The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
SUPERINTENDENT NOBLE.
He Will Leave Wilmington To-day TO
Go TO the State University I'm Which
He VIII Fill the Chair Of Pedagogy.
HIS Work in Building up Our Public

Go TO the State University I'm Which
He VIII Fill the Chair Of Pedagogy.
His Work i'm Building up Our Public
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Knowing that Professor NJ. c. S.
Noble was soon to leave Wilmington
for Chapel Hill, where he has been
called to the chair of pedagogy in our
State University, a Messenger reporter
called on him yesterday and learned
that he would leave here this morn
ing, with the intention of stopping a
day with his parents at Selma.
Professor Noble has been superin-
tendent of schools in this city for six
teen years. Prior to his coming here
he was commandant of cadets at the
Bingham School where he received the
highest salary ever paid an assistant
in that famous school, now well past
its one hundredth birthday and still
enjoying great prosperity under Major
Robert Bingham.
While at Bingham's Professor Noble
began to study the public school sys-
tenn, determined to fit himself for
public school work. He recognized the
fact that he must mo- only read and
study in order to learn the science and
acquire the art of teaching but that
he must see the best teachers teach
and learn their methods. and so, even
while engaged in High School work at
ten borrowing money to do so, in Wis
iting and inspecting the leading pri-
vate, public, and Normal schools, in
this state, the north and west.
Without knowledge of application on
his part, he was called to the superin-
tendency of the schools in this city
and accepted the call at pecuniary loss
at the time, because he saw that if he
could organize and build up a good
system of schools for our city it would
be far more to his credit than to take
hold of a system already established
and outlined by another. His ambi-
tion was to create rather than to in
herit. For sixteen years he has had
charge of our schools, and they have
flOurished under his management.
Every veal the attendance has increas-
ed, and every year there have been
improvements in the public school
equipments until now our city is well
known for the thorOughness of it's
course of instruction and the excel
lence, convenience and comfort of it's
school buildings. The success of our
schools Professor Noble attributes
mainly to the weekly teachers meet
ings and to the fact that u teachers
have from time to time attended the
summer schools, both within and
without the state. At the teachers
meetings methods rather than subjects
are studied, and again., at the weekly
teachers meetings the system Of
schools is carefully studied and ex-
planned, SO that each teacher may
know how her work must be done SO
as to make it fit in with the work Of
the other teachers. Every teacher is
urged to attend the summer school
because a teacher, to be progressive,
must come in contact with the lead
ers and have them present and illus
trate their methods. His conviction
is that a teacher must see others teach
IL Tic SlcdIcSC IOSlS0 ID W ~ Z 0OCu1-
ed.
At the University Professor Mobiles
work will be the teaching of those
who wish to become teachers. The
University shows it's very great desire
to meet the wants of the people in pro-
viding the instruction to be given by
such an able and experienced teacher
as Professor Noble.
Professor Noble said to The Messen-
ger representative yesterday that he
would ever be thankful to the parents
for their cooperation, to the teachers
for their zeal, s~tudiousness n loyalty
and to the school committee without
whose careful, unselfish and constant
aid, advice, and business-like as
~sistance, no success could ever have
been achieved.
Wilmington gives Professor Noble
up with great reluctance, and our cit
liens will only hope that such anoth-
er progressive and successful superin-
tendent will be secured for our schools.