The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
LEADS ALL NORTH CAROLINA nAlES lM NEWS AMID GRGUlA ION,

Duke and Mr. B. y. Duke can increase
the value OF their money gifts by helping
to direct the ways of using it.
The man who said that the best col
lcge in the world was "a log with Mark
Hopkins at one end and q boy at the
other truly understood that the best in
struction a boy could get was coming III
contact with Il great teacher. For the
individual boy there can be no college so
good for mental training. But the need
Of the colleges and the universities of to-
day is more teachers like Mark Hopkins
with every modern appliance and equip
ment to assist in better fitting the college
graduate for the duties of life. The high
er institutions Of learning in North Caro-
lima have all been cramped for the lack
of money to secure such equipment as is
in keeping with the demands of this day.
When | think how many great teachers
at Chapel Hill, Trinity, Davidson and
Wake Forest have wrought mighty
deeds on meagre salary and next to no
equipment outside of their own brains,
also reflect that many of them were
martyrs to their calling. 1t will not do
to say they did Il great work without
fine laboratories and release from fin
ancial Worry, and therefore the pr0fes-
sors of to-day can do it. Many of those
old heroes sacrificed their best years try
ing to work with dull tools who would
have lived longer and wrought twice as
we'll if the colleges had been properly en-
dowed and equipped.
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| rejoice in every dollar given by Il
generous man. in every dollar appro-
pratcd by the Legislature, and in every
dollar of taxation for schools voted by
the people for the cause of education. |
do not stop to ask whether it is to teach
the three RS, the classics, pedagogics,
agricultural science, and what not.
LII 1T Is to be spent to
make Il longer term and better facili-
ties for the public schools in every town
ships | rejoice most of all, for the great
majority of the children of the State will
get no education except that which is
furnished in the public schools near their
doors. Whether it is given to be used by
denomnational colleges or at the State
universities and State supported colleges
is relatively a matter of small import
ance. The time will not come i'm this
generation when ali the institutions we
have can reach all the boys and girls
who need education There is no room
among those who believe the education
of the people the matter of paramount
Importance in North Carofn to turn
aside from the great work to speculate
as to whether this way or that is the
best. Let every man who would remove
the incubus of Ignorance and prejudice
work in whatever way seemeth to him
best to educate the boys and girls. and
encourage larger gifts, larger endow-
rfents. larger appropriations, larger tax
es and larger unity and liberality in the
great work to which they are called.
When they have done all they
can, they will still be oppressed,
with the thought that the har-
vest is great and the laborers few
But every new gift, every increased APP
preparation, every fresh vote for larger
taxes for schools makes adj who are
fighting ignorance feel ''to thank God
and take courage"
j. ID.