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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1910.
OF APPROPRIATIONS TO STATE
COLLEGES.
The State Baptist Convention in session
at Hendersonville last week went on
record as opposed to large appropriations
from the State treasury for institutions
of higher learning. This Convention re
presents a constituency of more than two
hundred thousand members, and if its
opinion is the opinion of the entire Bap
tist church in the State, as touching this
question of State aid to the University,
the Agricultural and Alechanical College,
the Normal College, and other normal
schools, and this adveise opinion should
be brought to bear on the Legislature,
which meets in January, appropriation?
to these State-aided schools would likely
be affected.
This is a question of concern not only
to the Baptists who maintain Wake Forest
Coll«ae, Meredith College and other ex
cellent schools in the State but all de
nominations which maintain colleges.
Now, it seems to us that a just state pride
on the part of every churchman in North
Carolina would glory in the largest pos
sible success of all state-aided schools
even at the expense of ample state appro
priations, unless it would be in cases wheie
such appropriations made the school so
aided a dangerous rival of a similar grade
church school. Some feel that the Uni
versity is essentially a college rivaling the
denominational eollegts, and that the
State Normal Colleiae is become largely a
literary college for women and thus some
what of a rival of female schools sus
tained by religious denominations. To
stiengthen this belief it would seem that
at the University the sentiment is that
what is tei-Hied the University is, in fact,
a state college for men, for in a recent
issue of the High School Bulletin which
is published from Chapel Hill, the idea
is set forth that the state High Schools
prepare for the University, that the cur-
riccula of the High Schools and of the
University are understood to be articu
lating.
Pei haps the relkious denominations
would oppose discrimination against their
educational work on the part of public
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school laws in making it easier for gi-adii-
ates of state schools to secure teachers’
certificates than graduates of denomina
tional schools, especially is this probable
with those denominations which maintain
equally as good schools as does the State.
Tliey would likely opi>ose also, favorite-
ism on the part of state school authori
ties in filling positions in High School
faculties with State School graAiates,
lathei- than Chinch School (graduates.
Since these things are not to be thought
of as facts but as questions, suggested by
such action as that cited above, we should
like to see an effort for perpetual har
mony rather than unprofitable rivalry be
tween the church and State schools. Can
there not be a satisfactory understanding
between the Church Colleges and the State
institutions as to the educational field
each is to occupy? The Weekly is in
favor of not decieasing hut of largely in-
creasin,'? fhe annual appropriations to the
University and that these appropriations
be exjjended not for college but for uni
versity purposes. So far as this periodi
cal knows no denominational college in
the State is purposing to become a uni
versity, unless it be Trinity in case the
Methodist Church, South, loses out in the
suit far the control of Vanderbilt, in
which event it is our conjecture that Trini
ty College would become the Mecca of
Methodist education in the South. So
our state pride and our wish to see all
unprofitable rivalry averted as between
Chapel Hill and tlie denominational col
leges, lead us to advocate a great State
University at Chapel Hill, amply supplied
with funds by the state.
Such ail institution would be a great
blessing to North Carolina and of great
honor as well.
As to the other State institutions of
higher learning, there should be no rivalry
between denominational colleges of real
collegiate grade and the college of Agri
culture and Mechanic Arts, or the Nor
mal schools sustained by the state and
the denominational colleges unless these
State schools undertake to go beyond their
professional teri'itoiy and invade the ter
ritory of the colleges, in which latter case
their appropriations could be checked with
at least a show of fairness.
ST. PAUL THE ORATOR.
A new book of interest, especially to
Bible students, is a volume by Mr. Maurice
.Tones and published by George H. Doran
Company of New York. John M. Mcln-
nis in writiiiig of the book gives his opin
ion of it as follows:
“Few characters in history have been
tlie subject of closer and more seaiehing
study than that given to the life of Saul
of Tarsus. Here is a new book on the
subject, and the author tells us that it is
the first that has been published in the
English language on Paul as an orator.
While this is undoubtedly true, it is not
the first book published in the English
language .giving close study to this phase
of the great apostle’s life. No life of
Paul would be complete without giving, a
large place to the burning message of the
prophet who moved the igreat centers of
civilization in his day.
Therefore, our author is very frank in
acknowledging that, while his is the first
work of any importance given exclusively
to the speeches of the a]X)stle, it is only
a gathering up of the results of the pro
found studies of men like Sir William M.
LEGE WEEKLY.
Ramsay, Mr. Rackham, Dr. Chase, Prof.
McGiffert, and others.
The work is comprehensively and well
done, and should ser\e as an incentive
to Bible students and preacheis, encour
aging a closer study of the rich materials
contained in those masterful addresses.
