The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
THE BAPTIST f.
MALE UNIVERSITY
Fourteen of the Faculty Grad
yates of Great Uni
versities.
THE Cheapest School for Women in the
South" Says the Biblical
Recorder.
From advance sheets of the Biblical

From advance sheets of the Biblical
Recorder, Aug. 30th)
After looking into the advantages
and cost of the education of women
for five years, / am willing to risk my
reputation upon this statement:
THE Baptist Female University OF
North Carolina is the cheapest school
in the South for women. Truly we 20
not compete with very many chartered
colleges which offer advantages al
from $75 to S175 year. We do not
undertake to compete with any school
except our own Wake Forest. For
years we have gone before our people,
assuring them that we would establish
school that should be TO the young
women what Wake Forest College is TO
our young men. We have promised
them superior advantages AT actual cost.
Most cheerfully have they responded.
and now our honor is at stake To keep
our word If we were to fail Ill rms
we need never 20 before the Baptist
people Of North Carolina again. We
have not failed. Among the men and
women engaged in our UNCONVENTIONAL
work none have ever surpassed the Of
forts that have been put forth to Sc
cure first-elass advantages at cost
within the reach of our people. Iwen-
ty-five trustees, appointed by the Baptist
State Convention of North Carolina,
have put their heads, their hearts and
their hands together and have done
their greatest and their mfghtiest work.
so that to day with delighted hearts
we announce that we have secured a
faculty inferior to none in the South
land and superior to any IN North Car
DINA to teach women. Or the seven
teen members of the faculty fourteen
of them have studied in the greatest
universities of America, and some OF
these have spent from one to three years
in the greatest universities of Europe.
All of the members of the faculty are
Baptists except one. All of them are
godly men and women. We have ac-
cepted the suggestions from our people
all over the State Let us have first
class advantages and we viii stand by
you"
What is the cost? One hundred and
thirty-seyen dollars and fifty cents Il
year. Surely" some one says. there
must be mistake. 1t cannot be that
such superior advantages can be had
for so small amount" We mean every
word of it. Good board nice rooms, fuel
and lights for $50 a year. Tuition,
which<sincludes Latin, Greek, French,
German, Spanish, Mathematics, Eng
lish Literature, Physiology, Hygiene,
Natural Sciences and History, $3.50 a
year. Medical fee. s., making $3.50.
For those who room in the central build
ing the expense will be S165.50. This
$165.50 is the most that will be charged
anybody who may attend. Now you
ask, what is the cause of this diff
ference in charges for the same adj
vantages?'' 1t is this: In the central
building, erected by the people of
North Carolina. the cost Of electric
lights, steam heat, hot and cold water,
the elegant bath rooms, make the diff
ference in the price. In this building
the board is sos a year instead of $50,
as it is in the University clubhouse.
The clubhouse is under the same man
agement, being occupied by members
OF the faculty just like the central build
ing. The rooms are as nice as the
rooms occupied by the young women of
the State when they are at home, but
it has not the modern conyeniences that
the central building has. Let it not be
for one moment in your minds that we
have one building for rich girls and one
building for poor girls. Quite as many
poor girls will room in the central build
ing as in the boarding house. As one
of the trustees and as the representative
of the other twenty-four trustees, |
would say once for ALL that under no
circumstances will we allow any young
woman to occupy any place or to do
anything that will be to her social dis
advantage. To aid US In carrying out
this one thought, we have found in
the members of our faculty the very