The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-18
Declines to Become President
of the University.
HIS NAME STRONGLY URGED
Cannot Give Up the Normal
and Industrial School.
THE GREAT WORK OF HIS LIFE
This Great Educator wilContinue to De-
vote All His Energies to the Educa-
ton of the Young Women
of the State.

"Dr. Charles ID. McIyer will be elected
president of the University to succeed
DR.. Winston unless the present ar
engagements fall through, IS the lnfof-
nation which comes to the Courier
from a reliable source. DR.. McIver will
make the University hum; a worthy
successor of DR.. Winston"
DIR. McIver declines to permit his
friends to use his name in connection
with the position of president of the
State University.
DIR. McIver was in Raleigh yesterday
He has been out of the State for fifteen
DAYS, attending the meeting of the Ma
tional Educational Association at
Buffalo. II. Y. Before going to that
gathering he wrote a letter to proml-
nent gentleman, who had urged HIM
to allow his name to be used, giving
reasons why he could not accept IT
elected, and requested that the letter
be given to the press. The gentle
man was so anxious for him to accept
that he withheld the letter hoping that
upon his return DR.. Mclver might
change his mind
To a News and Observer reporter
Yesterday Dr.McIver stated that he had
been highly gratified that number
of the trustees and other leading citi-
zens had thought of him in connection
with the position, but that his life
ambition and his clear duty prevented
his willingness to leave his present
position.
No" said he. latter spending ten
years of my life IN RE E Gsspp faaaliie owdfe
people that hate ms I'm IN the field of the
education of women, and which /
thoroughly believe to-day, | could not
afford to leave that work for the presi-
dency of the University under present
conditions"
In the best sense, the Normal and
Industrial School is DR.. McIver's child.
Tt was born in his brain, and estab
lished by his enthusiastic labors, and
has become the most popular and most
successful institution in the State
through his intelligent direction. He
believed before it was established that
there was great need for such an in
stitution. Now that his faith has been
more than justified, he feels that it has
a future of much greater usefulness,
and that his mission is to develop it
along those lines that have brought
it to its present high standard. 1t is
only a question of a short time when
1000 instead of 500 young women will
enjoy it's advantages, and when it will
not only stand at the head of the edu-
cational institutions in North Carolina,
but in the whole country. With much
less money than the University re-
ceives, and less than half the amount
that goes to the A. and NJ. College, and
less even than that given to the A. and
NJ. College for the colored race. this
new school for women has had career
that has challenged the admiration
and excited the wonder of the whole
State.
The wonderful success of that insti-
tuition under DR.. McIver's management
has made many of the trustees feel
that he was the man to succeed Dr.
Winston. He would make an ideal sue
cessor, but his devotion to the insti-
tuition at Greensboro and the higher
education of women are such that he
prefers to remain with the Normal and
Industrial school. The trustees
and patrons of that school
have urged DR. McIver not
to give up its direction, and many
of the young women who have been
educated there have joined in an earn
est request for him not to consider
any other offer. They will rejoice to
know that. while approaching the
tenders of support and the solicitations
CT prominent citizens, DR.. McIver
has not at any time had any idea OF
changing the work which he has
undertaken, and has so notified
all-and they are many-who have
requested him to go to Chapel Hill as
president of the University. While re-
cognizing the honor of the presidency
of the University, he does not regard
it as a position of higher honor or
greater usefulness, and the emolu-
ment is practically the same.
Indeed, so earnest is he i'm
advocacy of the higher and better
education of women that he long ago
determined to devote himself to open
ing new doors to them, and he feels
that now that better facilities are
being offered them, his duty is in the
field where he has won his greatest
success, and where the need is greatest.
Writing Of this matter, the Patron
and Cleaner speaks as follows:
'SWHY NOT 4 TEACHER?
The trustees of the State University
have been called to meet first of Au-
gust TO elect a successor to DR. Geo
Z. Winston, who has resigned to accept
the presidency of the University of
Texas.
''We have seen several names men
toned as the successor of President
Winston. All agree that DR.. Winston's
place win be hard to fill. He has done
great work for North Carolina. His
administration has proven the wisdom
of selecting teachers to preside over
our educational institutions. Why not
select teacher to succeed him? 1t
seems to us that it would be a mistake
to elect anyone else, however popular
''Dr. Chas. ID. McIver is a man we'll
fitted for the position, but he cannot
he spared from the State Normal and
Industrial school Like the Lincoln
Democrat, we would like to vote for
DIR. Mclver every day in the week. He
is one of North Cardinals truly great
men. But it requires as strong a man
TO preside over the Normal school as
the University, and DIR. McIver cannot
afford to consider leaving the institu
ton which he has made the pride of
North Carolina.
There are other teachers. North
Carolinians, too, who would preside
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