The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12
ITS IDEAL LOCATION

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of Highest Off iaIs in Every Dt'
partment of the Government OF tte
State and United States.
The Bingham School began its Ca
reer in the last decade of the 18th
century-only four years after the
Constitution was adopted, while
Washington. Jefferson, Madison, Mar
shall and Hamilton, who made the
nation. were still busy with their
great work, and when the steamboat
the railroad and the other Titanic
agencies of the world, as we know it.
were in the womb of the future Ii
passed through the 18th century
that period of the most wonderful de-
velopment since the world began and
1t stands on the sunny SUBMITS of the
Appalachians, facing the goth CEN
fury, with its area of patronage never
so wide, with its equipment never SO
good, with its location and climatic
attractions never so fine, and with an
income never SO great.
One of its alumni has been Vice
President of the United States. It's
alumni have been Cabinet Ministers.
They have been Senators and Repre-
sentatives from many States. They
have been Governors of many States.
They have occupied the highest
judicial positions in many States;
and one, as State Chief Justice, was
for many years the only American
Judge whose decisions were quoted in
Europe. They have been distinguish
ed lawyers, distinguished physicians,
distinguished clergymen, distinguish
cd agriculturalistS in many States.
Three Governors of North Carolina in
immediate succession were it's alumni,
an honor which has been conferred
on no other school in the country by
its alumni in the State or out of the
State of it's location, as far as has
been ascertained. This continuity of
achievement is due largely to the
fact that alone among training
schools in the United States there
has been no break in the continuity
of the schools superintendent
methods, discipline and instruction,
and during all these years its purpose
has been to make men in the best
sense, to which central purpose every
ling else has been subordinated for
il has been administered by three
generations of Binghams from grand
father to grandson for 112 years.
When some one asked Sir Isaac New
ton why he saw farther into the Sc
crets of Nature than other men, he
replied: Because l stand On the
shoulders of giants 1t is because
the Bingham of the present stands
on the shoulders of the Binghams of
the past that such results have been
achieved
Before the war between the sec
lions the School could accommodate
all who wished to attend but in Or
der to do fuller justice to it's patrons
and to it's pupils, it declined to in
crease its capacity. After the war it
more than doubled its capacity in Or
der to accommodate it's steadily in
creasing patronage. Of late, all its
available space has again been Occu-
pied, and again it cannot accOmmo-
date all who wish to attend; but in
order to do fuller justice to it's pat
rons and to its pupils, it again de-
clines to increase its capacity. An
impressive indication of the Schools
status is that during its 10th year
As of it's total enrolment of 144 were
only 'sons-that is, the one-third of
it's patrons, after careful scrutiny into
the merits, in some instances at least,
of as many as so schools for boys,
chose Bingham's for their only sons
Another indication is that in 1887
the U. S. Consul to Manchester sent
his sons across the Ocean from Eng
land to Bingham's. In 1897 the US,
Minister to Greece came all the way
from Athens to place his sons at
Bingham's, and this year the U. S.
Minister to Persia sent his only son
across the Ocean to the School An
other indication is that for several
years the School has attracted more
pupils from other States in North
Carolina for education than are at
tracted by our University, by our de-
nominational Colleges and by all the
other male schools in the State COM
bined
Another impressive Indication of
the Schools status is that it's pupils,
during the 10th year came from "a
of the As States of the Union, extend
ing from Massachusetts, Nebraska
and California on the North to Flor
ida and Texas on the South, and
reaching out to the Republic of
Cuba; during the 111th year its pat
ronage extending to British Hondu
ras, and from the Saith to the Hath
year, inclusive, localities were rep
resented, 3S in the United States; /,
Diaquiri, in Cuba; 2, Mexico City and
Tehuantepec, in Mexico; l. Belize,
i'll British Honduras; 1, Brazil, in
south America; 4, England, Scotland,
Germany and Greece in Europe, and
,, Siam, Japan and Persia, in Asia,
an area of patronage equaled by but
few institutions of learning of any
grade in the United States, and APP
preached by no other school in the
South.
Some salient facts about the his
tory of this school of which North