The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-29
Woke Forest Revisited.
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pective; second. probable; third, pos
sible: and fourth. impossible! Alas
for number four! But sometimes the
last may be first. So, all in all, it may
be said that the charming feminlnes
OF the Hill will some OF them change
their names or welcome new Access
SONS to their ranks
a Roll of Honor.
AS a mans college life goes. genera
lion after generation has hither come
and gone its way. The number or
students. all told, runs up no doubt
INTO the thousands: but those VINO
have taken degrees aggregate the
quite handsome figure of 925. some
of them have fallen by the way: some.
naturally gifted and well-trained
have been like good tools. rlistlng
through exposure and disuse: but
many hundreds have gone hence into
spheres of usefulness and oftimes OF
honor And Cornelia like, the college,
considers as her jewels not so much
her endowment and equipment aSSFe
eating nearly a half million. as her
sons VINO scattered in honorable call
ings throughout the earth, are true to
her teaching Survey her roll OF nom
or and single out, almost at RANDOM
"a group or her distinguished sons
Witness such missionaries as Shuck
the pioneer; Yates, the illustrious;
Greene and Herring and Newton ana
many others who still live and labor
among the heather; such leaders IN
civic life as Faircloth and the Dock
erys, congressman Webb and the
Kitchins: Judges Cooke. Ward ana
Webb and the like: such pulpit orators
as r.. II. Pritchard, A. G. Dixon ana
hundreds Of others; such editors as
Bailey. OF Raleigh; Dowd. of CHAR
lotte; Oates, of Fayetteville; FOLK. oil
~ M lola
Farris, OF Florida such religious
leaders as Burrows, the statistical ex-
peri; Johnson, the State, Mission Sec
rotary; Spilman, the Sunday School
specialist; such doctors OF medicine as
Whitehead, of the University, OF Vlr-
ginia. and Royster, of the University
Medical School of Raleigh; such lead
ers in charitable work as j. ii. Mills
among orphans, and John Il. Ray
among the blind; such scholars as A
4. Robertson. Of Louisville, the sue
cessor of Broadus; such college presl-
cents as Poteat of Wake Forest; Vann
of Raleigh; Scarborough or MurIrees-
horo; Hobgood of oxford; Poteat OF
Furman: Smith of Mercer: summons
of Shorter; such secondaIy-schooi
principals as Campbell. of Buie's
Creek and Moore of Mars Hill such
writer's as Thomas Dixon. author OF
"trhe Clansman." and John Charles
MCNEIL the poet first winner or the
Patterson cup; such men OF business
as w. c.. Powell in naval stores, the
Norwoods in banking hunter ana
Boushall in insurance. ana many an
other is doubtless as worthy as these
of mention in the roll-cali Oh the col
leges sons.
The College Cemetery.
The village of the living IS not with
out it's village of the dead. Ana VINO
can reckon with those VINO LABOR To-
DAY, unmindful of the fathers VINO
rest from their laborsY otroIl lhltiler
Sunday afternoon in the pIdcihS s., ar LII
and mellow sunlight Of OCTOBER. walk
among ceuar and oak and elm and
maple and read these names carved III
marble:
Samuel Wait. founder ana flrst
President of the College 500 o441
VINO can ever know MS 81 uSSiFs OF
calculate his service?
Washington Manly Wlnga1e. rresd-
dent from 1854 to his DEAN III 1879
and one OF the saintliest Suits ever
: fettered in the f1esh--no Wonuet lhey
Inscribed or this stone: MARK the
perfect man ana behold the upfignt;
| William CASTOR simmons the hard-
est worker the college mas 80 +,., VI !.
doing we'll and for years li,e ts"sliiil 3
work now assigned 10 i'1''A uoAeh