Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-18
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE, June 9. go.

WAKE FOREST COLLEGE, June 8, '69.
Dear Journd:-Before attempting to
give you the proceedings proper of the
commencement, now in progress at this
place, allow ne to state few facts in re-
gard to the present condition of this Insti-
tuition. At the close of the war it was
! found that the endowment fund, amount
| ing to more than hundred thousand dol
lars, had disappeared. save some two hun
dred and seventy shares in the stocks of
the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad About
forty thousand dollars have been secured
in cash and bonds since the war, so that
the College may now be regarded as worth
not more than fifty thousand dollars,
apart from buildings, apparatus, &c.
Rev. W. M. Wingate, d. D., is Presi-
dent of the College the other members
of the Faculty are Rev. W. Royal, D. D. !;
Professor. w. G. Simmons; Assistant Pro-
fessors, L. K. Mills and VIM. B. Royal.
The number of students for the past year
was ninety-eight.
No community is known to your CORES
pondent, in this or any other State, su-
perior to that in which this College is
located, in moral tone, intelligence or
social attractions, and when the health,
accessibility, and secluded character of the
place are considered. and especially when
it is remembered that there can be no
chronic graduates here now, by reason of
the adoption of the thorough university
system of teaching. l cannot understand
why there are not two hundred students
here. The truth is, Messrs. Editors, our
people are not educating as they should.
Many farmers are sending their daughters
to school, whila their sons are kept at
home to work. believe in educating the
girls, nay, will go as far as to say, if
either sex must be neglected, the best in
terests of the country will be sustained by
giving the higher moral and mental de-
velopment to those who are to be the !
mothers of the land. But, sir, do not !
believe there is any necessity for neglect
ing either sex. So highly should the gen.
erous and liberal culture of the mind be |
appreciated, especially IN these times, that |
parents should be willing cheerfully to
sacrifice their property, and to endure |
many privations and hardships in order to |
educate their children.
In stating that the Institution should |
have much larger patronage I did not |
mean to say that the present or prospective
condition of the College is discouraging.
On the contrary, the friends of the Institu-
ton are full of hope and very sanguine in
respect to the future.
The Board OF Trustees met on yesterday,
and with much other business, elected Rev.
J. G. Hiden. of Wilmington, Rev. G. w.
Sauderlin, of Goldsboro, Rev. W. r.
Gaultney, of Hillsboro, and W. FL Mitch
ell, of Franklinton, to fill vacancies in
the Board.
The degree of A. M. was conferred in
course upon Rev. T. D. Boon, of Hartford
county, and the degree of Doctor in Divin-
ty upon Mathew Tyson Yates, of Shan
ghai, China. DR.. Yates was born in Chat
ham county, N. c., and graduated at this
College. Twenty-odd years ago he went
as Missionary to China, and is said now to
be the ablest Missionary who speaks a
language of Asia. During the war, when
supplies for the Mission were cut off from
the South, he was interpreter for the En-
glish merchants of Shanghai, and with
money loaned him by them bought pro-
perty, the rent and sale of which he gener-
ously appropriated for the support of the
other Missionaries from the South.
Speaking of foreign Missionaries, we had
lost sight of in the College Chapel capt.
tai address on Central Africa by Rev. Mr..
Phillips, returned Missionary. His style
OF speaking is quaint, but natural, with q
spice of humor that gives it a peculiar
zest. Mr.. Phillips was born in Moore
county, n. c., but some fourteen years
ago went from Georgia to Africa. He pro-
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his native State, and should he visit your
city 60 to hear him by all means, for Won
will be richly repaid. More anon,
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