The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-28

Law School; 90 Medical School; a,
School of Pharmacy and % Summer
School, with teaching force of the
president, fifteen full professors, three
assistant professors, four instructors, sN
assistants and five Officers-thirty- tive
in all.
The total number of students received
in the University this year has been
$50, or exclusive of those attending sum
mer School. sol. This is 100 in eX'
cess of last years enrolment or 40 III
excess of the largest enrolment in the
now 103 years history Of the University
Eighty-tve counties in North Carolina
are represented.
There are some Interesting deductions
from these statistics. The increase OF
the professional schools in one year il
numbers from JOG 10 $40 is very hope.
full. In 1857 '5S. the antebellum high
water mark period. 4G1 students were
drawn from every Southern State. and
those from North Carolina numbered
only 300. or 63 per cent of the whole
The conditions have changed. State
universities have since multiplied and
strengthened. and the University must
look to its own State for support and
service. About 40 of the present stu,
dents are North Carolinians, 81 larger
percentage. according to United States
government statistics, than is shown
by any other State university in Am
erica. Who shall say that the University
is not nobly fulfilling its mission to its
own State?
give young women have been en-
rolled in the University this year-one.
graduate of Massachusetts School Of
Technology. in the graduate depart
ment: and another. a graduate of Gull
ford College, in the A. b. course of the
same class, and three in the higher work
of the optional courses. 1t is of inter
est to record that all these young wO
men have done unusually skilful work
in the more difficult subjects like higher
mathematics, of which two of then
have made specially. Their presence
at the University has demonstrated the
entire feasibility of young women of ma
turity taking our higher courses.
1.-The enrolment is surpassed in its
totals only by Tulane, Vanderbilt and
the University of Texas, and in every
case this is due TO large professional
schools of law, medicine and pharmacy
situated in large cities. The increase
of all these schools exceed, and in some
Instances greatly exceed. our income
They need from 100000 to $4,000 per
annum to run great university. Or
less than $4,000, from all sources, thi,
accomplishes it's great work
] submit these facts because you should
know them. They excite wonder and
comment in other States, and they con-
stitute, surely, a noble record of public
service.
Nor is this great result achieved by
any mere passion for numbers at tn
expenseof scholarship. Our standard
of admission was never higher and oul
standard of graduation never so high.
Our curriculum rs broader than ever be-
fore. by four full departments, thret
schools, fifty-one classes
and 11S hours of instruction a week
We shall always be on the watch foi
the wise moment to raise our standards
of admission and we shall even more
guard our standards of gradu
alton, which is the vital point; but We
must not put our usefulness and powe:
out of the reach of the people. Strain
ing every nerve and making use OF
efery opportunity. the University only
needs more generous endowment to be
come what should be the pride OF
che State to 1nake .it--one of the really
great factors in this country for the
of MANHOOD, the conserya
tion of truth and for the scattering OF
It among men,"