The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-29

more extensive instruction in drawing and
designing and in wood and metal work
ing. with elementary agriculture and M
| ture study.
SUMNER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS.
''The faculty have also arranged a SUM
mer school for teachers to be held during
the month of July. This school is intend
ed especially for persons who are already
teaching and who wish to acquire some
industrial training along agricultural or
mechanical lines for the purpose of intro
ducing it into their schools. The Summer
school promises to be very popular. The
Wake county teachers will attend it in II
body, and very many teachers from all
parts of North Carolina anxious to learn
something of our methods of teaching
agriculture and nature study, or desiring
to be trained in Woodworking, metal
working and drawing have signiied their
intention to come.
NOT A DEATH DURING THE YEAR.
"There has not been a death during the
year among our students. And yet typhoid
fever, pneumonia and other fatal diseases
prevailed all around the college. / canrot
speak too highly of the excellent services
OF the college physician, DR.. j. r. Rogers,
and the matron and hospital nurse Mrs
Daisy Lewis.
MILITARY DEPARTMENT AND DIS
CIPLINE.
1.-THE military department has been very
helpful in every way to the life and the
discipline of the college. The cadets have
cheerfuly performed the drills and pa
rades, showing not only soldierly precision
and accuracy, but also soldierly enthusi-
asm. This splendid feeling has also helped
to maintain a most creditable and salts
factory discipline. 1 have never known SO
little disorder, vice or idleness among so
large a number of young men. To the
commandant, Captain f. E. Phelps, United
States Army. is due the credit of this most
excellent management.
STUDENT LIFE AT THE COLLEGE.
Il cannot refrain from expressing my
admiration of the fine manly spirit that
marked the students of the college during
the year. Although crowded together and
frequently uncomfortable in their lodgings,
their dining room and their recitation
rooms, they have neither complained nor
taken advantage of the situation to create
disturbance. There has been a most adj
mirable advance in the enthusiasm, the
courage, the hopefulness, the manly esprit
du corps of the college. 1t has been ex-
hibited in conduct, in athletics, in drills,
in studies, in literary, scientific and agri-
cultural society work, in social life, in at
titude toward the faculty, toward one
another, and toward the public. They
are proud of the college and proud that
they are privileged to help build UP a
great college for industrial workers, proud
and hopeful of North Cardinals future.
This is the real sign of the colleges
healthy condition, its real power.
NEW TEACHERS NEEDED.
1.-THE professors and instructors and en-
ployes of the college have been over
burdened with work during the year. The
reports in the several departments show
in detail what have been done. There Is
necessity for several additional teachers
next year. The matter of salaries Is be
coming very serious. Our graduates are
securing Immediately after graduation
larger salaries than some of our instruc-
tors We cannot hope for the best re
suits under such a system. / respectfully
ask that committee be appointed to con-
slider these matters, and also to pass In
detail upon the college budget for next
year, which promises to exceed its IN
come If only the most pressing needs CT
the institution for teaching and equipment
are to be supplied.