The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-23
EAST CAROLINA
TRAINING SCHOOL
Commencement at Green
Vile Institution
SECOND YEAR OF ITS WORK

Tuesday Next the Principal Day OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Work OF
Training Teachers Which it Started
Out to Do Two Years Ago is Fully
Exemplifed-It is Strictly in the
Class With A. & Nj. and the Normal
and Industrial at Greensboro.
Especial to News and Observer
Greenvilie, NAV 20.-The work or
the East Carolina Teachers Training
School for the second year Of its his
tory which comes to a close with COM
mencement day, Tuesday, May 70,
proves beyond a doubt that this insti-
tuition is no longer an experiment IN
education in North Carolina, but has
come to be a close second to it's sister
institutions, the A.. & NJ, the Normal
and the University.
The Training School was the only
State educational institution in North
Carolina that did not receive an ap-
preparation for improvements from the
last Legislature, although during, the
very months when the Legislature
was in session the school had to refuse
admission to some fifty Would~be stu
dents in addition to the rs that had
already been turned away since the
opening of the years work. But in
face of this denial of the means for
growth, the men in charge Of the
school in no wise lost heart, but rather
determined to make the best of their
limited equipment and realize to the
highest degree the possibilities for use
fulness that were within their young
institution. President r. H. Wright
is one of that younger generation OF
the alumni Of the State University
which includes President Rondthaelar
of the Salem Academy Director
Thompson. of the Jackson Training
School for delinquent boys and others
upon whom is falling the duty Of car
rying on to a fuller development the
work begun by Alderman. McIver and
Joyner. Backed up by DR.. J. 7. JOY
ner. president of the board Of trus-
tees, and Ex-Governor Jarvis, who had
such a prominent part in the establish,
ment of the school, and h is now
chairman Of the executive committee
President Wright has attained the
highest measure of success for his
school in the year just passed. The
school is a training school for teach
ers in the primary schools Of the
State. 1t is a place for special instruc-
ton in one profession and realizing
this, President Wright has a no
thought of attempting to make a col
lege here in Greenville. He and his
assistants have sought to impress their
students with the fact that they are
not merely school girls and boys, but
people working with the settle purpose
Of becoming high grade teachers in
the public choOls of North Carolina
he has sought to instil into his stu
dent body something Of the spirit o.
self-sacrifice that is the necessary
prerequisite for success as a teacher
on1 tho cfno6U cor;o,,cn g with xrIi r
the students have performed thei1
tasks and the fine enthusiasm will
which they have gone into every activ.
ity that tended toward the genera
welfare Of the school have been tn,
reward Of his labOrs.
The Young Women's Christian AS
ISOLATION which in spite Of the fact tina
it has no quarters Of its own, has
membership Of three-fourths of tn,
total enrolment, n has begun Worl
toward an association library, an
throughout the school year has hel,
times weekly, has been almost a
helpful to President Wright, to US
his own words 'aS the faculty itself.
College discipline. President Wrigh
believes, is a matter Of college spiri
and not of faculty rules, and so h
has inaugurated an honor system
among his young mon and women, un
der which they have almost as mucl
liberty as the men at the State Uni
versity and under which,, SO far as tn
faculty have been able to find out
there has been no misbehavior on tn
part of a single student that woul,
have infringed on any rule of conduc
that might have been made under
different system.
Where the standard of conduct ha
been as high as this little need b
said of the quality of work done. TIL
neat care for all the details of choru
singing and the real skill in the rendi
tons Of the hymns at their mornin
chapel service might be taken as char
acteristic of all the work done in tn
school. The vocal work is in tn
charge OF Miss May r.. B. Muffly, Q