The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-26
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Our religious favorite, the Charlotte
Presbyterian Standard, was out last
week in AN Educational Number" 1t
was pictorial and had SO pages. What
a fine, handsome. capacious building is
the new presbyterian college for Wo-
men" at Charlotte. 1t Is 800 feet long
and four stories high. The new main
building ut Davidson college costsS5,-
600. and is 900 feet by 200 feet. The
college has an endowment Of $125,000.
Before the war it had one of $3.50, 900,
but it was mostly wrecked by the war.
1t is one of the very best of denomina-
tionaI colleges in h south. It's outfit
is very good, and it is progressive, con-
servatfve and admirably manned and
managed. We learn from the Stand
ard that it now GOWNS fifteen build
ings, costing. with apparatus, etc, ex-
elusive of the library. over $3.50, 900. It's
Y. NJ. G. A. a was the first ever erect
ed on a southern campus. Its physi-
cal labatory took the first X-ray pho
tograph south of Baltimore, and owns
at present the most powerful X-ray
coil in the state. The first wireless tel
egraph outfit ever brought to the state
was purchased by Davidson, and no
college or university in this section of
the country has a chemical laboratory
equal in size or equipment to the Mar
tin Chemical Hall, completed during
the past winter"
At Red Springs, in Robson county,
is a Presbyterian seminary for girls.
1T is an Institution of high grade and
much usefulness. 1t is in fact doing
a great work for North Carolina. 1t
is but five years old. 1t had enrolled
$50 students the last scholastic year
ending in June. For lack of room it
had to turn off % applicants. 1t has
never had a case Of fever, among it's
many hundreds of students. 1t is in
pine barrens of North Carolina, and
that explains the reason of this contin-
ued immunity from fevers so common
in he eastern section of the state.
At the University of North Carolina
now there is a faculty of 43 teachers.
These came from the north and Europe
mainly for Johns Hopkins, Harvard,
Cornell and Chicago universities are all
represented, while Paris, Bonn. Got
tingen. Berlin and other European I'M
iverSities nave representatives among
he professors. There were 527 en-
rolled students the last year. 1t has
a campus of marked natural beauty
containing forty acres and fourteen
buildings. We recall tina when the
late Governor Seymour, of Connecticut,
visited the university not long af-
ter the great war, he was very much
impressed with the natural beauty Of
the capacious campus and said he had
seen no equal to it among northern in
stitutions of learning. The equipment
is valued at a half million dollars. Its
library contains $4,000 volumes, and
there are seven scientific laboratories,
new dormitories, new water works, new
heating plant. In two years, improve
ments have been made costing $120, 900.
1t has a medical school and those sent
~out rank we'll, taking the highest prizes.
In pharmacy they tool the three high
est prizes before the examiners. 1t has
how medical. law n pharmacy
schools.
Peace Institute, Raleigh, is a superior
institute for girls. 1t has 100 rooms
and full equipment in all departments.
Its faculty is ample and we'll furnish
ed. 1t has had a long and most useful
career. 1t was never SO good as now
under the superior management OF
President IameS DiDwiddie