The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-25

OsuOuSOI WOdUI OAC0pIIn& SktIl0O
labor and technical knowledge.
Give her those, and she will become
the garden spot of the EARTH"
Tho South Is marching to the
music Of millions Of spindIes,
wheels and gears. Technically
trained men are giving 1t The bene-
fits Of scientific training. With
water power Of vast extent, with
mines Of coal and IRON and noun
tains Of limestone, with forests
rich in rare and beautiful woods.
with a climate adapted beyond ali
others for cotton, with splendid
harbors and navigable WATERWAYS.
there 10 no reason why the South
should not rival any part Of the
world In agriculture, commerce
and manufactures"
The College of Agriculture and Me-
cnanic Arts has grown rapidly since it's
foundation in 1889. Last year three hun
dred and three students were enrolled.
and large number had to be denied
admission because no dormtory room
could be provided for them. 1t is safe
to say that at the beginning of the SEES
sion next week, at least one hundred
young men will have to be sent back
to their homes for lack of sufficient
rooms in which to put them. This is
q loss not only to these young men, but
to the whole State. The next Legisla-
ture ought to make ample appropriation
to supply necessary dormtory room for
all young men who may wish to avail
themselves of the training which this
great State institution gives. This col
lege is pre-eminently a peoples school
and Its usefulness should not be allow
ed to lag for want of appropriations and
in any particular.
PURPOSE OF THE COLLEGE.
''The North Carolina College of Agri
culture and Mechanic Arts was estab
hshed to promote the liberal and prac.
t1cal education of the industrial classes
In the several pursuits and professions
or life. 1t is an institution where young
men may fit themselves for work i'm any
line or industry where training and skill
are requisite to success.
century ago education was for the
few, and it was designed to fit them for
the learned professions; today education.
is for the many, and is intended tt
EQUIP tnem for llfe's practical work.
The world is demanding men who
n.
mcnt for young man today is technical
skill, knowledge and power"
1t is better to know what is to b,,
done and how to do it than to know
what has been done and who did it,
This college was organized to supply
technically trained men in North Caro-
lima. 1t offers complete technical edu-
cation in agriculture, horticulture me-
chanical engineering, civil engineering,
electrical engineering, chemical engi-
neering and the textile industry. 1t al
SO offers thorough practical training in
carpentry, wOOd-turning blacksmithing,
machinery work, mill work, boiler tend
ing, engine tending, dynamo tending,
dairying, stock-feeding farm drainage.
understanding, Horticulture, ETC. AL
together the leading purpose Of the col
lege is TO furnish technical and practi-
cal education, yet other subjects essen
tial 10 liberal culture are not omitted
thorough instruction is given in Eng
ish, Mathematics, History, Civics, Po-
Iltical Economy, Physics, Chemistry.
botany, Zoology, Physiology, Physical
Geography, and Geology.
Inc college is intended. in short to
FURNISH broad, liberal education and
also 10 give at the same time such
special technical instruction and Drac
teal manual training as are indispen-
sable to industrial professions and &C.
equations. 1t is not a place for vounp
men who desire merely general educa.
ton without manual or technical train.
ing; nor for lads lacking in physical de-
velopment, mental capacity or moral
fibre; nor for those that are unable or
unwilling to observe regularity, system
order, and economy in their daily lives
and work.
1t is an institution whore young men
OF character, energy, and a.. Hition may
mt themselves for useful and honorable
work in any line of industry in which
training and skill are requisite to sue
cess.
The last Legislature put the college
under control of the State Board of Ag
riculture. This body has gone earnest
ly to work to further the interests of
the institution and has among other
Things established 100 agricultural schol-
arships for young men desiring to fit
themselves for farming. The board is
determined to make the Agricultural
department of this college equal to any
In the United States. and to bring it's
opportunities within reach of every boy
IN North Carolina, however poor he NAV
be, provided he is moral energetic am
bilious and capable of receiving an edu-
cation.
Young men who go to the A. and M. |
college to prepare themselves to be far. |
mers may be assured that thew will he
we'll trained in all subjects relating to |
agriculture and will also at the same
time receive broad, liberal education
preparing them for all the duties of life |
The board has also appropriated 81. 900
to pay for work done by agricultural,
students. The boys in, the A. and M.
College earned last year about $4,000 by
various kinds of work. This addition
of $4,000 is intended solely for farm,
work. 1t will not be divided out among
the agricultural students. but will be
paid solely to those that work, in the
shape of wages, at so much an hour,
cash payment. The work will be pre-
cisely the sort of work that is done or,
the farm-plowing, hauling, tile-laying.
feeding stock, milking, clearing land,
running bitches and terraces repairing
machinery and tools, harvesting crops.
ETC., etc, etc. This money is not in any
sense a gratuity. 1t will be paid as |