The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-28

study. InlS VeHtuA1 las met IuUy the
hopes of the faculty and | think il not
improper for me to say that no students
in North Carolina TINS year viii receive
more worthily the Bachelors degree.
'The May School, composed this year
of the senior and graduate classes of the
college. and thirty-flve teachers from va
rious sections of the State, has been so
satisfactory as to clearly demonstrate the
wisdom of establishing this special school
in connection with the college Doubt
less its usefulness will be largely increased
as its work becomes better systemized
and better known.
The erection of the Students Building,
which will be ready for occupancy next
fall, is not only conspicuous evidence of
the institutions progress but a perma
nent reminder of the loyal affection of its
students and friends who have made the
building possible.
'Since our last commencement this col
lege has received by the bequest Of Judge
John Gray Bynum $1,000 to establish The
Hennie- Bynum Scholarship
'Mr e. NJ. Armfeld, of High Point,
has established a scholarship of $50 a
year.
Last August the General Education
Board offered to give seven thousand five
hundred dollars ($7,500) to aid the col
lege in maintaining Manual Training
Department This department will be
open to students next fall. For this work
the Board of Directors has been very for
tunate in securing the services of one of
the foremost Manual Training teachers in
the country, Irof. VIM. C. Hammel, of
Baltimore.
1.-THE General Education Board has, in
addition offered to establish a loan and
scholarship fund Of $500 at this college
on condition that an equal amount be Sc
cured from other sources for tnat pur-
pose within three years from last August.
In case the entire amount of $500 should
not be raised the General Education
Board will duplicate the amount raised
Therefore. every dollar that may be given
to the college during the next two years
to establish loan funds or scholarship
funds will be equal to two dollars and
trust that our friends will keep this in
mind The AIumnae have undertaken to
raise at least part Of this fund. If
every alumna could raise $40 Il year for
three years, the SIS coo would be secured
without appealing to the general public
But as the alumnae and former students
have just raised. largely among them
selves, more than $4,000 for the Stu
dents Building and as those who have
given most of thes time and money to
this enterprise have been students of
small means, some of them in debt for
their own education and earning their
money by teaching at small salaries /
am unwilling to ask them to give this
money, especially since there are a num-
Der Of men and women in every leading
community of North Carolina who could
contribute to this fund without embarrass-
ment and who, | am sure, will gladly do
so when the matter = brought to their
attention.
Fortunately for this institution, no
Legislature has assembled since its char
ter was granted in 1891 thmat has not in
creased it's annual appropriation or its
equipment, generally, both, and while the
last Legislature was no exception to the
rule, there are several immediate needs
of the college the supplying of which
would greatly increase its efficiency. While
provision viii be made the coming year
for fifty or more additional boarders in
the dormtories, room is needed for at
least two hundred While the removal of
the Domestic Science Department to the
first floor of the Students Building next
year viii somewhat relieve the crowded
condition of our recitation rooms addi-
tional recitation rooms and equipment are
essential for the best work of the col
lege.
i consider the college in desperate need
of two essentials TO any high class educa-
tional institution. The college has no
gymnasium but is forced to use the chapel
Of the Curry Building for such work in
physical culture as can be given under
cur present conditions.
Although we arc far short Of the
number of volumes necessary for a good
college library the room in which VIC are
forced to keep these books at present is
ever crowded and far too small to accom-
modate the students who wish to use the
library
~ gift Of 81, 900 or $4,000 for each Of
these purposes would enable the college
to make an arrangement within The next
twelve months by which our immediate
needs in these directions could be sup
Piled
IF within the next two years the
college could secure $25O,OOO, to add to
its present plant and equipment, it would
then be able, with a small addition to
It's annual appropriation, to take rank
with the worlds foremost colleges for
women The women of North Carolina
have sufficient ambition and native abil
ity to render such a college a good in
vestment under any conditions. More
over, such an institution can be estab-
lisned ana maintained with less financial
outlay in this locality than in any other
with which / am acquainted.
"such college would be Of immediate
advantage to our public school system, as
probably three -fourths of thue children
in North Carolina schools are taught by
women. 1t viii also give North Carolina
the prestige Of preeminence in the most
irnnortant and far-reaching field of hui