The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-10

practical and commOn-sensed and useful.
| | want to render our thanks to them on
| behalf of Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Napo-
leon and Washington that these worthless
| have today been given a rest. Even the
| American eagle has failed to soar. And
| / just want to say how thankful we are
| for being spared the repetition of Patrick
| Henry's Give me liberty or give me
| DEATH This change means much-cer-
| tainly for the comfort of the audience,
| and | believe for the educational system
| of the State.
| 1--WE have come down to the useful in
| education. | know of nothing so needed
| in our State as education in the arts and
| sciences. And just here | want to say
| that | hope these graduates are of the
/ very first quality and that they have the
| very best education, for they come mighty
| high. The income of this institution IS
| about $1,000 a year, hope I'm not
| mistaken, if | am | can be corrected. The
| newspapers are open. The University has
| only about $4,000. Yet it has 400 stu
dents and forty-eight graduates, and here
we have only 250 students and twenty
one in the graduating class. | want to
submit to the trustees that they should
| carry more boys and send out more grad
yates or spend less money. Now, I'm will
| ing to admit that the quality of these
| boys may be better than those that come
| from Chapel Hill. / nope thay arc. They
cost more per day. A skilled mechanic or
intelligent farmer is worth tive doctors or
| three lawyers or 800 politicians any day.
Il want it understood, also, that this
| S3S 600 does not include the Experiment
| Station OF course, though, we can't have
tuberculosis without an experiment sta
ton, and | wouldn't disturb the tubercu-
| losis for the world. Why, the printing
alone for the Experiment Station costs
$500, but that, | suppose, goes for bull
letins. But we are Dound to have bulle-
tins, for what would be the use of hay-
ing tuberculosis if we didn't have bulle-
, tins in which to tell the world all about it
What we want is a sentiment that
the educated farmer and educated me-
chanic is as good as any other class of
society. We need technical education
men whose heads are cultivated and
hands also. We are as good as the yam
kee. yet we raise cotton and sell it at 6
cents a pound and he takes it and man
ipulates it and sells it for $3.50 a pound
The Yankee is a skilled laborer. We are
not.
I'VE must learn to be skilled laborers.
| hope every lone of YOU can go home
and rig up some kind of arrangement by
which your mother can run her churn
easily or your father can operate his
threshing machine.
Our plains and valleys and hills and
meadows are just as good as the Yam
KEGS in Connecticut, except that the
Yenkee can rain on his with a watering
pot if the clouds don't do it and we
can't
THE fellow that takes an engine,
knows how to make it, how to run it, how
! to fix and control it and explain it, is a
greater than all the judges, governors or
presidents, he ever pulled-and a greater
hero too.
Learn, young men, to do something
and do it WE'LL
THESES BY GRADUATES.
The graduates and subjects of theses,
with the Degree of Bachelor of Science,
were as follows: Course in Agriculture:
Joseph Samuel Buffaloe, Rands' Mills,
Wake county, Humus and its Relation to
the Fertility of the Soil.
John William Carroll, West Raleigh,
W axe County,, dFIH DTaludSe.
| Charles Edward Clark, Charlotte,
| Mecklenburg county, The Flora of the
| College Farm.
/ Jere Eustis Highsmith, Parkersburg,
| Sampson county, The Practicability of
| Dehorning Cattle.
| Sidney Gustavus Kennedy, Coahoma,
! Lenoir county, The Tobacco Industry of
/ North Carolina.
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/ EdgecOmbe county, termination of Seeds.
| Necessary Conditions for, and Various
| Methods for Controlling These Condi-
tons.
i Albert Hicks Oliver, Mt Olive. Wayne
| county, Effect of COtton-seed-hu ON the
Production of Milk and Butter
Bradley Jewett Wooten, Wilmington,
/ New Hanover county, Tile Drainage.
| COURSE IN ENGINEERING.
VIM. Alexander Graham Clark, Raj
eigh, Wake county, Design of a Hospital
for the College.
Nicholas Louis Gibbon, Derita, Neck
lenburg county, An Experimental Deter
mination of the Value of Radating Sur
face for Heating Buildings.
Clyde Bennett Kendall, Polkton, An
son county, Design of Pratt Bridge
trnss with Merritt.)
Walter Jones McLendon, Jr., Wades-
| boro, Arson county, Design of 500
horsepower Boiler Plant with Sanders. J
Repton Hall Merritt, Wilmington, New
Hanover county, Design of Pratt
| Bridge truss with Kendall)
| Willis Hunter Sanders, Dunn, Harnett
county, Design of a 500-horse-powe Boil
er Plant with McLendon)
Lea Watson, Raleigh. Wake county,
Design of Lighting Plant for the Col
lege.
COURSE IN SCIENCE.
Cebern Dodd Harris, Raleigh, Wake
| county, A Chemical Examination of the
Water Supply of the North Carolina
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts.
Hugh Williams Primrose, Raleigh,
| Wake county, Reactions Between Cal
| cil1m Hydroyide and the phosnhatas Tin