The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-02
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNI
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nh sections, parties, and professions
in North Carolina The trustees are 10
he congratulated upon their good
work. Since the announcement of DR..
Winston's resignation public senti-
meut among the alumni, the teachers
of the State. the students and friends
of education everywhere has been sure
~ crystallizing about his name. Prof.
Alderman's whole life has been an UNI
conscious training for this work
Young and vigorous, a North Caro-
lmian, a graduate Of the University
with distinguished honors, and con
nected in one way or another with
its life from early manhood, he lacks
nothing which would give him sym
pathy and zeal for it's continued
growth and expansion.
His experience extends through ey-
cry phase of educational work in our
State, from the primary school to the
University.
His talents ms an organizer and exec
utive were first manifested when he
made the Goldsboro Graded Schools
take rank among the best i'm the South
and moved the people or that to
increase their local school tax by pop
ular vote after a holly contested cam
paign
For three years he canvassed the
State from the mountains to the sea
teaching teachers from district, city,
and private schools, and in public adj
dresses pleading with power, the cause
Of popular education before large au-
diences from both town and country.
AS co-worker with DIR. Chas. d. Me
Iver he successfully fought the battle
for the establishment of the Normal
and Industrial School at Greensboro
and with him participated in its sue
cessful organization.
Transferred to the chair Of Pedagogy
, in the University, he has been a great
power in carrying out DR.. Winston's
policy of bringing the University clos
! er to the needs of the people.
His fine work in the teaching of
Pedagogy at the University, his or
ganization of the University Summer
School, the best of its kind in the
South, and the confidence reposed in
him by the leading educators and
friends of education in the State, have
bound the University in the closest of
ties to the private and public school
system of North Carolina.
He has held successfully the posi-
! tons of teacher in public school, SUI
perintendent of City Schools and Sum
mer Normal Schools, State Institute
Conductor, Professor of English and
History in the Normal and Industrial
School, Professor of Pedagogy in the
University, and superintendent of the
University Summer School
Each of these positions was pro-
motion for services well done and in
every instance he has displayed not
only great teaching power but very
fine executive ability. In fact it is be-
lieved that no alumnus of our Univer-
sity can be found who has had greater
training and successful experience in
every department of our educational
system than Mr.. Alderman.
AS a scholar, student, writer, lectur-
err and orator he has impressed him
self upon the life of the State and in
our great national educational gath
erings he has represented North Caro-
lima and the South with such force
and power as to give him an enviable
reputation in all sections of our coun-
try.
Professor Alderman stands as the
representative of those forces that
have created the educational awaking
Of the past two decades, and the men
who are doing the great work of the
preparatory schools would rally to
him as the head of our State system
of education; in fact he is, we believe,
the first choice of the great body of
school men in North Carolina.
DIR. Winston. in his far off home,
will find comfort in the reflection that
his fine work for the University will
be pushed forward and successfully
maintained by his able successor; the
alumni, friends and students of the
University will rally as a man under
the young presidents leadership; the
educators of our State viii rejoice in
the fact that one of their number has
been placed at the head of this cele-
brated educational institution and the
State as a whole will give President
Alderman that loyal, hearty support
which his scholarship, popularity and
executive ability naturally command.
Under his wise management we look
for continued good works and even
greater success at Chapel Hill, a name
dear not only to North Carolinians, but
to many a man in all the Southern
States.
lie has faith in the education Of all
The people and though he is now to
serve them as the chief executive of
their University, his many talents of
head and heart will continue to be
given without reserve to every effort,
by whomsOeyer made for the educa-
tional uplifting of his native State. To
him, the humble log school house with
its faithful earnest teacher, win be as
dear as the University itself because
each is a part and parcel Of great
State system Of popular education.
statement has Detsu published that