The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-22

nv ADMINISTRATION tUllilllS. btEUH
by donations from friends of the Uni
versity. should be completed. 1t will
cost $4,000 to do this and equip the
building properly.
The address was permeated with feel
ing and power. The University. born
before the commonwealth. may he said
Ia be her sister rather than her daugh-
ter. Take from the history of North
Carolina the part played by the sons
Of the University and you will largely
rob the great story Of its beauty and
power.
DIR. MOWERS SPEECH.
President Mclver emphasized some Of
the points covered by the report of the
Educational Committee published yes
terday. He claimed that North Caro-
lima was still discriminating against the
white woman in the matter of higher
education and industrial education.
though a long step has been taken in
the right direction.
The woman is the natural educator Of
the race White women constitute one
third of our populations: white men one
third and negro men and women one
third Each of the last two-thirds last
year had more money devoted to its
higher education and industrial train
ing than the white women; set upon her
education depends the educational future
of the State.
To show that the college was taking
its rank among the great institutions
of the country, President Mclver read
the following extracts from speeches
and interviews. DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry. urg-
ing change in the name of the insti-
tuition two years ago wrote.
THE next Legislature should change
the name from School TO College. /
have a perfect horror of the presuinp-
ton and Importance with which insti-
buttons no higher in rank than public
schools are dubbed with the high-sound-
ing names of college and university. and
the Legislature should rigidly prevent
any more such misnomers. You have.
however. indicated your right TO be
called college, and your diplomas
would be more highly valued il they
bore the name of college"
In an address before the Legislature.
JANUARY 26, 1897. in which he discussed
the public educational interests Of North
Carolina, and the aid of the Peabody
Il was writing about your school ~
Greensboro on yesterday. So far MS J
am informed, its success is unparalleled
in the history of educational institutions
of its kind in the United States.
IL cannot find words sufficiently
strong to express my estimate Of its
worth. usefulness and excellence. We
of the Peabody Fund aid it gladly
President Winston. Of the University
of Texas. speaking Of the State Normal
and Industrial College. said to n
Greensboro Record reporter:
THE Normal College is simply Il
wonder. The wisdom Of its managers
is everywhere apparent. ] look for it
to be the greatest woman's college in
the South
Every State Superintendent of Public
Education has considered the State
Normal and Industrial College an inn
portant factor in the public educational
life of the State. 1t is the friend and
promoter of the interests of the other
public schools for the masses. OF the
11S graduates. 112 have taught since
their graduation The institution is over
crowded. and it's friends ask for the
bonds as a loan in order that it may be
able to accommodate the large numbers
who now cannot find room there. This
loan idea is not new in the educational
history of North Carolina. Wake For
est once borrowed from the State, and
other institutions in their infancy We're
so aided.
MIR. WHITES SPEECH.
MIR. Chairman: | have heard the
speeches of Drs. McIver and Alderman
with interest. 1t is not pleasant to APP
pear as opposing these two institutions,
the University and the Normal and IN
dustrial College.
1--WE are confronted by the serious
conditions in North Carolina. Poverty
of State funds and iliteracy Of the great
masses of the States people. The ques-
ton before this committee and before
this General Assembly is TO use the
small amount of money available for
educational purposes to the best advant-
age in reducing the illiteracy of the
people.
"Now, gentlemen, | submit it to your
judgment and to your patriotism that if
you are going to do anything liberal for
education do it where it is most needed
in the public schools.
II tell you that there is immense senti-
ment among the people on this question
You can't explain to the taxpayers Of
North Carolina how in justice to the
real interests of the State YOU can APP
propriate $50 or so per capita to teach
men Latin and Greek and Sl.1S per
capita to fit the children Of the people
for the ordinary duties Of citizenship.
"You are soon to submit to the people
a Constitutional amendment providing
an educational qualification. Should you
not therefore do everything in your pow.
or to provide educational opportunity for
the sons Of the farmers aud the misses.
who are in any honest administration Of
the law, to be tested sooner or later by
the educational qualification What
kind of an appeal can you make to them
for their support of your amendn,cnt-~if
it can be shown that you are appropriat-
ing the States money at the rate Of $50
per capita to those who are already quail