The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

THE NJ VS. AND O
lthat study can and should be made a
pheasant occupation, thus creating a love
for knowledge and the pursuit OF it. Sc
, the idea OF work has given way to the
idea OF play, and the taste instead OF the
welfare OF youth Is consulted in deciding
the subjects they should study. Such a
radical change must affect the character
of students. The effort to make easy all
IteXt-bo Rotations, and study fails to
produce that toughness of mental char
Iacter which gave the college student OF
twenty years ago a disposition to persist
and overcome difficulties Parents be
come easy prey to the discomfort Of son
who wishes to change course of study
for no better reason than tn an easier
course may be found The remedy for
this evil IS with the prma and second
airy schools. for it is near impossible to
overcome in college the abits formed in
earlier training.
Another loss is worthy ambition to
succeed Education is being confined to
the development and training of the men,
DRY, reason, and Imagination. leaving out
| the quickening of those noble impulses
that fix the aims and furnish the energy
of conduct. The frequent exhortations of
the old teacher the proverbs of webster $
| Spelling Book, and the moral lessons con-
tanned IN other text books appealed to
the young mind and heart, and through
them were awakened impulses that covet-
| ed large success. The moral fiabbiness of
today Is evidenced in the large number
OF college students who are satisfied to
work at a passing point and who regard
it as a hardship to be called on to do any
unnecessary study. No amount of infor-
nation can overcome this loss of well or
dered and healthy ambition, and until it
is again made a prominent aim in all
early training education must show less.
profitable results than are justly expect
ed of It,
ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTS.
1.-The establishment of separate depart
ments Of German and Romance languages,
and the addition of another professor to
the department of mathematics have en-
larged the number of courses of study
which are now offered by the college. BY
completing ten courses a year, it would
now require a student sixteen years to
complete all the courses of study offered
by the college. In the two upper classes,
especially in the senior class, it is i'm
possible to preserve a strong class or
ganization, owing to the wide differences
in the election Of courses of study 1t
IS impossible to schedule all the classes
within five days, so it is now necessary.
To cIyy nd oFA
noon-in the school week 1t is even ne
cessary to have some of the graduate
classes meet in the evening.
{ ''The present teaching force is still bare
~ large enough to do the work of the
college. The department Of history espe-
oially needs an additional man. and if the
income of the college were sufficient this
addition ought to be made.
LIBRARY.
The new library building was formally
Opened February o. A large audience
from many parts Of the State was pres
ent on the occasion, thus showing the
general interest felt in this new enter
prise OF the college. The addresses of the
evening have been printed in a special
publications which also contains cuts Of the
building, Of Mr. James 3. Duke. the
donor, and Mr.. Page, who gave the dedi-
catory address. The removal of the books
from the room in the Duke building
formerly occupied by the library to the
new building and the arrangement of
them and the large accessions of new
books have been heavy and tedious tasks
DR.. Bassett manager of the library, has
given his personal attention to this work.
which has entailed upon him much extra
labor 1t viii require much time and la
Dor fully to establish the system adopted
by the library management, and extra
assistance should be added to the present
library force till the organization is com
pleted.
During the year ending May /, 1903,
5,0002 bound volumes and 713 pamphlets
have been added to the collection. making
a total OF 26784 books and pamphlets now
in the library. In the expenditure of the
ten thousand dollars donated by Mr.
James 3. Duke for the purchase of new
books, the greatest care has been taken.
The head of each department submitted a
list of books which he deemed necessary
to carry on properly the courses of study
offered in his department. From these
lists the library committee made out their
orders, thus securing the books best adapt
ed to the needs Of the college work
Besides the donation of Mr.. Duke,
Miss Anne Roney, of Durham, gave one
thousand dollars for the purchase of al
Shakespeare collection In this collection
are twenty-five rare editions of Shakes
pere. The orders that have been placed
for this collection will when received, give
to the college a very rare collection of the
books on this subject, which will serve as
"a standard for future collections, as well
as a standard by which a student may
measure the magnitude of a subject A
correct ideal Of the magnitude of some one
subject will more rapidly develop correct
standards of scholarship than can be de-
veloped by vague notion of the import
ance of many subjects.
MINISTERIAL AID.
at is customary in American Colleges,
especially in those under the control of
the churches, to require no tuition fees