The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23

not dime has been appropriated. For
lack of funds we have resorted to beg
ging and have secured from textile manu-
facturers about $4,000 worth of ma
chinery. AS much again could be OBJ
tanned, If we had building in which to
place it. We are actually too poor to re-
ceive further gifts. The machinery that
we now have is crowded in room in the
main building, entirely inadequate for
purposes of instruction. For the proper
equipment and management of our tex
tile department there is absolute need
of whole building, similar in size. ar
rangement and equipment to buildings
constructed for this purpose in other
States. There is equal need of at least
two additional instructors in the textile
department.
DORMITORIES.
Scarcely less urgent is our need of ad-
ditional dormitories. The present dormi-
tory accommodation suffices for only 1872
students. To reach even this number
students must be crowded and packed into
small rooms, beyond comfort and almost
beyond prudence. This evil should be
remedied Our students should be COM
fortably and healthfully housed and
enough room should be provided for all
who come. AT present for lack of room
we are forced to turn away applicants
every week. If all who applied the last
two years had been able to pass the en-
trance examinations we would have been
forced to reject nearly 200 for lack of ac-
accommodations. There is need of adj
ditional accommodations for at least a
hundred students.
CHAPEL AND AUDITORIUM
Our next most urgent need is chapel
and auditorium Ours is probably the
only college in the State without chapel
for daily religious services and public
exercises. Every large room in the col
Iege is now full of machinery, and every
small room is used for dormitories, reci-
tations, workshops or laboratories. There
is absolutely no place for chapel service
or college assembly. At present we are
conducting religious services each morn
ing in the dining room during breakfast.
The arrangement is very unsatisfactory.
We have no place at all for commence
ment exercises. We are cut off entirely
from public lectures 1t is impossible to
have a meeting of the entire college for
any purpose whatever. This lack of chap
ell and auditorium is very great draw
ways. The instruction and government of
300 young men cannot be carried on with
the greatest efficiency without the help
full influence of daily religious exercises,
OF daily lectures or talks by the president
and members of the faculty, Of occasional
lectures and addresses by distinguished
speakers and industrial experts, of self
culture through literary, scientific and
af
by the student body, of public exhibit
tions and exercises during the year and
of the annual commencement exercises.
To enjoy these benefits we must have a
chapel and auditorium. A building for
this purpose might contain also, without
much additional expense, halls for lite
rary, scientific and technical societies. ac-
commodations for the college library and
reading room, and home for the Young
Mems Christian Association.
MACHINE SHOP AND FOUNDRY.
The college greatly needs new ma
chine shop and a foundry. Our present
machine shop, for lack of both room and
machines. is inadequate to the proper
instruction of our students. There is
need of a new building for a machine shop
and foundry. with proper equipment in
each line The present mechanical build
ing would then suffice for instruction in
carpentry, in wood turning, in drawing
and designing, and in mechanical engi-
neering. We find an unusual demand for
instruction along all mechanical lines.
We have applicants every week and fire.
quently every day for mechanical instruc-
ton. sometimes lads of twelve some
times men of thirty, or older. even men of
L.
most of them for lack of room and ma
chinery. With suitable accommodations
and equipment for mechanical and for
textile instruction. do not doubt that
the enrolment of the college would be
ence exerted on the Industries of the
State.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
Our college is quite deficient in electri-
cal equipment. We need considerable ad-
ditions both for instruction and for pow
err The plant that we now have is mad
equate to the many purposes for which
it is used 1t is not sufficient for instruc
ton, for power and for lighting. Electrical
education is very popular and is likely to
be most useful in developing our indus
tries. The college should have suitable
and sufficient equipment along this line.
AN ARMORY.
The military department of the college
requires an armory. For lack of one we
are unable to procure military equip
ments much needed by the battalion. The
college is also without gymnasium, be-
ing probably the only college in the State
not equipped in this direction A suitable
armory properly constructed would an
swer also for gymnasium. This is the
case at Cornell University and at the