The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-28
The Educational Confer
enCe at Richmond
Continued from Page Five.)

| natriculdtCd IN all the colieStS ioNas
there are not less than ZOO.
Within the past fifteen years the State
| has established two great industrial IN
ntutions the 4. and ". College for white
boys at Raleigh, and the A.. ana NJ. college,
for co!ored boys at Greensboro Inc az
crate appropriations and expenditures at
both have three quarters OF a million
dollars. At Greensboro the state
has established for women the
State Normal and Industrial ollege, the
success Of which has been al
most phenomenal. 1t represents an ex-
penditure Of moro than half a million DOL
lars in ten wears. The appropriation from
the state Treasury has been increased
from $12. 800 to $40, 900 a year. The State
has added largely to the institution for
tho blind at Raleigh and erected commo-
dious and modern buildings for a model
schccI for the deaf and dumb children at
Morganton, costing s200,G COO. Private
bcnefaction has constructed five new
buildings at the University at a cost of
over $500, 0oo. The appropriations from
the State Treasury for the University,
which rc-opened in 1876 with a State APP
preparation OF s.. 800 per year, have been
increased TO $37, 800 per year. Eight
normal schools for the training of treach-
ers for the negro schools are maintained
by the State at locations convenient and
accessible.
The private academies and preparatory
schools-(North Carolina from its earliest
history has always been blessed with a
few private schools worthy to rank with
the best in England or New England
have multiplied IN number and attend
ance, doing a great and needed work,
filling the gap between the public
schools and the colleges.
The denominational colleges have gone
forward steadily and rapidly. The en-
dowment in one alone, Trinity College,
coming almost wholly from two men
father and son-has grown to something
like half a million. Wake Forest has in
creased to a quarter of a million; David
son to a quarter of a million; Elon dur
ing the past year received a handsome
donation. The in the denomi-
national colleges for women have not
been so great, but these colleges have
shown a growth that tells nightly the
story of the belief in educating the wo-
men that has been the distinguishing edu-
cational characteristic of the State during
| the past ten years. New colleges for wo-
men have been established and grown to
great usefulness in a single year.
Time would fail me to enumerate all
the forward steps that the State has
lately taken. | must name three: /. The
legislature has now for four years made
an appropriation of 500, 900 a year, out
OF the general funds to be applied solely
to the schools in the poorer counties
whose revenues are not sufficient to
bring their school terms up to the con
stitutiOnal requirement. 2. 1t has made
appropriations of $12, 800 for free
rural libraries in connection with the
public schools which, supplemented oy
the counties and private subscriptions
will amount TO $37, 500. 8. The Cen
eral Assembly, which adjourned last
month, recognizing that the pressing need
in public education is better school
house, upon the recommendation of the
States able and wise State Superintend-
cnt Of Schools, one of the first educators
in wisdom and in executive ability IL
America today, set aside the sum OF
5000, 900 and all funds hereafter arising
from the sale of thousands of acres OF
public lands belonging to the State, II
be u Permanent Loan FUND for Build
ing and Improving Public Schco
Houses The state Board Of Education
is directed to lend this money at four
pei cent u StlDOl ulSIItClC WnlCH nave
not the money to build school houses
to be repaid in ten annual in
: stallments. This sum will be uset
to supplement local appropriations anC
: contributions. If it could be doubled anC
: the entire school fund, q large part O
which has necessarily been used to bnilC
l school houses, could be used exclusively
! to employ teachers, the good result
s which we confidently expect in ten years
5 would be accomplished within one year
] / believe that this is the most impor
tant step taken in public education II
g any Southern State. You cannot secure
? full attendance without comfortable
= school houses. Good school houses mus
= be at the foundation Of all permarcn
V progress in public education. The Loa1
n Fund established by North Carolina ha!
e the germ of the best work possible o
n early accomplishment that philan
r thropists and legislators can undertake.
These facts tell in outline the story O.
the educational progress in North Caro-
lima as far as it can be told by brick
mortar, statutes and appropriations
g These are the visible signs of the reViVa
q that has, like a living fire. touched th'
minds and hearts of tho people Of th1
I State. But as the spirit i
always superior to the mate
Y rial, these facts and figures ca,
Z not onvey the full story Of the wonder
( fHl progress that this generation ha.
! witnessed. That story will be found il
u the newer life of intellectual and in
d~ustrial activity that dominates the Soutl
today, and that Will lead it into large
fields in the days that are to come.
! North Cardinals contribution to tn
= educational revival is found mainly with
in the State, for the true Tar-heel is eve
; mindful Of the injunction, Beginning a
: Jerusalem" Perhaps we stay there to-
:. long and preach too much only 10 I'll,
saints. But North Carolina has furnish
= ed educational leaders, not only for it
own schools and colleges, but ht
furnished educational leaders ais,
FOR the South and elsewhere
= Page, of New York; Alderma.
Of louisiana; BranSon, of Georgia
Pell, of South Carolina; Barringer, 0
= Virginia; Houston, of TeXas-all prom
= lnontly connected with this conference.