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

Judge Clark Replies to One OF MT.
Bailey's Statements.

Mr.. Bailey in his reply to Prof. Mas
sew Yesterday said "Messrs. Goid AN"
Pearson were defeated because certaih
members IT he faculty were AFRAID vi
Them and that Messrs. Clark and Bonltz
were chosen because these same mem
hers of the faculty felt that they collu
control them Mr.. BonitZ is from W IL
mington, and young Nh. Clark, now sec
rotary and treasurer of the Ada nliiis'
Charlotte, is sou OF Judge Walter CIark.
Speai:ing of ibis paragraph yesterday
Judge Clark said Some years ago
when in Edinbure.. n gentleman pointer
out TO lne the house in which SIT Davld
Baird had been raised and told me
this incident When Baird and nand-
full of men had been taken by Hyder
Ali they were chained one by one, by
the wrist, to Sepoy soldier, and thus
march ad across the plains. friend
who much commiserated Sir David
fate went to that mouse ana tolu ms
mother, then very aged. expressing great
svmpathy. I.ut th., old lady knew where
the sympathy was needed. flushing her
spectacles back. she drew a long breath
and simply said, y am vera sorry Tor
the chie whats yoked with DOR Davie.
$50 said Judge Clark. IF, as Mr..
Bailey says, my son had been elected a
trustee by the Legislature because the
faculty thought they could use him, UNI
beknowst to himself. l should be
sorry for the faculty. But III fact mo
member of the faculty had anything
more to do with his selection than Mr..
Barley had. And ] learn the same rs
true as to Mr. Bontz, who is a most
estimmble young man of high character
Asked what he thought of the A. Il NJ.
College education, Judge Clark saad:
Mr.. Bailey does not seem to like 1T, but
/ have looked into it thoroughly ant
have educated two boys there and am
satisfied with it, Judging from the reg
ularity with which its graduates get We.
nlaced in life the manufacturing ana
business public also seem to be satis-
fed with it. | do Lot think the boys
there should be condemned to wear
leather aprons. II they We're all the
sons OF mechanics and farmers they
would be none the less entitled to good
education in other things besides black
smithing and they go TO the college TO
fit themselves to rise III the industrial
and manufacturing world. In fact many
Young men go there whose fathers are III
other walks of lie to fit themselves to
take places i'm the great manufacturing
industry that is developing among us
and | esteem no education too good Tor
our future captains of industry.
1.-THE A. & NJ. College is not, and can
not be made. literary college in compe-
tition with Chapel HILL But neither is
it Il mere manual labor college whose
students are to wear leather aprons that
they may become blacksmiths and farm
laborers 1t is technical school re-
luiIing as high mental education as any
literary college but on different lines.
To become civil or electrical engineer.
or even an agricultural graduate. to de-
sign and build railroad bridges, cotton
or good public roads. requires
as high grade of education, and mental
as to plead law. to teach or to
preach. and it requires still more to be
4 successful farmers. for / have known
some first class lawyers. teachers and
preachers to fail when they tried farm
ing.
a blue boOdcd aristocrat might af-
ford to talk about the A. < NJ. boys and
to think leather aprons all elevation
from what they are now, but boy for boy
they are the equal in every respect of the
Of any other college in the
State. The day when men can assume to
look down upon and patrOnise mechan-
les is forvered gone by in North Carroll
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