The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-04
OAK RIDGE
INSTITUTE
]. A. and M. H. Holt
Issue Strong State
ment.

To the Trustees, Patrons, Friends and
Alumni of Oak Ridge Institute:
We beg leave to submit the follow
ing statement with reference to the
scholastic year of 1904&5.
The total enrolment for the year
reached 255 students, hailing from
eleven States and territories, and from
fifty counties in North Carolina. While
more names have appeared on our
catalogue during some years, the ay-
erage daily attendance has never been
so large as this year. nor has the
school ever accomplished results as
nearly satisfactory. In point of
healthfulness the past splendid record
has been equaled. if not surpassed.
There have been no fevers of any
kind, no contagious, only few mild
cases of grippe, and only one serious
case of illness (pneumonia) during the
entire year. The students have
shown wonderful increase in
strength, weight and nervous vitality
as usual.
The work, with small percentage
of exceptions, has been up to the usual
high standard of excellence for which
the school has been famous for halt
century While the scope of the
work here has not been materially in
creased, except i'm some few branches,
the VI eiit
ing steadily moved forward. Our ideal
academy is the one which does not
merely prepare for college. but which
gives a broader culture than mere col
lege entrance, fitting men in breadth
of scholarship no less than in mental
development for the higher type of
citizenship, i'm this age of progress.
From our Commercial and Short
hand departments, we are continually
sending scores of men annually into
the different branches of commercial
and industrial life, where they take
the highest stand by virtue of their
thorough training here.
The following is the list OF those
who finished our literary course of
study this year:
Literary Department-Classi
Thomas James Armstrong, Rocky
Point, n. c.: Lucian Graves Cobie.
Burlington: Ransom Harris Duke, Ep-
som: John Kelly DePriest- Shelby;
George D. Hufines, Kernersville; sam
ueI Sullivan Irwin, Mt. Airy; Holmes
Scales Ivie, Leaksville; Campbell Nc
Lain. Statewide; jeremiah Bascom
Statesville: James Conrad Siceloff,
Mount Airy: Willie Jordan Simmons,
Woodland; Miss Lillian Erie Stuart,
Oak Ridge: Ferdie Cary Whitaker,
Enfield; Oscar Hoyle Yokley Mount
Airv.
Scientifc.--James Bracey, Jr., Row
land; Fred Anderson, Statesville.
Book Keeping. A. Aidridge.
James Bracey. Jr., .. H. Bracey, a. NJ.
Brown. H. w. Bradfield, w. H. Clay
ton. J. X Fulton, @. s. Greer, w a.
Dimmette. L. F. GilIey. j. w. Hardin.
j. r. Hines. Samuel Mangum, G. S
Macarthur, r. II. Maultsby, NJ. NJ.
Phipps. c. II. Pigott, II. w. Pegram,
d. A. Gilchrist, G. +. Parrot, Jr.,
Marvin Reeves. F. NJ. Satterwhite, c.
A. Satterfield, Eugene Scott, II. >.
Shoaf. Robert Stuart, Louis Summer
field. r.. f. Trogden.
In the Shorthand Department the
following eighteen men have already
finished the course, or expect to do
so by the close of the summer school.
Short Hand. f. Scott. E. r..
Webster. +. w. Webster. r. NJ. Whit
ley. J. c. Kizziah. r. f. Trogden, j. =.
Merritt. b. w. DeLoss James Bracey,
J. w. Lofin c. Fl. Piggott, j. w.
Hardin. NJ NJ. PhipDs, w. A. Dim
mette. r. S. Shoaf, J. H. b. Fogle,
man, T. l.. Ferguson. w. A. Gattis.
The exercises at Commencement
were highly credtable to the students
who took part in them as the repre-
SentatiNeS OF the senior CLASS anu VI
the Literary Societies. Orations or
high order of excellence were deliver
ed by s. V Pitts. T. B. McCargo, j. A.
Strickland, s. 5. Irwin, b. l.. Fentress,
c. r. Bowman, l.. a. Martin and ..
II. Bracey.
The inter-society medal was won by
<. s. Irwin. The Stone Scholarship
medal was won by S. $. Iryin. The
Francis d. Winston prize, for the best
historical sketch. was won by Elmer
Oettinger. of Wilson.
Both the Annual Session by Rev.
A. Dixon. class of '05, and the Annual
Literary Address by Col. Robert Bing-
ham. of Bingham School. >Asheville,
were eloquent and able, and evoked
f1attering comment.
In athletics. Oak Ridge Institute
has continued to hold without doubt
the championship of secondary
schools in base ball. and in percent
age of games is out-ranked only by
Davidson College, as the subjoined re-
mort from the Charlotte Observer.
Nav 29th. shows. 1t is interesting to
note i'm this connection that OAK
Ridge defeated Davidson 10 TO .. Also
nearly all the games we played were
on the grounds of the colleges and
schools. with spectators and umpires
nor i'm sympathy with our boys, all OF
which conditions count for much II;
contests of this kind.