The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
WHAT ONE woSIAN CAN DO.

The commencement exercises at
Greensboro Female College this week
will serve to call attention to what
band of noble men and women have
done during the past year for one
educational institution in this State.
Greensboro Female College is one of
the oldest institutions in the country
for education of women. 1t became
the property of men who bought it
to save it to their, church Discour-
aged by lack of great success, it was
determined to close it's doors. When
most of the men gave up hope. the
women who had matriculated there
determined that it should remain to
educate many of the daughters of this
good State. They had little encour-
agement at first but their dauntless
resolution and faith inspired generous
men to help, and the new Greensboro
Female College, built upon larger
plans, since the fire. will this week
close one of the most prosperous ses-
sions in the history of the college.
In a communication in the North
Carolina Christians Advocate, urging
co-operation and, help by all the
alumnae and friends of Greensboro
Female College, Mr.. Charles H. Ire
land, one of the, most useful trustees.
gives this record of what brave wo-
man and a noble preacher have done;
Miss Annie Miller, of Linwood, n.
c., who graduated from this institu-
ton, loving it with a devotion of a
woman's heart, felt that she must do
something to help the college. Her
pastor, Rev S. T.fBarbeF, also having
the spirit of sacrifice and devotion for
the cause dear to his church, spoke to
her as to this and proposed. to de-
wise some plan tS which they could
pull together, and so these two devoted
Methodists put their heads together
with the determination to do some
thing for the cause. AS a result of
their united effort they turned into the
buildn~ fund of Greensboro Female
College $4,000. They had no large
city congregations to go to nor rich
constituency to apply to, but in faith
and devotion O,She cause they loved
they went forward to- CLEAN from the
field which lay at their door that
which lay within their grasp. The re-
suit was that the above sum was real
lied which went Merry largely towards
tiding over somei of the hard places
through which the college was passing
at that time. Not content with this,
when the urgent appeal was sent forth
notifying the church that we were
making another step III the progress
of the institution, the same young lady
came forward and brought $1,000 more
stating that it was given with the
very best affection for the dear old
institution"
Those who have been daZzled by the
magnitude OF Carnegie and Rockefel-
Ter and Duke gifts will be apt to re-
gard the efforts of Miss Miller and
Mr.. Barber as a small contribution
to education, and to be inclined to
dispise 1.-THE day of small things" AS
matter of fact, this is the largest
gift to education made in North Car
DINA this year-larger than Carnegie's
$4,000 offer to the University of
North Carolina and Mr.. Dukes $685.
600 gift to Trinity College. Those
who gave these amounts gave until
they felt it and gave out of loving
hearts that will follow the money with
interest, affection and prayer.
1t is tenfold better for any institu-
ton of learning to be built by the
small gifts of many than the large
gifts of The few, because it brings the
institution into such interest and de-
votiOn as money cannot buy.