The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
WANTED: 4 JOHNS
Women Do Not PatrOnize
JaiIs or Criminal
Courts.
Therefore the State Owes 1t TO Men
to Make Liberal Appropriations to
Normal and Industrial College,
SAYS Dr.. MclVer,

Says Dr.. MClVer.
Greensboro, N. c., June 10.-During
the commencement exercises of the
Normal and Industrial College this
week, President McIver made a state
ment with reference to the popular
and useful institution that deserves to
be emphasized. 1t shows that the
people of North Carolina are becom-
ing more and more interested in the
education of women and that men
and women of means see in the Nor
NAL and Industrial College an insti-
tuition that will wisely employ every
dollar in the education of women. DR..
McIver's statement was asfollowS:
while the college year just closing,
taken in all respects, has been very
successful one, the work has been done
under unusual difficulties. The delay
in opening until October 9Th in order
that the Spencer Building might be
ready for occupancy, the time con-
sumed in becoming accustomed to the
changed conditions, and the fact that
the building was not completely ready
for use when the college opened have
added decidedly to the ordinary bur-
dens of management
"In point of enrolment the past
year has surpassed any of its prede-
ceSsors, the number of regular stu
dents enrolled being 553; the number
of teachers attending the May School,
G7; and the number of children in the
Training School, 1872, making a total
of 952 students and pupils in the care
of the college during the past nine
months. Including faculty and en-
ployees the college population is con-
siderably more than 1000
The year has to its credit the fol-
lowing items of progress:
81. The completion and dedication
of the Cornelia Phillips Spencer
Building, which is a model modern
dormitory.
~. The erection of modern Libra
ry building, the gift of Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie.
80. The addition by various gifts OF
$4,000 to the Alumnae Loan and
Scholarship Fund.
"A. The Encouragement of the regu,
lar courses of the college requiring an
additional year of preparation for en-
trance into the freshman class ana
making the maximum number OF
weekly recitationS permitted to any
student twenty instead of twenty-four.
These courses of study are intended to
be equivalent in requirement and cul-
ture power to those leading TO Bache-
lor's degrees in the University anG
best colleges in the State. The degrees
conferred upon the completion oil
these courses will be Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science, and BacheloT oil
Pedagogy.
THE last General Assembly made
provision not only for replacing the
dormitory destroyed by fire, but also
for replacing the laundry and power
house destroyed at the same time. This
contract has been given and the work
commenced on these latter improve
ments.
1.-THE pressing needs of the college
81. The completion of the Students
Building for which about $4,000 Is
needed.
80 A gymnasium costing 100000.
80. Increase in recitation and labor
atory room, which should be made by
erecting on the spot where the ole
dormitory stood a building costing
100000.
1.-The women of North Carolina d,
not patronize largely the penitentiary
the jails, or the criminal courts of tn
State, and the justice of their CLAIM.
for a liberal proportion of our taxes
for their one college, which trains
them for useful service to the COM
monwealth, will not be denied or ig-
nored if properly presented to North
CarolinianS.
"In addition to the investments of
the State through legislative appro-
priations, men and women of large
means and of small means ought to
contribute privately, and they will con-
tribute, to the upbuilding of this col
lege. Most of the endowment at the
state University was contributed by
the -four Marys," as they are CRATE
fully remembered by the University
Alumni. On the principle of reciproci-
ty may not this college for women
reasonably expect to find in time
-four Johns" equally friendly patriotic
and generous. The first bequest to
the college came through the will of
the late Judge Bynum. l. know of
one or two other wills already written
in which the state Normal and Indus
trial College was not forgotten, and
recently gentleman worth some $780,
900 informed me that he expected to
leave all that he had to this college.
II mention these facts as a matter
of interest, encouragement, and sug-
gestion to those with wills to write for
themselves or others.
Three donations to the loan funds
of the college will interest this audi
cnce and all the friends of the Col
lege.
81. Misses Irma and Daphne Car
rawav have established a loan fund to
be known as the Sara Daniels Cara
wav Fund in memory of their mother