The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-30
NOT SURPASSED IN SOU H
THE EDUCATION OF THE HAND
NEVER BEFORE DISTINCTLY
RECOGNIZED.
The COLLEGE IS DISTINCTLY TECHNICAL
A Boy May Not Do What He Pieeses But Must
Come up 10 the Expectation of State
ard United States.
baskerville CI,ixen.i

! Editor The Citizen:-1f any one doubts
that the old North Carolina. spending
her strength Ill creating raw 7Ila terra
AMI thus making herself only u newer
or wood and 4 drawer Of water. IS being
rapidly replaced by the new North Caro-
lima, acting on this raw material with
the skilled brain and the skilled hand
and thus multiplying its value many fold.
! ride from Asheyjlle 10 Raleigh with
eyes 10 see Will convince the most skey-
tlcal: for AZ a matter OF simple fact, the
cotton mill OWIlprS are already creating
three times a- much wealth with their
spildles and looms az those who create
rhe raw cotton do with mule. plow and
hoe.
And If any one dOubts that there SIS 4
new educational North Carolina. Le has
only 10 spend two days In our A. and
u. college and see the skilled and power
ful brain OF its president, lr. George 4.
" lnstcl- inspiring and directing the brain
and body Of more than 300 North Caro-
lima boys. and giving them the skilled
lsraill to direct the skilled hand: and this
skilled hand, directed by the skilled brain
IS TO be d potent factor in the future or
The state and of the whole South.
| spent two days IN the college caItGyus
ani | was very much impressed with the
Nf NfN 49, - NItt ia dtt1i
gent carEeStnesS OF the student body.
was ut a large meeting Of the y. NJ. C..
y. on Sunday. opened with PRAYER by
DIR. WINSTON attended by several Of the
faculty and by more than Il hundred Of
the cadets. | saw the college exercises
opened hy reading from the sacred page
and With PRAYER. | looked over the farm
and saw the plans for future improve
ment. large. practical. and AN in the
line Of technical and industrial training.
| Was struck by the order and decor1lm
maintained everywhere by the cadet
themselves. | saw the first year men az
obligatory work in four lines OF industrial
training. the carpenter shop. the lathe
shop. the blacksmith shop and the indus
trial drawing department. no first year
men being excused from this Nf6ur-fold |
framing school. no matter what he takes
later on. i saw the chemical aud plySi-
cal Laboratories. went through the !
we'll conducted horticulture building: but
the textile building was made all the !
moro conspicuous by it's absence from |
the fact that the mili-owncrs have clpat-l
ed three times as much wealth in the past ,
year as all the cotton farmers: and that
manufacturing cotton IS the most profit-
able business in NOW North Carolina.
And furthermore | saw the COWS MIXED
"iN ctiflitihtdIS 1Sl ny me fattJS. the
horses fed by the cadets. and | saw other
manual labor done by cadets. some Of
whom are enables i'll this way 10 pay in
part for their education.
| found that the \. and N. College is
no place where q boy may do as he
pleaseS, but where he must carry ont
the purposes for which the State and
the United States furnish the money.
Nor is it 4 place for ill-rre,arol BOYS.
more than Is applicants having not been
allowed to enter at all since September.
Nor is Il a place for the idle or disor-
ielly boys. more than 80 who entered in
September having been dropped from the
rolls for inefticiency and neglect OF duty.
| found that the work Of the College. as
its name implies, is distinctly towards
technical and industrial training, rather
than towards general literary culture,
which however receives as much attcn-i
ton as is consistent with the training Of
the hand.
And after seeing what is actually lalnc
done. and hearing from President Win
ston what hi; plans are, which reach
from the waxing. 2uth century 10 its
waning, I became fully Convinced that!
we shall have a great industrial school,
as great as any other in the South. |
and greater perhaps than any other If its
able president is supported In his pro
cressive ideas by the agricultural and
manufacturing classes in the State who
comprise nine-teenths of our whole popula-
ton, and who have never been distinctly
recognized before in the States schpmel
Of education K. BINGHAM. |