The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Oak Ridge Institute
The Attendance at the Fall Session Exceeded
Three Hundred. A Bright Outlook.
Oak Ridge. n. c.. Dec. 81, 1895

YAK 1LliSe. ~ ~, DtC' -Is 1000
To Our Friends and Patrons:
We close today the fall session of the
present school year We feel exceeding
~ thankful to a generous public for the
continued favor with which they look
upon Oak Ridge Institute, as is shown
by the more than three hundred young
men from all parts of this and other
States who have enrolled their names
as students here this year. We are also
grateful to these students for their uni
formly gentlemanly bearing and unlIsu-
ally high moral and intellectual ideals.
These have combined to make the year
an exceedingly pleasant and profitable
one to the school.
In every department of the school,
Classical, Scientific, Commercial, the de-
mands have been heavier than ever be-
fore. and the work has, as a consequence,
been more thorough More than score
and a half of our boys have this year
entered the high grade colleges of the
country. and in every instance their SUI
perior training and preparation mas
brought them to the front in their classes
and won hearty commentator from their
professors. Many graduates of the va
rious departments have joined the ranks
of the thousands who have been trained
here for the various duties of business
life. as book-keepers. stenographers, tele-
graph operators, or as wide-awake well
equipped citizens III all the honorable
walks of life.
ATHLETIC VICTORIES, TOO.
The motto of this institution has al
ways been Mem and we leave no
"stone unturned' to produce the highest
type of physical manhood by means or
our superior and outdoor athletic train
ing. Track athletics, baseball and foot
ball are all duly encouraged, not as an
end, but as o. means to an end. Teach
ers are always ON hand to direct, en-
courage. restrain and prevent excess. In
baseball we won the State championship
among the schools and colleges (outside
of the State University, winning eight
out of ten games played. In track ath-
letics we won State championship among
preparatory schools mt annual track
meeting at the State University
We have just won the State cham
pionship in football (outside of the State
University. This shows the great supe-
riority of Oak Ridge Institute over other
schools in systematic physical training.
1t is the proof of the pudding"
In point of healthfulness the year has
been up to the usual standard. There
has been no interruption ON account or
sickness. No physician has been called
during the present session with one eX-
ception. There has not been Il case of
fever of any kind whatever in the school,
village or community during this whole
year. The total medical bill of over
two hundred students the fall term was
only $3.50. At our State schools each
student pays this much per year or more.
The average doctors bills for the
whole history Of the institution has prob
ably not reached $1,000 a year. We
ksay this TO emphasize the remarkable
healthfulnes of our location and excel
lence of our general sanitary conditions.
DEMANDS FOR OUR GRADUATES.
We wish to emphasize the growing inn
Eportance of our Commercial departments
Business men everywhere recognize the
superior excellence OF the work done
here. and as a consequence we have de-
mands for well-equipped stenographers
and book keepers faster than we can
turn them out. We have not been able
to fill all these requests for men this
year.
NEXT TERM.
For the coming session, beginning Jan
nary 4th. many interesting features have
been arranged for Lectures have been
promised by some of the abIest speakers
and most successful men of our State.
The work in the gymnasium will be
more thorough than ever before, and all
students, with the exception of Some of
the higher class men, will be required
to take the training. Frequent read
ings. lectures, concerts, and class gath
erings will aid much in the intellectual
development and social improvement or
the students. The outlook is very bright
for a large attendance and the higher
classes are among the largest and best
in the schools history,
We trust to merit a continuance of
the pubhc's generous patronage and in
auence, and promise that from year to
year we will make Oak Ridge Institute
all the more worthy of confidence and
esteem.
With the compliments of the season.
We are,
Your obedient servants.
j. \. X NJ. ii. HOLT.