The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-06

| who direct the tillage of the soil are
educated in the application of intelligent
| and scientific methods.
The State Museum, under the control
| of this department. is one of the most
| extensive, and the best arranged institu-
| tons ct its kind in the country. 1t is
not only honorable to the men who have
| gathered and arranged its specimens
/ and to the State 10 which it belongs but
it would be creditabe to any State in
/ the Union.
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL So
Getty.
| The State Agricultural Society has
1 done good work during the last two
| years The Fair III 1898. was the most
| largely attended exhibition of the pro
| ducts of 'ouri peoples industry that has
been held within the history of the so
ciety 1t is hoped that the General As
eembly will continue to treat this So
ciety generously. by doing whatever il
| may be necessary to do to increase its
efficiency and prosperity.
THE UNIVERSITY.
The statement of the condition of the
University sent herewith is one made
to the Governor by the President of
that Institution in an informal way.
The report in full. of the University. will
| be made to the General Assembly ut Il
/ later day.
| 1t is Il matter for profound gratitude
| that the University has now the largest
attendance upon its classes that it has
ever had in its long and useful history.
| And this increase in the number OF its
| students has been secured in the midst
| Of business depression, such as has here
| tofore never been known in this State
| 1t is believed that larger and more hene-
| fetal results are being secured by the
| public from our University than have
been gotten from any other educational
| institution of a similar kind in the cOun-
try upon an equal expenditure of money.
1t is also to be recorded, that the spirit
/ and practice of the North Carolina Uni
/ versity is thoroughly catholic. 1t stands
| for no castles in society; for no school OF
/ Theology; for no special set of specula-
! tions in science or philosophy; for no
! special view of economic thought. II
| throws its doors wide open TO all class
/ cs of young men who seek cultivation,
/ without regard to their wealth or en-
| vironments, or connections or conyic'
i tons. The appropriations made to this
| Institution heretofore have been wisely
| and economically used; and / recon-
| mend to the Legislature to make such
/ additions to the appropriations to its
| treasury as may be demanded by its
| increased attendance, and rs may be
| justified by the condition of the public
| finances.
/
TRIAL COLLEGE,
| 1t is believed that no other educational
| institution in the State is doing Il better
work for the whole mass of the people
than that now being so successfully
/ prosecuted by the Normal and Industrial
| College at Greensboro. Indeed. its work
seems limited only by the ,iccommoda-
/ tions which have been thus furnished
| to it by the General Assembly. All the
| buildings now upon the campus have
| been occupied by students. and the over
flow from these has extended to the pri-
vate houses of the town. The large
| number of young women now in attend
| ance upon this school, gathered, as they
/ have been. within the four or five years
Of the schools life, make it almost GER
/ tain that, il its capacity to receive stu
| would be taken and occupied within a
| year.
The unexampled growth of this insti-
tuition makes the petition which its man
ayers nrcfer to the General Assembly
for additional buildings. to be the call of
a pressing need. And it is hoped that
| the additional facilities asked for may
| be generally granted by the representa-
| tiyes of the people at this session.
1t is to be remembered that this in
stitution is engaged in giving. not alone
/ thorough mental training, but also thor
| ough instruction in the best Industrial
methods for the management of the home
1 to the women of the State. The great
1 majority OF these young women leave the
| college to become teachers in the schools
Of the State. and very large percentage
4 Of them will become wives and mothers.
i thus putting themselves in the places
/ where they will become the moulders of
/ the future citizenship of the State.
/ Attention is called to the able report
/ of the board of directors of this insti-
| tuition. transmitted herewith, and the
hope is INDUCED by the Executive that
the General Assembly may see their
| way clear to give this school the addi-
/ tional buildings and equipments asked
/ for by the board.
1 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND
i MECHANIC ARTS.
/ The report of the board having control
! of the College Of Agriculture and Me
i chanic Arts is submitted herewith, and
/ exhibits the operations of that institu-
ton for the last two years.
/ The equipment and appointments of
! this school are extensive and modern,
and well adapted to the work that it
! undertakes to do. 1t is a matter of
surprise and regret that it has not been
able to secure a much larger attendance
of students than it now has in its
| classes.
The President and faculty seem to
| have been earnest and active and capa-
/ bic.
Technical education is one of the great
needs of this people. 1t is to be hoped
| that some way may be found to in
crease the usefulness of this Institution.
| COLORED AGRICULTURAL AND
MECHANICAL COLLEGE.
The Colored Agricultural and Me-
1 chnnical ColIapa at (raancboro boc ,,ot