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

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ing they ha no one to help them with
their lessons, now come to school with
evidence Of help-help from father.
mother, brother or sister. Indeed this
school is the grandmother and lives to
see her children being refined and cul
tivated, Is there not more desire for
literature and culture in the humble
homes? Is there not greater desire for
this? And is that not due to the
Goldsboro schools? l think it is
l think we have incontrovertible tes
timony from the teachers of this school
that the same steady improvement is
going on that we now see in the intel
lectual fiber of this community
Every school in New England teaches
free hand drawing. All who show pro
ticiency can enter the school of design,
where they invent patterns for calico
prints, and when they learn what is
tasty and attractive they make it pos
sible for them to be designers and by
heredity from generation to genera
ton. But these things will come. 1t
is but question of time. We cannot
accomplish everything in Is years.
Never since the world began is there
any people on the globe th;lt have
shown so remark able d power for in
they have only begun the err. Of pros
perity. Let us extend this idea of pub
lie cooperation all through the State
and all through the town. Not merely
the towns and villages but the lit ie
towns out IN the country. Let us see
every one of these provided with a
school that runs s or 10 months in the
year. In the cities let us see the schools
in designing, and We will see that the
South will take the lead in this work.
Applause.
This school has not merely its les
sons in public cooperation, but it
teaches great truths, home truths, that
it would be we'll for us to treasure up.
1t teaches us the power OF patriotic
sentiment. But for that sentiment the
schools would never haze been estab
lished.
The GoldsbOro Graded Schools were
established mainly by Mr.. Julius A.
Bonitz, true patriot, who desired TO
Duild up every community with which
he came in contact. And this com
munity sustained him nobly. A charter
was obtained frow the Legislature with
scarcely any opposition. When the
laws were found to be unconstitutional
the men of this town put their hands in
their pockets. They generously sand
ever so poor, should be excluded from
the school. That spirit has much to do
with the success OF this school. And
the next thing in building up this school
has been the character of the trustees
From the reading of the history OF this
school, they have ever had in view onl V
one idea-to secure for the school the
very best It'd ent that was obtainable
anywhere. They were equipped with
excellent teachers and they have sus-
tanned these teachers in their rules and
regulations: they have supported them
before the public and have given them
authority to manage the schools as
pest and wisest To your wise school
| board, to their generosity, to their un-
seltishness and good common sense is
due the great influence of that school.
And then to the teachers themselves.
Is there any school anywhere that can
| present stronger or better known OF.
more honorable list OF teachers, than
the Goldsboro Graded Schools? Prof
| VI oseS, who came to our State from
| tennessee, who was an educational en-
| thusiast, and to whose uutiring energy
| and whose love for little chisure i,
due much the success of the school, and
who impaired his health in it's work
and was said to be by ST me an educa-
| tlonal crank or to be unbalanced on
| the subject Associated with him were
Alderman, Kennedy and Ilaxton. of
our State, Kennedy going to the Dur
ham schouls, Aldermen to conduct the
| public Institutes of North Carolina,
and then going TO the State Normal
and Industrial school at Greensboro.
and from there to the State Univer-
sity, Claxton going from this school to
the Ashevile schools and from there to
the State Normal school And !. l.dv
who is with us to- day-a lady who by
her instruction of the young, not onl,
trains them in gentleness and moral
culture, but who gives lessons to all
who visits her-I need scarcely call the
name of Mrs. Humphrey. [Applause
Miss Carrow is still with the school.
Long may they be here. Bearing out
the siInile which we began, may they
be here until they become great grand
mothers.
The next was Professor Joyne", who
was called from here to the chair OF
English Literature at the State Nor
NAL and Industrial school; B. G.. Nc
Iver, who is now superintendent of the
schools at Cheraw, S. C;L. D. Howell.
who holds an important position as
superintendent of the schools in the
Capital OF our State; Geo. W. Connor,
of the Wilson school, whose interest in
this school cannot be DESTROY ed, but
who comes gladly and willingly to The
school celebration; Fl, NJ. Arnold and
IL. 1. Foust. [Applause.l may not
venture to say where these gentlemen
will be next, judging from the past.
they will be called to the presidency oil
some of the great institution or semi.
nary. You will have to pass a law to
prevent your school superintendents
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