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

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DR. GEORGE TAYLOR WINSTON

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YaCcS THE AGROMECK George Tayloe Winston, A. M., LL. D. AS horn October [2. [852, in Windsor, Bertie county, North Carolina, son of Patrick Henry Winston and Martha Elizabeth Byrd. His ancestors are English on the paternal and Scotch on the maternal side, and are well- known in the annals of Virginia. He was educated in the celebrated Horner School, Oxford, N. C.; in the University of North Carolina, which he entered at the age of thirteen; in the United States Naval Academy, where he ranked No. 1 in his class; and in Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., where he received the medal fbr Latin scholarship, and during his senior year was appointed Instructor in Mathematics to fill the place of a professor who was given leave of absence. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Letters, and for high scholarship was enrolled as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. On the reoganization of the University of North Carolina in 1875 he was elected Assistant Professor of Literature, at the age of 23, and the next year was promoted to the full professorship of Latin and German. For sixteen years he served as professor in the University, when by unanimous vote he was elected President. During the five years of his presidency he doubled the income of the University and nearly trebled its enrollment of students. In 1896 he resigned the presidency of the University of North Carolina to accept the presidency of the University of Texas, to which he was elected by unanimous vote of the Board of Regents of that institution. He greatly increased the income and the student enrollment of this university, and also brought it into close touch and sympa- thy with the public schools and with public sentiment, as he had done previously with the University of North Carolina. Finding the semi-tropical and arid climate of Texas very detrimental to the health of his family, he resigned the presidency of the Texas University and accepted the presidency of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, to which he had been invited both by the Board of Trustees and by resolutions of the student body. This is the fourth year of his presidency, and the growth of the College in that time has been the wonder and the delight of the State. The A. M. now ranks with the best in the United states, and is doubtless the foremost in the South. President Winston ' s career as an educator and public speaker and writer is well known throughout the country. In addition to the positions above named, he has also been twice President of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, President of the Association of Southern Colleges and Universities, member of the Board of Inspectors of the United States Mint at Philadelphia, member of the Board. of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy. He has delivered lectures and orations before the National Education Association, the National Prison Reform Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Guilford Battle Ground Association, the University of Texas (commencement oration), the University of North Carolina (25th anniversary of re-organization), Clemson College (commencement oration), Harvard University (Phi Beta Kappa dinner), Nineteenth Century Club, New York city, North Carolina Agricultural Society (annual address), Daughters of the Confederacy (annual address), United States Naval Academy (commencement exercises). 7 4