The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-25
SUMMER SCHOOL
IS DISCONTINUED
President Winston Makes
Announcement.
FOR LACK OF FUNDS
Decision Reached Only Yesterday
Ideal for a Permanent Raleigh
Summer School, and Sys-
tenn Of Rotation Suggest
ed. Will be Missed.

The news that the A. and M. Col
lege Summer School will not be held
this year will be received with sim
cere regret by the whole city of Raj
throughout North Carolina. The fact
of the discontinuance was announced
yesterday by DR.. George T. Winston,
who was president of the Summer
School, and he stated that the cause
of this action was due to the lack of
funds for conducting the school.
During the past few weeks 4 great
many meetings have been held by
those interested relative to this insti-
tuition, and the thinking resources of
all were exhausted in endeavors Ia
provide for the expenses of the school,
and it was decided only yesterday
that there We're no means with which
to run the school, and it would have
to be closed.
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Winston
was asked for statement in regard
to the school, and made the announce
ment as follows.
The A. and NJ. College is greatly
cramped for lack of funds The last
Legislature failed to make any appro-
ing, lighting and power. The pres
ent plants are about worn out. New
buildings recently erected and now
erecting are much in need of provis-
ions for heating. The running expenses
of the college require every penny of
its income. The college seems to have
been quite overlooked in the distribu-
ton of public funds by the General
Assembly. Receiving from the public
appropriated to each of the other State
institutions for higher education.
"One of the first results of this
policy was the suspension of the Sum-
mer School heretofore held at the col
lege during the month of July. AS is
well known to the readers of the News
and Observer and the citizens of Raj
eigh this Summer School has been
one of the Institutions of which the
whole State might justly be proud. Be
ginning two years ago with an attend
ance of two hundred and seventy-five.
il grew last summer to the amazing
enrolment of almost one thousand,
but the college has no funds for this
purpose. Every dollar of college
money and more, too, will be required
to meet the regular expenses and pro-
vide heat, light and power, by tenn
porari1y patching up a badly Worn
out system.
Last year the Summer School was
aided by one thousand dollars from the
Peabody fund, and this amount helped
to pull through with an appropriation
of $4,000 by the trustees of the col
lege from the college fund, but the
Peabody appropriation is no longer
available, and the college funds, alas
there are no college funds; there will
be a hole in the college treasury where
tho finds Oupht to he -
Permanent Sumner School.
A prominent State educator when
told yesterday that the Summer School
had been discontinued, seemed to be
exceedingly disappointed. He had
given much time and thought to the
school. and had high ideals for it, be-
ginning on a practical basis. He said:
There ought to be q Summer School
building constructed on the A. and N.
College grounds, fully equipped for the
purpose with the latest and best ;tc-
commodations for ladies, well furn-
ished rooms, baths, reception room,
and complete sanitation. 1t would pay
Raleigh to put up such building to
serve as a foundation for q future per-
manent normal school. That Raleigh
is the location for such school no
one can doubt, that the A. and M. Col
lege is the place for such a school has
been amply demonstrated. A bhous-
and pupils there last July are conclu-
sive evidence. The coming of so many
and the running of the school. with
scant funds and scant equipment in
dictate what might be done if all Raj
eigh united in an effort to found and
support such a school, and the Legis-
lature did its duty in appropriating
funds for its maintenance. 1t was a
big idea, that of the A. and M. Co.
lege Summer School, a great big idea.
but incapable of realization without
the support of the city and of the
Legislature.
There can be no question is the
proper place. not only for a big tech
biological college, which the A. and NJ.
will some day become, but also for a
big normal college, big medical col
lege and big law college.
1T is sometimes wondered whether
Raleigh fully appreciates the possibili-
ties of the A. and NJ. College. 1t IS
wondered how the city allowed the
Legislature to come and go without
providing more wisely for the needs
of this institution"
System OF Rotation.
A gentleman known throughout the
State for his progressive ideas and his
power to execute them wisely and well,
made a suggestion that will be sec
onded by large number of people
He favored q plan that provided for
a State Summer School held annually,
the first year in Raleigh, at the A. and
NJ. College, the second year in Green's
boro at the State Normal and the
third year in Asheville, the General
Assembly making annual appropria-
tons for the school. A bill containing
provisions for the establishment of n
Summer School of this character was
introduced in the last Legislature, out
was defeated.
Will Be Missed
Everybody will miss the Summer
School. as it was the centre OF at
traction i'm Raleigh during the sum-
mer, making a delightful oasis of the
month of July in the usually hot desert
of dullness and business stagnation
Raleigh shall sigh for the merry faces,
bright dresses and glad company, the
Summer School teacher, the lectures
in Pullen Hall will be missed, the con-
certs, the pleasant excursions to and
from the college in the long summer
evenings. The city will appreciate the