The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13

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splendid audience would not ne her.
tonight His brains and labor have
brought us here. Truly his works do
follow him.
The three greatest influences which
are working for the uplift of North
Carolina and for the good of her peo-
pie are GOOD Roads. Good Schools
and Prohibition. And of these three
the greatest is the education Of our
people FROM that comes the inte,h-
Sence that has brought about the 9TH
er tWo-better Dad and a sober
people.
our State University vas provided
for by u forefatisers in the Consti-
tuition adopted at Halifax in l77S.
n when founded in 1892 il was the
second State university established in
ancial aid that the State should have
given it. But its influence on the
and roSres OF this State
has been beyond calculation. Take
1t. and the influence of its sons. out
OF the history of the STATE and We
will go far. far down in the scale. To-
day. the University has reached near
ly the 1000 student mark. With prop
er support from the State in the
years that have passed We should
nave near 5000 students. which so
many other State universities can
boast.
The State Agricultural and Me-
lchanical College last week ~celebrat-
ed its 10th anniversary. TW enty-fye
years ago it opened with 6 professors,
y cadets and ] building. Today it
has nearly SOC cadets, 72 professors
and Al buildings. It's influence in
developing the Agricultural and Me
chanical industries of the State and
in adding to our prosperity is very
far greater than the increase, great as
it is. in the number of it's professors
students and buildings.
We AVE great cause to be PROUD
of what has been done by the East.
!; ern Training School at /Greenville
and our other State educational in
2 stitutions. The progress of the com
mon school system and its develop
t ment, especially since DR.. Joyner ha.
2 taken charge, is little short of mar
Vicious. But beyond question the in
stitution which has done the mos
l good for the people Of the State i
2 the State Normal College at Greens
boro. When you educate the girls o
a family, you educate the home. Whe1
you educate the mothers you educat
the coming generation. When a DO,
is educated there is nc guarantee tina
(; he will educate his sons But Whe1
a mother is educated, she will ley
e permit her children to grow up il
n ignorance.
e Ton One "Greater University"
v will a k the occasion to say here
: what / said not long since in a speec.
solidation of our States higher in
r stitutions of learning into on
Greater University" At Oxforo
e England, there are, 1 believe. IS col
y leges and four other Institutions c
learning, but the whole q constitut
the great University Of Oxford. A
Cam bridge University, there are i
e the same way more than 20 college
Is and institutions which constitute il
university. The present University Z
d Chapel Hill, the State Normal, tn
% Agricultural and Mechanical Collee
e and the Eastern Traing School wit
al the Law and Medical Department
Sc should be combined into one gres
le University Of North Carolina" Thes
st institutions would remain locate
lie where they are but by the use Of TT
the telephone n h d appi
ances they could all be operated und1
is one general head and whittier tt
IN graduates receive their diplomas he1
a. or Chapel Hill, or at Raleigh, or
Greenrille or at the State Law Schoc
is or the State Medical School, the
ne would be written across the diplon
o. these words THE University of Mort
We ! Carolina" With this combination
n influence the State would give ad
he quate appropriations which would
apportioned out to the different q
ne partments without the competlut
III and rivalry which sometimes, to
ST slight extent. at least, have interfe
- red with adequate provision bell
made by the State. There would al
it. be an absence of duplication Of Wo
nd because students couiu De IrdlS!eIl
So for q session or a part of a session
he the department whether at chap
lis Hill or Raleigh or elsewher' Viii
IN. could give the best facilities IN
no given line of study. l think that II
n system has been adopted in Geors
where they have six differ Mt insut
av tions located in six different tow
III, which taken together constitute [
lie university Of Georgia" l believe t
of same system obtains in some otn
States. / will not elaborate thiS Id
ar further. If it has merit, 4 am 81