The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-20
SKETCHES OF THE SCHOOLS.
Supt. Mebane Anxious to Secure Them
For His Next Report.

SUPERINTENDENT Mebane is anxious to
secure sketches of all denominational
and private schools of the
State, past and present. for
his next biennial report. To this
end he has asked Dr. Thomas NJ. HUFF
ham. of Henderson, to write a sketch of
Baptist schools of the past, has made
similar request of DIR. Rumple, of
Salisbury, with regard to Presbyterian
schools and others will be asked to write
sketches of the schools of the va
rious denominations. Information from
any source as to such schools VIII DE
welcome. The last report, consisting OF
1000 volumes, contained many such
sketches and proved very popular, hav-
ing been entirely exhausted In further
ance of this object he has issued the fol-
lowing letter to private school men and
others
Dear Sirs: On February 9TH. 1898.
| sent a letter TO the denominational
and private schools of the State. asking
them to take space in the Official Report
of this Department at a nominal cost or
S1.5O per page. In response to this
quite number of these colleges and
schools agreed to take space, some only
a few pages. others more.
This report has gone into every State
and Territory in the United States, to
nearly every public library throughout
the United States, to the college il
braries. and one special bound volume to
the Paris Exposition, so that | think
it will be of great value to the inSti-
buttons as well as to the State.
/ offer you the same terms as the
others had to cover cost of printing,
and hope that all the schools of any
prominence that were not represented
in my former report will be represented
in the next one. ~
Il want a short concise history of
each school, and an outline of what has
been done and is being done.
"Will be glad to insert cuts of the
colleges and school buildings. etc
Il ask your careful consideration of
this matter and hope TO have a reply
at an early day as 10 how much space
YOU will want.
Il desire to leave on record Il history
of all our schools and the work they
are doing for the good of the schools and
for the good of the State. and for flu
ture generations.
do not put this matter off, because
you think there is plenty of time. 1t
takes q great deal of time to get the in
formation together from the various
parts of the State. hence start oil
this work at this early date.
Il shall also be very glad if any OF
the odd schools" were overlooked in
the sketches which were prepared by
DR. Battle in my last report, to have n
sketch of such school or schools.
Let no citizen wait for personal in
vitatiOn to write such sketch, as
hereby extend a special request to any
one and all who know of any such
schools. or if you can put me in com
munication with persons having valuable
historical educational facts that should
he preserved for future generations, I
shall appreciate it very much.
''Just today | saw an interesting
sketch in the Greensboro Telegram OF a
Post Relum School
mo doubt there are hundreds of such
schools. sketches Of which if not writ
ten soon will be lost forever so far as
our educational history is concerned. No
charges for sketches of schools not now
in operation.
IL close this letter by asking the
hearty cooperation of all private schools
as to their history, and of all citizens
i'll my efforts to secure valuable edu-
cational history that may be lost if not
preserved i'm some official record like
the Educational Report of this De
partment. Yours truly,
&c. II. MEBANE,
''Supt. Public Instruction of y. c.