The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-06
The City Public Schools Are
the Peoples Pride.
EDUCATION OF WOMEN
Ths Work Of the State Normal and
Industrial College.
THE GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE
In The Educational Field There Has Been At
tention Given to the Needs Of
the CoIored Race.

Right wOrthily has the city achieved
the reputation of being the educational
centre of the State, and right wOrthily
is it living up to the high standard Of
the past. 1t was the first city in North
n Carolina to establish by taxation sys-
TEN of public graded schools and to-
day no other city in the State ranks
higher in this line of education, it's
graded schools under the administration
of Superintendent George A. Grims
ley boasting of marvellous growth and
development, until today, with their
handsome buildings, their progressive
Superintendent, and their able teachers
they are abreast with any in the South.
In 1874 the citizens voted tax to
maintain the schools and now $4,000 is
annually appropriated for their support.
In 1874 there were but LAT, and in fifteen
years later, in 1889, when Mr.. Grimsley
was put in charge, there were $50 pupils
in both white and colored schools.
Keeping pace with the growth in popu-
larity of the schools, there were in 1891
over 600 pupils, all the private schools
having given way to the city public
schools, while the record of attendance
show 1923 pupils enrolled last year, an
increase of over 200 per cent in ten
years.
The school system has five buildings
for whites, and two for colored, among
those for the whites being Lindsay Street
sSchool, with three buildings, one a
handsome brick structure. Here there
are primary, grammar and high schools,
the other two schools being the Asheboro
Street School and the Practice School at
the Normal College. For the colored
race there are two excellent buildings,
one Of these being of brick. To teach
the pupils in these seven schools there
are thirty six teachers, twenty eight in
the white schools and eight in the col
ored schools. In the matter of attend
ance on the white schools the record
probs bly, supasses that of any city in
the State, this attendance being 20 per
cent of the population between the ages
/ of + and 81, or IS per cent of the popu-
lation between 6 and 16. At the colored
schools it is nearly. SO per cent. se
Il. A REGULAR HIGH SCHOOL.
Greensboro was also the first city to
establish by taxation a regular public
High School. and last year there were
in this school 125 pupils. Here the pu-
pills are fully prepared for the Univer-
sity and other colleges Of the State.
Zone of the great features of the school
is the School Circulating Library which
was begun by Superintendent Grimsley
in 1889 by means of contributions from
children. This library has kept pace
with the growth Of the school and there
are now over 5000 volumes in all, there
being library in every school, the ex-
cellent selection Of books being used
among other things for a prescribed
course of home reading.
Superintendent GIimslcy, who has
been at the head of the schools for
been born iE Greene county in 1862.
Until his nineteenth year he was raised
on the farm. lie is q graduate Of Biny-
fam's School at Mebane, and in 1888 be-
gun his lille work rs principal of the
school at Kinsfon, being made its SUI
perintendent in 1895. In 1886 he became
student at the Normal College of the
> University of Mesh, lille, graduating il,
1858 with the degree of l.. L., and the
same year organizing tic graded schools
at Tarboro. In 1889 he wa: elected SUI
perintendent at Greensboro on the death
Of Superintendent Tomiinson AND from
the Cay he took charge of the schools
there has been steady and constant
growth in their popularity and sphere
of usefulness.
TWO BRIGHT DIADEMS.
Within the borders of this city OF