The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-24

iowment for the struggling College.
Now it fails to meet the demands of it's
enlarged sphere of usefulness. To
help the College up to its present po-
sition, the endowment must be IN
,reased. But the spirit Of the times
demands contant and steady advance
4nent. To meet this demand there
must be enlargement, and the noble
friend of the institution has offered to
join in the advancement. Mr.. Bost-
wick proposes to give $4,000 if the
friends of the College elsewhere will
give $50, 900, or smaller amounts in
like proportion. DR.. Taylor is now in
the field to raise the $4,000 by the
first of March, when the offer closes.
There is good ground for hope that the
movement will succeed and the endow-
ment will be brought nearly to a quar-
ter of a million. This will enable the
College to enlarge it's work and keep
abreast of the educational spirit Of the
times for few years, that other in
terests may for a while have the right
of way to the benevolence of the Bap-
list people.
IT'S EQUIPMENT.
= For many years the one building
now used for dOrmitOries, was suffici-
ent. But soon after the war the need
OF other buildings became imperative.
In this crisis two liberal men of Raj
eigh came to the rescue, and the Ii
brary Building was erected in 1873 by
Messrs John G.. Williams and J. M.
Heck. 1t contains, besides two large
recitation rooms, the Library of more
than ten thousand volumes, admirably
classified and arranged; the Reading
Loom where the leading newspapers
and magazines are found, and where
the students may spend a profitable
hour every day acquainting them
selves with the best periodical itera-
ture of the world; the Society Hall,
elegantly furnished, where are centered
many of the fondest memories of every
old student of Wake Forest, and where
is obtained much of the training which
makes Wake Forest men so influential
IL the pulpit, at the bar, on the hust-
ings, in the editorial chair, as well as
in the more quiet walks of life.
About the same time the friends of
DR.. w. M. Wingate, so long the Presi-
dent, by thousands of small cOntribu-
tions, erected the Wingate Memorial
Building, the upper story of which is
occupied by Memorial Hall, and the
lower story by a small chapel and rece-
tatiOn rooms.
Two or three years ago a fourth
building, the Laboratory, was erected
This contains the Presidents Office
Lecture Rooms for the Professors O1
Chemistry and Natural History, anC
well arrayed and equipped Laborato
riesfor these two departments. The
apparatus and equipments for these
Laboratories are modern and extensive
and afford facilities for first-class work
in Chemistry and Natural History.
The Gymnasium is in the centre
building, is furnished in the latest anC
most approved appliances for physical
culture and is open all day, and every
student spends a longer or shorter
time every day in the use of these ap
pliances for the development of the
body.
A fifth building is needed and looked
for at an early day. The museum oi
specimens in the various departments
of Natural History has not sufficient
room for it's proper exhibition, and
as other specimens are added every
year, the need becomes greater. Ad
ditional apparatus for the Department
of Physics is also in contemplation.
Half the money needed to build ar
Infrmary where the occasional sick
among the students may be properly
cared for, is already in hand, and as
soon as the remainder is provided, the
building will be erected.
METHODS OF WORK.
In Ih6 early uISCoTJ O1 Cue COn6Se
the old curriculum was adheared to-
giving four classes in the course
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and
Senior, and allowing no variations fol-
differences of inclination, aptitude, OF
plans of future life. Just before the
war the Elective System became very
DOn11laT in the South introduced nv
the University of Virginia, and adopted
by the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Furman University, and
perhaps other schools. Some of the
Trustees and Faculty were anxious to
see this system introduced at Wake