The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
Its Dedication a Rich Tri-
butte to Woman.
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wards in conference with the board OF
directors. made it possible to erect i'm,
mediately the building which the cox
lcge could not have continued its work
this year
DR.. McIver then IN q few appro-
pirate words introduced the orator of
the occasion, Or. George r. Winston.
Although the weilder of a wide in
t!uence, and although her activities
had been largely of a public nature
she was a woman of rare mOdesty
Inevcr speaking or appearing in public
but making her appeals to the con-
science Of The State entirely through
her pen. DR.. Winston emphasized the
fact that Notwithstanding her public
serVices,it was as homemaker and
II home-maker that Mrs. Spencer best
deserved to be loved and honored.
lie bore from her, written On a piece
of paper this message to the Normal
students: Tell yout young women &c
cpen their Bibles when they go> &c
her rooms ANA read. mark ard learn
the ] 18th verse Of the goth chapter oi
the Apostle Paurs first letter TO Tim
othy. Don't give il to them; make
them look Cor it,
While the : zee club gave a selection
one of the -narshals carried up TO Dr.
Melver the five gold pieces above men
toned on a silver waiter which pore q
card with this inscriptions: The stu
dents in college this year wish this
gold to represent dedication gift tQ
! The reception Dom of the Srenccr
Building
Dr Venable then having been called
on said:
Il am proud to bring to you the
congra tulationS of the university upon
the completion Of the Cornelia Phillips
Spencer Building. The State Normal
College is in some sort q daughter of
that glorious Old mother and she notes
with loving interest the growing
strength and usefulness of this, her
fair daughter, Every forward step is
q source of pride and pleasure TO he-.
You have heard your president say
that each home in The land represented
Ia mans love for some woman and this
splendid house of yours represents the
love and pride and hope of North Car
Iolinas men for North Carolina
daughters. They have buiided here
that you might come and learn LIES
lessons; that, trained in head ana
heart and hand, you might take up the
sweet ministry of life and help 10 make
this beloved South of ours a goOdly
place to live in and Il worthy land 20
die for
II am glad that you have called
your house the Spencer Building. You
will thus have ever before you the eX-
ample of one who has loved her State
we'll and labored with d noble devotion
for it's up-building. Honest, brave ana
strong, she has stood for the right, a.,
far as God cave her power TO see it,.
land spent herself in the service Of her
people. How great must be her pleas
ure that her name should become Il
household word to the daughters of the
State and stand forever above the
portals of their home May you have
the noble purpose and the strength
TO serve your people as she has done
before YOU"
Treasurer Lacy kept the audience
in roar with a most happy speech
of ten minutes, and Mrs Robertson,
who also spoke, was applauded to the
echo. Senator-elect A. NJ. Scales was
called on and pledged his support to
anything the college would ask him.
Mr.. r. Il. Gray. in presenting Mrs.
Winstons article on Mrs. Spencer,
made talk OF ten minutes.
The exercises We're closed with the
singing, rising Of the old North state,
by the Glee Club, students and visi-
tors, after which adjournment was
made to the new building where an
INFORMAL reception WAS NelQ ana l1gnl
refreshments served.
Greensboro, n. c., Dec. 1.-THE
dedication of the Spencer Building a..
the Normal and Industrial College to-
day marked one of the most significant
steps in the up-building of an institu-
ton which, for its youth, is almost
unique in woman's education. Con-
ceiVed a time when a Woman'S col
lege in the broader sense was so much
of an innovation in the South as to
make the far-seeing men who strove for
its founding almost impertinent in their
progressiveness, it has grown i'm a
dozen years to a moral Importance thar
threatens TO become oVershadoWing TO
other State institutional charges. 1t is
representative of woman unclaimed, of
all the higher progress, independence
and sane progressiveness that has lain
dormant through the years in woman s
heart and brain. 1t Is the potentiality
of the feminine crystaliZed by intelli-
gent and direct effort In it we can
see the near apothesis of the ideai
woman. towards which the college it
self is striving with that grand ambi-
ton that does not halt this side of an
universal influence. 1t is an institution
that is worth a pilgrimage as the
shrine of difficulty laid low, of opposi-
ton overcome, of prejudice converted
and of disbursement and disappoint-
ment made the mother and father Of
hope and an energy and courage
which have the heritage of being IN
vincible.
The college of to-day. with it's eleven
buildings, with its other projected and
assured improvements. with It's we'll
kept grounds, more with it's five hun
bred odd young women growing
grandly into the full-rounded quality
of their destiny, little resembles the
one bare building In a bleak field
which marked dozen years ago the
Spad Of an idoo A,oJ ~