The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13
WORK OF WAKE
FOREST COLLEGE
Gives Broadcast Culture
in ain Atmosphere Dis
tinctiveIy Christian.
1t Makes a Positive Contribution to
the Civic. Industrial, and Educa-
tiOnal Life OF the Com
wealth.


Wake Forest College is the Oldest
college In North Carolina. A meagre
charter was grudglngly granted by the
! Legislature Of 1888. The school was
to be literary and manual labor
! school
It's first principal was Samuel Wait,
| a graduate of Columbian College.
| where he had been tutor Wait spent
! the year of 1888 in travelling through
| the state in his wagon with his family,
making speeches and pleading by the
| fresde for the education of the peo-
| pie Of North Carolina. He was the
| FIRST apostle OF education in North Car
DINA Where Waits influence was
felt public schools were voted In 1899.
The Legislature of 1898 feared to
grant a charter. 1t had little conf
dence in the enterprise. Then, too it
was feared lest a denominational
| school would be harmful to the inter-
| ests of the State. In 1888 the Legis-
! lature was asked to change the chart
er and make the institute college.
In five years the institute had won
! friends everywhere and the Leglsla-
! ture gladly granted a liberal charter.
The liberality and success of the in
stitute had silenced it's enemies. The
| first visiting committee on eXamina-
ton was composed Of Judge VIM. Gas
| ton, Catholic; Governor Swain. a
Presbyterian. and Prof VIM Hooper,
|
posed Of graduates of Columbian,
Brown and the University OF North
Carolina.
large and commodious brick
building had been erected, surpassed
by no school building I'm the state at
that time. All these things commend
ed the school to the people of North
| Carolina.
In 1916 Samuel Wait retired from
the presidency and was succeeded by
DR.. VIM. Hooper, the ripest scholar in
the state. Dr. Hooper remained for
only a few years The college was in
debt. The panics that followed I'm the
wake of Jackson's administration had
made it difficult to secure funds for
the payment of debts
w NJ. Wingate was president when
the Civil War came. The conscript
act of 1862 broke up the college, pro-
fessors and students entered the army
and some of the buildings became a
hospital After the war Or. Wingate
succeeded in rehabltating the college
and uniting the denomination around
the institution.
Before the death OF Wingate Or.
TIL II. Pritchard was president for
two years He popularized the insti-
tuition, travelled the length and breadth
of the State and spoke in nearly every
county in tho State.
He was succeeded by DR.. Charles II.
Taylor. who for the last twenty-one
years has guided the affairs of the
college with q master hand. Exno~-
sion has taken place in every direclol.
Under his administration the endow-
ment has been largely increased, new
buildings have been erected, the
grounds beautifled, and grade OF
scholarship raised. The faculty has
been enlarged and new departments
added. Under his management the
college has grown in every direction.
He retlres this year to become the
financial agent, and is succeeded in
the presidency by that ripe scholar
and genial gentleman, DR.. VIM. l.. Po-
teat
Wake Forest seeks to make a posi-
tive contribution to the civic, industrial
and educational life of our common
wealth. It's training fits men for the
higher pursuits of learning and the
fruitful fields of service. Three of It's
sons, the Kitchins and Webb. are serv-
ing their state In Congress. Four
others. Cooke Ward, Jones and Webb
are rejecting honor on their alma
mater as judges Of our Superior courts.
Two of It's sons have, since the war,
presided over the States educational
system. At present its faculty are CO.
operating most earnestly with super
intendent Joyner in his noble work.
Among its sons serving as County Sup
erintendents of Schools, are Ragsdale,
White, Sharpe Johnson, Falls, Woo
ten, Crimson, Debnam, Browne, Ed
dins, Beasley, Kittrell, Atkinson and
Dougherty. are rendering faithful and
efficient service.
Wake Forest faces the future full Of
hope. With excellent courses in law
and medicine, conducted by expert
teachers, with literary societies unsur-
passed. with ample equipment In
buildings and apparatus, with loan
funds for needy students of promise,
it seeks to give the broadest culture,
at moderate cost in an atmosphere dis
| tinctively Christian.