Greenville Gets the School
These articles describe the announcement of the award to Greenville of the East Carolina Teachers Training School and the location of the school. These and other articles may be found in the North Carolina Collection.
Citation for these articles are: "Greenville Gets the School," Daily Reflector, July 11, 1907, page 1, column 2.
"Greenville Gets Training School," Daily Reflector, July 11, 1907, page 2, column 1.
Will Be Located on the Harrington Property
Greenville has been awarded the Eastern Carolina Training School for Teachers, authorized by the last legislature, and it will be located on 43 acres of the Harrington property on the east side of the town. This fact was settled by the State Board of Education at the meeting held in Raleigh Wednesday.We had looked to the Raleigh News and Observer today for a full report of the meeting of the board, but owing to a misconnection of trains the paper failed to come on the noon mail so we give it as told us by some of the gentlemen from Greenville who were present.
The board held an open session beginning at 10 o'clock, read the bids from all the towns and heard any of the representatives of the towns who were present and desired to speak.This open meeting lasted three hours, when the board went into executive session.The board carefully considered all the details of the bids of the competing towns, and at a little past 4 o'clock announced their decision as Greenville on the Harrington property.
The decision for Greenville meets the approval of almost the entire State, and the Harrington site gives more satisfaction to the people here than any other offered.The site is a beautiful one and on it the school will compare with any institution in the State.
Greenville and Pitt county are delighted that the school comes here, and later the occasion will be appropriately celebrated.
GREENVILLE GETS TRAINING SCHOOL
Daily Reflector, July 11, 1907, page 2, column 1
About 4:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the first news came unofficially through the telegraph and telephone _____ that the State Board of Education had selected Greenville as the location for the Eastern Carolina Training School for Teachers, and some later this was confirmed by telegrams to The Reflector and several citizens. people had been waiting since 10 a.m. around the telegraph and Reflector offices, and call after call from the town and all parts of the county had been made over the 'phone for news, and as soon as a bulletin was put up announcing that Greenville had been selected there was general rejoicing.
The contest for the school has been long and earnest, continuing through six months, and it is cause for congratulation that Greenville has won the prize. This town and county made a vigorous campaign for it, yet everything was done on a high plane and without bitterness or hard feeling. Other towns also contested earnestly to win the school, as they had a perfect right to do, and while the contest was warm Greeville carefully avoided saying or doing anything to the detriment of any other place seeking it. Now that it is all over, except the building and opening of the school, all should come together and help make it what Greenville and Pitt county have determined it shall be, the pride of Eastern North Carolina.
While many of our citizens have done nobly their part toward securing the school, the people of Greenville and Pitt county can never repay ex-Gov. T.J. Jarvis and County Superintendent W.H. Ragsdale for what they did in bringing it here. Without the efforts of these two gentlemen we do not believe Greenville would have gotten the school.
Greenville is on the spot with the goods.
Now you watch Greenville and Pitt county push ahead of any town and county in the east.
All the other competing towns have an invitation in advance to come to Greenville to teh corner stone laying of the Eastern Training school. Greenville and Pitt county will cordially welcome them and show them there is no unkind feeling arising from the contest.
