The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-18
A Day OF Day For the
Girls.
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homes of our land Ours should De
also a feeling of the deepest GRATITUDE
at the achievement of the hopes ana
plans of those who fourteen years dS y
conceived this institution. Let US ilot
forget the sixty thousand baptisls
throughout North Carolina VINO oy
their contributions LAID the louioa
lions of this great institution.
Superintendent Joyner then lntro-
duced the chairman of the Board OF
Directors, Mr.. w. n. Jones, 10 Wnom
he paid a splendid tribute as one than
whom no man in North Carolina ma
worked harder for the institution. IL
was fitting that ne Shouiu present ~
free from debt.
Mr. w. N. Jones.
Mr.. Jones said he could not have
been called upon to perform more
pleasing duty than to present an IN
Stitution of this kind for the edu-
cation of our young women. Consider
ing the difficulties, it was a great oc,a-
sion This was a great monument to
the united prayers and labors of the
Christian people of North Carolina.
During the fourteen years there had
been some very dark periods, so dark
that even some of its best friends
turned from it as a failure. Once the
question came up in a meeting wheth-
er or not they should sell the property
and return the money to the contribu-
tors. Then Brother SimmS, now IN
Georgia, prayed. The vote was that
we should go forward, and they have
been going forward ever since. He
told how they had selected their first
financial agent, and how he had not
disappointed them. That man had
reputation, and it was that he went
crazy over everything he undertook.
Mr. Jones said that the principal
thought. that came to him was that
this was the gift of the many, and not
the few. Only one of all the contribu-
tons exceeded $4,000. Some were as
little as 5 cents. 1t was true that
large amounts had been given by will
but those amounts had not been used
in the construction of the present
buildings now in use. The great sue
cess of the institution was due to tie
universally of it's origin. That sue
cess is not it's glory; it is it's opp,r-
tunity.
There had, he said, been litne
discussion in North Carolina tlausht-
err as to whether this institution
should be called a university or not.
That question was settled at last, and
settled right Qong applause). They
had come out of the wilderness, and
had no time to discuss who are grass
hoppers and who are giants. There
~
the education of women that WaA
called a university, and this was the
one. The women were entitled to
one university, and they should have
one. Mr.. Jones was loudly 9pplau1ed
as he concluded.
Rev. G. A. Jenkins.
superintendent Joyner regretted
that brother r. H. Marsh had been
called home on a sad mission and
could not be present to accept the in
stitution, and said he had just called
upon Rev. c. A. Jenkins, of Chapel
Hill, to make the speech of acceptd-
ton.
Mr.. Jenkins said that the Baptists
of the State we'll understood all the
difficulties under which the board had
labored. There had been some change
in the name. 1t was now The Baptist
University for Women.
The flower of divine grace is a Gull
tured Baptist woman. In giving us
this institution you have given Ms all
these girls. Girls, we are so glad TO
get you. While there is a dollar in
our pocket we will share it with you.
The Baptist denomination is 40 iu'l-
ger peculiar for having great or
phanage or a great college for men,
but now we have rounded out and
have this great institution as well.
When the history of the denomination
shall be written, let one of its brightest
pages be the record of this Institution.
Rev o. l.. Springfield.
Then Rev. O. l.. Struggled, the fl st
financial agent was introduced 10 Ge-
liver the expression of gratitude. Su-
perintendent Joyner said he had
proved that not only did he go crazy
himself about everything he under
took. but he set everybody else crazy,
too. from the mountains to the sea.
Mr.. Struggled said he saw
great many familiar faces
here faces he had seen In
their homes, faces or men he had
heard pray. o how they had prayed
for this institution in their homes in