The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-17

: sitv. Great advances are the result q
great discoveries and these discoveries
/ are the product Of great minds taught 20
| do tho great work in the laboratory. lhcy
arc not the product OF hands. they are
| not the result OF manual manipulation
| II IN effort tc find a practical Ga1uet-
work. Submarine telephony IS t'H NofN
, Of the pure mathematician in his studE
VINO has solved the problem OF stresses
and has guided industry to perfection o.
| work. ubmarine telephony is the work
Of the pure scholar al his desk The
! Greet advance in medicine are not the
| work Of practicing physicians but o.
scientists in the laboratory. Industry IS
! denendent upon pure scholarship for de-
| veloprent and progress.
This is the Importance OF scholarship
| in our life. 1t should be supported very
Hherallv as it has been BY Mr.. Carnegie
| in The institution which bears his name.
rs field should be made attractive for
! rbc intelligence Of the county by liberal
salarios and support of every sort. We
should seek TO Great a liberal sch9lar-
shin in North Carolina or our civllza-
! ton will be imperfect and u~nprosresslVc
THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
| on account OF the failure to hold the
regular annual meeting of the Athletic
Association Of North Carolina schools
and colleges in Durham, May 3rd, a can
meeting was held here today.
Seven institutions were represented
nv Messrs. ". Il. Whitsctt, WhitNett
Institute: ]. c. Horncr, Horner's Mill
| tary School: ]. f. Rivens, Trinity Park
| High school; ]. 4. and NJ. II. Holt, Oak
Ridge Institute; G.. T. Winston, y. ana
NJ. College; f. w. Skies. Wake Forest
! College, and ". T. Few. Trinity College.
| Prof. r. n. Wilson, Of Guilford. was
present, but being on the programme OF
| the Teachers Assembly at the same
hour. had to withdraw from the meet
| ing of the Athletic Association.
Two hours were spent N DISCUSSING
| the workings of the association for the
| year, and in making a few slight changes
in the constitution. The year has not
! been wholly satisfactory in some re-
| spects and yet the association is pn-
doubtedly doing a useful work N de
/ veloping amateur athletics In the schools
and colleges of the State, and in creating
a healthy public sentiment in and out
of school and college circles that VIII
| surely make for better ideals in this
| important department Of modern Ameri-
can education.
There have been the past year a few
| unfortunate failures to enforce some OF
the rules of the association. but such
| failures will hardly occur again. In a
few cases men not eligible have been
allowed to represent institutions in this
association. and not sufficient care has
been taken to see that competing teams
not belonging to the association are com
posed entirely of amateur athletes.
Hereafter teams in this association will
not play any school or college team that
has a professional on the team: and 2
professional will be defined, as every
where else in the world, to include a man
who has played on a professional team,
whether he gets a stated salary or only
, so-called expenses" which means Il
living, and making a living by profess
sional athletics is professionalism.
The sentiment of the meeting was
strongly against allowing men who have
been member of professional teams to
represent educational institutions in in
tercollegiate and interscholaristic con-
tests. This is, as is we'll known. not al
lowed in We'll regulated schools and col
lcges throughout the country. The as
ISOLATION would welcome the
ton not only of all school and college
officers, but of the press and enlightened
public sentiment as well, in an effort to
keep school and college men out Of pro-
fessional athletics.
Officers were reelected IS follows:
Or. Z. W. Skies, president; Prof. ]. r.
+, Holt, vice-presidcnt, ard Or. w. l..
Few, secretary.
The next meeting of the association will
be held during the Teachers Assembly
next summer.