The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-21
CHURCH AND STATE WORKING
IN HARMONY ON THIS LINE
The Standard Finds No Conflict Between Them IN
Pushing Forward the Cause OF
Education.
lPreshyterian Standard. J

CPresbyteriaQ S%tandard)
The STANDARD has long ago defined ls
attitude on tins question. but ! ~restate-
ment of principles seems TO be called for.
The Biblical Recorder has an editorial IN
IL issue OF last week on The Future oi
The Denominational College which l.
worthy Of careful study and calls Tor a
frank expression of agreement or disagree
ment. 1t recites the conditions under
which the denominations colleges were
founded: when State Institutions were
weak, when the State AID principle was
not firmly established, when denomIna-
tional fealty was strong, and when com
petition Tor students was not considerable.
Now, this would indicate that the Re
corder IS in a somewhat p~esslmlstlc mood.
But it is not altogether justified by the
facts. In this State. Tor instance, the
University IS older than any OF our col
leges and has always been supported by
State aid, though this has been very
meager throughout its history.
Then. are we willing to admit that de
nominational fealty, at least IN the South.
is weaker than it used to be? Its denoml-
~nationalism is less fanatical. 1t does not
make the abuse of other denominations Its
principal stock III trade. But 1t is more
intelligent and it has gained by the eX-
change of sense for bigOtry. The only CON
dition that we admit is the increasing
competition for students. And yet there
are those who still believe that cOmpetI-
ton is the life of education as we'll as OF
trade.
The Recorder notes among the changed
conditions the rise Of technical institutions
such as the A. and NJ. College in this
State, the increase OF appropriations to
State universities, and the establishment
of State Institutions for women.
Well, if the Church Institutions have
failed to provide a technical education for
our young men, certainly it is the duty of
the State to provide it. We do not believe
that the Recorder would close the A. and
NJ. College at Raleigh this year If it could.
1t is doing too necessary a work in edu-
eating for the industrial world the young
men who enter its doors. AS to the in
crease IN appropriations, every town un-
derstands today that education, in any
true sense of the word, is more expensive
now than formerly. Unless education by
the State is to mortify every feeling of
patriotism by i%nadequacy, the State has
" prov Ut TIC ulolCy y lIC CdulpLiCil,
the laboratories and the various specialists
Of the several schools that are necessary
now. In this State we are getting ito be
a more prosperous people than re ever
were. 1t is only fitting that the State
University should reflect something of the
improved conditions of the homes of our
/ people. AS to the colleges for women es-
tablished by the State, which in North
= rnI1na 1c tho EsStatn Norma - Loft ~
ask, What Church Institution was teach
ing its pupils how to teach in the public
schools, when it was founded? Has it not
already sent hundreds of teachers, trained
to teach, to these schools? Do we not
North Carolina more than anything else?
FINALLY the tendency of gifts is to the
great Institutions Well, as we have no
great institutions in North Carolina this
does not concern us, any more than the
talk Of State Aid for Higher Education
means anything to those who know what
Higher Education really is and what we
have in North Carolina. We quote the
next paragraph:
Measure these conditions well, and
you will agree hat the situation is
most grave. You will understand the
assurance with which we pointed out
that the State slew the Greensboro
! Female College, whose death-cries con-
tlnue to ring UP and down our Com
monwealth. You will understand the
earnestness of the citizens who would
explain the matter away with soft
and soothing words.
You will also understand why de-
nominational colleges have passed in
the North; why they have never had
a chance in the West, and why they
are struggling for life in the South
the field of their last stand in all the
world. You will also understand with
what seriousness it has been urged
from the platform of one of our State
institutions that the denominational
colleges go out OF existence as distinct
institutions and group themselves
about the State institutions. You will
also understand why a rising genera
ton OF dead-beats and pauper have
besleged our colleges, State and de-
nomlnational demanding everything
free"
OF course the lead beats should be
beaten dead, but we had supposed that
one idea Of education, whether by Church
or State, was to give the 'pauper's" sor
a chance to do better than his father did
Are our colleges for the rich only? i
may have been urged with seriousness
from the platform of one of the State In
stltutlons,' but it was serious folly all tn,
same and we suppose the Institution itsel
was not responsible.
As to the passing of UNCONVENTIONAL col
leges IN the North, Princeton UNIVERSITY
IN New Jersey IS a pretty fair type of q
successful Presbyterian University, Just
as Washington and Jefferson College If
Pennsylvanllon Is of q Presbyterian Col
lege. Yale is Congregational and Harvard
IS Unitarian. These are not az sectariar
as they once may have been, but neither
are the denominational newspapers of tina
section OF the country. AS for the denomi
national institutions never having had {
chance IN the West. we have been of The
opinion that President Harper, of Chica
go, was running an institution there tina