The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-28
NOT SURPASSED IN SOUTH
THE EDUCATION OF THE HAND
NEVER BEFORE DISTINCTLY
RECOGNIZED.
THE COLLEGE IS DISTINC 'LY TECHNICAL
A Boy May Not Do What He Pleases But Must
Come up to the Expectation Of State
an, United tates.
baskerville Citizen.)

Editor The Citizen:--If any one doubts
that the old North Carolina, spending
her strength in creating raw material
and thus making herself only newer
OF wood and a 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 Asheville to Raleigh with
eyes to see will convince the most skep-
tical; for as a matter of simple fact, the
cotton mill owners are already creating
three times as much wealth with their
spindles and looms as those who create
the raw cotton do with mule, ploW and
hoe.
And if any one doubts that there is
new educational North Carolina, he has
only TO spend two days in our A. and
NJ. college and see the skilled and power
ful brain of its president, DIR. George Il,
Winston, inspiring and directing the brain
and body of more than 200 North Caro-
lima boys, and giving them the skilled
brain to direct the skilled hand; and this
skilled hand, directed by the skilled brain,
is 10 be a potent factor in the future OF
the state and Of the whole South.
L spent two days in the college campus
and ! was very much impressed with the
olderliness, the receptivity and the intelli-
gent earnestness of the student body
was at large meeting of the u NJ. G..
a. pn Sunlsy, opened with prayer by
Dr. Winston, attended by several OF the
faculty and by more than hundred Of
the cadets. | saw the college exercises
opened by reading from the sacred page
and with prayer. looked over the farm
and saw the plans for future improve
ment, large, practical, and all in the
line of technical and industrial training.
/ was struck by the order and decol1lm
maintained everywhere by the cadets
themselves. i saw the first year men at
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 four-fold
training school, no matter what he takes
later ON. / saw the chemical and physi-
cal laboratories. / went through the
we'll conducted horticultural building; but
the textile building was made all the
more conspicuous by it's absence from
the fact that the mill-owners have Great
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 new North Carolina.
And furthermore / saw the cows MIXED
and scientifically fed by the cadets. the
horses fed by the cadets, and saw other
manual labor done by cadets, some OF
whom are enabled in this way to pay In
part for their education.
| found that the A. and NJ. College Is
no place where a boy may do as he
pleases, but where he must carry out
the purposes for which the State and
the United States furnish the money.
Nor is it place for ili-prepred boys,
more than 75 applicants having not been
allowed to enter at all since September.
Nor is it place for the idle or disor-
derly boys, more than so who entered In
September havirg been dropped from the
rolls for inefficiency and neglect Of duty.
I 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 atteu-
tior as is consistent with the training OF
the hand
And after seeing what is actually being
done. and hearing from President Win
ston what his plans are, which reach
from the waxing Goth century to its
waning, | became fully Convinced that
we shall have n great industrial school,
rs great as any other in the South,
and greater perhaps than any other If its
Nble president is supported in his pro-
gressive ideas by the agricultural and
manufacturing classes in the State who
comprise nine-teenths Of cur whole po1tila-
ton, and who have never been distinctly
recognized before in the States scheme
Of education. r. BINGHAM.