The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-14


dren. 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 months
training under well 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 be
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.
$37, 900 PRIVATE GIFTS IN TWO YEARS
Substantial evidence of the indefatig-
able efforts Of President McIver, and the
love and loyalty of students and friends
was found by the Board. from the fact
that within the past two years the college
had received from private sources in con-
tributions and good subscriptions, $751;
| O0o-$1O,OO0 from its students and their
friends in the State, and $27, 900 from
friends of the college outside of the
Stale.
| Appropriate resolutions were adopted
in regard to the death of Mr.. J. Addison
Blair, who was a member of the board;
also in regard to the "Hennie Bynum
scholarship" established by Judge John
Gray Bynum's bequest and also reso-
lutions of appreciation of the generous
offer of the General Education Board and
others who have 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-
tunities for future usefulness"
In his report he says:
THE 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
dormitories into that building, and the
consequent great strengthening of the
pedagogic work; the enlargement and
better equipment of the laundry and
power house; the beginning of the erec-
ton Of the Students Building the de-
velopment of the Peabody Park; the gift
of a thousand dollar loan fund from
Mr.. and Mrs. V. Everitt Macy. of New
York; and the offer of the General Edu-
cation Board to give $15,000 to the college
within the next three years to aid in
maintaining a manual training depart
ment and to establish scholarships and
loan funds"
''In many of the reports l have refer
red to the work done for the people of the
State by members of this faculty out
side their specific work in the college.
This past year has been marked by the
organization by the Faculty and
students Of this college of two societies
which will prove of great usefulness to
the people of North Carolina. l refer
to the Audubon Society for the study and
protection of birds, and to the Womans
Association for the Betterment of Public
School houses in North Carolina. These
organizations do not belong in any par
ticular sense to this college, but have
become State organizations. Their origin,
inspiration and plan of organization,
however, were the results of the efforts
of our faculty and students.
Last years work closes the record
of the first decade of the State Normal
and Industrial College. During this
period OF ten years the college has ma
circulated nearly twenty-five hundred
students, who, in turn, have taught
considerably more than 100000 children.
About, two-thirds of the students who
matriculate at this college take the
pledge to become teachers for at least
two years after leaving the college, and
the average student teaches a much
longer time than that.
That the States investment in the
training of its young women to become
teachers is a good investment is con-
elusive from the single fact that the
people of the State have employed them
to teach in such large numbers that they
have touched the lives of 100000 chill
dren, or nearly one-tenth of the number
OF white people, men, women and chill
dren, now living in North Carolina.
Moreover, during the past few years the
demand for our teachers in the State has
been decidedly larger than the supply,
and frequent requests have come from
other states for teachers trained at
this college"
PRIVATE DONATIONS.
The presidents report concludes as
follows:
Inc State Normal and Industrial Col
lege with all its grounds buildings and
equipment is the property of the people
of North Carolina, and while the State
has not invested in its plant all that
many of Us who had great faith in it's
possibilities for usefulness desired. yet
it has in many ways shown very cordial
appreciation Of the college, and an ex-
ceedingly generous spirit towards those
who have worked for its development |
wish that the State could see its way
clear to show greater liberality for the
immediate enlargement and development
of the institution. Women ought not
to be turned away from its doors for
lack of living room. In North Carolina
and beyond the borders of the State it
is recognized as a great educational
force. Not only has the State secured
by it the service of many trained teach
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