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A X I f ! 3 L f Tt 4 --r--TT-7 4. TT W If v iJ SI II II . " ,.,t,, nr. vAnTii rDAiiw THSPFT HUT r, Fphrnarv 27. 1902. ... ia llMVRnM I l lir l in LidnUiaua, viu' , official organ of the university athleticassociation. IIZa N C ,n. c. styles of men and welcome lanager. line of DECLARATION AGAINST ILLITERACY. Address to the People of North Car olina, by Conference of Educa tors, Held In the Governor's Of fice in Raleigh, February 13th. The Names of the Signers. Profoundly convinced of the pro phetic wisdom of the declaration of the Fathers, made at Halifax in 1776, that "Religion, morality and na is speeding barely 67 cents; that! that 69 per cent of the total school fund of this Union is now raised by an average of $20.29 fo every pupil local taxation, while North Caroli- . , . -i 1 1 ., 1A no,- rpfi f nt her Jti'ifs nuhlic schools, while North Carolina is spending only $3 or $4, the smallest amount expend ed bv any State in the Union. And still further do we realize that the average amount spent for the edu na raises only 14 per cent of her funds by that means, and lags be hind all her sister States in every phase of public education, has both its lesson and its warning. 5. Rememrering that in the last average amuuat npcui. nearlv thirty communities in cation ui cvciy " j c . ... Tit. n,j;n cnmo nl them dis- INUX lu Vdiunua, v Lited medi inations in igh labora b faoulty. arailiarize spital, the ! giving all MEDICAL Soods lies Jer id every- country. Marks, g-ars, To- oderate to, 'LIES. ds, ON, GA. e of Bare the note- VILLE. Leonard 6, 478 any,NtY- & Gowns liversitios. sited bulle- in the United States is approximate- ly $9.50, while JNorth Carolina is spending $1.78. These facts should arouse our pride and our patriotism, and lead ns to inouiie whether the future 1776, that "Religion, morality and hold th-s peneration respon knowledge being necessary to good f rpetuatioa Gf condi- government, schools and the means . t resulted in the mul tiplicity of small school districts, inferior school houses, poorly paid teachers, and necessarily poor that have resulted in Baseball at the Big Four Southern colleges, - w f 1 )ig games with YaltJkp2lwc-.. a Prlnr-ptnti dra w our atten- I the probable strengtf iree teams. By graduation5 1 , ni education shall forever be en couraged"; and cognizant of the full meaning of that recent consti ntional enactment which debars from the privilege of suffrage, after whte illiterates outof every ion all nprsnns who cannot react i , . - vra and write; and relying on the pa- ,r0nerally poor and poorly paid supervision of the expenditure Our 1 vard an tion to bllVOV' tUl J O i $ or for other reasons, Yale has lost f7 tpfi seven of last year's team, Harvard 0 (J--; j four and Princeton only one. t rom this it is evident that without con- j- , i,:.. 1 "Pi ti-fjfnn i nui iu vai wmji, - ---- sioenng new maicuaii i mv.. v.. tinctly rural, have adopted the stroncrestt Harvard second, and principle of local taxation for yaie third. The Princeton team is schools, we think this time very au- pract;caiiy intact, and is said to spicious to urge a general move- haye ifl xjnderhill and Green one of ment oi an our cuuwuuui the strongest Datteries irmt navt that direction, and, therefore, we evef been Qn a conege team. Har appeal to all patriotic North Caro- vard however still has Kernan i - nmmon wVlrt IflUP i i 1 ...UL t..i-Vi n iimans; mcu auu vwiv,w, and ijiaricson, anu, wim battery on tne neiu, uicic strong probability of her holding her own f . i J . n 1 I IT t 1H- their otate, anu espcL-ianj wuo. f thpir State which is uai l -. worth more than all its timber lands, mines, and manufactur a 7. Onlhrait.il. sliortstoo on the ing plants', tc band ttiemseives Harvard team of 1899, has been ap- triotism and foresight of North Carolinians to deal with a great nnestiou that vitally concerns the material and social welfare of them selves and their posterity, we, in an educational conference assembled in the city of Raleigh, this February n 1902. are moved to make theioi- lowing declaration of educational facts and principles: 1. Today, more fully than at any other time in our past history, do North Carolinians recognize the overshadowing necessity of univer r.