The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-18
STATES COLLEGE
FOR ITS WOMEN
Its Growth Has Been Most
Phenomenal.
WORK OF ITS GRADUATES
Promise Of Our Fairly Constitutions
Being Fulfilled.
THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED TO WOMEN
Il is The Peoples Institution and lis Motto and
Aim is Creates Amount q Educational
Opportunity to the Great
est Number Ct People.
(Staff Correspondence

all we'll regulated Governments. it
is the indispensable duty of every legis
lature to consult the happiness of ris-
ing generation, and endeavor to fit them
for an honorable discharge of the social
duties OF life, by paying the strictest at
tention to their education" Thus thought
and spoke our fathers, who on the eve
OF great revolution, assembled one hun
ured and twenty-five years ago at Hall
TAX, to frame the first Constitution of the
State OF North Carolina. Nor was this
thought and declaration permitted to re-
main without the sanction and authority
or decree. Section Al of the Constitu
tion of 1776, thus bears witness to the
wisdom of it's trainers: "a school or
schools shall be established by the legis-
lature for the convenient instruction of
youth, with such salaries to the masters,
paid by the public, as may enable them to
Instruct at low prices; and all useful
learning shall be duly encouraged and
promoted in enc or more universities
HOPE DEFERRED.
What is meant by the rising genera
tion," and who are the youth" thus to
receive instruction paid for by the pub
lie? One hundred and twelve years go
by, and the able author of the History OF
Education in North Carolina, begins his
chapter on Higher Female Education
with these words: 1.-THE State has never
made the least provision fer the higher
fem2,c education
THE PROMISE FULFILLED
Established by act of the General AS.
semliy of 1891, the North Carolina State
Normal and Industrial College has for it's
objects, Cd 1.-THE giving to young women
Such education as shall fit them for
teaching; (2) the giving to young women
instruction in drawing, telegraphy, type
writing, stcnography, and such other in
dustrial arts as may be suitable to their
sex and conducive to their support and
usefulness" Thus has the State, after
1lo years of waiting, obeyed in full the
mandate, which century earlier she
wisely complied with in part by charter
ing university for the male youth of the
rising generation.
PURPOSE OF THE INSTITUTION.
A State institution. the Normal and
Industrial College is an institution Of
higher education for the daughters of the
State-not for a class, be it's foundations
church creed, political faith, social status
or wealth, but for all. Here wealth may
claim all the advantage that great State
can provide fer the instruction of her
children, advantages equal to. but neither
greater nor less than those open to pow
erty. As with her similar institutions
for men, the State wishes this college to
be good enough for any of her citizens,
the expenses low enough for all. Through
1t she seeks to give to her daughters such
education as will be to them a source of
culture, happiness and usefulness, bless
ing to the receiver and to all with whom
she comes in contact. And to the end
that this field Of usefulness be not mar
rowcd, the college seeks to make plain
Its relation to the commonwealth, as well
as the duty and privilege of those who
receive it's advantages. a part of the
public school system, the State Normal and
Industrial College stands for a system of
public education that will educate the
people. 1t seeks to make good citizens
and to send out students who are apos-
ties of universal education-carrying the
gift which they themselves receive to
others, even to those who live in dark
ness and care not for the light.
LOCATION.
Greensboro, with population of more
than ten thousand, is one Of the prosper
Gus thriving cities Of the State, having
made, according to the last official census
report, the largest gains in the past ten
years OF any considerable town in North
Carolina. 1t is railroad centre enjoying
In this respect unusual advantages, and
to the entire people of the State is the
i NEST accessible of North Carolina towns.
Its healthfulness is well known, and its
social and religious Influences are the
best. The college, with its grounds part
ly within and partly without the corpora
tion forms in itself a suburban communi-
ty; sufficiently removed from the noise
and distraction of the city to Insure the
quiet conducive to study, while at the
same time it shares in all the healthful
opportunities for culture that are to be
derived from residence in a city Of
Gree nsboro's many advantages.
GROWTH AND EQUIPMENT.
That the college fills long felt need
in our State it's growth and liberal patron
age attest. Every one of the 81 counties
is represented among its students and all
share in its quickening influences. In spite
of increased dormitory facilities the in
sttution has for the past two years been
forced to rent buildings near the college
grounds, nor with these has it been able
to accommodate all who knock at it's
doors. The faculty now consists of thir-
ty-three officers and instructors. Tlie
several buildings are models of conven-
fence and comfort. modern in construction
and equipment, comfortably furnished and
properly lighted warmed and ventilated.
They have water and sewer connections
and are supplied with apparatus for fill
tering and sterlizing the drinking water.
The library, containing such books as are
most serviceable to the students in their
work in the various departments. is In
charge of a competent librarian. 1t is
open to students daily from a. IN. to 5
D. m. A reading room open during the
same period each day, is we'll supplied
with the best newspapers, magazines. and