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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
OUR EDUCATIONAL AWAKENING.
1t is the Result of Numerous Forces That
Have Been at Work for Years
and is Permanent.

Every century has its spirit, fittingly
called spirit-something born in heaven
and sent to earth to shape the destiny
of that century in the slow but sure
march of the centuries toward the re-
generation of society and the perfection
of Notwithstanding divine to whose
resistless power the punny power of
mortal man must ever yield. The spirit
of this new century whose splendid por-
tails this great republic has just entered
is the Spirit of Education. The spirit of
the century is abroad in North Carolina
today as never before. The hearts and
minds of men and women of every rank
are feeling its angelic touch and yield
ing to it's divine power.
The outburst of educational enthusiasm
in our State during the past twelve
months which has been seemingly spon-
taneous is really the result of many
forces private, public, political, religious,
social and commercial that have been
silently at work among our people for
the past decade or two. Because We
know that our Educational Awakening"
| is the logical result of these numerous
forces silently working through the slow
years, we are inspired to believe that il
| is not spasmodic but permanent.
| In this brief article l can mention only
a few of the recent manifestations of this
| educational awakening in North Carolina
| in which are to be found the Surest evil
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Leads North Carolina Daies Newsstand Circulation
INFLUENCE OF CALVIN H. WILEY.
His Work Essentially That of an Originator and
Organizer of the Educational Movement.

succeeded beyond his fondest hopes
Nothing better emphasizes the success OF
his labors than the fact that with every
nerve strained to meet the demands of
war, the people were willing to strain
little further in order to continue the
operation of their schools.
In the training of a sufficient force of
teachers DR.. Wiley adopted as his motto,
Scatter judiciously over the State good
copies of any good work on education
and it will create revolution" He be-
gan his work with less than a thousand
old field teachers, whose ideas of teach
ing were that the teacher must be merely
a recitation nearer and thrasher of
boys. Besides fitting this force to be
used in the work he was compelled to
furnish a supply of two thousand new
ones His plan for doing this cannot be
explained here. 1t is sufficient to say
that after five years of labor he supplied
to-the State more than three thousand
ell-equipped trained, enthusiastic in
structors. What a powerful influence this
force had on the development of the State
it is impossible to estimate, no little part
of that quality which made our State
First at Bethel: last at Appomattox,"
was due to this trained army Of devoted
workers. When we think of the work done
by Calvin H. Wiley and his splendid
school system it does not seem strange
that North Carolina rallied so soon after
destructive war in which she had spent
her life-hlood freely, and has had such
marvellous success in building up her re-
sources. Back of all her wonderful de-
velopment in other matters as well as in
school affairs lies the solid foundation
OF Dr. Wiley's SASS schools and his
trained force of teachers.
Our people are just beginning to awaken
to a knowledge of DIR. Wiley's greatness
and of his wonderful work. Our educa-
tors have long been working under his
influence without knowing it. When they
fully realize what his labors have meant
in the past to their work, his influence
will spread as it ought to do and con-
tinue to grow until it uervades the rank
and file of all who are interested actively
in our material, intellectual AID moral
welfare.
! In this great educational campaign now
arousing our people to full sense OIL
their educational duties and responsible
| ties it would be a fitting time Tor the
/ teachers to whom it properly falls to
I start a movement TOT the eIeclloH VI d
+ munumentnt9.~Dr.~Wi as testimonial
! or their recognition and appreciation OF
! his great efforts and results. A resolu-
ton looking to this end Will probably pc
! introduced in the meeting of the Teach
] ers Assembly and it is to be hoped thaC
it will receive the earnest and active sup
port of that body-such movement
would do much for the cause of educa-
! - = I,aY H.
ers honor their educational heroes. ana
demand the same from Others NO North
Carolinian better deserves such honor
than Calvin H Wiley, for no man mas
better served his State.
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ARCHIBALD D. MURPHEY.
His Great Work for Education Early in the Last
Century, Twenty-Five Years Before the
Day of Horace Manu.

If the fame of public man may pro-
perly be measured by his service to his
people. the name of Archibald d. Muir
phey will be writ large in the roll OF
American commonwealth builders. His
legislative career covered period of
less than six years, and was spent in the
circumscribed field of the State Senate,
and yet it is doubtful if any other man
in North Carolina ever so powerfully
influenced his contemporaries or the
legislation of the State. Only he who
has turned, page by page, the Senate
Journals of that time can form just
conception of the versatility of the man,
and even then. the student will find him
self unable to decide which is the more
to be admired-the scope of the reforms
which he proposed or the power and
grace of the reformer. 1t does not seem
too much to say that the history of the
country fails to show another man whose
activity for the public welfare, during
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
Author of The Law Establishing
The Public Schoo System of
North Carolina.
BARTLETT YANCEY,

