The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-09
The Subject Of an Able Address
at the A. and M. College.
BY PRESIDENT CRAWFORD
EDUCATE THE HEAD AND IHE
HAND TOGETHER.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
The Graduating Exercises to De "e'o
Today at II O'clock. Diplomas Oe
livered by Gov. Russell. ne
ceptjon Tonight.

Agricultural and Mechanical College last
,,;uh+ % hear the address of President
Crawford of the celebrated Williamson
Technical School, Philadelphia.
Tt was a thoughtful, practical, careful
~ ,,ranared address, delivered in a simple
Int pleasant manner. What it lacked in
the ,bombast and striving for oratorlcal
effect usual on such occasions 1t more
than made up in wise suggestion, kindly
advice and thoughtful discussion OF the
problems of life confronting young men
leaving college to enter upon the struggle
for existence in the world
He began by saying that the purposes
of the A. and NJ. College and the school
over which he himself preslded-Wli-
hanson Technical School-were very
much alike, and the methods used were
very similar. He said it would be found
that the young men who go to THESE
schools and get technical education do
the best for themselves: that it is only
when the head and the hand are trained
together that the man becomes equal to
the highest possibilities in him. In me-
chanic arts. as in literary work, you must
begin with the beginning and be progress
i've. This is the Institutional method.
Then there is the constructive method
of teaching in mechanical education.
This. he said has a commercial value.
You work for purpose. But like the
other method it must be progressive. Its
object is to make skilled workmen and at
the same time instil into the student sci
entific knowledge
Free education is the harmonious de-
velopment of all the faculties of the
mind When you put a boy to school, put
the whole boy there.
1.-THE best exposition of technical edu-
cation / have ever met with is the book
recently issued by your Department of
Agriculture-a book entitled North
Carolina and Its Resources" 1t is the
best publication of the kind / have ever
SEEN 1t is the dearest and best ex-
position of the objects and ends of this
institution and all institutions of its kind.
1t ought to be in the hands of every boy
in the land and a model for every State
of the Union.
There cannot be too many colleges like
this in the State-there ought to be ten
times as many as there are or this one
ought TO be ten times as large as it is.
"How often one meets with young men
fresh from some college wher, they have
spent many years and much money pre-
pairing themselves for life's struggle, only
to find themselves untitled for any call
ing in life. Learning has not been we'd
ded to doing. They have to begin all over
again-for they can do nothing. They
drop into unremunera.Ive clerkships, and
the result is that a life is spoiled and
what might have been a brilliant career
is bEghted. Why not teach two things
at once-the thing and how to DO it,
Schools do too little in directing young
people in the choice of and preparation
for an occupation. As a rule the young
mar or young woIal is utterly untitled
to choose an occupation. The choice is
too often directed by fancy and seldom
by reason. Johnnie is anxious to become
lawyer doctor, school teacher or clerk,
but he can't bear the thought of being
farmer or mechanic.
'There are those who can afford edu-
cation as an aesthetic accomplishment,
but they are comparatively few, and out
of the great race of human progress and
human civilization. The poor man of to-
day may become the capitalist of to-
morrow. And, you, young gentlemen, are
fitting yourselves here to become not only
the capitalists of your State, but its most
valuable and public spirited citizens"
Every young mans school, DIR. Craw-
ford thought ought to have some sort of
military drill and discipline-not for war
like purposes but in the interest of peace.
1t teaches discipline, attention, concen-
tration and obedience. 1t makes the stu
dent better the school more systematic
and the work of the teacher more effect
i've Here the speaker spoke in terms of
highest praise of the North Carolina Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
of its curriculum and methods. 1t was,
he thought, doing a greater work than
any other institution in the State
1T is not what an individual knows,
but what he does, that counts for the
good of himself, his race and his country.
Foppery and the dudery, he thought,
were foStered by the aimless way ana
rapid methods of many of the schools of
the present day. No dishonor could come
from toll with the hands or cultivation of
the soil: brain and Drawn must be joined
together.
Then the speaker turned his thoughts
in a more general line and gave the
young men before him some good advice.
Don't get it into your head that you are
bound to sow wild oats. 1t is not true.
Strong manhood is not made up of brok
en- body and debauched mind! Don't
bring these to the girl you love-don't
thus mar your mothers idol. Keep in
clear water. Don't be Incorporate. Wine
is a mocker. Many more have fallen from
this cause than from disease. DO you
wish to succeed, then dare do all that
becomes upright, honorable men. Avoid
the shoals.
''All that you can get out of life is food,
clothing and shelter. Don't get the idea
that the world owes you a living. You
owe the world much. You owe it to your
self as well as to the world that you
should leave it better than you found it.
You will have to begin at the very bottom
of the ladder, but that is necessary for
success. There you will get a training that
cannot be obtained elsewhere. You have
done well in choosing an industrial call
ing There is no State in the Union 4hat