The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-16
Especial 10 News and Observer

Board OF Directors Of the State Normal
and Industrial College composed Of one
member from each Of the ten congress
sional districts Of the State, after a pro-
tractcd session here this week. com
plcted 4 thorough examination Of the
affairs OF the college and their report 10
the Governor before adjournment.
$4,000 DoMITORY.
\ prominent member OF the board
said that while the full report
be made public only be the Gov
ernor. he did not consider it improper to
state that two OF the Imperative necessi-
ties Of the institution were additional
dormitory space and a cold storage plant.
and that the board had unanimously
recommended an immediate appropriation
of so, 900 for this purpose. Said he:
" found about two hundred appli-
cants annually are unable TO gain admit
tance to the college. This year about
eighty Of the students. unable TO obtain
dormitory accommodations in the college
buildings. have been compelled 10 live ii
boarding houses in the city of Greensboro
with all the attendent inconvenience of
having to go to and from the college
buildings, and have been deprived Of the
beneficial influence of the constant care
ana guidance of the faculty of the insti-
tuition and the inspiring influences of the
immediate college Surroundings
MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT.
The board also recommends the ac-
ceptance of the proposition Of the Cen
eral Education Board TO donate 10 the
cn11aoa fOr + no p,ronSa nf aScjcfinO in tho
maintenance of a manual training depart
ment $500 a year for the next three
years and the acceptance of $500 a
year for three years from the General
Education Board for the establishment of
scholarships and loan funds on the con-
dition that friends of the college raise
by private subscription an equal sum-.
This offer Of the General Education Board
is a gift to the college of S15.000 condi-
toned upon securing from home people
$500.
MAY SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS.
Another important matter which met
the boards warn approval is a plan for
the enlargement of the experiment last
spring Of the May school for teach
ers. The object is to give at a small cost
10 ali the women teachers of the public
schools of the State the benefit of a
short course of instruction in subjects
and in methods Of teaching under the
direction Of a strong faculty of teachers
and lecturers and also to give them the
opportunity for observing work in
q practice and observation school
of three or four hundred chill
drcn. At that period of the year
most of the rural public schools are
closed. and, if the teachers of these
schools can get the benefit of q months
training under we'll equipped teachers and
in we'll furnished school rooms, the re-
suit cannot be other than one of great
benefit to the teaching force of the State.
1t is contemplated to make the necessary
expense Of attending this school as small
as possible, that its benefits may he
within the reach of teachers from every
section of the State, and establish at
the college an influence that Will uplift
and inspire all the public school teachers
of the State and better equip them With
teaching power and helpful information.
$4,000 PRIVATE GIFTS IN TWO YEARS
Substantial evidence of the indefatig-
able efforts of President Mclyer, and the
love and loyalty of students and friends
DIS louIIt DN iut bOdIu, vi We dCl
that within the past two years the college
had received from private sources in con
tributions and good subscriptions. $37,-
000-$10.0 600 from its students and their
friends in the State. and 50. .O0O from
friends of the college outside of the
state.
Appropriate resolutions were adopted
in regard to the death of Nj. J. Addison
Isloir ~ 40 :, p,0nJor of +l, b1,~l B.
also in regard to the "Hennic Bynum
scholarship" established b. Judge John
Gray Bynum's bequest and also reso-
~lutiors of appreciation Of the generous
offer of the General Education Board and
others VINO nave made contributions to
The college for specific purposes during the
past two years.
President McIver's report Was exhaus-
tive. and. in the language of one of the
members was a remarkable summing
up of the accomplishments of this noble
institution, and its magnificent oppor-
t~unities for future usefulness.
In his report he SAYS:
"Thc year 1902 will be remembered as
| the one which witnessed the completion
Of the Curry Building. the moving of the
Practice and Observation School from
uOl IilllOl les lilLo I'D bUlltiIie, dlId tiic
consequent great Strengthening OF the
clagCgic work: the enlargement and
better equipment of the laundry and
power house: the beginning OF the cree
ton OF the Students Building: the de-
relopmcnt OF the Peabody Park; the gift
of q thousand dollar loan fund from
NIr. and Ms. Y. Evcritt Macy, of New
York: and the offer of the General Edu-
cation Boar TO give 1000 TO the college
within the next three years to aid in
maintaining Il manual training depart
mcnt and to establish scholarships and
loan funds
In many Of the reports | have refer
red to the work done for the people Of tho
state by members Of this faculty out
side their specific work in the college.
This past year has been marked by til.
| organization by the Faculty and
students OF this college Of two societies
which will prove Of great usefulness &c
the people of North Carolina. | refer
to the audubon Society for the study and
| protection Of birds. and to the Woman
| Association for the Brttcrment Of Public