these words: when this or some other
more judicious plan of public education
shall be carried into execution, when
light and knowledge shall be shed upon
all, may we not indulge the hope that
men will be convinced that wisdom's ways
are ways of pleasantness and all her
paths are paths of peace; and be induced
by such conviction to regulate their con-
duct by the rule of Christian morality
of doing unto others as they wish they
would do unto them; and that they will
learn to do justly, to love mercy and to
walk humbly before their God"
No immediate results followed the
masterful plea for a school system, but
succeeding Governors became even holder
and more insistent in their demands The
messages of Governor Branch in 1919. of
Governor Holmes in 1924 and of Governor
Burton in 1925. indicate that the ques-
ton is no longer a debatable one in
North Carolina. Governor Burton almost
goes so far as to intimate that fore
bearance has ceased to be a virtue The
inevitable could not longer be delayed
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dence of present educational progress
and the most hopeful auguries of future
educational development.
1. The rapid growth in educational
sentiment and the crystalizatiOn of pub
lie opinion in favor of public education.
This is seen i'm the many educational
meetings in every section of the State
and the great demand for speakers on
educational topics. 1t is manifested in
the utterances of the press and the space
given by it to educational subjects. The
press always has it's hand on the pub
lie and while it is one of the greatest
educators of public opinion it is also one
of the surest indicators of public
thought and public interest for it must
discuss topics of public interest if it ex
poets to get readers.
g. The union and active cooperation
of all the educational forces, private,
public, UNCONVENTIONAL, city, country,
high school, primary school, college, uni
versity, in the common work of multi
plying and improving the means of edu-
eating all the people. splendid mani
festation of this was the educational
conference of leading representatives of
all these educational forces held at
Raleigh in February, it's eloquent decla-
ration against illiteracy and the organi-
zation of it's committees to aid in the
fight for education.
g. The hearty cooperation and active
aid of the ministers of all denomina
tons in the agitation of this great
question of education among their people,
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recognizing it as a part of their great
and blessed work for the uplifting of hui
manity and the making of more Christ
like men and women.
A. The awakened interest in the rural
schools, finding expression in special ap
preparations by the Legislature to in
crease the school term to four months;
in educational rallies in their interest
like those recently held in Greensboro
and Charlotte at which thousands OF
dollars were raised by voluntary sub
scription for the improvement of school
houses and the promotion of local taxa
tions in rural districts, in requests by
many other cities and towns for similar
educational rallies in the interest of
these rural schools to be held soon, and
in the establishment by State appropria-
ton and private subscription of about
four hundred rural libraries in rural
schools.
+ 5. The recent adoption by voluntary
vote of local taxation for the improve
ment of public schools in many COM
munities-some of them distinctly rural
and the voluntary agitation of this
question in many other communities,
some of which are soon to vote on it
with most hopeful assurances of carry
ing it.
6. The championship of many politi-
clans use the word in it's best sense
who sometimes lead and always follow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

(By r. d. w. Connor, superintendent
Oxford Graded Schools.)
The work of Calvin II. Wiley was es-
sentially that of an originator and or
ganizer. Beginning with practically moth
ing except opposition as a foundation, he
built UP by his own power, often I'M
assisted, fiourishing system of efficient
schools. Although the strain Of the ter
rible days following the war broke down
the SYSTEM he had founded, so strongly
had he laid the foundation, so well had
he builded, so deeply had he instilled
into the minds of the people the COM
mon school idea, that it proved but a
temporary suspension. With the rescue
of the State from the hordes which We're
sucking her life-blood, came The oppor-
tunity TO redevelop her resources. Far
sighted statesmen and leaders clearly
foresaw that the first essential for devel-
opment was universal education. Upon
, the apparent ruins of Wiley's system, they
founded our present growing, influential
public school system, with many of the
improvements which Wiley himself would
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
First State Superintendent OF Pub
lie Instruction In North
Carolina.

have adopted had he held the holm.
When DR.. Wiley took charge of the
educational interests of the State he
clearly perceived two important things,
heretofore passed by without notice; first,
that before a system OF schools could be
successfully established the adult popu-
lation must be educated to believe in
public education and to act upon that
belief; second, that he must educate, train
and equip full supply of efficient teach
crs. These two things done, then it would
be time to consider the details of the
system. He bent all of his energies to-
ward accomplishing these ends.
He resorted to every conceivable method
of reaching the great mass of the peo-
pie. Personal visits, newspapers, circu-
lars, private and public letters, ringing
and eloquent speeches-all were brought
to his use in educating the people. He
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public opinion-who have a keen instinct
for finding out what the people want
and a valuable faculty for helping them
to get it.
l. The awakened interest and active
work of county boards of education,
county superintendent and school COM
mitteemen, manifested in many ways but
especially in the correspondence of my
office, in the intelligent and successful
efforts in some counties for reasonable
consolidation of small districts, and i'm
provement of public school houses and
in many other counties in agitation of
these questions and intelligent enquiry
into the desrability and feasibility in
those counties.
l have travelled and spoken much in
North Carolina during the past few
months I have been greatly encouraged
by the manifestation of educational in
terest among all classes of people, and
the notes of educa tional enthusiasm that
my ear has caught everywhere. There
is an Educational Awakening" in North
Carolina resulting from long operating
causes that give assurance of its per-
manency. The people are thinking about
this great problem of universal educa-
tion-not the few but the maryland they
will solve it. 1t is the glory of a
democracy that all it's people are free
to think on all its problems and to help
to solve them. In multitude of coun-
sci there is wisdom.
]. Y. JOINER.
! Raleigh, ~ c., May 81, 1902.
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page "a. Same document):

