The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-19

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was not poverty4
answered to the 10
we happen to know OF g.
Carolina, Walter Rankin, W.. as
up a Presbyterian College IN WI
by main strength and awkwardnes
face of State competition.
And as to the allegation that 1.-The State
slew the Greensboro Female College,
whose death-cries continue to ring up and
down the commonwealth" this is pathetic,
but it is not sense.
In the first place it seems to be a pretty
lively corpse yet. AS this IS psnned the
chances are that the alumnae of the col
lege will succeed in purchasing the stock
for $25, 900 according to the offer OF the
Board of Trustees, which means also the
assumption of debt of $4,000, the prin-
cpal of which is not due for ten years.
So it would seem that the college has been
run, not only without endowment, but
with an interest charge on debt OF $4O,-
900. Besides, the trustees were offered
SIS, 900 for the college property which was
the reason for closing the college just now.
1t cost $4,000.
Furthermore. the Greensboro Christian
Advocate puts as the reason for the clos
ing of the college the apathy Of the
Methodist church 1t says:
THE reproach of Methodism in
North Carolina is her apathy in the
matter of giving moral and material
support to her educational institu-
tions They have allowed Greensboro
L n. ~.
ford, Weaverville and Brevard have
gone vainly begging for the help they
have needed, and Trinity would have
been dead and buried but for the bene-
factions of few whose unselfish do
nations have never been fully appre-
ciated."
1t is true that after having printed this,
our contemporary read the little post
scrip in the Standard and lost its temper.
which we can pardon this hot weather.
1t says III the same issue:
Just as our columns are full; we find
the following in the Presbyterian Stand
ard
"P S. again. why should the
Presbyterian Church be able to keep
five flourishing female colleges open
in North Carolina and the Methodist
Church with all its money and its
numerical strength celebrate the Two
Hundredth anniversary of John Yves
ley's birth by closing the one such
college it had? We hope the answer
to that question viii be the reopen
ing of its DOORS.
"Mr. McIkelway is exceedingly anxi
Gus to be known as very smart. We
suggestthat he go way back and sit
down, or else take new start. 1t
seems that he does not know that in
North Carolina, besides Greensboro,
the Methodists have Davenport, Louis
burg and Littleton Female Colleges,
each chock full of girls, besides a
large number of girls at Rutherford,
Weaverville and Trinity. Upon the
whole we are doing fairly WELL and
if Mr.. McKelway, Joe Reece and the
rest will continue to help CD attend
to our business, we have good hope
of yet coming out at the end of the
lane"
Expressing our sympathies for Joe
Reece,' who has to live in the same town
with the editor of the Greensboro Chris
tian Advocate, the Standard desires to
mentioned above But while the two
paragraphs quoted are slightly confusing,
taken together, We get these questions out
of them for the Biblical Recorder. If it
was the apathy of Methodism in North
Carolina that struck down the college,
why lay the death at the doors of the
State? Or, if the Methodists have these
colleges and the Presbyterians five. all
"chuck full of girls" why was it that
the Greensboro College alone fell victim
to the cruel hand of the State? And then.
suppose it enters upon a new career of
prosperity under new management, as we
hope. What becomes of the Recorders
contention? And suppose they build the
mllllon dollar Methodist College for Wo-
men at Durham, will not State COMPETE
ton be responsible for that too? The
facts are that the Presbyterians, the
Baptlsts, and the Methodists are educat-
ing more boys and girls right now than
ever before and the State is doing the
same thing.
And now what is the State of North
Carolina if it is not the people of North
Carolina? And who are the people of
North Carolina? Why they are mostly
ADdPNAotS anu 0hCOnOulslS anu HTeSDyLH-
rians and Episcopalians and Lutherans
and Quakers and so on. And these say
through their representatives in their
church courts: We must have Church
Schools in which to train for our church
its boys and girls. This is one of the
most effective methods of denominationaI
propagandism and we adopt it. And then
these same people, Baptists, Methodists.
Presbyterians, Episcopalians Presbyteri-
ans, Lutherans, Quakers and others say
through their representatives in the Leg
We must have a State Univer-
slty and State Normal and a State a.
and M. The same people say these two
things, and they put their money into the
church treasures for the church college,
and they pay their taxes into the State
Treasury for the State colleges, and they
know that both contributions are going to
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