The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
The State Normal and Industrial
College at Greensboro.
It's Great Growth in the Ten Years of It's Life The
Grand Work 1t is Doing Sending Out Teachers
all Over the State, and Educating Women at
Cost that Makes 1t Possible for all
to Benefit by It's Opportunities.

| that could have had the privilege OF los
| ing so many of it's faculty in such an
honorable fashion, and the plain mean
| ing of it all is that the women of North
| Carolina have had an opportunity for
| ten years to come in contact with a live,
inspiring corps of instructors.
EQUIPMENT.
AS the finances of the institution have
justified it the board of directors have
increased the physical equipment Be
ginning in 1892 with dormitory capacity
for less than one hundred and fifty board
ers, with only fifteen recitation rooms in
the college building, including the chapel,
the presidents office and the physicians
office; with a teaching force of fifteen,
including assistants, and with an enroll
ment of two hundred and twentythree
students, the college has steadily de-
veloped until at the end of it's tenth year
it has. dormitory accommodations for
three hundred boarders twenty-five re-
citation rooms and offices in the college
building and fourteen rooms in prac
tice and observation school building,
teaching force and executive corps of
thirty-siX, and an enrolment of about
for hundred and fifty regular students
besides about three hundred pupils in
the practice and observation school. In
stead of ten acres of land the college
now owns one hundred and thirty acres,
and instead of five buildings owned and
rented it now uses eleven buildings. In
stead of looking upon a bleak hill of
clay and briars it's students enjoy. to
some extent, looking upon growing trees
and grass and flowers, and, by the gener-
osity OF Mr.. George Foster Peabody, we
have the immediate prospect of a beau
tiful park, plans for which have already
been made.
In section Al of the Constitution of
1916, adopted at Halifax land the prin-
ciple has been endorsed in every change
of the Constitution since), the State
acknowledges it's obligation to provide
educational facilities for the 'instruc-
ton of youth" 'at low prices and the
session closes with the words, land all
useful learning shall be encouraged in
one or more universities"
Until the establishment of this college
the constitutional mandate had been only
partially obeyed. The State University
for young men began its career of use
fulness very soon after the adoption of
the Constitution. Thirteen years ago the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
also for young men, was established I'M
de- State auspices and by the aid of the
State and the general government.
| But it took the State more than a CEN
fury to come to a practical realization
of the fact that youth means young
women as well as young men. From one
half to nine-te of the money used
to employ instructors in higher education
for young men is paid by State and Fed
eral anndal appropriations or by the
| income ,4om college endowment funds.
1t was largely in response to the just
sentiment that, if the State proposes to
pay for nearly all the expense of
young mans higher education, it ought
to do at least as much for his sister
that the State Normal and Industrial
College was established. 1t is not a col
lege exclusively for people who feel I'M
able to go elsewhere. any more than are
those institutions for young men where
the faculties are paid by State appropria
tions, or by incomes from endowment
funds.
The State wants this institution to be
good enough for any of it's citizens, and
the expenses low enough for ALL
The purpose for which the institution
was created is clearly stated in section
5 of the act establishing it. 1t is as
follows:
Section 5. The objects of this institu
tion shall be (D to give to young women
such education as shall fit them for
teaching; CD to give instruction to
young women in drawing, telegraphy,
typewriting, stenography and such other
Industrial arts as may be suitable to
their sex and conducive to their sup
port and usefulness Tuition shall be
free to those who signify their intention
to teach. upon such conditions as may
be prescribed by the board of directors"
1t is the general purpose of the insti-
tuition to give such education as will
add to the efficiency of the average wo-
mans work, whatever may be her field
of labor. To that end there are three
distinct departments in the course of
study:
The Normal Department.
The Domestic Science Department
The Commercial Department
CHARTER REQUIREMENTS AND
COURSE OF STUDY.
The regular courses of study hereto
fore have embraced four years. In order
that an institution like this should do
it's best work it must connect imme-
Qldtely WIFI Tie puDllC SCHOOl SYSTEM
of the State. To pass the entrance ex-
aminations for the freshman class stu
dents must be thorough in the studies
included in the public school course.
In order that this institution may grow
into strong college, comforting the
usual baccalaureate degrees, an addi
tional year has been added to the four
year course and hereafter the course
will embrace five years. The college
does not wish to confer a degree until
it is satisfied that it's requirments for
this degree are equivalent in every es
sential particular to the requirements
for degrees conferred by the University
and the best colleges in North Carolina.
1t does not aspire to do university work
but it proposes to develop into a strong
college giving it the right to confer such
degrees as are conferred by the best
colleges in the county.
WORK OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE,
The work of those actively connected
with the State Normal and Industrial
College has not been confined to class
rooms or college grounds. Members of
its faculty have conducted teachers in
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