The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14

| heroic band formed part of those to whom
| the noble leader of the Confederacy gave
| the post of honor of defending the real
of the Army of Northern Virginia. The
death roll there of the University was 81
Oh! Mother of the heroic dead, teach us
| the lesson of their devotion to duty. Of
their great love for country and for thee
THE UNIVERSITY IN PEACE.
am afraid that in the short time at my
command scant justice can be done to the
peaceful service of the University to the
State In the first place, no one can fully
estimate the influence of the thousands
of educated. useful men who first learned
here the great lesson of life. The lesson
of obedience to the call of duty, of unset
fish service, Of unpretentious. helpfulness
of quiet leadership in all that makes for
a nobler life. Such men form the leaven
which rightly leavens the whole l dc
not hesitate to say that the University s
first and greatest work is the sending
forth of such men as David CASTOR Worth
John w. Fries. Julian S. Carr and host
of others who have truly served and up
lifted their fellows.
Besides this quiet, yet powerful infiu-
or done their share in all great forward
movements in the State. 1t was one Of her
sons Archibald D. Murphey, who laid the
foundation of the States system of public
schools, and the University could do no
nobler service. 1t was one of the prime
objects of her creation that she should
be the head of the States system of
education, not the whole of it. That
through her the humblest and most igno-
rant in the land should be blessed and
the whole State urlifted. Please note
the sequence of events. The University
must first gather strength and scatter
here and there the seeds of knowledge.
She must gradually iCculcate a love for
learning Then one of her gifted sons
arises. more deeply touched than his
fellows with the divine love for hu-
manity and stirs up others to help him,
and schools for the children spring up
all over the land. 1t is in this way alone
that such problems must be worked out.
There must be men who know the value
and the need of education. there must
be men inspired with the zeal for SER
veice; there must be trained teachers or
it will be the old story of blind leaders of
the blind.
The complaint has been made that the
University does not send its students di
rectly :nto the public schools. This is
a mistake. Many of its students do teach
and have taught in these schools. Sew
enty four students at present in the Uni
sity have taught in these schools Few
Of it's graduates, however, enter this SER
vice and it would be a waste of power
for them to do So They can better serve
by teaching public school teachers, and
thus multiplying atheirtinfluence. In the
place Of one man scores unite their
strength for the upward movement. If
they ere themselves well trained they
teachers there would be an end to the
cry of inefficient work.
AN EDUCATIONAL REVIVAL.
In this time of educational revival
when the people are camoring for more
and better schools, the State must come
to the rescue of the system, and by wise
legislation improve and enlarge it but
the law-givers should realize that the
most potent factor in this revival, the
most powerful instrument in their hands,
must be the University. 1t must be en-
its work. 1t must be properly furnished
for the great struggle against ignorance,
so that its usefulness may be many times
multiplied and the people may be fed.
The University recognized the value of
church education and aided in the founda-
tion of Wake Forest College, and one of
it's first presidents was a distinguished
son of the University, William Hooper,
Trinity was upheld and tided over peril
Gus times, largely by the munificence Of
another alumnus. Julian S. Carr. The
first president of Davidson was an alum
nus of the University, Robert Hall Morri-
son, the father of Stonewall Jackson g
wife. Besides, the University has given
Davidson some of her strongest men,
President Henburn and William j. Mar
tin. The University recognizes that there
is a great field for these institutions and
welcomes the help afforded by their
strength and devotion. for the harvest
truly is plenteous.
1t was the University that established
the first normal school for teachers, and
Mclver, Alderman, Joyner, Noble, Gra-
ham, and others have been foremost in
this wreat work for the children of the
State. 1t was largely through the efforts
of our alumni that the rights of the wo-
men of the State to equal opportunities
with the men was cognized and that noble
institution in Greensboro was built, and
from the beginning it's destinies have been
controlled by our own McIver. The first
attempt at giving an agricultural and me-
chanical training in the State was here
and the strong and growing institution
in Raleigh, devoted to such ends. has for
its president another able son of the Uni
vcrsity, Geo. T. Winston.
The great industrial movement which
is revolutionizing the conditions Of life
around us and which promises to make
this a great and prosperous State, has
for it's leaders many OF our alumni, such
men as Holt, Fries, Carr. Alexander,
Morehead and many others, and each year
the University is sending many of its
younger sons into the factories and mills
of the State
OUR GREATEST STEP FORWARD.
During the past summer the State was
stirred by one of theg reatest political
stirred gy one Of the greatest political
campaigns in its history. The burning
question was the educational amendment.
Now I would not be misunderstood here.
Do not think of me as unnecessarily drag
ging political matters into an adreSS of