The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-25

excluding the coIored women. 1t is,
| doubtful if it was ever intended for wo-
| men any more than the white A. ami
| College was intended for white girls. The
| dormitory space was absolutely made
| quate, the girls being crowded seven or
| eight in a room, and the sickness rate
| being much too large. We had TO get
| rid of either boys or girls, or build an
| other dormitory which we had neither
the money nor authority to do. Another
| reason, and very patent one was that
| neither the girls nor boys wanted to en-
| gage in the harder kinds of manual labor
| in the presence Of the other sex, but
would strive to dress up in fine clothes
| to impress the other, and thus neglect
| study and work. 1t is true that there
| We're scandals, in many cases invented
| by some designing negro wanting the
| other hands job, and sometimes started
| by some rascaly man or boy for the
| love of sensation. or revenge.
''The change was thoroughly discussed
| with General Toon, the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and was enthusiast
tically endorsed by him. The improve
ment since is most marked-an increased
willingness to work, more room, and no
scandals, and what the examiners con-
denim is really the best thing that ever
happened to the college. What the
colored girls need is a school of domestic
science and that can be established with
out extra expense to the State by con-
vertng one or more of the colored Nor
NAL schools into a female school.
The examiners next say, if correctly
quoted: We next note that since the eX-
clusion of girls the number of boys en-
rolled as students has somewhat in
creased until now il is said to be as
many as ninety-five. Feeling that the
true test OF a school is not in it's enroll
ment, so much as in its actual average
attendance we have tried to arrive at
this, but have not been able to do so
with certainty because no books have
been kept from which it can be ascer-
tanned. We have heard reports that it
was as low as forty and as high as fifty;
we hope either is an under estiamte, and
that it is safe 20 place it at sixty there
fore dividing the expense of maintenance
taken from the financial statement, $27.-
677.31 by 60 gives a per capita cost of
maintenance of $461. 2S for term of six
teen months. This we certainly con-
slider excessive and Indicating an I'M
necessary expenditure of money.
ut is not true that no books are, kept
at the college from which this attend
ance can be learned. The secretary and
treasurer, who is also registrar, keeps
accurate records of the attendance and
studies of all students, and monthly re-
ports are sent to the parents. Owing to
the cutting off of the girls. the attend
ance was not as large last year as dur
ing previous years and during the last
few months many of the boys had to
leave on account of poverty and the
average attendance for the whole year
was ga, but the attendance OF boys was
larger than the attendance of boys in any
previous year. and there are now in
actual attendance ia students and an
enrolment of 121, which is growing al
most daily. Every room in the college,
including those formerly occupied by the
girls, is full, none having less than two
and some as many as five boys. They
speak of a term of sixteen months and
divide all the money spent by the de-
partments without giving any credit for
amounts earned, by the supposed num-
Der Oh DOyS, ana say tndJ the per capita
is $4Gl.2S. Why take sixteen months?
Would it not be fairer to take years
per capita? The true test is what the
college received and what it does with
the money. The regular appropriations
are as follows:
United States appropriation ...$S,2 $4,000
North Carolina appropriation. 10000
In addition to this, the last Legis
lature appropriated 100000 for two
years as a special appropriation TO help
pay for the farm and help pay back
debts. Taking the guess of the exam
iners of 60 average attendance as cor
rect and divide the regular appropria-
ticn of SIS, 10000 which is all that is
spent on their education. by go, and the
cost per capita would be only $685.. so.
Divide it by ia, the number now in at
tendance. and the per capita would be
only s13S.15. Divide the regular appro-
priation given by the State by the num-
Der in attendance and the per capita
would be only s65.79 given by the State.
If an additional dormitory were built,
the per capita would soon be greatly
decreased.
'.The examiners further say, according
to the papers, Amount expended on the
farm, $40 052.SS, and receipts therefrom