecta bility as to have
granu children to command.
The best known thing in North Caro-
lima is the Goldsboro school II you
should go to Lexington or Ashevile
country and ask, Where IS Goldsuo ::
the reply would be somewhat like the
one mado by a New England child on
having the question presented TO MIN,
Where is Dueton:" answered: lit io d
town in the United States, not far from
Harvard University'' [ think boy,
in reply to Where Is GoIdsbor would
say: IL is town not far from the
Colds boro Graded School. Applause
And one OF the best known Lnings i'll
North Carolina io the GoldsbUroGr aded
people outside of the borders OF the
StaGo who hal Leard of the Colds ooro
Graded School than who had beard of
| any other thing in North Carolina.
"A place Is always known by The best
| thing it has, and it is no wonder that
the county o. Wayne and the town OF
| Colds bOro has the best known school.
And no wonder that the State Of North
Carolina is known by the Colds bOro
al a,
enconium to say the best exhibit North
Carolina could send to the Chicago eX-
position would be the y Goldsboro Gladeu
school on wheels. Applause.
l AIN asked to speak to ou tonight
on the COLDS bOrO school. Its influence
has been far-reaching in many in
stances. 1t has esta bllohed many great
truths, which our people, not only in
\ NOrth Carolina, but generally y through
out the South, nave doubted 1Ur Two
centuries: 1t has established The great
truth of cooperation: power which
has not been met in the South, but has
made al its greatness in the North. 1t
| Is true that the power has been applied
| here in the direction of education.
Now, the life of the Colds boro schools
has established, First, that you receive
| NO education tnan can be procured
by private agencies. The building W ae
lroUably erected early in the oU's-'12
| 03 or o4. ! he building has stood there
nearly years. 1t Was built for school
purposes: 81 years of its existence to
private schools and 10 to puhnc schools.
NOW, L doubt that there are , people
in this audience who can give ID good
account OF any OF the private schools
| conducted in this building. There
| have been D schools conducted there,
| Those schools educated so few people,
and maze SO little impression upon the
community and State at large, that the
memory OF them has almost gone. How
| different it is now. Ne have enrolled
now in these schoO.S over six hundred
pupils.
A larger number of children have re-
celved during the past year d larger
percentage OF refinement and moral
training, which comes through euuca
| tion, physical culture anu moral
schools, within the limits of Colds boro,
than received it within eight years
under the private school system. Iu
point of number, therefore, we see the
great uperiority-the great benefit
Which comes from public cooper alton,
| contributed towards the support of the
| institution. 1t is not mere matter OF
| mum berS. 1t Is not d mere matter th al
the entire community has the emo b.
ling influence OF training: that the char
acber of that instruction Is better tn an
the character of any instruction given
| In this county. The blade of public
| education Is clearer and sharper than
1t was when welded by private hands
The number of people tnat have been
trained IN the schools is greater than
| The numDcr OF people who went from
the whoie coun.y Y of Wayne to colleges
and universities @ 30 years Pre-, eed
hsAG lIi
know nothing tnat would tell more
strongly the power of these schools
than this fact.
There Was time when pupils came
to the University who We're accepted
only when recommended by Bingham
school and HOrner school Or Loveloy'
A boy who comes to the University anC
presents his credentials with certiti
cate OF the GoldsDOro Graded School
those credentials are accepted as the
equal of any school anywhere. Ap
pause So that we have secured hel t
N Golasboro, by the tax levied, moi
only hlgn plane Of education, but
with better RESULTS than anywhere in
North Carolina. This is not theore ical
but mas been tested by pupils who have
gone to other universities; SO thai
actual test speaks for the merits of the
school. Anu yet there is not an indi-
VAdual IN InlS community who VIII pay
if he lived to good old age, enough
tax to support the Goldsboro school d.
he would pay for the education of two
of his children if he would send then
away from home to be educated at Z
boys academy or a seminary for girls
But he is also extending those grea
advantages 10 all the children in the
community, whatever be their con
dition in life. He is making, if pos
sible, for the little children born in the
cabin, aye to poverty and disgrace, tt
attain sef-respect, usefulness, patriot
ism-comforts of happiness. He is max
ing the community unite as strona
instr ument: he is helping to raise th,
whole population on the grand table
land of humanity.
/ know that there are such men il
this community who have given, no
only their tax to support the school
but put their hands in their pocket
7 and given of their private means to en-
, courage pupils with prizes and reward
and to increase their library, and VI b,
show that it is more blessed to Civ
} than receive. I will call no names
Who above all raised humanity, who's
= love of country and the love of hu
manity is stronger than themselves
> than love of money. [Applausel.
was very much interested in read
ing the other day a statement made b.
I one of the teachers that when the schoo
began excuses were frequently brough
( with misspelled words, uneven chi
Biography, ana written in pencil. Blu
now when excuses are brought fror
\ homes of this town they are correctl