The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04


State Normal apd Industrial College at
Greensboro, President McIver presented
the following report which embodies the
history and the wonderfully successful
career of that great school:
Ten years ago on this hill, then a
= bleak and barren ten-acre lot-the gift
of Mr.. r. S. Pullen. Mr.. r. T. Gray, Mr.
E. p. Wharton and others, with $50, 900
voted unanimously by the ar-sighted
citizens of Greensboro to secure the loca-
tion of the institution, and with an an
nual appropriation of 10000, voted by
the General Assembly of 1891 to aid in
the employment of a faculty, the State
Normal and Industrial College began it's
work.
In 1856 the North Carolina Teachers
Assembly, then in session at Black Noun
tain, passed resolutions asking for the
establishment of normal college, and
appointed a committee to memorabilia
the General Assembly. Each succeeding
Teachers Assembly for five years
passed similar resolutions and appointed
similar committees to present the ques-
ton to our law makers. In his biennial
report to the General Assembly the late
ilOH o. vi. niger, THEN VI
Public Instruction, urged the Importance
of establishing the institution. But it
was at the session of 1889 that the ques-
tion really came before the General AS
sembly for serious consideration for the
first time. committee from the Teach
ers' Assembly consisting of Charles d.
McIver, chairman: E. G. Harrell, e. p.
Moses, E. A. Alderman, Geo. T. Winston,
II
Donald, presented in person and urged
the adoption of bill establishing train
inC school for teachers. and this bill,
in spite of active and intense opposition,
passed the Senate by a large majority,
and failed in the House by only a few
votes. Had this bill become a law the in
stitution would be co-educational.
Before the meeting of the next General
Assembly in January, 1891, Governor
Fowle had in his message urged the
establishment of the institution. In the
meantime, the Kings Daughters had pc
titioned the Legislature to establish an
industrial school for girls. The North
Carolina Farmers Alliance in 1890, at
its annual meeting at Ashevlle, had
passed strong resolutions asking the
State to aid in the higher education of
was already aiding in the education of
white, men, negro men and negro women.
Hon. J. L.. NJ. Curry. agent of the Pea
body Fund, appeared before the General
Assembly and made an earnest and pow
erful plea for the establishment of
normal college. and through him the
Peabody Fund has always given substan-
tial aid to this Institution
Nv 1901 the North Carolina
Assembly had decided that it was wise
to eliminate the educational feature,
and instructed its committee to that
effect. This committee suggested the
establishment of normal college with
Industrial features, whereupon the act
establishing the State Normal and In
dustrial College was passed and an an
nual appropriation made for it's main
tenance.
FACULTY.
In choosing the faculty of the college
the board of directors has selected those
who in their judgment could best carry
out its policies. Neither geographical,
nor political. nor UNCONVENTIONAL infiu-
ences have decided their selection of
teachers.
The charter faculty of the college num-
these twelve eight-Misses Boddie, Bry-
ant, Fort. Kirkland and Mendenhall, and
Messrs. Forney Brown and McIver-are
members of the present faculty. Three
other members of the present faculty
Misses Allen. Jamison and Lee-answer-
ed TO the first roll-call of students in
1892. The college now has a faculty and
executive corps numbering thirty-six It's
oil
of the country. Four-fift of them are
Southern people, most of these having
received training in both Southern and
Northern colleges, and more than one
half of them have been native North
Carolinians. 1t has been a young COM
pany of aggressive workers, represent
ing in their training several State Uni
versites. the leading normal colleges of
the country, and such institutions as
Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Wellesley, Bryn
Mawr, Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and several European universities
1t would not be permissible for me to
say at this time all that might be said
in commentator of the ability and ser
vice of those who are teaching the
States daughters at this seat of learn
Ing One cannot but think highly, how
to1"d has selected to teach here when
1t is remembered that this college has
been called upon to give so many mem
bers OF its faculty to fill prominent posi-
tons in the country. When the Uni
versity of North Carolina decided to es-
tablish Chair of Pedagogy a member
of our faculty was chosen to fill the chair
He soon became president of the Univer-
sity and recently resigned that position
to become president of Tulane Uniyer
slty of louisiana member of the
faculty of the institution has been call
ed to Vassar. the Oldest endowed col
lege for women in the country. Another
was called to Smith, the largest wo-
man college in the world, and another
has Just been installed as president of
our neighbor, the Greensboro Female
College. Recently when the Southern
Education Board decided to establish a
Bureau of Investigation and Publication
Tor the South our professor of Peda-
gogy was called to become the chief of
that bureau. When our educational
Governor was called upon to select the
leader OF the public educational forces
OF North Carolina 10 foo turna1 to tbo