The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-09

great Peabody Normal College, open to
both men and women. Pennsylvania has
nearly dozen Normal Schools attended
| by more than two thousand men. New
York spends $25o,000 annually to support
its great Teachers College in New York
city, besides many Normal Schools else.
where in the State.
(6.l The State Normal College at
Greensboro is not large enough to edu-
cate even the women who apply there Tor
education, much less men in addition.
mat Raleigh is the place for state
Normal College for Men" appears from
the following considerations:
ID 1t is the educational and popula-
ton center of the State.
CD Its fitness for educational institu-
TONS is abundantly shown by the sue
cess OF all the schools and colleges, nearly
dozen in number now located there.
(S9 The great popularity and success of
the A. and M. College Summer School for
Teachers shows a demand for Normal
training along the lines of instruction
offered IN that school.
90 The curriculum of the new Normal
College should include not only literary
and scientific culture, but also industrial
training in all its fundamental branches.
The State already has equipment for all
this instruction at the A. and M. College,
which can be utilized by the Normal Col
lege. This instruction should include Ag-
riculture, Nature Study School Garden
ing. Drawing (both free-hand and mechan-
icaD, and all sorts of handicraft paper.
leather, wood, iron and teXtiles).
CD THE Normal College for Men"
4o1
try, but in city with large and well
OF ganized school system, containing high
schools, kindergartens, rural schools, etc.
thus furnishing abundant material for
observation and actual training.
Raleigh is the place fer this college,
because Raleigh already furnishes for it
a maximum of advantages, advantages
vhich will grow and multiply each COM
ing year hereafter. The State must have
such a college, sooner or later; and, the
sooner 1t is established, the better.
THE SUMMER NORMAL.
Mr.. Charles J. Parker, speaking of the
prospects for the Summer Normal at the
A. and NJ. College, spoke enthusiastically
lof the prospects for the coming session
10 be held in July He said that two
months ago he estimated that the num-
Der in attendance would reach 500;
month go he raised his figures to 750;
and that now, judging from letters from
many teachers and from other sources he
had raised his figures to LOCO, and felt
confident that the enrolment would reach
| that figure. The A. and NJ College. st.
Mary's School, the Baptist Female Uni,
veIsity and the d. d. and B. Institution
| have all been secured. We will ill them
ali and have enough teachers to fill every
boarding house in Raleigh that will give
Reasonable rates. Mr.. Parker's report
| was very cheering and gratifying to the
members OF the Chamber and, will crafty
| many readers of this paper.
PREVENTION Or TUBERCULOSIS.
| The Committee on the Prevention of
tuberculosis presented, through Chair
man Withers their report, which was
adopted. 1t is as follows:
Raleigh, N. c., March s, 1904.
TO the Chamber of Commerce:
Your committee upon the Prevention of
tuberculosis would respectfully recon-
mend that:
Il An ordinance be enacted by the
| Board of Aldermen requiring physicians
| 10 report to the clerk of the Board of
Health cases of tuberculosis or copsump-
| ricn occurring in their practice, as in
| other contagious or infectious diseases
80. That the City Health Department
be required to disinfect the premises upon
TIE removal OF a consumptiye by death
| or otherwise.
80 That the Board of Health prepara
Tor distribution to consumptlves, a pam
phlet setting forth the causes, character
and cure of consumption and the proper
method of disinfection.
Il. That the city furnish to consump
| tives, free of charge, the necessary DIS
irfectants and that an agent of the Board
Of Health make periodical visits 20 con
.Umptives with a view to Improving the
Importance CT disinfaction. !
IS. That committee be appointed from
this Chamber TO urge the honorable Board
of Aldermen to take the action outlined
above.
Respectfully submitted,
''W A WITHERS,
81. A. ROYSTER,
Jos. e. POGUE,