The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-21

uoonar T. Bragg. R. NJ Pearson, w II.
Ra+tla I,eonidas Polk, John NJ MorenCa''
Thomas Ruffin, j. Johnston fetusre"'
Thomas S. Ashe, Thon as Z. Manning
Frederick D.. Lente, Alfred NJ Scales
Thomas Settle. Archibald NJ. DeBow-
Tbo list of eminent Alumni includes
o,o president of the United states, TWO
yica-presidents ten Cabinet officers, sew
enteen Ministers to foreign courts ioUi
teen United States and ten tonledelate
States Senators, twenty Governors VI
States. twenty-five Justices o. Uhe gu
nrena Court. sixteen generals, four bish-
aps. eighteen college presidents, MY
nine professors in colleges and UNIVERSE
ties.
COST T THE STATE.
The University receives from the State
this wear an appropriation OF $2o,ooo. me
approDriation, if collected per capita
would amount to l 3-5 cents per ahhunl
to each inhabitant; but the tax is palo
entirely by property, and the mass U
the people in the State really contribute
little or nothing to it's support. A man
who pays only a poll-tax contributes noun
ing. \ man listed at 500 pays less than
ono cent annually to the regular appro-
priation, at $500 less than .
cents. at 81, 1000 less than 10
cents, at s., 600 less than 80
cents. The average taxpayer is listed
AT less than $500, and, therefore, pays
less than 5 cents. About nlne-tenthS OF
the taxpayers pay less than 10 cents a
wear for an appropriation of $4,000 for
the support of the University.
The tax for the University does not
come from the public school fund. 1t is
a tax on property alone, and its ad-
yantages accrue to the sons Of the poor.
1t is a tax of the property holders Tor
the benefit of themselves, their nelghbors
and the State. 1t is an Application OF
Christianity to government.
1t is to be hoped that the tidal wave
of educational progress and expansion
which is now working such a revolution
in education in this grand old
wealth. will continue to broaden and
grow until the State takes its proper
place in the front rank among the most
modern and progressive States in the
Union. It is a duty the State owes to
its youth to make the obtaining OF an
education easy, and the Legislature
| should be very liberal in making appro-
| priations to the University and other in
situations Of learning under State con-
troll. This is a duty most sacred We
owe to ourselves and our children-an
educated citizen should be a progressive
and good citizen always.
LABOR AND SELF-HELP.
1t is confidently believed that no in
| stitution offers wider opportunities for
self-help to meritorious students OF slen-
der means. The desire is that no worthy
boy, however poor, shall, ever be turn
ed away for lack of means. To such the
University and town offer unusual orpor-
tlinities for support. Eighty-five stu
| Tents are now working their way through
college by every form Of honorable la
Dor. Fifty-two are here as the result Of
money earned or borrowed. Thirty-fve
are aided by loans, and over nine hun
dred nave received aid from the Uni
versity in loans and scholarships in the
| past twenty years. A few students are
selected by the authorities as walters
at Commons. Otherwise all opportuni-
ties, though available in the college and
town, must be secured by the personal
effort OF the individual. They are not
assigned by the President.
DEPARTMENTS.
departments:
, The College for undergraduates.
The University, or graduate school.
The Law School.
The Medical School.
The School Of Pharmacy.
The Summer School, for teachers.
Present roll of students Includes, col
lege 81. law so, medicine Al, pharmacy
20, summer School for teachers ISL, total,
exclusive of duplicates, 65S.
Post graduate courses in the University
are open to women.
COLLEGE FACULTY AND COURSES.
Francis Preston Venable Phi. D., Presi-
dent-University of Virginia. Bonn, Got
tingen, Berlin, Phi. d.. Gottingen.
GREEK AND LATIN.
Eben Alexander, Phi. D.. Ii. D.-A. B.
Yale. Phi. D. Maryville, LII. D. University
of North Carolina, Instructor, University
of Tennessee, Professor, Ibid.
Henry Farrar Linscott, Phi. D.-A. r. A.
M, Bowdoin College, Phi. D.. University
of Chicago, Instructor Brown Univer-
sitv.
Thomas James Wilson, Jr., Phi. D.-A.
B., A. M, Phi. D. University Of North
Carolina, Teacher in graded schools,
Charlotte, N. c..
MODERN LANGUAGES.
Walter Dallam Toy, NJ. An. A. Uni
versity of Virginia; student at Leipsic,
Berlin, La Sorbonne and College de
France.
L
Thomas Hume, DID,, Ii. D.-A. B., A.
NJ, d. D., Richmond College; Graduate,
University Of Virginia.; LII. D., Wake
Forest College.
William Cunningham Smith, Phi. b
University of North Carolina; Student
Harvard. 1897 (summer).
George Mcfarland McKie.-Graduate
of Emerson School Of Oratory.