The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-04
GREAT GROWTH Of
A. AND N. COLLEGE
President Winston's Report
to the Governor.
FIVE HUNDRED STUDENTS
The College Will be- ABA 10 Accommodate This
Numbsr When the '7uIen Building"
is FinisheG---Seneral Industrial
Education Supplied.

tduca'lon Supplied.
The people of Raleigh and North Caro-
lima will be gratifed to learn of the
rapid progress that is being made by the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
President Winston yesterday submitted
his annual report to Governor Aycock.
The following extracts taken from DR..
Winstons report to the Governor will be
read with much interest by the friends
and patrons CT this institution through
out the State:
COLLEGE FULL AND OVERLOOKING.
The college has been full and over
owing since the opening Of the session
last September. The present enrolment
is $50. By January it will exceed 500.
The gain over last year is $50, or 40 per
cent. For lack of accommodations stu
dents have been rejected almost daily.
Fully leo have been kept away on this
account. 1t is evident that the attendance
would reach 1000 If the college could re-
ceive them.
ITS GROWTH DUE TO INCREASING
DEMAND FOR INDUSTRIAL EDU-
CATION.
The wonderful growth of the college
is due 70 the increasing demand for in
dustrial education. The college does not
aim to be a literary institution. and
does not confer the usual academic de-
grees. 1t stands for industrial education;
and its instructions. its discipline it's in
ner life and spirit all look to this end
This IS the secret of it's marvellous
growth and popularity; for Industrial
education is most useful to the average
boy ard is most needful at this time
for the development of North Carolina.
PRACTICAL CHARACTER OF ITS
WORKS. OVER $4,000 EARNED BY
STUDENTS.
The work OF the college is both prac-
teal srd theoretical. 1t runs along three
general lines: ID Agriculture, (2) Textile
industry. (3) Engineering and Mechanics.
Every student is required to do manual
work from two to six hours a day. If new
studerts are unwilling to work, they are
required to leave. and advised to seek
literary education IN some other college.
The Freshman class tbs year numbers
$50 students. each OF whom is, according
TO his course of study required to work
daily II the blacksmith shop, the lathe
room, the carpenter shop. the drawing
and designing rooms, the dairy, the barn,
the green houses, or the field. There are
hook. -7sudTeS besides in ESgEsh, .Mathe
mates, History and Science. The fresh
man year is one OF testing. 1t also
lays the foundations. Students in the
higher classes also do practical work
along 1901 lines; in agriculture, or ar
chitecture, or electricity, or cotton manu-
featuring, or engineering and mechanic
arts. or chemistry and dyeing, or drawing
and designing.
Practically all the skilled work of the
college is done by students or profess
sors. The spirit of work is so strong
that over $4,000 was earned last year by
students working at odd hours or on
Saturdays; and this spirit pervades the
college inspiring even lads of wealth to
work for wages by the side of fellow stu
dents who are penniless.
A $4,000 LAD CAPITALIZED AT $50, 900
BY INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
Two years and a half ago a young
man of fine ability was graduated from
the college after three years of study
His earning capacity when he entered
was SIS month or $500 year, being
elk per cent. on $4,000 He is now earn
ing SO, 900 a year or six per cent. on $780,
600. Industrial education has capitalized
a $4,000 man at $4,000 in 2h years
time. A man Of very ordinary ability after
two years of hard labor at SIS per month
saved enough money to study and work
in the college Is months, which enabled
him to earn 40 month instead of $15
A lad OF fair average ability, earning $40
q month, after spending 21s years here,
was employed at 500 month. The ca
reers of all these lads have just begun;
who can see the final goal? Who can esti-
mate the effect OF Industrial education
upon North Carolina so years hence?
TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE.
The college recognizes agriculture as
the ckief interest of our people, and
strives especially to promote agricultural
education. For this purpose the follow
ing agencies are maintained:
l. A complete 4 years course of Agri-
cultural instruction, with general culture.
"A 2 years course, devoted mainly to
practical instruction in agriculture.
8. A winter course in dairying and agri-
culture, for actual farmers and farm boys
and girls.
4. A summer school of agriculture. ma
ture study, and manual training for rural
EcHOOI IedcHSrS anu ldIu DOyS ana girls
5. Rural science and biological clubs
among the students for study and dis
cussion of farm problems.
6. One hundred and twenty scholarships,
comforting free tuition and room rent,
exclusively for agricultural students.
Z. $4,000 annually to pay for student Ia
Dor on the farm.
s. SPECIAL prizes for agricultural stu
dents doing the most work during the
year.
These efforts to promote agriculture
have been very successful. The number
-~-of students in agriculture has increased
in two years from IL TO 80. BY January
1t will probably be $50.
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING NEEDED.
The college is without suitable build
ing for agriculture. The present equip
ment is entirely inadequate. The barn
and dairy are small, antiquated, and
worn out. The Board of Trustees have
unanimously requested that $4,000 be ap-
propriated for this purpose, and have pre-
pared a memorial on the subject to the
General Assembly. Such a building will