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


with him; I have yet found it inn
| possible to continue to do So
| DR.. Taylor'S work was to build up
the college and to win it an endow-
ment His work now is much in the
same channel but with more time to
teach. All through his career he has
been professor of moral philosophy;
as such. honored IN his denomination
and in his college. conscious of the
great material work he has accom-
plished. it is pleasing to think of his
gentle soul and accurate mind work.
ing with the delight of a child and
the easy conscience of man amid the
scenes of his mature success.
The .'AIl-Romd Man.
While in DIR. Poteat. man who
came to the college in 1878 a tutor lad
of 81, who has taught Latin and
Green and physics and zoology and
! biology and what-not in the days
| When professorshiDs were scarce; who
has seen and been in the struggle and
the success: who had the example Of
the quiet student man who has kept
the institution running on an ever
more liberal plane, advancing its use
fulness, increasing its numbers and ad-
ding to its wealth, Wake Forest has
found one who knows her well. whose
orbit turns from her center,who is yet
a young man gathering only strength
| from exercise!
To have accomplished al this and
vet to have had time for literature,
for training in public speaking, for an
exact. comprehensive and progressive
knowledge Of his later speciality OF
biolog-r of which he is still tho head,
argues that the President of Wake
Forest is a self-educated man. He
has the college degree and at times
/ he has gone away and studied under
| the masters in one Or another branch
OF science or literature. lie has
studied among the colleges of the
| North and he has gone to Berlin.
Yet all the while he has remained
| comprehensive in his work-a spe-
cialist only in name and not in fact.
He has been an open-eyed man. able
to look his science in the face and
| follow it in it's strange manifesto
lions with a jar to the bedrock
of his early faith, Among his labora-
tories, he walks about like lover
| coming on an old retreat, yeti they
do not appeal to him in the way of Il
fetish. In this paper in July j. w.
4 Bailey told of his library of two thouS-
! and Volumes cross-indexed so that III
| the reading of one book one touched
the library at every point from which
the author had drawn or with which
| he disagreed! To do d thing like that
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| body so toned for work that it needs
no SPUR to effort. DR.. Poteat is an
| all round man-strong. accomplished,
| learned ard simple. In choosing him
| for president the college has in real
| as we'll as sentimental way found
a head who in middle life yet young
| is a. many pointed example of the pro-
| duct which it would create.
The Campus and Buildings.
Seen from the railroad the col
! lege campus swells w over broad
lawns studded with shrubs to sky
| line of trees through which the tall
| brick buildings look out sedately. The
buildings are Of brick honest red stuff
put together with thick walls square
| tood IN personality. here and there an
occasional pillar of white; distinguish
cd for high pitch, big windows and
mary of them. Inside there is evil
denCe of modern finish, only the hulls
are old. The buildings. like the pro-
fessors, the students, the college itself.
ire for use.
There are five of these buildings now
in use, the new alumni building, which
| will consist chiefly of tho biological
| laboratory, just nearing compile ion.
They arc thu Administration. the
Wngate Memorial the Williams-H Heck
tho Lea Chemica! Laboratory and the
|
MISUNDERSTANDING the presidents Of
fees Il series of well-adapted lecture
rooms and, on other wing the dor
nftories one for the members OF the
Euzelian. tho other for members of
the Phi,amathcSian Literary Societies.
; The nails of thu societies are in the
| HeCk-WiliamS building. as are the
library and the lecture rooms and
library for the law class. The Chemi
cal building now devoted also TO BIZ
olcgV and other Kindred scientific
| studies. IS one Of tho most complete
in the country. When il shall be Ga.
voted entirely to chemistry. it's use
fulncsS viii be still further EXCHANGED.
| In the Wingate Memorial building, as
has been stated arc the small and
large chanc!s and lecture rooms. The
| gymnasium is, also, a complete build
| ing mOdernlv equipped and with d
competent instructor. In Lien of foot
ball. which is only played extempor-
aneouSly the gymnasium furnishes the
field for winter games, which are play
! ed with enthusiasm that can be heard
across the campus in the afternoons
| The physical exercises are most thor
oughly conducted and their compul-
I sorry nature is of q sort to make them
really compulsory on every student
There are no fraternities at Wake
| Forest and, whether from that or
other causes, student interest CentcrS
in the two societies. AS consequence
| Wake Forest debaterS have been uni
formly successful and mostly victor
ious In the library there even now
rests the intercollegiate cup of the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. The
two halls are handsomely fitted UP
but the students are devising means
at not distant date to erect sep
arato building for the society homes.
To one fresh from the glamour of
a field of twenty thousand maniacs
raging at & football victory of state
wide Importance, there seems some
thing amiss about a campus without
the suggestion Of gridron, but the
Wake Forest students do not seem to
mind. They are independent over
the lack of that king of games, the
faculty having presaged years ago by
it's action the general movement now
looking to football! reform. In base
ball. on a cold December day, they
were playing in the gymnasium, 9
thing that sounds far more difficult
than i is. Tennis courts abound. the
student body IS awake and alert with