The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-03
Ne " A. ( N. COLLEGE
An Old Institution on a New
Basis.
THE TEXTILE SCHOOL
CONDITIONS FOR THE ADMIS-
SION OF WOMEN.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT ABOLISHED
he nslitu ion Lifted Out of Compt t,t'on With
Other Schools. The College 10 be
Under Strict NJ Irary
Discipline.

Discipline.
The beard of trustees of the A. and
| NJ College yesterday afternoon compile
! tod their work and adjourned.
Rarely has any board of trustees done
50 many important things at one meet
| ing.
The resolution admitting women to the
college was rescinded and it was order
ed instead that women be admitted as
follows:
1st For textile instruction in all its
lines.
Ind AS special students in other
technical and Industrial lines, for eX
ample in dairy farming, horticulture,
&c
Women are not to he admitted to the
college generally. But in textile instruc-
ton where so many women are employ
ed-perhaps more than in all other
bread winning work in the State-they
are to be admitted without any restraint;
and in other lines if there be any wo-
man that wants amy instruction, she may
be admitted on special application and
by special emission Of the faculty.
The State having provided a Normal
and Industrial school specially for wo-
men, the Agricultural and Mechanical
College does not intend to furnish in
Struction in the same line as is furnished
there. But such instruction as is not
there furnished VIII be given Mt the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The State is not going to compete with
itSpif in ifS bif itJfiapS
The preparatory department Of the
college was abolished root and branch
aud nothing was put in place of it. The
last preparatory class consisted of %
members, of whom II were from Raj
eigh. Only of the % members of the
class were able, ut the end of the year,
to enter the Freshman class. 1t was Il
mere lily III the ointment-this prepare
tory department-doing the fly no good
and spelling the ointment. The meaning
of its abolition is that the college is 10
be put on Il higher plane and it is to be
settled forever that it is a high-grade
college for technical education and pots
lowgrade preparatory school. This
action takes this institutions out of eOflIs
petition with the schools and academies
Of the State and out of unfair competi
ton with the other colleges Of the State
The next important measure adopted
was the establishment Of military disci
pine President Winston earnestly
recommended this, and the board unani-
mously adopted the recommendation TO
have real military discipline, similar to
that ut the Virginia Military Institute
and the Virginia Agricultural and Me
chanical College at Blacksburg.
This doesn't mean any increase what
ever in drill nor any greater consumption
Of the students time for military pur-
poses in any direction, but on the con-
trary more economical and systematic
distribution of time for the purpose of
study, recitation, and laboratory, field
and shop work. 1t also means regular
habits of daily life and consequently bet
ter health, better morality, better de
corum; better preparation for business
in any lines.
Young men trained under this system
for four years, kept free from vices,
late hours, intemperance, tobacco, gamb-
ling, idleness and irregular habits will
be better fitted for work in cotton mills,
work shops, stores, dairy farms and
wherever else strong bodies, clear
brains and reliable characters are de-
manded.
resolution was passed requesting
each representative in the Legislature,
and each Senator ahd each member of
the board Of trustees to recommend
worthy boy for free scholarship in the
college, subject to the laws of the State.
The total number Of scholarships will
be the same as at present., to wit, i2O.
Appointees will be placed i'll vacancies
as fast as they occur, regard being had
always to priority of appointment.
1t was ordered that the committee on
Textile Instruction take immediate STEPS
for the erection OF a building ard get
ting machinery for textile instruction.
This committee is composed OF IL. r.
Fries, of Salem, chairman; ID. y. Temp
kins, of Charlotte; w. III. Raglan, of
High Point; David Clark, Of Charlotte,
and w. j. Peele. Of Raleigh. l'resi-
dent Winston will confer with the com
mittee which will meet in Charlotte
Saturday for that purpose.
Soon afterwards President Winston
will go to New England and the Middle
and Western States to secure ma
chinery, and visit and inspect the lead
ing textile, agricultural and chronological
colleges and some agricultural expert
ment stations.
Among other institutions, he will visit
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. Cornell University, Stevens lnsti-
tute at Hoboken, Lehigh University, the
Pennsylvania Textile school and the
Agricultural and Mechanical colleges
and experiment stations of Michigan,
Iowa, Virginia, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut South Carolina and Mississippi
President Winston is also charged with
the duty of finding four professors for
the University of Texas at the request
of the regents of that institution. SO his
hands will have plenty to occupy them
on this trip. These professorships are
OF Biology, Oratory, American History
and Romance Languages. This is
very delicate and important duty, but
President Winston felt that he ought to
perform ii for the University of which
he was until recently president.
The executive committee of the Agri
| cultural and Mechanical College was in
structed if possible, to make arrange
ments for a permanent librarian at the