The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-01
JUST WHAT It NEEDS
States Woman's College,
Appropriations Asked.
The Probabilities are That the Peabody Appro'
priaion Averaging 81, 500 Year viii be
Withdrawn After Jan |.

There is no institution in North Caro-
lima more popular than the State Normal
and Industrial College at Greensboro. 1t
is the only institution in the State es-
tablished by the State for women. 1t
has done a great enthusiastically
greater than even its best friends antici-
pated. Every dollar the State has in
vested in that institution has been well
invested and has paid large return in
the education of the women of the State.
Dr. McIver president of the college,
who presented the needs of the institu-
ton in a speech before the Educational
and Appropriations Committee, prepared
also a succinct statement, in which every
legislator and every citizen of the State
is interested. 1t is as follows;
O. II. Guion, Esq, Chairman of House
Committee on Appropriation:
Dear Sir About week ago l appear
ed before the Joint Committee on Educa-
ton to present the needs of the State
Normal and Industrial College, and to
answer any questions that might be
asked in regard to its income and ex-
penses. | think only four members of
the committees on appropriations were
present and, naturally, in the great rush
of work, they would not keep in mind all
that was said in my brief statement.
| wish, therefore, TO ask that the fol-
lowing facts be in reach of your COM
mittee when the appropriation for our
college shall be considered
l. The bill before you asks for living
room for our young women. a much more
important question for women than for
men. Without more dormitory room We
have reached our maximum attendance
We turn off about two hundred people
annually, and eighty students now board
in private families.
g We need besides this, a cold stor-
age plant for the sake of both health
and economy. This need is urged by our
Board of Directors, by the State Board
of Examiners and by the State Board Of
Health in their official reports.
3 We have no gymnasium, and our
library and reading room, about 25x40
feet is not large enough for two thirds
of the even inadequate supply of books
We now have on hand.
4. Since our bill was introduced, have
received information from most influen-
tial member of the Peabody Board that
means almost certain withdrawal of
our Peabody appropriation amounting to
$4,000 or $4,000 annually.
5. Considering the fact that there are
more white women in the State than
white men, and that they have only this
one college supported by the State for
their college, their normal. and their in
dustrial training, and that three-fourths
of our students become teachers and have
taught during the past ten years more
than one hundred thousand North Caro-
lima children, and considering the further
fact that our college is the youngest and
most inadequately equipped and has, for
employing teachers, the smallest income
among our State colleges, l hope that at
least the dormitory asked for in our bill
will be allowed, and in view of our pros
pective decrease in annual income,
would like to have our bill amended so
as to make it possible to provide cold
storage plant, costing about $4,000 or
$4,000
If our Board of Directors had known
of the probable loss of the Peabody sup.
port. from 81 900 to 5000 in two years.
it would have instructed me to ask for
a large special appropriation or ar in
crease in our appropriation for mainten-
ance.
l am writing this as briefly as l can
because all these facts have not been
placed before any committee to the Leg
islature, and because only a few of your
committee have had an opportunity to
hear any of them discussed.
Very respectfully
CHARLES d. M'IVER,
President