The students have in the main fallen into their proper classes without waiting for the regular examinations to show them their mistake.
In the A. B. Course, fourteen hours a week in recitation will be required of the Seniors. Six hours will be filled by assigned subjects, the other eight being made up out of subjects chosen by the student. The same number of hours will be required of those applying for the Ph. B. degree, but there will be eight hours assigned work to six hours elective.
The recitation rooms are full. Larger ones with more black-board space will be a pressing need, if the numbers grow. The preparatory department also demands that help which its importance merits. Will the Methodists of North Carolina see it, too, firmly established and able to offer all the advantages of a well-equipped school? Other denominations, as well as the State, are doing this. Few boys will remain for a sentiment; they go where the greatest inducements lie.
Till Congress meets and while Congress shall wrangle over measures, there is daily piled up in the national Treasury a dangerous balance withdrawn from circulation. Wall street is nervous. Some permanent relief must be devised. High tariff has the majority and must solve the problem. The Nation says:
“Looking about for some lamb to slaughter or some pig to shear, the protectionists have fixed their eyes upon the sugar-planters as the class likely to yield the largest fleece with the least squealing. The revenue from sugar is upwards of $50,000,000; the number of planters is very small. Although they have been reinforced to some extent by the manufacturers of glucose and a few sorghum and beet-root enthusiasts, they amount altogether to a very feeble contingent. Sugar is an article of prime necessity. * * * * *
“Accordingly we find such admirable defenders of protection as Senators Sherman, Dawes and Hiscock advocating a reduction or repeal of the duties on sugar, with a compensating bounty to the growers of cane, beets, &c., at home. * * * * *
“A bounty of $7,000,000 a year to the sugar-planters, paid by warrants drawn on the Treasury, would be a very different thing in appearance from a like bounty paid under the operation of the tariff, although it would be the same thing in fact. A bounty of $17,000,000 to the steel-rail makers, if paid directly from the Treasury, could not last a year. Yet that bounty has been paid during the present year in the indirect method of customs duties. We can think of nothing more likely to expose protection to irresistible assaults than the adoption of the bounty system in any single instance. We cannot believe that the high-tariff fraternity will be so short-sighted as to sanction it as part of their scheme of ‘tariff reform.’ We are persuaded that they will offer up the sugar-planters and the beet and sorghum cranks as a sacrifice without more ado, and be glad to get off so cheaply.”