The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-06-07
-ouR SCHOOLS AND coLLEGRs.

In the press Of other matter, THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER has not for che
past few weeks given due attention to
school and college commencements.
we are always interested in the edu-
cational institutions of the Old North
State, for We realize that they are the
pulse by which we judge the mental
health of our people We are glad to
note that the commencement exercises
have ss q rule been well attended.
Visitors from many States attended
the ninety fifth commencement OF
Salem Female College.
At Wake Forest the exercises were.
unusually interesting. Judge Walter
Montgomery addressed the law class.
Eighty.eight have been enrolled inthis
department during the past year. The
speech most eagerly awaited was that
of Hon. e. Benjamin Andrews, OF
Brown University, who was temporar-
lily discharged from that institution
last year because of his free silver
views. His speech was pronounced
the bess commencement address ever
delivered at Wake Forest, and that
means much. Orations by graduating
class were good and the coming year
is full Of promise.
Twenty.seven young ladies received
diplomas at the State Normal School at
Greensboro this year. DR.. McIver states
that, excluding't hose who graduated
this year, only four graduates have
failed to become teachers. Dr. McIver
is doing q good work.
The Greensboro Female College is
still popular as ever. Eleven young
ladies received certificates from the
business department. This is encour
aging In presenting these, President
Peacock said: IT want to congratu
late you young ladies on being able to
make q living. The best accomplish.
ment for a woman, except one, is the
ability to make a living. That other
accomplishment is the ability to get
somebody else to make a living for
YOU" DR.. Yates, who delivered the
literary address, opposed woman sui
frage. He insisted that woman has
O rights than men and says that "a
woman too often, in attempting to
right her supposed wrongs, succeeds in
wroDging her real rights" Being q
bachelor, we will not discuss this sub
j ct.
Horrer enhancement was unusu-
ally well attended.
At Peace Instituts the diplomas wer
delivered by Judge Clark. He refer
red to the grand discoveries of astron.
omy, and the eleven separate and die
tinct revolutions OF the earth in it's
fight and added, es the times seemed
to invite women into the political arena
that they would find that no matter
how many weddings the earth had,
it would never comrete with the
weddings of the average politician"
The ] ldge said that ''our ancestors
thought woman should be ornamental
and subordinate, but while she would
continue to be an ornament, in these
latter days she had ridden on her
bicy Gle to the head OF the procession
and had taken her place by the band
wagon" He endorsed the reform Civ
ing woman equal rights with men over
property, but called attention to the
law which while giving these rights to
single women, put in the same dis
qualifying clause idiots, infants, luna,
tics and married women" HI warned
the young ladies against placing them
selves in any such category.
The 103 ID annual commencement of
the University of North Carolina be-
gan last Monday. Judge Thos. Fuller
addressed the law class. The class of
'9s is composed of 80 young men and
one young lady-MissS allie w. Stock
ard, the first young lady in the history
of the institution to receive a diploma.
Late last Tuesday evening the corner
stone of the new alumni hall was laid.
This building will cost when completed,
s25, 600, and will be a beauty.
And last, but not least, the com
mencement exercises of the N. @. Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Artist
Ayear ago we were told that this in.
stitution had been looted; that q set of
''incompetents and nincompoops" had
been put in charge. The institution,
we YER told by Col. Josephua Daniels
6 Co, would proceed to die at once.
We have waited patiently. We find
that the College is doing just as the
people OF North Carolina are doing
finding out what Col. Josephus wants