The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-02
The First -Four Years OF: It's
Life Completed.
DR.. c. D. M'lvER's REPORT
Many Substantial Improve
ments Been Made.
SOME OTHERS RECOMMENDED
. Iring the Four Years the School, Has
Been in Existence Nearly LOGO
Young Women Have Been
Students In 1t.

Having completed four years Of It's life
the Normal and Industrial school eIstered
upon the work Of a new year October
s, 1896. While never receiving AL the
financial support which its friends de-
sired for it, and less, in fact, thar that
received by any other leading State edu-
cational institution, still, considered
financially and otherwise, the Normal and
Industrial school has been treated: more
generously than any other new enpe9 prise
ever undertaken by the State. Since its
establishment in 1891 each successive
General Assembly has made small ad-
dition to what its predecessor hasd ap-
propriated.
The Normal and Industrial school, open
cd it's doors to students in Octobers 1892.
Beginning with dormitory capacity for
less than $50, with only 10 recitation
rooms in the main building, counting
the chapel, presidents Office, and .physl-
clans Office, with a teaching force. Of 10,
including assistants, and with an senroll-
ment of 223 students, the institution has
gradually developed until at the end Of
its fourth year it had dormitory accom-
modations for about $50 students, 70
rooms in the main building, a teaching
force Of %, and an enrolment of 444
students.
Besides this the following substantial
improvements and additions are .shown
by President McIyer's report to have been
made: A brick infrmary, a sewerage
system, a dining room for 400 people,
a Practice school in which there are now
80 children, purchase Of 112 acres of
land for private park and establishment
Of a horticultural department.
During the past two years decided
advance has been made in the Depart
ment of Pedagogics. A combination
with the public school authorities Of
Greensboro has made it possible to in
crease the attendance in the Practice
school from about Is to 100 pupils, thus
enabling the department to require more
practice work from our advanced stu
dents This school has been occupying
temporarily rooms in one of the dormi-
tories, not adapted to the purpose. Presi-
dent McIver recommends that new
building and better equipment and apph-
ances be provided for this department.
The Industrial school has also develop
ed, especially in the direction Of domestic
science and industrial art, including wood
carving, china painting and architectural
art.
From the first, the best students TAX
ing the Commercial course have found no
difficulty in securing desirable employ
ment. But the large majority of the
students, who have left this institution,
have gone out to teach in the public
schools-about 50 or 40 Of them in city
public schools. Quite number have
also been employed in good private
schools, seminaries and orphan asylums
The patronage of the institution, Presi
dent McIyer says, has been confined to
no class as to wealth, locality, sociaI
position, or previous educational oppor.
turnity; it has been thoroughly repre-
sentative OF the State.
The scope and character of the institu.
tion and its patronage during the past
four years is shown by the following
statistics obtained from the registration
cards:
1000 1000 1Q04 1907