The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-11
THE POSSIBILITIES OF
THE STATE UNIVERSITY
Unsurpassed in Dixie, it Could be Made i'm a Few
Years to Rank With the Foremost Northern
Colleges and Universities
BY DR.. Theodore Bryant Kingsbury.

appears in The Record Tor December,
1902. But you have copied at such length
from it's valuable information l am re-
lieyed of the pleasant privilege of con-
sidering it at much length. 1t is very
valuable and informing. 1t deserves to
be read by every friend and patron of
the great centre of learning, now in it's
10Sth year. The following concerning
the Academic Department is instruc-
tive:
ITO enumerate the departments thus
strengthened an instructor has been
added in Greek, an assistant professor in
Latin; the Department of Modern Lam
guages has been divided and professor
and an assistant have charge of the Ro-
manic Languages and Literature; the
Department of English, which three
years ago had one professor and an in
structor, now has two professors, an as
sociate professor, an instructor and an
assistant, making it the strongest man
ned department of English in the South.
The same is true of the Department of
Chemistry. which now has two profess
sors, an associate professor, an instruc-
tor and three assistants. The chair OF
Economics and Finance has been estab-
Iished and additional assistance pro-
vided in history The Department of
Biology has been divided and an asso-
ciate professor of Botany appointed. An
assistant 8, Mineralogy has been ap-
pointed and an assistant in the Depart
ment of Pharmacy.
In the Academic Department, our
University has twenty one in the faculty,
while Tulane has fifteen, Vanderbilt fif-
teen and the University of Virginia six
teen. Instructors and assistants in A.
Department, North Carolina, nineteen,
Tulane four. Vanderbilt fourteen, Uni
versity Of Virginia eight 1t also equals
or surpasses these others in Greek
Latin, German, French, English, Philoso-
ply. History, Economics, Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry. Biology Geology and
Pedagogy. In the faculty there are pro-
fessors who attended the University of
Virginia, Johns Hopkins. Harvard, Ber-
lin. Chicago, Cornell, Yale, Columbia,
Paris. Vanderbilt. Bowdoin, Columbian,
La Sorbonne, College de France, Leipsic,
Bonn. Gottingen and Florence-eight Eu-
ropean institutions of learning in all.
OF the instructors, two held positions in
Harvard. two in Chicago, two in Vir-
ginia's University, one in Johns Hopkins,
one in Royal College of Science, Dublin
and others in institutions in the north.
THE literary work done by President
Venable, DR.. X. P. Battle, Professor
Wilson. Professor Cobb, Professor
Baskerville and others, since 1900. has
been extensive, and is reputed. There
are thirty-four courses in the Depart
ment of Mining. There are sixty-two
students in the Department of Medicine,
and sixty-one in the Law Department.
There are thirty-two in the Department
of Pharmacy. DR.. Venable says of it:
During the past two sessions the
laboratory and lecture accommodations
have been doubled and the equipment
largely increased. Seven rooms are now
turned over to this department with
floor space of about $500 square feet.
Valuable collections of medicinal plants,
etc. have been formed Or given, making
the facilities for instruction thorough.
An assistant has been added and, in
Guiding the necessary allied studies in
chemistry, biology, ETC., the faculty num-
bers twelve instructors
The following gives needed informa
tion:
'The studies required for admission in
the University of North Carolina are
English, Greek, Latin, History, Mathe
MATES, French, German and Physics.
For the A. B. course the first five sub
jects are required. For the Phi B. course
either French German or Physics may
be substituted for Greek, and for the B.
S. course two of these may be substi-
tuted for Greek and Latin. No student
can enter the Academic Department I'M
less he shows satisfactory attachments
in at least three of these requirements
In the last five years in ten debates
with Georgia. Vanderbilt and Johns Hop
kins. North Carolina won seven. 1t de-
feated both Vanderbilt and Johns Hop
kins Universities in every contest-a
very good record, and worth a hundred
victories in ball kicking. Rev. DR..
Charles F. Deems, of New York, born in
Baltimore. established fund in memory
of his son, Lieutenant Deems, who was
killed in battle fighting for the South.
He gave $500 in 1879, as a start, added
to it later and Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt
largely increased it, until on July 18th,
1902, it amounted to $21, 1913. By this
fund $50 students have been aided in
twenty years. For the past five years
the number has averaged thirty-nine.
The old University is now a great Uni
versity, unsurpassed in all Southland,
With more help with a larger income.
it would in few years measure up with
some of the very foremost of Northern
Universities. Every North Carolinian
should take a sincere interest in the
growth and development of the nob1est
of all of our State educational institu-
tions.
Every man able to contribute to swell
its income and increase it's power and
range for usefulness, should be prompt
TO do so. The friends of the University
ought to raise in 1903 and 1904, not less
than a half million dollars for its
sustenance and development. When one
recalls that now there are elevn scientific
laboratories equipped for work occupy
ing in all thirty-four rooms, the magni-
tude and fullness of the opportunities
and facilities may be partially under
stood. With sivty-four members of its
faculty it is thorough prepared for eff
cient and broadening work. President
Venable has scored a distinct and com
manding success.
Some year or two ago the Baltimore
Sun, one of the abIest and hest of