The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-19

nicai school at Raleigh for the agri-
cultural and mechanical training OF
young men.
SO they sprung up in all quarters
Of the State. denOmiLatiOnal. college,
normal school, training school. schools
for both races, big ones, little ones.
and all kinds. until North Carolina at
the present time has more than a
score OF colleges and universities, we'll
established. we'll equipped, we'll pat
rOnized and doing q good work Fig
ureS from the United states Bureau
Of Education gathered two or three
years ago., indicate an equipment in
North Carolina of buildings worth
two and a half million dollars, scien-
tific apparatus worth a third Of a
Million. nearly two hundred thousand
volumes in the Libraries. four hun
dred instructors and four thousand
students. AS this does not include a
number Of the minor academies and
| colleges. the number Of students and
instructors would be materially in
creased if a complete census were at
hand.
In comparing the number Of higher
institutions in North Carolina with the
rest of the United States it is found
that this state is up to the average
in most things. ahead in some, and
dOO0S INK V dSC, tanning Ouc lIl1S
with another. The colleges Of the
North, where more millionaires are
found, have greater endowment funds.
Some Of them a much handsOmer
buildings and probably better equip
ment. But it is yet to be shown that
a costly building makes education any
easier to obtain than a plain old-fash-
Toned structure such as some Of the
master minds Of this generation and
Of previous generations attended.
Equipment is a good thing, and a Ii
brary is a good thing. Nevertheless it is
: not so much a multiplicity of books
that affords an education as it is a
; moderate number Of proper books. for
. there is an awful lot Of printed stuff
9 bound in books which the world could
. as we'll nave lived without.
= North Carolina colleges are attend
q ed on the average as we'll as the col
> leges or other states when popula-
, ton Is unte Yet it IS to be re-
o membered that North Carolina sends
4 a large number Of young men to New
. England and the North for education
n In some respects this is wise. NJ
a doubt Housekeeping youth have ever
homely wits" No doubt it would alst
be wise IL young fellows from tn,
North would come to Southern col
Ie leges Tor q year or two. 1t is a whole
q ~ SNPS AAS W 6Ct away lIOII
home and learn something Of the wa,
others do things.
l. One noticeable thing about Nortl
It Carolina higher schools is the relativ
"a cheapness of them. as compared witt
d the colleges of the North. A youn
re man at the University Of North Car
~ DINA will probably get about the sam
ID for his three or four hundred dollar
that would cost him at Yale thre
times as much. Three hundred dol
lars is as big at Wake Forest as twic
d, the sum at Lehigh.
m Three hundred dollars at A. and
I'll will go as far as seven hundred q
lg Princeton. The pace in the Sout
OF is not so swift. The young men ar
a. in small communities where none
n is not required to satisfy artiicis
ey wants arising on all sides. and tn
oh students attention is not distracted b
On the more intensely developed soci:
40 customs that go with the increase
mp money
lie Yet it is not to be taken that tn
colleges Of North Carolina are at a
h. a~ntiquated. Trinity, for instanc
~ founded in 1883, surrounded by II
~ life that is manifest In the CROWN
70 town Of Durham. Is not old enoug
no but that the buildings and eQuipmel
are strictly OF the present. The norm
Il school at Greensboro is OF the new
70 order, and the handsome buildings
In West Raleigh where the Agricultur
- and Mechanical College is located. a
anything but ~old-fashiOned.
ID On the other hand some Of tt
hts buildings at Wake Forest are oil
he With 9 there is an interest. Pc
N haps the old buildings are lacking
Is some Of the sprightliness Of the mo
lrecent architecture. Nevertheless til
err fulfill the purpose for which tn
ich were planned. and with h new bull
in ings that are steadily being add
ust to all OF the older institutions there
nj no lack Of facilities through the a
est, OF the buildings hat constitute
est equipment Of any Of the North Car
i'd lima colleges.
Dol, -
1t may seem rather a novelty
led go to college for a winter outing. b
at least three instances have col
the under my notice OF Northern peol