The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-19

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Battle, Leonidas Polk. John NJ. Morehcaa, |
Thomas Ruffin, ]. Johnston Pettigrew, |
Thomas S. Ashe, Thomas C. Manning,
Frederick D. Lente, Alfred NJ Scales, |
Thomas Settle, Archibald NJ. DeBow
The list of eminent Alumni includes
one President of the United States, two
Vice Presidents, ten Cabinet officers, sew
enteen Ministers TO foreign courts, four
teen United States and ten Confederate
States Senators, twenty Governors of
States, twenty 1.-TWO Justices of the Su-
preme Court, sixteen generals. four bish-
aps, eighteen college presidents, fifty
nine professors in colleges and universe
ties.
COST TO THE STATE.
The University receives from the State
this year an appropriation Of So, 900. The
appropriation if collected per capita,
would amount to l 3-5 cents per annum
to each inhabitant; but the tax is paid
entirely by property, and the mass OF
the people in the State really contribute
little or nothing to its support. man
who pays only poll-taX contributes moth
ing. man listed at 800 pays less than
one cent annually TO the regular apprO-
priation, at $500 less than
cents. at $1,000 less than 10
cents. at $1,000 less than so
cents. The average taxpayer is listed
at less than $500, and, therefore, pays
less than cents. About nine-tenths OF
the taxpayers pay less than 10 cents
year for an appropriation of $4,000 for
the support of the University.
The tax for the University does not
come from the public school fund. 1t is
a tax on property alone, and its adj
vantages accrue to the sons OF the poor.
1t is a tax Of the property holders for
the benefit of themselves. their neighbors
and the State. 1t is an application OF
Christianity TO government.
1t is to be hoped that the tidal wave
Of educational progress and expansion
which is now working such revolution
in education in this grand old Common
wealth, will continue to broaden and
grow until the State takes its proper
place in the front rank among the most
modern and progressive States in the
Union 1t is a duty the State owes to
its youth to make the obtaining Of an
education easy, and the Legislature
should be very liberal in making appro-
priations to the University and other in
troll This is a duty most sacred we
owe to ourselves and our children-an
educated citizen should be a progressive
and good citizen always.
LABOR AND SELF-HELP.
It is confidently believed that no in
stitution offers wider opportunities for
self-help to meritorious students of slen-
der means The desire is that no worthy
boy. however poor, shall ever be turn
cd away for lack OF means. To such the
University and town offer unusual oppor-
.tunities for support Eighty-fye stu
dents are now working their way through
college by every form of honorable la
Dor. Fifty-two are here as the result Of
money earned or borrowed. Thirty-fve
are aided by loans, and ever nine hun
dred have received aid from the Uni
versity in loans and scholarships in the
past twenty years. few students are
selected by the authorities as walters
at Commons. Otherwise all oPportuni-
ties. though available in the college and
town, must be secured by the personal
effort Of the individual. They are not
assigned by the President.
DEPARTMENTS.
The University comprises the following
departments:
The College for undergraduates.
The University. or graduate school.
The Law School.
The Medical School.
The School of Pharmacy.
Tho Summer School, for teachers.
Present roll cs students includes col
lege 81, law 50. medicine "A, pharmacy
20. Summer School for teachers 161, total,
exclusive CT duplicates, 65S.
Post graduate courses in the University
are open to women.
COLLEGE FACULTY AND COURSES.
Francis Preston Venable Phi. D., Presi-
dent-University of Virginia, Beam, Got
tingen, Berlin, Phi. d. Gottingen.
GREEK AND LATIN.
Eben Alexander, Phi. D. LII. D.--A b.
Yale, Phi. D. Maryyille. LII. D. University
of North Carolina, Instructor, University
OF Tennessee, Professor, IBID.
Henry Farrar Linscott, Phi. D.-A. r. A.
NJ, Bowdoin College, Phi. d. University
of Chicago, Instructor Brown Univer-
sitv
Thomas James Wilson, Jr., Phi. D.-A.
B.. A. NJ, Phi. d. University of North
Carolina, Teacher in graded schools,
Charlotte, n. c.
MODERN LANGUAGES.
Walter Dallam Toy, NJ An A. Uni
versity of Virginia; student at Leipsic,
Berlin, La Sorbonne and College de
France.
ENGLISH
Thomas Hume, ID, Ii. D.-A. b. \.
NJ, d. D., Richmond College; Graduate
University of Virginia; LII. D., Wake
Forest College.
William Cunningham Smith, Phi. B.
University of North Carolina; Student
FaTvard, 1897 (summerl
George Mcfarland McKie.-Graduate
OF Emerson School of Oratory.