The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-22
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE.
Faculty Opposed to HaZino. New
Buildings Ereted.-Changes
In Faculty.


Buildings Ereted.-Changes
In Faculty.
Especial to News and observer.)
Wake Forest College, Sept. 81. =
The senior elias met yesterday after
noon and elected officers for the year.
They are as follows: Obie Wallace
Baynes, of Forsythe county, presi-
dent; Herbert Jenkins, Of Hert-
ford county, vice-president; Earle
Moore, of New Hanover county.
secretary; Gordon Raby Edwards,
OF Wake county, treasurer;
Byrd Pleasant Gentry, of Person
county, orator; Hubert McNeill Po-
teat, of Wake county, historian; Ben
jamin Thomas Holding, of Franklin
county, prophet; and George Jones
Spence, of Pasquotank, county, poet.
Mr.. f. w. Timberlake, Jr., who
spent the last two years at the Uni
versity of Virginia, has re-entered
Wake Forest and is taking law under
Prof. Gulley.
Mr.. John Brewer who has recently
gone into an independent business o.
his own, will open up a grocery store
in the new brick building recently
erected by Prof. b. F. Sledd.
Mr.. Marion Leslie Davis, of Car
teret county, has been chosen assist
ant in the history department He is
expected this week and Will take the
NJ. a. degree in connection with his
work in the department of history.
X. n. Simms Esq, of Raleigh, will
lecture before the Sunday School
class of Prof. j. b. Carlyle the first
Sunday in next month and Hon. Il.
r. Lacy, of Raleigh will meet the
class the first Sunday in November.
Prof. Carlyles class is one of the
largest in the state and the largest
here, the enrolment being nearly a
hundred.
Messrs Huston Vernon, of Wake
county, and S. r. Edwards, of Chat
ham county, who were in school here
last year, leave the first of, next
month for the University of Maryland
where they will continue the study of
medicine.
Invitations have been received here
to the marriage of Miss Carrie Mel
son to Mr.. James Maurice Pruett, Oc-
tober 4. The ceremony will be per-
formed in the Mountain Creek Bap-
fist church near oxford.
Mr. Samuel Hill Yokfey, of David
son county, is here for few days
visit to his alma mater on his way
to Richmond where he will continue
his studies in l.4S -AGd.cai College
there. Mr.. Yokely assisted in the de-
partment OF chemistry when here.
The September number Of the
Wake Forest Student will be a Con-
vention number, al the last session
of the Baptist State Convention IL
having been decided that the first
number of The Student be devoted
to the convention. This copy VIII
be very interesting and will sell for
fifty cents per copy.
In II POtp1t.
county is assisting in the Latin de-
partment.
The infirmary committee consist
ing of Drs. Charles r. Taylor, wat
son S. Rankin, w. l.. Poteat, Charles
f. Brewer and Lewis M. Gaines are
now engaged in deciding on plans
for the building. which is TO cost
by order of the trustees not more
than $1,000. The building will prob
ably be placed in the north corner
of the campus to the rear of the 9TH
er buildings.
The friends of the college will be
pleased to learn that the sentiment
of the student body here is more
universally and strongly against all
forms of haZing than ever before ana
that the faculty are united IN the de-
termination to root out the last re-
mains of the barberous practice.
The enrolment which is three
hundred and thirteen. is already
equal to the total enrolment of last
wear. and seems to indicate an enroll
ment of three hundred and fifty tor
the entire year.
Putting on the slate roofing or
the alumni building will begin IN q
few days. 1t is expected that the
building will be completed and turn
ed over to the trustees at their meet
ing in December when the Baptlat
State Convention meets.
The Wake Forest Graded School
opened this week with appropriate
and interesting exercises. Speeches.
were made by Prof. Sledd, Doctor
Brewer. Mr. z. V. Peed and others;
Mr.. w. C. Powell, of Jacksonville
Fla. who has a summer home mere
is spending a few days with ms
family.
Mrs. S. B. Turner has bought Miss
Annie Waite's residence and moved
into it. Mrs. Turner was matron or
the Turner Eating Club last year.
Mr.. w. r. Powell, of Savannah,
Ca, is spending the week here with
the parents of Mrs. Powell, Prof. and
Mrs. John F. Lanneau.
Dr. Charles e. Taylor, who was
elected professor of moral philoso-
phy at the recent meeting of the
work of his department until his
work on the infirmary is further adj
vanced.
The committee appointed to ar
range for the inauguration of the col
lege's new president, DIR. William Po-
teat, have as yet made no definite AZ
engagements for the Inauguration but
if is expected to have representatives
here from all the colleges. The COM
Of
Sledd. chairman; DR.. Brewer; Prof
Darius Eatman and DR.. Poteat, ex-
officio.
Death of DR.. j. Ii. Thompson.