Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-05
N. c. TEACHERS
ASSEMBLY.
Their Coming Annual Meet
ing in June in Charlotte.
[ Will be in the Nature OF a Jubilee
THE TWeDty-fifth Anniversary
OF the Association.
Special to THE ARGUS

VI tklV HOOUOIukAUHs
Special to THE ARGUS
The North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly,, which will this year celebrate its
twenty-ffth anniversary at the session
in Charlotte, June 1919, has been for a
quarter of a century one OF the most
effective organs for the improvement
of educational conditions in the State.
It has been behind every movement
that has contributed to the "Educa-
tional Revolution of recent years, and
that, too, at a time when these educa-
tienal reforms were not popular. The
Assembly originated the great cam
paign which McIver and Alderman
conducted in 1s89-1892. 1.-THE good re-
suits of their labors are with us today,
and will continue to bless the Common
wealth when we, our children, and our
children's children have finished LIES
appointed lessons and put the books
away
The State Normal and Industrial
College is another Of the Assembly's
creations, for throughout his gallant
fight for this glorious institution Nc
liver had the Assembly at his back, up
holding his hands through its sympa-
thy and through its committees. So,
too, the local-tax movement, the move
ment for consolidation, the improve
ment of schooIhouses, the better train
ing of teachers, and, in fact, every
movement that has resulted in better
educational facilities car be traced to
the North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly,.
The session at Charlotte promises to
tory. Several of the most prominent
educational leaders in The country will
appear on the program. Among them
are Professor Matheson, President of
the Assembly; Prof. P. P. Claxton, Uni
versity of Tennessee, who has perhaps,
than any other living man; DR.. O. T.
Corson, formerly State Superintendent
of Ohio, President OF the National Edu-
cational Associations, and now editor OF
The Ohio Educational Monthly; DR..
Charles w. Kent, of b University OF
Virginia; DR.. Seaman A, Knapp, of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, and others. Governor r. b.
Glenn will also be present., and will
IN Ike what will probably be his last
great educational speech while in his
present office. Hon. t. S. Franklin,
| NJ aUOr of Chorlnttp will 60liUar tha
address of welcome.
Charlotte itself is one of the most in
teresting cities in the country, and it
will pay any North Carolina teacher to
take this opportunity to visit the
Queen City, of North Carolina. Dur
ing the Revolutionary War the people
OF Charlotte were so hostile to the
British thai CORVALLIS called it 1.-THE
Hornets Nest OF the Revolution.
Here the teachers will see the monu-
ment to the signers of the Mecklenburg
Declarations; the monument to Lieut..
William E.. Shipp, the gallant young
North Carolinian who gave his life for
the freedom of Cuba; the monument
marking the battlefield of McIntyre's
Farm. They will also see the place
where the building stood in which the
Mecklenburg Declaration was signed;
where Lord CORVALLIS had his head
quarters in 1850; where Washington
stopped in 1871; where Jefferson Davis
stood when he heard of the assass1na-
ton Of President Lincoln, Nearby are
the battlefield ofMcIntyre's Farm, Cow
ans Mill, Kings Mountain, all historic
spots; the birthplaces of Andrew Jack
son and James K. Polk. Altogether,
no better place could ha e been selected
for this twenty-ffth anniversary of the
Assembly than Charlotte, where North
Carolina teachers will have a splendid
chance to learn so much Of North Caro-
lina's history.
Everything now points to a great
meeting.