The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-12
FROM W 4 X r. FOR EST.
Good Crops. New Buildings, Improved
Campus, New Professors, Etc.
Special Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.

Desiring to make glad the hearts of
those of your readers who are acq qdainted
with us and as 1t source of informal ion
for those who are not. have venturtd
this letter. AS the one topic of genera!
conversation over the State Just now Is
about the crops, | viii salute you By say
ing that the farmers of this section are in
high spirits over the favorable prospect of
a glorious harvest. The recent rains III
this section seem To have changed every
thing, and even those who are afflicted
with that unpleasant malady not found in
"matcra medica" q refer to Srumbing)
have kept silent. SO mote it be through
out the State.
If you have not been here within the
past six months you should come at once
For many years this has been beautiful
spot, but a new gem has been added to
the cluster. The old campus with its rug
ged walks and uneven shrubbery has van
ished like the mists from the mountain,
and the first thing that now greets the eye
us you alight from the cars is a beautiful
lawn dotted here and there with beds of
flowers, young magnolias, sturdy oaks
whose gigantic arms have protected us SO
long and everything that tends to complete
a park. Only a few years and this park
will not be eXcelled no not even by that
which surrounds the Capital on the James
One advancement after another. The
Board of Trustees of the College after
electing three new professors last Friday,
have now made arrangements for the cree
ton of a large laboratory and have com
pleted contract for 300 600 bricks to be
delivered at once. With this building com
pleted there will be four large and hand
some structures within the campus. The
people on the ''Hli' are very anxious for
September to roll around so that they may
welcome the distinguished additions to the
society of the community and to the fac
ulty of the College. 1t would be useless
for me to speak of these new professors as
your readers have already had it in full.
We are proud of them and are impatient
to greet them.
If you were ever in an empty legislative
hall and noted its peculiar silence. you
would be struck with the similarity of the
situation were you to visit Wake Forest
during vacation. No sooner do the boys
get away than do the landlords and pro
fessors seek a change in the mountains or
on the coast. The average citizen WendS
his way III silence and is never disturbed
except by the whistle of the locomotive.
People from the cities are taking advan
tage of this silent happiness, and a mum
Der of them will rest here during August.
Twenty odd days will have elapsed and
our population will again be doubled. The
prospects for the College next session is
very flattering. Besides a majority of the
old students who will return, there will be
an increased number of new ones.
The professors of the College are pretty
well scattered. Prof. Mills is presiding
over a Normal School in the East; Prof.
Poteat is at Pilot Mountain; Prof. W b.
Royal is holding protracted meeting at
Youngsville, while President Taylor is be-
yond the Blue Ridge in the interest Of the
College. But it will not be long before the
descendants of Squeers will return and we
will listen niue months longer and try to
catch on. Mr.. Editor, accept Of our invi-
tation and come down. J. J T.