The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

of pedagogy, law, medicine, and phar
macy It's property, consisting OF build
irgs, lands, libraries, apparatus, and in
vested funds amounting to about 100000
is valued at about $600,000. 1t receives
from the State an annual appropriation
of $37, 500. A Commons Hall has been
established in which board may be OBJ
tanned at eight dollars a month. 1t has
recently opened it's doors to women. AS
will appear from the following extract
from the recent report of former presi-
dent Of the University, it's advantages
ought to be within easy reach of the peo-
pie. ut is no exaggeration to say that
the University by it's loan funds, scholar
ships and opportunities for labor makes it
possible for any worthy boy however
I,oor, to obtain in North Carolina as good
an education as rich boys obtain else
where" If this be true, and if it is not
true it ought to be, and we have no
reason to doubt it., such an institution
must be a benediction to the State and
the pride of every patriotic citizen.
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF AGRI-
CULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS.
At my request, President Winston has
prepared the following statement about
this college: The North Carolina College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is a
prominent factor in the industrial devel-
opment of the State. Although only ff-
teen years old, it has furnished workers
for every line of industrial activity. 1t
offers manual and technical education
along four general lines. agriculture, en-
cheering, cotton manufacturing and me-
chanic arts. In each Of these lines, there
is a full course of instruction, lasting
four years, short course of two years,
and a special course of three months. The
instruction is both practical and theoreti-
cal, a happy combination of study and
work. The regular students are occupied
about the third of their time in manual
labor in the wood shops, iron-shops.
weaving rooms, barns, dairies, field,
green houses, electric and steam power
houses, and laboratories. The short course
students are similarly employed about
two-thirds of the time; while the special
students spend practically all the time in
learning to be skilled workers. The aim
of the college is to teach young men how
to be skilled workers and how to project
and direct enterprises requiring skilled
workers. 1t seeks to promote the indus
trial development of North Carolina
great and varied resources by applying
the requisite skilled labor and technical
knowledge. The college looks to the flu
ture instead of the past and takes for it's
motto: ut is better to know what is to
be done and how to do it, than to know
what has been done and who did it," The
college has thirty teachers and 400 stu
dents.
vrI CrrA TN
TRIAL COLLEGE.
The youngest of the States educational
institutions is the State Normal and In
dustrial College. founded in 1892. This
institution was the outcome of per-
sistent demand by the teachers for a
school for the better education and pro-
fessional training of teachers and of an
awakening of the public conscience to
the duty of the State to provide for it's
women educational facilities somewhat
commensurate with those that it had
been providing at the University for its
men for more than a century. The insti-
tuition. as its name indicates. is COM
bination of Normal College and an In
dustrial school in which the former fea-
ture predominates. The course Of study
embraces.
1. The Normal Department.
2. The Commercial Department.
8. The Domestic Science Department
Tuition is free to all young women
who signify their intention to teach upon
such conditions as may be prescribed by
the Beard Of Directors. Tho college is
prohibited by law from charging more
than eight dollars month board. Total
necessary expenses, including board,
books. ETC.. for the scholastic year are,
for free tuition students, 100, for tuition