( i,r mnawrf school funds and ot the teaching done in our schools; and, finally in that educational in- difference which is the cluet cause of the small average daily at- tendance of about 50 pupils out ot every 100 enrolled in our public schools. We believe the future will hold us responsible for the perpetuation . . . 1 . . . i of these unfavorable conditions, ana therefore, we conceive it to be the ;r" L.o;f;- mnr,n1 and religious duty sal education m the solution or ne;ration 0f North Carolin- those problems which a free gov- L about in earnest to find ernment must solve in perpetuating i me&ns b which an 0Ur chileren its existence. re.ceiVe 2. No free government has evor nlo11, Pn.wl nnnnrtunities ' . W I 1 S V C I, llv v-vj -- "ft found any adequate means ot uni- children 0f other sections versal education except in tree puu- coutry. lie schools, open to all, supported viewin our educational prob by the taxes of all its citizens, ,md conditions in the light of where every child regardless otcon- , hUtnrv and experience, dition in life or circumstance ot tor- jerlare :t to be our firm convic- op-ether under the leadership of our "inVi national Governor" and the State Superintendent of Public In i trnrtion. aided by the fcoutaern Education Board, to carry forward he work of local taxation and bet tune, mav receive that opportunity for training into social service which Vip restitutions of this and other p-reat States and the age demand. 1 We realize that our State has reached the constitutional limit of the taxation for the rural schools. tion that the next step forward for North Carolina, in education, is to provide more money for her public arhools. making possible the consol- dation of small school districts, the 1 teacher, and skilled l UlVU MVw f flip expenditure of al 1 l I I 11 1 VIIWIA V V M.M W - that she has made extra appropna- fun(Js and of the teachhlg , ii Al -, l,ot;P tions to lengtnen tuc done tfae schools c.UaaU tn 80 Havs in the vear. we . ,. , r The i j i-1- n -I inn r T H 1 c Tir v hi i.rir- ciuuu uu vy realize, that tne iour munvncu, principle of local self help by now provided is inadequate, for the 35 ded school towns and reason that more than u.uuu.wu . , inspiration childred of school age in the United example to every village and . . . . 1 Vr.U .. ina I States outsme oi ioim rnn1fflunitv n North Carolina. are now provided and average of towns and cJties have adopt 145 days of school out ot every )o;5' Ld the only means at hand for the that the teachers of these cm wren are oaid an per month, while the teachers ot the children of North Carolina are oaid hardly $25 per month, thus se j - curimr for all the children of our sister States more efficient training for the duties of lite. And we real i7P that., according to the latest Je C adeouate education of their chil lary ot , aAnnt:n this principle, ui tui -i r o local taxation, they secured: first, adequate school funds; second, com- petent supervision; third, skilled teachers. Lacking any one oi tnis educational trinity no community has ever yet succeeded in establish pointed head coach of the Harvard baseball team. Ed. Ashenback, the well-known baseball player has been engaged to coach the baseball team of the TT;vpritv of North Carolina for er sc hools. to the end that every L. pasnn nf 1902. child within our borders may have The schedule of the baseball the opportunity to tit himselt tor ffames to be played by the Prince the duties of citizenship and social tofl Tjn-iversity team has been an- service. nounced. William Clarke, catcner And, finally, heartily believing in f th Baltimore team, has been en- the Christlikeness of this work of d as coach. Twenty-eight bunging universal education to all &ames n an wiH be played, of which the children of North Carolina, we fouf will make up the Southern confidently rely on the full co-oper- trip qne Southern schedule is as C 11 h 11 rr'hpa of the e 1, TT,.UOQ T1imc TTonkins