The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-08

| ilton Theological Seminary, New York
! Later he went to Texas and became
the first president of the Baylor Uni
versity. The other tutor for 1896 was
Alban Hart who remained only a
short time. About Hart little is known.
His name is not mentioned in the
! record Of the Board of Trustees. but
! there is some reason for believing that
he was a scholarly Englishman, who
had studied in Paris Italy and Spain
and who after leaving Wake Forst
started q school in Oxford. North
Carolina.
The short stay of Hart left a va
cancy to be filed. In theState at that
time was Horace A. Wilcox, agent of
the American Homo Missionary So
ciety of Philadelphia. He was a
young man and a graduate of Brown
/ University and at least highly regard
ed bv DR. Moses of South Carolina.
He held the position of tutor in 1887,
but did not give up his work as agent
of the Board Of his after career moth
ing is known.
The wear 1898 saw tho greatest
changes in the Faculty of the Insti-
tute. This year and the next saw three
mon enter the faculty from New Eng
land and two of them from Brown
University. r. i.
mentioned took the place of John
Armstrong as professor of Ancient
Languages He was small of stature.
and rather testy in temperament he
came from the North by the old stage
road that passed through ROlesville
to Raleigh. The stage dropped him
at Rolesvillc. There WAS only one
way for him to reach the Hill and
that was for him to walk which he
II; hp ~
MED by a now student who was In
the same predicament. The tern
/ "reweh" was then unknown. This
new student was our honored and re-
special towncman, j. M. Brewer.
Richardson was not popular but he
remained with the institution TIL lS49
| 1S43 though he ceased to be professor
of Ancient Languages and became
professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric IN
| in June 1888.
The other New Englander was John
B. White. a graduate of Brown. who
! had lived in Illinois where he was
! Judge. He took tho chair Of Mathe-
MATES and Natural Philosophy. be
remained with the institution till 1S49.
| When Prof Hooper resigned the pres,
| idency he was elected his succe"Sn"
! BY marriage he was related to Prof
| Wait. From the traditions he was
very impractical man. and had no
conception of the character of South
ern vouth. N 1S49 he returned to
Illiro.s and became president of
womans college. During the Civil
Wa he was chaplain of an Illinois
20 rnent.
The only other addition made to the
faculty of the institution was stephen
Morse, a Brown University man. who
he~qn as adjunct professor of Ancient
Languages and principal of Prepare
tory Department in november 1888
hut was made professor of Ancient
Languages in June, 1889.
George w. Thomson was elected
tutor in 1898. but there is no evil
dence that he ever filed the place. DR..
Iosent v. OutIaw was elected profess
sor of Physiology and Anatomy in
1885. but nothing more is known of
this chair.
ITndorbtedlIv this faculty was able.
Brown University was a leading insu-
tuition. DR. Francis Wayland was
president and at that time. and for
fifty wears afterwards was the greates'
educator in America.
His famous textbooks on Mora
Philosophy and Political Economy had
not yet been published but these men