page 81. Same documents
"The white people must not lose sight
of the fact that it is the labor of a
country that makes it's wealth. and that,
therefore, the education and elevation
of the children of the laborers is a prop
er charge upon the property of any
country. 1t is said that we are too poor,
then l reply that the way to get rich is
to educate our people, intellectually and
industrally, so that they may be able
successfully to apply labor to the de-
velopment of our many resources. The
history of the world points out this way,
and we cannot fail if we walk in it. With
good schools in the country districts
there will be less incentive for the
country people to crowd into the cities
and towns to educate their children,
much of the discomfort and restlessness
will disappear, and better success will at
tend their labors."
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and so the day will come when. in the
educational history of America, Mann
will be recognized as the Archibald d.
Murphey, of Massachusetts. Meanwhile
we shall hold in grateful and loving re-
membrance our own patriot, statesman
and scholar who sleeps in an unmarked
grave in the old church-yard at Hills
boro, nor will We forget the fine old
lawyer, his master. who taught him how
to manage cases in court and how to read
books to advantage.
EDWARD p MOSES.
Raleigh. N. c., May 80, 1902.
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and chapter one of the acts of 1926 was
IAN act to create a fund for the estab-
lshment of common schools This act
was written by the Speaker of the Sen
ate, Bartlett Yancey, who had studied
law in Judge Murphey's office.
Two years later, in 1927, the North
Carolina Institution for the Instruction
of the Deaf and Dumb was incorporated.
Although he died at the comparatively
early age of fifty-five, Judge Murphey had
the satisfaction of seeing established or
well under way almost every reform for
which he pleaded. The greatest reform
and the one nearest his heart triumphed
seven years before his death No such
reward was vouchsafed to Jefferson. who,
almost in the Valley of the shadow, wrote
to the Legislature Of Virginia: "A sys-
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tenn of public education which shall en-
brace every description of our citizens,
as it was the earliest so will it be the
latest of all the public concerns in
which I shall permit myself to take an
interest. Give it to us in any shape and
receive for the inestimable boon the
thanks of the young and the blessings
Of the old who are past all other SER
vices but prayers for the prosperity of
their country and blessings to those who
promote st."
Judge Murphey's plea for public schools
in North Carolina was made just twenty
five years before Horace Mann was APP
pointed secretary of the Board OF Educa-
ton of Massachusetts. Murphey has
been called the Horace Mann of North
Carolina. But time sets all things right,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
MAJ. s. M. FINGERS WORK.
"rHE WAY TO GET RICH EDUCATE PEOPLE INTEL
LECTUALLY INDUsTRIALLY."

promised longer terms and better public
school facilities, Major Finger was the
leader He saw the present revival of
education with the eye of faith and did
much to bring it about. We make room
for the extracts from Major Fingers re-
ports that shows the spirit that actuates
that patriotic educational leader:
QS01. Doc. No. 8, page IS. BY Finger,
superintendent
Ignorance is slavery of some kind,
whether it is found in individuals. COM
munities, States, or Nations. To be rid
of this slavery and to lessen crime, the
universal attendant of ignorance, the peo-
pie must be educated.
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Some years ago the University suf-
fered from great poverty. A few friends
came to the rescue and the State SUBJ
scribed $1,000. The result? Why. the
result was the immediate education of
the very men who are back of the present
educational movement. In 112 years the
State has given to the University $447,-
900. The University has been given over
$500 900. 1t is the best investment ever
made by the State.y-President Venable.
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eThough dead. he yet speaketh." These
words apply with special significance to
the late Major Sidney M. Finger, of Ca
tawba, who was State Superintendent OF
Schools in North Carolina for eight
years-from 1886 to 1898. He was zeal
Gus advocate of public education and
gave his best endeavors to the steady
advance in the public schools that mark
ed the State during his term of office.
1t was during his term of office that the
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1.-The educational awakening is now
on in full force. We are at last realiz-
ing that universal education is a neces-
sity for our people, and also that in our
higher institutions of learning we must
produce the best scholarship and cul-
ture. Libraries, laboratories and great
teachers must give scholarship
chance. Prof. Minis, of Trinity College.
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system of holding county Institutes by
those eloquent evangels of education,
President McIver and President Alder
man, was entered upon. 1t was during
his term of office that the State Normal
and Industrial College at Greensboro was
established. In every movement that