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

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T— ' «— • ' — » ' — » — »— it t— y t » t— t — — T y— — f ' — y Tt— x=3: i adjoining tlie Iniildings of the Agricultural Department. I ' oiiitli. that an experi mental farm be established in the vicinity of Raleigh. The club was not daunted 1} - the magnitude of its tasl . Enlisting tlie - N the Board of Agriculture as V. F. D. Smith, and others, the committee Augustus Leazar of Iredell County passed the House by a vote of 51 tlie Senate it was favored by such Williams, Major John Galling, and the Senate on the good will of such progressive members of Green, R. W. Wharton, W. R. Capehart, C. presented its bill to the Legislature. Hon. introduced the Committee ' s bill. This bill for and 11 against. On its appearance in men as Captain S. B. Alexander, W. R. R. W. Winston. The bill became a law by its passage 7th of March, 1885, by a vote of 23 for and 9 against. The main features of the bill as adopted in 1885 were : that tlie Board of .Agriculture sliould locate the school in the town that offered the greatest inducements; that the school should be under the joint control of the Board of - griculture and directors from the town making the successful bid; that instruction sliould include wood-work, mining, metallurgy, practical agricul- ture, and such otlier branches of education as the directors might deem expe- dient ; that the Board of Agriculture should give the new scliool $5,000.00 a year. How little the towns of the State realized what a financial asset to a com- munity this school would eventually become is shown by their bids for the li cation. Charlotte offered a site and $5,000.00 in money. Kinston offered $10.(«HI.OO in money. Raleigh offered $8,000.00, an old building, and the use of 20 acres of land. Then a sudden and broader turn was given to the thought of those that were most interested. The National Congress was considering at that time the passage of what afterwards was known as the Hatch Act, which gave $15,000.00 to each State for an Agricultural Experiment Station. Wliy not take the Landscript Fund ($7,500.00) of 1862, which was then going to the University, combine this and the anticipated proceeds from the Hatch Act, and the money already in sight, and make a greater institution than the one already chartered ? The percolation of tliis thought brought about renewed activity not only on the part of the Watauga Club, but also on the part of the farmers. The club, with the assistance of a committee from tlie city of Raleigh, called a state-wide meeting of the advocates of industrial education. Mr. VV. S. Primrose, who had l)een president of the Exposition of 1884, and Mr. C. G. Latta, represented the city of Raleigh. The meeting was held in Raleigh on Xovember 4th, with Captain Octavius Coke as Chairman. Addresses were made by Dr. Chaney of Atlanta, Major Robert Bingham, W. H. Kerr, W. J. Peele, W. S. Primrose, and others. After endorsing the establishment of an industrial institution at Raleigh, the meeting appointed a committee of 25 members, headed by Mr. Primrose, to appear before the Board of Agriculture with detailed plans as to cost, character, and constitution of the proposed school. For a time after this meeting tlic papers of the State were full of the matter, and it was thoronglily discussed by editors and contributors. At a meeting of the Board of .Agriculture on April 21, 188(i. the committee of citi- zens again urged the matter and the Board finally decided to buy a site and proceed with the liuilding. Messrs. G. E. Leach, F. O. Moring, and J. S. Wynne were appointed directors to represent the city. The directors then bought about three acres of land in the suburb then known as Brooklyn, now a part of Glenwood, as a suitable site. Shortly after the purchase, Mr. R. Stanhope Pullen, a philanthropist of Raleigh, walked over the meager site chosen, and remarked, This will never do. In his quiet way he sought a friend who was interested in the new project and offered 83 acres where the College is now located. Hence a fairly suitable home site was available. Then, under the wise lirection of Col. L. L. Polk, wdio then edited the Proiircssk ' C Furiiwr. the farmers of the State took up through meetings lield over tile State the idea of an Agricultural College. Finally the ideas of an industrial school, as advocated by the Watauga Club, and the vision of an Agricultural College, as urged by the farmers, were fused in a bill which be- came a law on March . rd, 1887. This new institution fell heir to all the legal assets of the industrial school, received the interest from the Landscript Fund, the money from the Hatch Fund, and whate er annual surplus was left in the treasury of the Board of Agriculture. H - N •4 - - ■ m T V — I y— TT— ri— I V— M «— n y— T X — II X =x-l=j

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