The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-07-30
Here Is No Abstraction
But a Vital Commonwealth
Dr.. Edwin Minis, Formerly of the Faculties Of Trinity and te
State University.

ern Institutions. ] have not 4 80.
Of doubt hat North Caroline.
grows richer in material rcSe .~,s
and as it recognizes the Nalue II
great State University. Will see II,
that its University shall have III. ,.-
sources With Which il may ser. -.
people.
Through these two institute.
have earned to know North rare.,.
at its best, and l am inclined 10 t...z
that Mr.. Walter Il. Page vas rl2nt
when he said that there is 10 ls-r,l
material anywhere than the Nom
Carolina boy. Church and Stat, a.t
private benevolence are dolng tn..r
part in his training, and viii cont.t.a.
to do 50. There sEould be co-oE,.a-
ton, rather than unhealthy son.t tt.-
ton and misunderstanding. No.ch
Carolina has been beyond meas4tt ID
the fact that the two. men, Nho hove
in recent years done most to G~tEtIup
educational sentiment and systems
nave been the late Governor AA.tak
and superintendent Joyner. hGlh IL
whom were actuated by the broaGtet
human sympathy and have had 10 a
singular degree the confidence If eIl
the people. | recall as one Of the most
significant meetings | have ever at
tended that Of some forty representa-
tiyes Of all the institutions Of the
State in the office Of Governor Az
cock and under the direction Of Mo
lNer and JOyner. There the greet
campaign was started; there steps
We're taken for the definite crNstaliza-
ton Of many years of dreaming and
planning. The logical result Of that
meeting has been the t~en-year lrcum-
bency Of Superintendent Joyner, un-
der whose administration the pubic
oahan} ctay b1C coma faru. 80 }Xr
leaps and bounds and at the same
time steadily and surely. Naturally
and gradually the era of expert amer
vision and administrators has sac
ceeded the era of agitation and enthu-
siaSm. The monument to McIVtr and
the one to Aycock soon 10 be erected,
let US hope, by his side viii he the
public recognition Of the fact that
many ideas that We're formerly horiy
debated have now become well con
firn1ed in the popular mind. From
henceforth there Will be the work e
expansion, extension, and adaptation
Of the educational system to existing
life in rural and Urban communities
1t is a benediction to Il one 10
ave lived in the midst Of these
forces, to have felt the uplitt If a
! great popular movement. And when
one has lived in the formative years
OIL MS lie IN q VITAL lnduSlTlal town
like Durham and has visited d good
many times other towns and villages
Of the State: when one has hrnugn
the State Literary and Historical So
ciety met and known those who are
giving themselves TO the development
Of culture, when one has known
through their works and lives the men
n women who have in worthy form
interpreted the best life and thought
6 the State-McEeilI and Avery and
Sledd, Clarence Poe and Mrs. Ship
and the makers of the South Atlantic
Quarterly and North Carolina Re
VieW-he may surely claim to know
something OF North Carolina,
and to value it rightly. AS ] go hence
to labor in other fields, ] hope to
carry with me many impressions and
inspiring memories. | can say with
Browning,
Gone are they, out have them in
my SOUL