The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-17

duced, lifted UP the educational ham
ner and led in the unparalleled
school and college growth this
State has experienced. North Car
DINA has surpassed even Massa-
chusetts in the percentage Of increase
or the average intelligence and in a
corresponding decrease Of illiteracy.
No wonder. then, that the com
mcnceT1ent season is the happiest of
the year. Greatest JOY is in unselfish
sacrifice and il required heroic self
denIals to raise to the present high
standard the schools and colleges OF
the State. Save church alone,
there is no institution in which a peo-
pie take more pride than that which
prepares their children for the seri-
Gus and unending conflicts Of life.
For peace is an Illusion. There is no
peace, no rest: it is a perpetual
strugg7e for existence, for excellence
and for recognition: the human
mind IS never satisfied, else progress
| would be at an end and man would
deterioraie The colleges are vieing
with one another in giving the most
O3NsG LIZ h&t4s w ZIG 'SI61S- ifAolllctit
a college should cease to dc this that
moment would it be destined to de-
structi0n. A cheerful sign is the fact
that most Of the colleges Of the State,
including the University, are taxed to
heir full capacity: it fs significant
of a great future, for the worth Of
the future generation is fixed by the
aspirations and wisdom of the youth
of this generation. The State needs
strong minds and able bodies, men
with lofty conceptions and great am
billions. Men such as these Will al
ways fit into the complicated social
fabric as the heart fits into the body.
The masses will look up to such
men for guidance as the ancient He
brews lifted up their eyes to the hills
for strength.
Strong, heaIthful bodies are COM
ing with the sane and potent minds.
Statistics recently prepared show that
the physical condition OF college stu
! dents today Is far better than it was
even SO late as the sixties, this de-
spite the many caustic phi}Iipics
against college sports. The athletic
life OF q student has become 81 Ina
p~ertant feature Of the college OF TO-
day, and it has come TO stay. That
it IS abused IS no argument for It's
adjustment. Football will be 1nodi-
fed and professionalism in other
games must be eliminated: honesty
and temperateness must take the
place Of evasion and brutality, but
these evils short OF death are T. nol
when the great good hat is derived
from other branches Of athletics !:
considered. IN North Carolina an i'm.
portant movement in college athletic:
is to establish an annua field and
track meet between the various col
leges. There is not y sound-bodiee
student in the State who could no
participate in field athletics and tn
movement should receive un!versa
encouragement, for college athletic
conduce more 10 the building up 0
strong constitutions, q safeguard Il
; sane minds, than anything else tina
may come in the lives Of students.
It is fit that well-rounded nel
: should come from the colleges. Blu
they will enter upon a different life
, Experience viii be their cache The,
r will find the world much as Juyena
found Greece:
"a stage
. sIaugh-and g louder laugh they viii
Y return;
2 Weep-with affected sympathy the
- mourn
8 There will be time for laughing an
9 for weeping, but moro serious thing
4 viii engage their thought and atten
a their efforts than either weeping O
4 laughter. They Will find life fraugh
= with difficult problems, with question
e their college studies never compre
r hended. and they viii be compasse
: round about by obstacles that appea