The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15

potent Il man 10 De written Win lIllc u
DR." which he shares with the thous-
and mediocrities 50 named--is the life
and the source of the Normal and In
dustrial College. Well named-I be-
lieve by DR.. WinStOn--"that steam en- =
CINE in pants" he is that most remark
able Of combinations Il practical and
worldly wise idealist. At heart he
breathes. thinks. eats and sleeps We
mans education. That is the sun Of
his days and the dream Of his nights.
He is full of thoughts Of the future,
planning always those far-oH projects,
|conceiVing those ideals which make Il
layman smile with the hard superior
ity of conditions that he knows. Yet,
with all this he knows men and he
works with them to his ends with an
a bilitV that cOnfuSeS the educator with
the politician. He may be poetic in his
feeling towards education. he may
idealiZe and dream conceptions that
are not of the wool of possibilities
that he will live to see in concrete
form. but of men and opportunity
Charles ID. McIver has no illusions. He
goes straight TO his goal with a vic
torious insistence. Behind all his work
the motive stands out plainly in the
good of the college which he helped
to create ana which il is his life to
guard.
three hundred girls is most appropT-
ately named. 1t means progress from
the ashes of destruction. 1t stands for
an idea that is irresistible. SO stood
Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer at a
Lime where there was disaster in the
air. She was the counterpart of Dr.
MclVer in energy and in hope-only
the engine wore dresses! There was
never IL more dominating influence n
the history of the State. Like DR..
McIver she did not wait on facile lays
to strike practical blows for the idea
in her soul. She went her way UNI
deferred and unafraid. One day u
poem, the next a hOmily, next Wees
inactive and the week after a call 20
duty that rang like a trumpet all
appeal that flew too straight to the
conscience Of the people to be lodged.
A timid virtue, bolstered to the cour-
age of action. gave back the university
to the State as Mrs. Spencer's gift;
laboring against the honest doubt that
is even more battling than fear, DR..
McIver produced the Normal and IN
dustrial College.
1t is happily fitting that the lion
hearted woman of song, the practicai
man OF ideals and the new building
made possible by a disaster should be
linked together in a dedicatOry exer-
else emphasizing the heritage of the
national rights OF the Womanhood Of Il
great State!
From the head of College Ave, the
Normal and Industrial College is an
impressive sight. The buildings SHOW
achievement, the spirit of the place.
The walks and the grass indicate the
detail which afford the thousand
props to largely conceived su. cess. Al
ready the Grass neWness of young
buildings is wearing off the look or
things. The grounds are gaining the
dignity that belongs to age by right
of experience, to youth, by right o.
accom- lishment. The atmosphere OF
the place is that confidence which ur-
folds the lack of apology in things
which have a right to be. Peabody
Park is in it's incipiency already look
ing to coming generations. 1T contains
an hundred acres of wooded ana open
lands and has been thoroughly plotted
and laid off by a famous landscape
gardner whose services were secured
through the gift of a former student,
Mrs. H G. Pace of Dorchester. Mass,
who in her student days, was Miss Kit
tie Dees. In this park, says Dr.. Me-
IVer, the idea viii be to create eiuca-
tional traditions, The monuments
which VIII be memorials instead of
tombstones win be to men and women
who have wrought for educational adj
vancement in one way or another ana
to institutions which have taken rank
as factors in educational progress.
Peabody Park is already beautiful
With the five thousand dollars given
it by Mr.. George Foster Peabody and
the private contributions which are
made from time to time, it will in a
few years become q Mecca for stu
dents ana educators. The college
which is young, realizes the incentives
that lie in the achievements of the Ole
and makes toward them.
There is doubtless not such another
student body as may be found in tn.
young women of the Normal College.
Like the institution they are young
in face and years, mature with the
dignity of effort. There is an earneS,
quality about the average student that
catches the attention compels admlrd-
ton and sentiment. The college runs
on oiled wheels ana this is made pos
sible by the students Everywhere Is
work, work, work. But it is n labor
that finds chance for laughter in
its pauses The students are making
the most of their time--in living and
in getting an education. Just to what
extent this happy result follows from
the universal enthusiasm that Whirls
around the central engine and how
much is due TO the mere habit of earn
cot WOllIdilIOOt IL uIlIlCult 10 SdN, pul
the condition exists. Normal girls WORK
happily and they love their college.
They come back to commandments Ill
swarms like "old boys" to alma mater.
And they keep the college in heart.
They have built up. a college spirit
that is worthy Of a century old uni
versity. And they have put in gifts
over $4,000 into the magnificent Stu
dents building, the Individual don7-
tons ranging from a postage stamp 20
a $50 note.
They have learned to work with
their hands, to cook and to sew and
to do chemistry and calculus ana
write poems and criticise art! They
find time for an incalculable range of
affairs. TypeWriters click in the bust
ness departments, savory odors rise
from the kitchen. in the lecture room,
note books follow on discourses that
would grace Harvard V. Yale. With ali
this the college life is complete. There
are literary and religious societies,
debating formus, fraternities anG
clubs. Best of all, it is democracy
of the purest sort There is no
pull but merit. One of the most
popular students is . young girl With
Il face alight like a sunbeam With
new hopes and new ideals who has
spent four years in college on $50