The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-15
NOT ROOM ENOUGH
DR.. MOVER SAYS THE NORMAL HAS TO
TURN AWAY STUDENTS.
In Seven Years There Have Been LOO Ma
tricuIates. Every County Except Yancey
Represented Where they Teach.

~ SoOlItCuh V'iiCiS HICJ ICoSI3t
The State Normal and industrial Col
'iege will begin its eighth year October
9th, said President McIvcr last night.
AS usual the college cannot accom-
modate all who apply to enter Since
its doors were opened in 1892 it has
each year been obliged to turn away stu
cents for lack of room in its doTmitorieS
1he doImitory capacity was then 100
1t IS now $50. A few of those failing to
secure admission to the domitory board
m private families near the college. The
next Legislature ought to provide more
dCrmitory room."
President McIyer continued "the en-
roliment now, three weeks before the col
lcse opens, counting local patronage,
is more than 400 students-exclusive of
the practice and observation school.
whore the enrolment win probably be
250 pupils The college could easily have
had 500 or GOO regular students this year
if there had been sufficient dormitory
capacity.
'fIhere will be a number of POSTCARD
yates students this year. Some of them
graduates of the State Normal and In
dustrial College and some graduates of
other colleges.
he number of matriculatcS for the
past seven years has been about LOO
representing every county in the STATE
except 1ancey. The number Of graduates
has been about 10, all Of whom except
six have taught school since graduation
or will begin teaching this winter. The
large majority of people entering any
college do not graduate and many of the
most useful students are obliged to leave
college before receiving a diploma. The
State Normal and industrial College will
have probably about LOCO representa-
tiveS teaching in the schools of the State
this year They are in nearly every coun-
ty. They are in all the graded schools
i'm the State They are teaching in ey-
cry Orphanage except one. They have
taught in our high schools and colleges.
During the past summer twenty-fom
Of its graduates were elected to positions
in the graded schools of the State as fol-
lows: One at Waynesyille, three at Ashe-
vile, one each at Charlotte, Salisbury,
Nit. Airy and Wilson, four at Albemarle,
three at High Point, four at Winston,
three at Washington and two at Kin
ston.
II feel very much gratifed at the con-
tinued patronage and favor shown to the
State Normal and Industrial College by
the people of the State. 1t is the peoples
college for the training of their daugh-
tiers, who in turn win educate in homes
and schools the rising generation of men
and women This is North Carolina 5
best educational Investment, because the
education of mothers and teachers is the
strategic point in the education of a
State or a race.
"The change that has come about in
this State during the past decade in re-
lation to w0men's education Is nothing
short of far reaching revolution. In
addition to the many prosperous wo-
mems college in the State over ten years
old the following have been established
recently: The State Normal and Indus
trial College. the Asheville Normal and
Collegiate Institute, The Red Springs
Seminary, the Lutheran College at
Charlotte. the Baptist Female University
and others.
'In addition the doors of the Universe
ty, Trinity College and the A. and NJ.
College have been opened to women.
1.-THE general trend of this movement
has been to make education more pra:tl-
cal, more thorough, cheaper in cost and
therefore in reach of more people"
"'Tis worth a bag of gold. This ap-