ation ui. an ioiiows. luoitu jvu j State, whose work is so near the at Baltimore; March 29, George- . J . - 1 1 J-L. nnnnta O M A tVlPrP. A ' 1 1 TT '. iro m It IT nf V5 V- nearts oi an mc nown; iipru a, umvwanj fore, appeal to the pulpit to incul- :a . -t Charlottesville; April 2, cate the supreme duty of universal Tjniversjty ot Virginia,, at Char- education. . lottesvuie. Charles B.Aycock.Governor of North Uaron- mong other games to be played na: T. F. Toon, Superintendent of Public In- nii hasphall teamon struction; John Duckett; Charles D. Mclver, by the Cornell baseball team on President State Normal and Industrial Col- their Southern trip, Manager J. ii. lege; F. P. Venable, President University of Kinnoy announces the following: North Carolina; George T. Wmston, rresiaem - College, at Clem- College of Agriculture and Mechamc Arts; April 5 C kmson U Charles E. Taylor, wesiaeni waite ruicou SOn, o. v. , iijt" College; Edwin Mims, Trinity College, Henry vers;ty, at Greenville, S, C; April Louis Smith, President Davidson College; c . . . q North Carolina, at Charles H. Mebane, President Catawba Col- uu " . .. ? University of lege; J. O. Atkinson, Elon College; T. D. Brat- Chapel Hill J April 7, University oi ton, President St. Mary's College; R. T.Vann, Virginia, at Charlottesville, As President Baptist Female University; L. L. y- jn;a comes last on this list a Hobbs, President Guilford College; C. G. Var- K . rnres will be inter dell, President Red Springs Seminary; J. D. comparison ot scores Will oe Baptist Female University; J. Y. Joyner, The Blacksburg will make an extend State Normal and Industrial College; D. H. onuthern trip this Spring. Hill, College of Agriculture and Mechanic ed bOUtMern y Charleston, Arts; L. W. Crawford, Jr., Rutherford Col- They play V. M. I. (m Charleston, lege; J. I. Foust, The State Normal and In- g q Charleston Athletic Club, dustrial CoUege: M. O. S, Noble, Universityof Caroljna College and David North Carolina; Henry Jerome Stockard, "" . t th Peace Institute; F. P, Hobgood, President of son Within a few days prior to Oxford Seminary; Robert Bingham, Bingham ame at this place. School; J. A. Holt, Oak Ridge Institute; Hugh prospects for a good team as Morson, Raleigh Male Academy; D. Matt f j j bright. Thompson, Superintendent Statesville Public given out by them arc ia Schools; C. L. Coon, Superintendent Salisbury Their pitcher of last year is now at Public Schools; E. P. Moses, Superintendent Qornef and the most promising Raleigh Public Schools; R. J. Tighe, Superin- ' f developed has left the tendent Asheville Public Schools; T. R. Foust, twifler SO tar deve Superintendent Goldsboro PubUc Schools; E. school. The other positions on tne P. Mangum, Superintendent Wilson PubUc team be filled mainly by Old Schools; E. C. Brooks, Superintendent Monroe Public Schools; Alexander Graham, Superin- meP'. , University's baseball tendent Charlotte Public Schools; Frank H Curtis, Superintendent liurnngton j-udiic j scneauie iui n.v ize that, according to the latest j the means 0f complete education census report and the report of the . children . U.S. Commissioner oi caucanon, Those 35 towns and cities in our for everv man. woman and child of its population, the country at large is spending $2.83 for the education of its children, while North Caroli- borders have followed the lead of other sections of the United States in adopting first the means of edu cation, local taxation. The fact vuinn, ' Gia- TTnrrv TTnwnll. Superintendent Wash inr.n PnWip. Schools: W. D. Carmichael, Durham Public Schools; W. S. Long, County ... - a k xl Saperin tendent of Alamance; j. a. auitouj, n Knnorintonrlmit of Cleveland: J. A. Butler, County Supennteudeut of IredelKT E. Ray, Superintendent of the fochoo1 ' Deaf, Dumb and Blind; E. Mcx:casions. Superintendent of the School fQ Secretary. Dumb. Vip fnllowiny: March 27 and 23, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; March 31 and April 1, University of Nor. -rolina at vvinsiuu o. ,.. F. R. bv . nectively; April -,neville, N. O. j 1! ir
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