The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-29
THE THUMB WAS
TURNED DOWN
Judge Purnell Came Into Court to Appoint Re-
ceiver and Did So, at Least
Temporarily.

the exceptionally strong, sound and
manly character of our boys and
their desire to act we'll their part in
helping to lay the foundations of q
great industrial college, has prevented
disastrous results from the most unde-
sirable dormitory arrangements which
during the present year we have been
compelled to make. Tt will require
an additional dormitory as large as
Watauga hall to accommodate the sur
plus of 40 students now registered in
the college, and | am sure that the
people of the State would not for one
moment hesitate to correct the pres
ent undesirable condition of things by
erecting such dormitory if they knew
the facts. If additional dormitory
room is not to be provided, it is worthy
of consideration whether it be not the
duty of the college to confine its in
struction to such number of students
as it can properly accommodate; and
to Inform the public that the capacity
of the college is at present limited to
400 students.
The reports of the professors in
charge of the several departments of
the college herewith submitted) show
in detail the work done during the
past year in their respective depart
ments. They present also the imme-
date urgent needs of the college for
equipment Of apparatus and instruc-
tors, required to make thoroughly eff
cient the work of the college as a.
present organized. These reports do
not suggest the larger needs of the
institution, but only such needs as are
daily encountered and are daily hind
ering the present work. The sum to-
tai of these needs is over $4,000.
There are in Raleigh over 1000
young men and women now attending
colleges and high schools. OF this
number including white lads and
white girls. negro lads and negro
girls all have opportunities for in
struction in the French and German
languages excepting only the cadets
in the North Carolina college of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts. So far as
/ know this is the only college in
America or even in the world that
confines its linguistic instruction to
the language spoken by its students.
Our North Carolina boys are as de-
serving as any in the world and as
capable of Improvement by education.
The resources of our State are de-
veloping and its wealth increasing,
and the demand becomes greater for
thoroughly trained and educated
young men who may supply the State
with industrial skill and leadership,
and thus relieve it from the disgrace
and the burden or relying upon
strangers and foreigners to develop it's
resources. If we cannot equip our
college as completely as the wealth.
Ter States of the North and the West
we can certainly and we ought GER
tainly to keep pace with our sister
Southern States. Virginia, Tennessee
and South Carolina, joining our bord-
ers on all sides and no better able than
we to provide for the teaching of the
coming generation.
The work of the summer school for
teachers and of the State Farmers
convention, both held last July, were
highly successful. The promise of
this year is most encouraging. The
capacity of the college is going to be
taxed to the utmost to provide for all
who come. The State institution for
the blind, and the Baptist University
for Women have kindly offered their
buildings and boarding departments
to help furnish accommodations.
The greatest step forward yet taken
for the development of this college
and for making it Il perpetual blesS~
ing to North Carolina is the establish
ment of the proposed plan of build
ines and equipment for agricultural
instruction on the hill opposite the
Fair Grounds. When that work is
done, | feel that this board and this
writer, like the servant of old. might
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