The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-16

University has decided to advance her
standard for entrance and some OF the
colleges continue TO advance on the same
lines. There is bright future for
Trinity. She has behind her friends
with money, and through whose in
fluence Trinity has set her coulter deep
in every department Of culture. In the
near future the standard Of scholarship
at Trinity will be much in advance of
what is is in any institution in the
South to-day. She has turned her guns
from the battle upon our State Univer
sity and is now III the race for the high
est standard of scholarship The Uni
versity must come out from behind her
battlements and enter upon the forced
marches of progress or Trinity will
eclipse her in reputation for scholar
ship. 1t is glorious for North Carolina
that the war is over. In the immediate
future there is to be a great race for the
best culture. Harvard and Johns Hop
kins cannot much longer dawn upon our
institutions as preparatory to them.
''Fellow teachers, let us unite with
them to build np higher standards. They
can give us much good advice. They
can help us to build up enough acade-
mics to fill their halls with well pre-
pared students. They will then delegate
TO us preparatory work which they have
felt was necessary to be done by them
under existing conditions.
1.-THE public schools one one side and
the colleges on the other are close
neighbors to the academies and should
be treated as our best friends We are
co-workers with a division of labor
Let us each strive to do his part well.
Let us seek culture for cultures sake.
north Carolina has material to make
leaders for the Union, and it is in the
power of educators of the State to place
her in the front rank Let us so CO.
operate that it shall no longer be just
~, said that the State is so torn by
narrow, petty jealoursies that there is
no room for leaders. The schools mould
the future thought of the State, and we
must take care to mould it in broad.
liberal channels. Let us inculcate in
the minds of our boys the idea of gen
crosby in recognizing what is good in
others is better than narrow efforts at
self advancement The teachers have
higher work. than manufacturers and
traders, and must strive on a higher
plane; for the upbuilding of a higher
and better conception of the true aims
of life and duties of citizenship. Then
and not till then will the schools and
colleges come together in perfect har-
mony to make education in the State all
that we desire it to be, and that, what
| have said may not be without practi-
cal issue let me suggest the appoint
ment of commissioners from the colleges
and the academies to survey and stake
out the boundary line between college
and high school work."
PROF. HOLT FOLLOWS.
After the address of Prof. Horner.
Prof. ]. Allen Holt opened the general
discussion on the topic.
Prof. Holt said in part:
II have not one spark Of envy in my
soul of the work Of any school or set of
men, Whether the school be carried
on by those noble men employed through
the agencies of the State. the church,
or by private enterprise. Under God,
they all conspire to elevate their fellow
men. l must speak word, however,
for those schools / represent. 1t is
doubtful il they have ever been duly
appreciated either by the State or the
people, and their work has at times
been deprecated by their fellow teach
ers. North Carolina stands third in the
union i'll point of numbers of private
schools. and for q long time these schools
bore the brunt of the work of lifting
the State out of the quagmire of ignor-
ance into which she was apparently sink
ing. Many of those distinguished men
who have since stood at the helm of
state took their turn at one time or
another in the school room. These
schools have stood for what was best
in the educational forces of the State,
and to-day are doing their full share
in preparing her teachers, her public
men and her best citizenship. Fierce
competition has kept these teachers from
tagging in their work which has often
been done without ostentation generally
without much remuneration and always
sincerely and faithful. They have fur
nished Cloths of the public school
teachers of the State and fully three
fourths of the matriculates of our col
leges and perhaps justify the high opin-
ion held with regard to them by Judge
Merriman, who said not long before he
died that the State owed more to them
than TO the colleges"
MIR. MEBANES ADDRESS.
AT nine o'clock this morning Super
intendent G.. III. Mebane spoke on What
Teachers May Do to Make School Laws
Successful" Mr.. Mebane reviewed the
early attempts to perfect an organia-
tion of teachers, the work of early edu-
Gators and urged that the State should
appropriate $1,000 to ST 800 to aid an
educational association as was done