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

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Panoramic View of the North ( ' ai{ou a College Al ' tci- ;in exciting di.scu.ssion, a liill i-slalilisliinji llic Agricultui-al ami Mcclianioai College passed the Legislature on March 7, 1887. Tliiss bill iJiovitled for its location on lands offered by Mr. R. Stanhope PuUen, where the older college buildings now stand. It prescribed the nature of studies to be pursued, and provided for the administration of the college by means of a board of directors. It also provided for the transfer of the interest on the Land Scrip Fund to the use of this institution. Provision v and stone for the building to be supiilicd by the State Building was hardly ccniplet destroying jiarl nf tlir woncl with snKikr. Opmiiig was tinic, bill woik began in ( )c year seventy- two students Colonel Alexander Q. Hoi When the college began its fcssors, including the jircsi three other officers. I ' Ih y ing unready and with bnl work. Ten years later when work, there were, besides four Hall, the Mechanical Build firmary, a modern barn and in North Carolina, but the it that means were provided rollment of seventy-two we ha als do for I he m-clion of 1 reached two hundred began w ' ith the foundations well and substantially laid. •ollcge building, all the brick and labor for the foundations Penitentiary. The Main ed before fire l)rokc out in it, work and defacing the walls thereby delayed for .some IdIxT, ISSd. During that inalricul.alcd. laday was the first president. wiirk. tiicrc were eight pro- dcnl, oni ' instructor, and began with tlie Main Build- scant facilities for doing their President Hollatlay clo.scd his dormitories, Old Watauga ing, I ' liniro.se llall, The In- dairy. These were lean years i.s:i:i-i:ii s friends of the college saw to for its growth. From an cn- nd ninety-eight, and the new president Upon the retirement of Colonel Hol- laday in 1899, the Board of Trustees elected Dr. Geo. T. Winston, then President of the Uni- ■ How Jar that little cawllc throica its bciimn; So sliiues (I good deed in a Hdughty world.

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a fjort J iStorp of tfjc a. i H. CoUege The initial movement in fa -or of an industrial school at Raleigh is accredited to the Wa- tauga Club. This Organization, consisting of some of the most progressive men in Raleigh, had been formed for the purpose of agitating and supporting any great work which might claim its attention. It was composed of such good and useful citizens as Mr. W. J. Peele, Mr. W. S. Prim- rose, Mr. Walter H. Page, and others. In 1S85, the club memorialized the Legislature on the needs of an industrial school in North Carolina. Several bills were proposed, among them, one Di.xon, of New York, who was ture. The bill, which finally Hon. Augustus Leazar, of certain preliminary arrange- cation of the school. The was placed in charge of these to be supplemented by addi- which finally secured the the subjects to be taught, allurgy, practical agriculture, industrial education as might Inll appropriated .So, 000 out hands of the State Board of 1887, two large meetings of The first declared that there college in the State, and that Fund, then used by the State the new school to assist in its by the distinguished Thomas then a member of the Legisla became a law, was drawn by Mooresville. It provided for ments looking toward the lo State Board of Agriculture preliminaries, and they were tional directors from the city school. Tliis bill also defined which were wood-work, met and such other branches of be deemed expedient. The of the surplus funds in the Agriculture. In January, farmers were held in Raleigh. ought to be an agricultural the interest on the Land Scrip University, should be given to maintenance. The second meeting reiterated tliis resolution and considered favorably the advisability of combining the industrial school movement with that of the agricultural college. Col. a. Q. Hni. ' The foundatinn of ever 1 State I ' .s the edueatiim of its youth. '

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OF Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1911. versity of Texas. Hi.s term of spr ii ' o continued nine years. During his administration, the enrollment reached five hundred and twenty-two. Upon the loss of the old Watauga by fire in 1901, PuUen Hall and the new Watauga were constructed. Prior to that time, the Textile Building had been completed. But the proudest mommient to his active and wise administra- tion is the Agricultural Build has given the Agricultural growth and usefulness as it gratifying and far-reaching er plant, with the attendant as the increased electrical tion to the college. This, ing, is a thing well done and In the summer of 190S, liberal allowance from the and resigned the presidency All those who knew Dr. D. needs of the college turned at fitted to take the presidency, serious consideration of any on July twenty-third, 1908. third year. Two important Dr. D. H. Hi ing, the completion of which Department such facility for needed, and is using with effectiveness. The new pow- steam heating system, as well equipment, was his last addi- like the Agricultural Build- of increasing usefulness. President Winston received a Carnegie Foundation Fund of the college. H. Hill and the peculiar once to him as the man best and he was elected without one else when the Board met. This is President Hill ' s additions to the college al- New Dormitory and the En- and seventy-five students and ready adorn our campus, the gineering Building. Our enrollment has reached five huudret there are forty-seven teachers. The college was never in so prosperous a condition. There is industry, earnest and harmony, and we can but feel that the college is only entering upon its great usefulness, so encouraging are the prospects. E. B. O. Industrial edncntion is the. rnunlry ' s hope. '