Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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MISS MAKC.ARKT CANNON MISS MAH MUkl-HY MISS ANNIK WII.EY MISS LILLIK BROWN MISS LOTTIE CALDWELL

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DAVIDSON COLLEGE ; HISTORICAL TiiK Presrytekian C ' liiKni lias always been a leading promoter of education. The Scotch and the Irish laid the fomidation before the Rcvoliitionar - war, and afterwards fol- lowed up their early beginnings so vigorously and successfully that all the education of the State of North Carolina down to the middle of the present century was largely their work. The United States (io ernment has issued a llistoiy of Education in North Carolina, prepared by Charles Lee Smith, a member of the l aptist Church. It is a book which every Presb ' tcrian ma - reaii with interest, because it reads like a histor - of Presbyterianism, so inti- mate was the connection of that Church with edu- cation. The State University was largely founded and fostered by them and largelj- controlled by them down to the recent war. It would be interesting to trace the progress of education in Western North Carolina from the founding of Queen ' s College near Charlotte by I -esbyterians in 1767, for two-thirds of a centun,-. There are numerous grammar .schools and acade- mies in North and South Carolina, which furnished many ilistinguished men for the church and for the state, some going through college, and some not, but all of exceptional classical training by masters in their day. In 1S35 the Presb tcries of Concord and Mor- ganton in North Carolina, and Bethel in South Carolina, undertook to found a college jointly. l)rs. Morrison and Sparrow raised $30,000 in five months and the school w£is put in operation in 1837, under the presidency of Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, D. D. Davidson College was named in honor of Cicn. William Davidson, a Revolutionary patriot, who fell fighting bravely at the battle of Cowan ' s Ford, and whose memory is still fragrant in Western North Carolina. It was quite the fashion in those days to engraft m.uiual labor on the schools. The system was tried here a few )-ears. It soon became apparent ho e er, that learned college professors did not exxel in farming, and the ambitious future govern- ors, senators and preachers among the pu[)ils were not easily harnessed between the plow handles be- hind a bobtail mule. Indeed, tradition says that many of the pu])ils so imbibed the spirit of the aforesaid comrade in toil, that they became chronic kickers