The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-28
TWO YEARS GROWTH OF THE A. & NJ.
COLLEGE.
From 200 Students to 500-Material
Equipment Doubled-Textile School
With $4,000 Plant-Agricultural
Education VitaliZed and


Eouipment Doubled-Textile School
With $780, 900 Plant-Agricultural
Education Vitalized and
Reconstructed.
(Ry President Geo. T. Winston.)
In reply to your request for a brief
statement of the growth of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College during the
last two years l note the following i'm
provements:
/. PAYMENT OF DEBTS: Over $780,
900 of debts, which for some years, had
crippled the college in all its work, was
paid by the Legislature of 1900.
2. TEXTILE SCHOOL: A textile build
ing, costing 500, 000 and textile equip
ment and machinery, worth about $780,
900. making a total textile plant of $780,
600. has been added. The building was
provided for by the Legislature of 1900.
The machinery and equipments were
donated.
3. WATAUGA HALL AND PULLEN
HALL: A very disastrous fire in Novem-
ber 1901, destroyed Watauga Hall, de-
prived 60 students of rooms, and left the
college without dining-room or kitchen.
The Governor and council authorized the
college to replace the burnt building ana
to erect a separate dining-hal and
chapel. The new Watauga Hall is COM
pleted, and now houses more students
than all the other dormitories combined.
The new dining hall capacity 600) and
the chapel Capacity 10000 will soon be
completed, and the building will be called
Pullen Hall in memory of r. S. Pullen,
the founder of the college.
NyrIycy.
Der of students has increased from 200
to nearly 500. The number is limited
only by the accommodations. 1t is now
evident that 900 or even 1000 would
come If room were provided.
(. AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION:
The agricultural Department of the col
lege has been completely reorganized and
fully vitalized. Three new professors
and four new instructors have been elect
ed: the number of students has grown
from % to 100, dairy instruction, In
Guiding butter and cheese making, has
been organized according to the best
methods: short courses of study for boys
of limited means, and winter courses for
actual farmers nave been established:
50, 900 has been appropriated for payment
of labor by agricultural students to help
them through college,; rural science clubs
and farmers institutes have been or
ganized and conducted by and for the
agricultural students; a splendid spirit
of work, of study and of economy has
been fostered; enthusiasm has been
created; and the great profession OF
farming has been placed before the young
men of the State in the honorable posi-
tion which it deserves to occupy.
6. COURSES OF STUDY: All the
courses of study have been recast and
reorganized The three great fields OF
Agriculture, Engineering civil, electri-
cal. chemical mechanical and mining)
and Cotton Manufacturing have been
mapped out for instruction. The lines
of future growth and development are
now clearly seen. All that is needed Is
increase of equipment.
I. INCREASED EQUIPMENT AND
EFFICIENCY: Considering the increased
attendance, the new buildings, the Tex
tile School. the reorganized courses OF
study. the addition of new teachers and
machinery and apparatus, it is no eX-
aggeration to say that in the past two
years the equipment and efficiency OF tf@
college have been more than doubled
This result could not have been accom-
plished except for the active and con-
slant help of Governor Charles B. Aycoch
and the Council of State.