The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-18

paratuS, he works with instruments OF
| greater precision and performs expert
ments of greater scientific value.
After the completion of the three
years course the student is prepared fol
| the engineering courses in any of the
| advanced scientific schools or to enter
| upon graduate work at any Of the uni
!, versities either in this country or abroad
/ The equipment of the department has
| been largely increased in recent years
| and is constantly being added to. The
| laboratory is supplied with gas and
water and with all the necessary appara-
| tus for efficient work. Among the ap-
paratus belonging to the department may
| be mentioned X-ray and wireless tele-
graphy outfits, approved forms OF
| galvanometers, telescopes, mcrometers
microscopes and spectroscopes, which are
| the products of such we'll known firms as
| Willyamy, Queen & Co., Leeds, Gaertner
and Geneva Society.
THE SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY embraces
| five independent concerns with laboratory
| work, viz: general biology, zoology.
| botany, human physiology and geology.
Each student is supplied with material
| and dissecting instruments, including a
compound microscope.
GYMNASIUM.-Close by the library
stands the new gymnasium, the prettest
building of the group. Wake Forest is
we'll equipped for physical education. Her
aim is not to make professional athletes
! nor giants but to give the trained minds
trained bodies also. Twelve stone steps
lead up to the portico with it's six i'm
posing Grecian columns: large doors open
into the vestibule; on one side is the
directors office with his apparatus for
physical examination and other tests of
strength and health: on the other side
is similar room to be used at present
as headquarters of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The main floor of
the gymnasium is S0x50 feet with not a
pillar nor post to interfere with the
classes. Here are swinging rings
trapeze, bars. Indian clubs, dumb bells
and machines. Professor Crittenden
has charge of this room, and all
students are required to attend these
classes.
On the ground floor are the bath rooms
equipped with twenty showers baths.
hot and cold, lockers, furnaces and the
ball cage-S0 feet in length. Here the
ball players may practice in cold weather
and also those training for the track
teams.
The building is well lighted and VEN
tilated and is kept in good hygienic con-
dltion. 1t is not yet fully equipped, but
the management propose to equip it thor
oughly, and then furnish each student
with card showing his physical condi-
ton and instruct him accordingly.
ic finn
health is the vital principle of Bliss
and that without health all taste of
pleasure flies She aims to make herself
the best place in the South for young
man TO acquire his college education That
is her. 1ustlhcation for having spent all
ready $4,000 OF this building. With ball
grounds, tennis courts, tracks for run
ming, and a beautiful rolling campus.
wake Forest commends itself as a place
for health-both of mind and body.
j PEDAGOGY.-Lead Northern eduua-
tors express themselves as amazed at the
enthusiasm and progress of the State in
educational matters. Our schools are
rapidly adopting all that is best in the
iater methods, and now the difficulty is
to secure teachers fitted to present the
newer subjects, to grasp the spirit of the
newer discipline and methods, but who
will yet not run after fads. There is a
demand throughout the State that the
teacher shall have special training for his
work, just as have the physician, the
lawyer and the minister To meet this
demand the chair of Pedagogy was estab-
lished a year ago, and has proven the
need OF such course of study by its
popularity and by the demand for those
xxhn haOn
LAW DEPARTMENTAL the summer
OF 1894 the trustees made arrangements
for law classes to, meet on three days in
each week. This movement was a mere
experiment, but at the end of the year
they felt warranted in making it one of
the schools of the college.
Mr.. n. Y. Gulley was chosen as profess
sor. and in September, 1895, began the
work of the department proper He
brought to this work the experience of
several years as a teacher in schools of
different kinds, having taught in graded
schools, academies, normal schools and
college. Leaving the school room for
the bar, he had good practice in Frank
lin, Granville and other counties. Thus
prepared, he began anew his old work of
teaching, but under new circumS ances
Many were the difficulties that stood
about the beginning of the new enter
prise. Much labor, both physical and
mental, was necessary to overcome them
Fortunately for the work. Mr.. Gulley was
in the prime OF a vigorous young mar
hood, and able to do great deal of work
He literally put his life into it. Just
what effort the success of this depart
ment has cost him no one will ever know.
His labors have not been without re-
ward. He has had the satisfaction of see
ing the classes grow larger year by yea.
each year more successful than any of the
preceding ones. Now young lawyers who
were turned out at Wake Forest are to
be found in all parts of North Carolina,
and several in other States, rising in their
profession, exerting large influence both
in church and State in their respective
localities
One year ago the trustees engaged the
services of Mr.. S. Il. Mordecai, of the
Raleigh bar to aid in the work of this
department. Mr.. Mordecai justly en-
joys the reputation of being one Of the
very best lawyers in the State. In addi-
ton to this he has the happy faculty of
being able to convey to others the in
formation he possesses. He is lecturer
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