The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-09
At A. & NJ, COLLEGE
Many Things Of Interest
Seenat the great In
StitutiOn
VISIT, LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Witness Dress-Parade And Dine
with Cadets.-Fine Display OF
Young North CaroIinians
Raleigh. Feb. 6, 1905.

Young North Carolinians
Raleigh. Feb. 6, 1905.
The Joint Committee on Education visit
ed the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege last Monday and were shown many
courtesies by President Winston and his
clever "boys." The Committee inspected
every department of the institution and
dined with cadets in the Pullen dining
room, witnessing the dress parade at p.
m. Asked by News 6 Observer reporter
what there was to be shown the visitors
DR.. Geo. T. Winston replied in the fol-
lowing appropriate language:
"First and foremost" was the reply. "we
have to show you 500 of the strongest,
healthiest, manifest boys in the world;
boys learning how to work, not afraid nor
ashamed to work with hand as well as
brain. II you come at z o'clock you will
see them up and preparing for breakfast;
some have just finished milking the COWS,
others have fed and groomed the horses
and cleaned out the stalls, others have
been attending to the furnaces, all have
put their own rooms in order for the day,
and about forty are hurryi1g to the dining
room to wait on the tables. Chapel
services are held at s o'clock and the col
lege work begins Immediately afterwards.
eve will show you 25 young farmers
making the best butter in North Carolina,
testing milk by the Babcock test for cream
from the milk, writing up the records,
calculating the profit or loss of each COW,
working the dairy machinery, securing the
cans, scrubbing the floors, doing every
particle of the work without servant of
any sort to help or to clean up after them.
1--WE will show you model green house
managed entirely by students, with ex-
periments in plant breeding, plant culture,
plant diseases, etc. Everywhere you will
see that the motto of the college is work.
work, work. There is not an idler nor
loafer in college. Such fellows come, as a
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them or send them home. Every month,
sometimes oftener, we go over the entire
college roll and weed out the drones and
idlers.
eve will show you samples Of cloth
woven by students in the Textile Depart
ment superior to that made in any mill in
the South. You will see at work spinning,
weaving, dyeing and designing cotton
fabrics young men who will some day be
industrial leaders in the South.
"In the blacksmith shops, the machine
shops, the carpenter shop and the lathe
rooms you will see work done with wood
and iron equal to the best handicraft any
where.
SIN the drawing and designing rooms
you will see designs of houses, bridges,
boilers, engine, dynamos and all sorts of
machinery carefully drawn by students ac-
cording to accurate calculations from data
supplied by the professors in the various
departments of engineering.
'ln the chemical, physical, electrical,
biological and mechanical laboratories you
will see experiments conducted by students
with wonderful skill and accuracy.
t'You will see the class in stockjudging
estimate carefully the points OF beef and
milk cattle and of draught and speed an
iimals; you will see them studying the
problems of stock breeding and feeding and
stock diseases.
"We will show you interesting expert
ments IN soil study; use of fertilizers,
drainage, renovation of worn out lands, etc,
"In the. psychological laboratory you
will see the heterogeneous bacteria, the poor
mans helper, the salvation of the South;
also the bacteria of various human diseases,
such as typhoid fever, boils, summer chol-
era, etc.
"Finally you shall see the cadet bat
talon on dress parade, moving like clock
work, handsome, erect, soldierly, precise;
the very men who were but just now milk
ing, carpentering, black-smithing, calculat-
ing boiler designs or dynamos or bridge
stresses. You will say, as you go away:
This Is the sort of education to make mau
of the average boy, and to develop the
resources of North Carolina
And the doctor spoke truthfully. The
occasion was replete with pleasure and
interest. This institution is doing splen-
did work and the Legislature will doubtless
stand by 1t in making up the appropria-
tions. 1t is an inspiration to see how they
i ''do things out there.
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