North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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THE AGROMECK extent of work el is now doing fur he slate. North Carolina is becoming a great manu- facturing state. Already it has more cotton mills than any other state in the Union. We must have men to run our cotton mills, our factories and our other industries, and the A. M. is furnishing these men. It gives a boy a practical and technical education, enabling him to become a great master of industry if he has the ambition. What kind of boys are receiving this education ? Not the rich men ' s sons who wish to enter some honorable profession, but mainly poor boys, among the best, the boys in the state, for the expenses are reduced to the smallest possible minimum, and VIEW PROM ATHLETIC FIELD it is in reach of all Since we will be a manufacturing state, it is these boys on whom the future of the state depends. The pettifogging lawyer cannot run a cotton mill; the doctor cannot harness the great water power of this state; the politician cannot design railroads, bridges, saw mills, etc. The men for this work have been furnished by other states, but it now remains for the A. M. graduate to take these places. The college is so bound. up with the best life of the state that we must grow with its growth and strengthen with its strength. The new knowledge taught at the A. M. is so important and practical, 23

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THE AGROMECK thousand students, for what comes easy goes easy. In Michigan, at the founding of the University, there were only one or two poorly-equipped colleges, and the found- ing of the University, with a princely endowment, naturally attracted to it all those young men in the state who had hitherto been compelled to go to other states for a higher education. The A. M. was not so fortunate. It was founded in a state where there are scores of other well-equipped colleges and schools. There were thousands of graduates from these colleges who naturally wished their sons to attend the college from which VIEW LOOKING SOUTN they had their diplomas. The revenues are so small that the college cannot he run on the broad basis which was intended. In spite of these difficulties and disadvantages, which have to some extent retarded the progress of the A. M., we have good reasons to believe the College has a great future before it. These reasons are : T. The A. M. is free. It is under no obligation, as are denominational colleges, to maintain and observe creeds and confessions. It stands for morality and right, and high living, but not, of course, for sectarianism. z. The second ground for hope of a great future for the A. M. is the nature and 2 2

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THE AGROMECK eafieraa and contribute` so directly to the relief of man ' s estate, that the people of North Carolina are bound to hold in appreciation and honor the agencies by which it has been brought home to them. Every student and alumnus of this institution can rest assured that a great future, commensurate with the greatness of the state, awaits their Alma Mater. She com- mands the elements that command success. All hail to the glad day which is dawning, and may each student feel that on him lies the responsibility of hastening the happy hour when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of North Carolina shall stand at the head of all Southern colleges. 2 ;