The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-08
COURSE OF INSTITUTION
TO BE MADE THE SOU17H'S MAS
SACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF
TECHNOLOGY.
THE TEXTILE COMMITTEE ARRANGE WORK
Before Long, Says President Winston, North
Carolina Will Become an Urban and
Manufacturing State and Buy
Raw Material Elsewhere.
Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Observer
DIR. George i. Winston, the new pres
ident of the Agricultural and Mechanl-
cal College at Raleigh. was here yes
terday to attend a meeting of the COM
mittee on textile Instruction in that
institution The textile committee is
composed of the following named mem
bers: Messrs. ID. A. Tompkins, chair
man. Ii. Il. Fries, of Salem; W. II. RAJ
gan, of High Point; David Clark, OF
Charlotte, and w. j. Peele, of Raleigh.
According to instructions from the
board of trustees of the college, the
committee met here yesterday to map
out course of textile instruction and
to devise ways and means for carry
ing ont the same. All of the members
of the committee were present, except
Mr.. Fries After careful conference,
the committee mapped out course OF
instruction embodied in the following
results:
Resolved, That the course of instruc
ton in textile science and art hereto
fore prescribed 10y the board of trus-
tees be carried out by the faculty ac-
co1ding TO the following general plan:
l. That the full course leading TO the
degree of bachelor of science in textile
art shall embrace period of four
years instruction, of which the first
two years Shall be identical with the
course in mechanical engineering
2 That the Third year shall include
instruction in the following subjects:
Opening. carding, spinning and weay-
ing plain white and check goods.
3. That the fourth year shall include
instruction i'm dyeing bleaching, de-
signing and the use of dobbies and fac
quars, with lectures each year on mill
management.
H. That the degree shall be conferred
after one years practical work in a mill
succeeding the completion of the college
course.
The committee was unanimous in the
opinion that building should be con-
structed Immediately, and that machin-
cry should be procured at once. The fol
lowing resolution was adopted. That the
executive committee be earnestly request
ed to authorize the president of the col
lege TO procure funds for the immediate
construction of building to cost about
$4,000. suitable for instruction in textile
art. 1t is expected that the proper ar
rangements will be made and that the
contract will be given for the building
and work begun at an early date. Dona-
lions Of money and machinery will be
asked from cotton mill people of this
State and Others There is reasons to
hope that the New England manufactur-
ers Of mill machinery will donate the ma
chinery needed. President Winston viii
visit the leading factories during his APP
proaching trip North. Many applica-
tions have already, BEEN received from
young men desiring textile instruction.
This instruction is open also freely to
the young women of the State, and it is
hoped and expected that large number
of them will be added to the student
roll.
DIR. Winston was asked: "What is
your policy in regard to the manage
ment and future development of the col
lege." He replied:
MY policy will be to carry on the
work Of the college along lines already
laid down, with extension and improve
ment as rapidly and as varied as the re-
sources at our command will permit The
mission of the college is clearly defined.
Our State is passing from an agricultur-
ri State of large holdings to a manufac
turing State, and one of small, varied
agricultural industries The prosperi-
ty of the State can no longer rest upon
q purely agricultural basis We must
hope for a day when one-haf the labor
ers of North Carolina are engaged i'm
some form of manufacturing, and are not
future producers, but future consumers:
in short the building up of cities and
towns with manufacturing populations
is to be the means Of developing the
whole State Fifty cities the size of
Charlotte and one hundred the size of
Durham would change the material con-
dtion of North Carolina
1.-THE Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege must train young men and women
to not only understand present successful
industries, but to introduce new ones. Ii
must keep alive, alert and abreast
through its teaching forces all of the in
dustries throughout our country that are
capable of being established in North
Carolina, and must train orr young men
and women with such skill and knowl-
edge that they will become instrumental
in establishing them. For example, the
manufacture of straw goods might be
introduced extensively in the State if we
had sufficient skill to make start
There is need not aDly of manufactur-
ing cloth. but also Of development along
agricultural lines. 1t is doubtful wheth-
or our State will be able for long time
to come certainly, to compete profitably
in the markets of the world i'm the pro-
ductlon Of cotton, corn or the small
grains. Our farmers, therefore. need IA
large surplus population in their midst
engaged in manufacturing and other non
food-producing industries to consume the
products Of their farms. They need for
this purpose training in fruit-growing
stock-raising, dairying, trucking and the
like industries.
Il need not refer to- the necessity of