The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-11
THE Assembly,
OPENING SESSION
A Splendid Audience Greet
The Speakers
TIE nDC kliklH rACMTC
THE OPENING EVENTS
G. L. Abernethy's Welcome Address
and DR.. Whitsett's Response.
DR.. GEO. 7. WINS FOsS STRONG ADDRESS
The Attendance Cows With Every Train and
the Teachers Assembly Of 1902 Promi-
ses Great Good For The Cause
Of Education.

OF EQuCa'l0n.
Especial to the News and Observer
Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City, N. c..
June 10.-Ths years session of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly was form
ally opened in the Assembly building
here tonight and the occasion is another
evidence of the States educational awak-
cning.
The crowd at the first days session is
a large and splendid one and the first
nights exercises have been most inter
esting and entertaining.
Mr.. Charles l.. Abernetthy. of Beaufort.
representing Mr.. James A. Bryan. presi-
dent of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad, who was unavoidably detained,
made the address of welcome and the
response was by Prof. w. r. Whitsett,
of Whitsett Institute, and the two ad-
dresses were characteristic of the talent
ed and eloquent gentlemen who made
them. After these came the first ad-
dress on the very interesting program by
Dr. Geo. T. Winston, of the A. and NJ.
College, Raleigh. His address was one
of his masterpieces and was greatly en-
joyed by teachers and visitors alike
The Atlantic Hotel is aglow with
mirth, merriment. ga3scty and gladness.
Indeed, this is one of the gala sessions
of it's history. 1t is useless to attempt to
tell by wire who is here, for it looks as
if the whole State was present. The peo-
pie have been coming for three days from
every section and all seem delighted and
full of JOY. Between the assembly scs-
sions teachers and all will greatly enjoy
the splendid variety of pleasures that are
found only at Morehead City.
The crowd at the opening exercises of
the assembly, all say, was the largest
in it's history.
The addresses were not long but brill
liant and to the point. Thursday is a
grand educational rally day and while
the crowd is large one already there
is room enough for all who como.
THE WELCOME ADDRESS.
The Assembly being called to order by
President Minis and the opening eXer-
cises concluded Mr.. Charles j. Aber-
nethy, a prominent attorney of Beau
fort, after some felicitous remarks ex
pressive of the pleasure OF the people of
the section in welcoming the Teachers
Assembly "back home,' and saying that
it was proposed to kill the fatted calf for
them continued as follows:
All eyes in North Carolina are turned
upon this great body in it's deliberations
here at this session. Never before in the
history of the State has there been such
an educational awakening among our
people; never before in cur history has
there been such q need for this awaken
ing. The future OF our State in large
measure rests upon the shoulders of its
teachers. Our people have decided upon
a radical departure from the beaten
paths of the past, and by changing our
organic law they have made universal
education an important necessity. The
politician may talk of the need of edu-
cation, the preacher may deliver learned
discourses upon the subject, but the re-
sponsibilty Of educating the youth of the
State ard fitting them for the require
ments of the higher citizenship of the
future devolves upon it's teachers, and
that is one of the reasons why SO much
is attached to your meeting
this year, and it is fraught with greatest
The whole of North
Carolina is looking to you for guidance
in the great educational movement that
has been inauguratel, and whatever may
be the outcome of your earnest delibera- !
tiops at this time, it will have much to |
do in shaping educational matters in the |
State in the future and will largely con-
trol legislation upon the subject.
No place in North Carolina could be
more suited for a yearly meeting place |
for the educators of the State than this !
Here one can draw the deepest inspira- |
lions from the mighty handworks of ma
Lure: God, Himself. is so manifest in |
wopdrous power. How can one see the |
mighty fury of an oceans storm and |
loubt the existence of Deity. The |
smallest animalculae to the mighty mon
sters of the deep teach there is God.
Here it is that he balmy ard melowng
Influences of the mystic Gulf Stream |
ire felt. Surrounded by the Almightys
greatest work Of nature, with it's ever
:easeless tides, the teacher gathers that |
Inspiration which enables him to drink
deeper from the eternal springs of
here than elsewhere. From
his Mecca he can return to his work
mbued with higher and loftier thoughts,
lobler and purer purposes, the better en-
lbled to instruct the youth of our land
nto the paths of virtue and Of knowl-
edge.
/ can conceive of no higher calling