The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-24

the fall of the plastering in several
places. The South building and Chem
ical Labrat)r roofs should both be re-
newed Many of the rooms need re-
pairing badly. There should be an inn
mediate expenditure of some $500 on
these and the other buildings or the
damage will increase and the bill final
ly be much greater. 1t is incumbent
upon the State to keep in repair build
ings which have come to it as a gift.
The University has brought to the
State in gifts since 1875. $780, 600 in
money and lands, ard about 100000 in
buildings.
Gifts to the University will flow in
generously CITY when the donors are
convinced that the State is generous
in it's treatment of it's own institution.
GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
During the past session the Univer-
sity has received as gifts. a fund of
$201.4O from VIM. Jennings Bryan to
establish a prize; a fund of $500 from
Edward May as a memorial to his son,
Samuel May, a forr.er esteemed in
structor in this Univ ersity, and a be-
quest from Rev. T. d. Martin, payable
at the death of his wlfe to provide aid
for needy students.
The noble Alumni building is also APP
preaching completion. 1t will have cost
over 900 when finished.
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.
| Ii will be seen from the Bursar's re-
port for the year 1879 1900 that there
was a deficit of $1,475.36. This will be
| increased during the current year by
additions in the salary and the running
vi To oh
81 800 The University is not in a con-
dition to face an annually increasing
deficit. The State must come TO our
help here or it will mean retrogression.
EXPENSES OF THE STUDENTS.
The University is emphatically the
hope of the poor boys of the State.
From the itemized statement of expen-
SEES handed in by the students for last
year, it is seen that the average for
those having free tuition and working
out their board at commons is $3.50,
the lowest being $57.J0. For those hav-
ing free tuit' n, only the average cost
is $144.61, and for those paying botl
board and .uition $265,25, the maxi
mum account handed in being $4,000.
over one hundred and fifty-five are
working their way through in whole
or in part.
SUMMER SCHOOL.
The faculty unanimously recommend
ed that the summer school term of
three months be discontinued. In it's
place they would recommend a summer
school for tf. ee weeks and Cniver-
sity term of six weeks. A longer sum-
mer term is too exhausting in this
climate.
THE UNIT ERSITY AND THE
SCHOOLS.
There have l,een .',C91 matriulates in
the regular courses and 562 full grad
yates since 1875. over 1,2OO of these
have taught after leaving the Univer-
sity About twenty-five superlnten-
dents of city schools have been sup
piled and very much larger number
of principals for private and public
schools. over fifty professors have
been sent out for various Universities
and colleges.
The teachers matriculated in the
Summer Schools have numbered 3,40S.
There are at present studying in the
University 9S who have taught in the
schools
These facts are mentioned to show
sition as head of the public school sys-
tenn. 1t is doing everything possible
with it's limited income to foster and
strengthen lhe entire system. There
can be no efficient public school sys-
tenn without a strong University at its
head. The stand taken by the Univer-
sity and the excellence of it's work de-
termines in "a large measure the condi-
lions of all the schools from secondary
to the humblest primary. If the Uni
versity sends out good teachers and de-
mands high attachments there will be
strong secondary schools, and if these
are strong there will be good teachers
for the primary schools.
ADDITIONAL TEACHING FORCE
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
The teaching force of the University
is altogether inadequate to the demands
made upon it. Few changes have beer
made since the students numbered three
hundred. The income is at present less
than the expenses by about $1,000 &
year and hence additions were impos-
sible.
TO do the most efficient teaching, the
classes must be divided into small sec
tions. This is impossible with the pres
ent force. Inc conditions may De Illdut
clearer by taking a few typical depart
ments. In the department Of English
one instructor at a salary of $500 and
one assistant at salary of $3.50 have the
entire instruction of 232 students, divid-
ed as follows: Freshmen Glass 122
in two sections, 81 and Al; Sophomore
Glass Ill, in two sections. These write
AGA exercises per week which must be
corrected by these two men. The re-
naming classes in the English depart
ment, numbering nire and containing
172 students are taught by one profess
sor.
In the department of Latin there is
one professor and an instructor who
gives one third of his time to the de-
partment of Greek. These two must
teach eight classes. In the Freshman
class there are seventy mine students
divided into three sections. There are
316 exercises weekly to be corrected. Ir
the Sophomore Glass there are seventy
five men in two sections. These Should
also write weekly exercises, but it is
physical impossibility for the teach.
ing force to correct them This
amount of teaching means more aetna