Our author divides the addresses into
three main classes: the missionary ser
mons, fhe addresses to Christian assem
blies, and the speeches of the trial. The
missionary sermons are those pleached on
his missionary journeys to the Hellenistic
Jews and the heathen.
The author not only studies the text of
the addresses, but also tlie circumstances
in which they were delivered, and the
critical (luestions raised concerning them
by modern critics.
From his careful and exhaustive study
of the speeches, Mr. Jones finds that theie
is no contradiction between the Paul of
the speeches and the Paul of the written
epistles. Where (here are seeming contra
dictions. he finds tha’t the circumstanoes
in which the speeches were delivered offer
ample explanation of the differences be
tween them.
The image in the speeches is perhaps
somewhat {)aler, and does not possess that
fuhiess of coloring which is found in the
ajMisfle of the epistles, but the lineaments
in bofh portraits are identical.
The author also comes to the conclusion
that the speeches credited to the apostle
are the genuine utterances of the apostle,
and that we have in them a priceless con
tribution toward our knowledge of St.
Paul’s life, character and teaching.
The book is a seed packet for the
preacher and will undoubtedly suggest
many a helpful sermon.”
THE NORTH POLE.
Almost simultaneously with the reap
pearance of Dr. Cook of North Pole fame,
after a year’s secrecy of his whereabouts,
fhe F. A. Stokes Company of New York
published a book entitled “The North
Pole” by Robert N. Peary. Dr. Cook
confessed to have faked, deceived, and
fooled the .jvorld-wide public a year ago,
but Peary in this intensely interesting
book adds a valuable chapter to the liter
ature of discovery and adventure.
Mr. N. B. Carson who writes of the
volume in the Christmas Book News
Monthly thinks it an epoch-making book.
“No other volume,” he declares” printed
in 1910 has so peculiar significance or is
so assured of permanency.
Mr. Peary reached the North Pole in
1909; a little over a year later, his account
of the journey to the field of discovery
appears in some dozen languages, with fhe
pictures made on fhe trip, and all the data
concerning the important results achieved
scientifially set forth.
ExPi-esident Roosevelt writes an intro
duction to the volume. He says that
Nansen foretold Peary’s success, recounfs
how he himself bade Peary Godspeed in
190S, and how he finally received the great
news while encamped directly under^ fhe
Equator. He goes on to say:
Probably few outsiders realize the well-
nigh inciedible toil and hardship entailed
in such an achievement as Peary’s; and
fewer still understand how many years
of careful training and preparation there
must be before fhe feat can be even at
tempted with any chance of success. A
dash for the Pole can be successful only
if there have been many preliminary years
Dee»mber 14, I9I0.'
of painstaking, patient toil. Great physi
cal hardihood and endurance, an iron will
and unflinching courage, the power of com
mand, the thirst for adventure, and a keen
and far-sighted intelligence—all these
must go to the make-up of the successful
Arctic explorer; and these, and more than
fhese, have gone to the make-up of the
chief of successful Arctic explorers, of the
man who succeeded where hitherto evieii
the best and bravest had failed.
Commander Peary has made all dwellers
in the civilized world his debtors; but,
above all, we, his fellow Americans, are
his debtors. He has performed one of the
great feats in our time; he has won high
honor for himself and for his country;
and we welcome his own story of the
triumph which he won in the immense
solitudes of the wintry Nortn.
Gilbert H. Giosvenor, of the National
Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.,
has written a foreword, which is, in effect,
a hisfoi'y of the struggle to reach the
North Pole, a struggle that began as early
as 1527, in the reign of Henry VIII, of
England.
Commander Peary's narrative explains
fully fhe plan of the expedition, and the
prepaiations made for it. Then he enters
upon a detailed account of the various
stages and phases of the journey north,
the climax to chapters such as “The Wel
come from the Eskimos,” “A Walrus
Hunt,” “The Long Night,” “Christmas
on ‘The Roosevelt,’” and “Off Across
the Frozen Sea,” beginning when he an
nounces “The Final Spurt Begun,” and
culminating with “We Reach the Pole.”
At this point Commander Peary write?:
Yet with the Pole actually in 813111 I
was too weary to take the last few steps.
. . . I turned in for a few hours of
absolutely necessaiiy sleep. ... I
could not sleep long. . . . The first
thing I did after waking was to write
these words in my diary: “The Pole at
last! The prize of three centuries. My
dream and goal for twenty years. Mine
at last. I cannot bring myself to realize
it. It all seems so simple and common
place.”
The ceremonies at the Pole were not
elaborate. The exploring party planted
five flags: the silk American flag Mrs.
Peary ,gave her husband fifteen years ago,
and which he has alwys crried wrapped
about his body on his expeditions; the
colors of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, the Navy League flag, the Red
Cross flag, and the ‘ ‘ World’s Ensign of
Liberty and Peace.”
It’s good Work that Counts
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