The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-15
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
ALL EDUCATION IMPARTED BY
CHRISTIANS IS CHRISTIAN.
PROFESSOR W. F. MAsSEY'S ADDRESS
Short and Timely Addresses by Pres dent
HcIIaday and Mr. S. Primrose,
President Of the Board
of Trustees

Yesterday morning at the A. and VI.
College, honors We're paid to the late
Senator Morrill, who was the author OF
the bill THAT established the Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges in all the
States. Immediately after morning
prayers, Presid MT Holiday spoke of the
and Mr. w. $. Primrose, president Of
the Board of Trustees, followed in
short excellent address. Prof, w. T..
Massey then delivered an address that
touched upon the valuc of the schools
Established by Senator Morrill, and dis
cussed their scope. 1t was ii fine adj
dress. full of wisdom. and | wish the
News and Observer could print ii all.
The following is the concluding portion
Of Prof Massey's address;
THE Colleges of Agriculture and Me
ohanic Arts, with their practical meth
ODDS. have sprung into existence for Il
purpose far more profound Than the
mere training of the hand Thy have
coine in recognition Of the growing de-
mand for a complete man. Our educa-
in turning OUT fractional products, men
strong perhaps in this or that particular
department. burt sadly d ficient when
viewed from the standard Of compete
manhood. Some have formed such Il
lew opinion Of the great scheme OF
Senator Morrill, That they would make
the manual labor of cOll2ga ;hc end
dather than a means. and would eUhordi-
t.fs1 if..1g Sl-
would resmlt in the production Of farnq
hands and artizans rather than men and
would convert what their founder de
signed to be colleges into training
schools and shops The College of -Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts is rdr the
making not only of Il definite product.
hut IA product too subtitle to find its
full expression in iron or clay. We be-
ieve the specific purpose OF education
is to cultivate character, TO induce solnd
thinking and to make scientific inquiry
necessity OF great value. but second-i
airy to its supreme purpose. are the skill
and the information which are the nat
ural results of such cultivation. Th
great aim is to prepare for completeness
in life.
THE central thought is the boy him
for his d velopment This is the proper
function of college, purely educational
institution. industrial only in making use
of the tools of industry to accomplish
the chosen object. am educated man. In
laboratories. garden. barn and farm we
work, not with any notion of Identifying
labor but using manual labor as
means for better and more complete
mental developnl. nit, the true object be-
ing the production of true, thoughtful,
seAf-reliant, useful and honest men. ~
college that produces men must so train
its boys THAT they viii he competent
to take some definite and acceptable l,art
the complex activities Of the world and
their training should be such a 10 en-
able them TO choose alright whore their
parts lie in the worlds work. We are
not teaching trades, but are ::yng 10
develop a rounded manhood that VIII so
ont into the world, not likc the old time
college graduate. with head iillei with
all the lore of the ancients, but with
helpless hands. asking for som hing to
do, while he knows nothing this work
day world is ready to pay MIN for ioing;
but men fitted to carve places Tor them
selves, or to fill the many places the
world always has for educa,ed brains
with trained hands.
'.SuCh was the great scheme Of odu.a-
ton that Senator Morrill, was inspired to
plan. the full development of which is
still in the future. because men have not
yet fully realized the greatness of tn
pdan. He did NOT wish to tear down
the old time honorcd classical curriculum.
which has turned ont such host of
scholars and THINKERS. but simply TO
adapt it to the needs OF modern life, To-
cure its defects and make it a broader
and more complete cducation @heapenlng
it in the sense of money cost
while at the same time making it full
Ter preparation for useful citizenship.
/ But even as Mark Anthony is made to
declare at Caesars funeral. The evil
! that men do lives after them
| Away back i'm the dark ag IS, when
the church and school alike were under
| the baleful Influence of eccleSiasticism,
and ignorance was considered to be The
mother of devotion. Gverything like e'iu-
cation was under The control of code
SiasticiSgn, and there are 10 thus dag.
:. those who would insist that AL education
should be the prerOgativc of the priest,
and that adj education not 'I"e:t Il by
the clergy is necessarily G0dlaSS ard
uncTiStian education 10 ma+ter how SIN
cere and earnest the Christian mcl are
| who are devoted fo it. Tn great scheme
of Senator Morrill, for bringing 1he Dene-
fits of real education within the reach
of the toilers ON the farm and III the
shop has been denounced IN this nine
teenth century and here i'll Norm Caro-
| lima as 'debasement of ChriNts high
ideal, and the degradation of man to
| the level of beast of burden and Il
vaclrity to be flied with bread. In the
way that | read by Bible the high
ideal of Christ was stated by Him
thus, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with AT thy heart soul, mind and
strength. and thy neghbor as myself
In this grand sentence is comprised the
whole duty of man. When, with heart