The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-15

.l-r for the eHIlfe session last Year.
rrat $4,000 in buildings and in en-
I-y.uent have been added to the plant
Ind equipment: that the new BioIo-
g.~aI Library is to be called Davie
Ian. in honor of the soldier and
+eeman called" the Father Of the
r-#-=rsity; and that the work and
srr~ft Of faculty and students is such
- give pleasure and pride to all
trends Of the institution. DR.. Ven
able said.
president VenabIe's Report.
ION each return of this day, cele-
Ting the birth of the University,
f. mas been our custom to recount the
aa:u which the year has brought with
= and to felicitate ourselves upon the
es.tence If growth and prosperity.
And the recent years have been full
Of zuch evidences Of gain. the mile
stones marking progress have passed
81 rapidly that we have almost ceased
10 count them separately, just sum
mig all up with a feeling of deep
1ov and gratitude that God has 50
rfrhly blessed US and strengthened
~ for the glorious work that lies be-
fore.
This year has been no exception
but mas added it's rich store Of bless
irzs. also. The splendid new library
With its endowment, the handsome
w"el-furnished infirrnary, the new bio
~Ipeical laboratory to be begun in q
few weeks and named Davie Hall in
EfHtI OF inc i Liz oI TIE iSiIN,
make in all an addition of $175,000
t. the equipment and of
the University. Besides the School
Of Law at Last has a suitable building,
and the Legislature has generously
provided for the support Of the Uni
versity by increasing its annual ap-
uTopriatiOn to $4,000 a sum nearly
three times as great as the ~appropria-
ton Of 1900, Just seven years ago.
For all of these things those who love
-. - ,-sJ1 ~. it,
thanks. Let US bear in mind that the
meaning of these things in our life
is larger opportunity and increased
responsibility.
There are two ways of making pro-
grese. one is looking backward to
count the gains that have been made;
the other looking onward toward the
wishes for goal, to reckon up the
steps that lie ahead. Repeatedly in
the past we have unit our gains,
there can be no touch of ingratitude
today if we fix our eyes on the fu-
ture, pressing forward to the mark
Of our high calling.
What is the goal, what are our
ideals for this University, the hope
Of the fathers. the pride of the pres
ent ard the very chiefest crown of
glory of this State, the future? | feel
that [ have scant skill to paint the pic
.ture that rises in my hopes and dreams
for this beloved institution, but some
FEATURES S1llIlc ouI CiedijY.
First I picture no magnificent col
lection of costly buildings but foresee
the time when the State and those
who love this University will build
and furnish until every son of the
state and many from other states,
who deserve and desire it, shall find
here the best and highest training
that they need. [ have come to the
opinion that luxury and equipment
may sap the vitality of an institution
EE II docs hat of a n n n n6 L TaAfI "
depreciate the increased scale of eX-
p~enditure which must come With lux
urious surroundings. Therefore L do
not hope for luxury but we must have
ample accommodations and full equip
ment.
This does not mean that beauty
IS to be banished. Rather is this taste
for the beautiful to be cultivated in
buildings and round and the gath
ing of the finer works of art. Some
DAY many such treasures will be gath
cred IN a museus here. Our people
need to beautify their lives with such
uplifting creations and the training
OF the taste should begin here.
The very heart ana soul of an ed
ucational institution lies in its teach
ing force and so | look hopefully Tor
ward to the time when in our ideal
University the excellent faculty of the
present shall nave grown into a large
body of strong trained men, emf
nent scholars, skilful Investigators, in
spring teachers. To come in contact
with such men and to feel their influ-
ence will be in itself ali education,
and in order to preserve this personal
touch and to render possible the high
est development of the individual the
faculty must be d large one-con-
stantly added to as the number of
students grows, so that While no stu
dent may know, possibly all the ia
Guilty each student knows his own
eachers and feels that they know and
understand him and are ready to di-
rect and aid in his SeIf-GeVelopment.
There is some talk in these days of
the greater advantages of the small
college. 1t is easy to see that the queS-
ton Is rather one of small classes and
that the small college with its over
worked professors and poor equip
ment, can offer little to com
high-priced teachers and small
classes of the greater uiver-
sity. The statistics which are brought
onward in favor of the small college
are meaningless because they all refer
to men who were in college some
twenty-five years ago when nearly all
of the Institutions of the land were
what are called small colleges today.
So [ have no fear of loss of efficiency
and power from the growth of the
University that is to be.
In this faculty there Will be mas
ters Of many branches of human
knowIedge-men adding to the worlds
store of neutrality-suspicious. schol-
ars who will add to the glory of this
ancient seat of learning by their writ
Ings and discoveries. And men shall
look here for light and come here for
the uplift that springs from
ION With great minds.
I do not hope nor think it well that
this University should eve rrogate to
itself the direction of the intellectual
activities of the state along with all
ether organized activities which 1t
AN possibly draw within its influence.
I know that this process of ~affiliatiOn
and assimilation is going on in some
great institutions at present and that
everything which can be swallowed is
being gobbled up. whether it can be
dlgested or not, from legislative as
semblies to art potteries, but this road
IKE swelling by swallowing forms no
part of my ideals.
The function of this University is
70 train the sons of the State SO that
Tho ~ u