The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
LARGE LAW CLASS
1T WAKE FOREST
Bulletin By Carnegie the
Foundation
EnR|CHINC The LIBRARY

Gift Of Eleven Hundred Books TO
Wake Forest, Some OF Them Very
Valuable and Observation-Disclosures
Poteat Goe to MonlGeat-faStoT
johnson to Spend Vacation at Uni
yersity Of Chiclgc-Otiler Wake
Forest College Notes.
Especial TO News and Obs@rver.)
Wake Forest, n. c., June 18.-The
Summer Law School has broken all
its good records. There were thirty
three men in attendance at the close
Of the first week and more are expect
e0 t. enter in the next few days. Pro
fes4"ts Galley and Timberlake and
reaping the. reward Of their marked
ability ana experience as teachers. The
gentlemen who are taking the course
are many Of them college graduates,
ofter institutions being represented
besides Wake Forest.
It yYa5 an interesting and pleasant
ccincjGcnce that two gentlemen Of the
faculty were happily married on the
15tn of June, They were Professor
James l. Lake Of the Chair Of Physics,
whose BRIDE is Miss Virginia Caldwell,
and Secretary e. 3. Earnshaw, whose
bcidc IS Miss Edith Taylor, youngest
daughter Of DR.. Charles E. Taylor.
The Carnegie Foundation has just
issued Il b9alky bulletin on the M
cal Schools Of the United States and
Canada" The report is in every sense
based upon u visit of inspection by an
expert or the Foundation. The friends
OF wake Forest Will read the follow
ing extract with pleasure describing;
the laboratory facilities of the medical
department of the college: The labo-
r2torieS OF this little school are, as
far as they go, models in their way.
Everything about them indicates in
t~eiigence and earnestness. The dis
sectiHg-rOoTu is clean and odoIless, the
bodies undergoing dissection beingl
cared for in the most approved mod
ern manner Separate laboratories,
properly equipped, are provided for
ordinary undergraduate work in bac-
teIioloSy, pathology, and histology, and
the instructor has a private laboratory
oeside s- Chemistry IS taught in tbs
weil-eautpped college laboratory:
physiology is slight: there is no phar-
macology. There is a small! museum:
ats, charts, and books are pro
vided.
Date Of visit: February, 1909"
The college library was greatly en-
riched by the receipt on June from
Mrs. Temple Battle AIsop, Of the Ii
brary Of her husband. the late Mr.. 8.
s, Alsop. OF Enfield, r.. G. It consists
Of 100 volumes. OF these $50 are
law books. Among them are "A Col
the Province OF North Carolina" Two
volumes bound in one. Newbern.
Printed by James Davis, 1885. and
Laws OF the State of North Caro-
lima By James Iredeil Edenton. 1871;
besides q numbeF Of first editions of
Y n Wv. A. 4@-i-
North Carolina Reports The re
mainder Of the library, containing
NEARLY 1000 volumes, IS especially
rich in Americana, Travels, and early
and rare editions OF English authors.
There is a valuable collection relating
to North Carolina history which con
tains such books as an autogzaphic
copy Of Caruthers' "Old North State
In 1875" and T'arleton's Cam raign-
ing III America" quoted by English
booksellers at ten pounds $4,000.
There is q set Of the Pastor Letters
q copy OF "Fielding's Works with
Cruikshank's illustrations, The
Charleston Book" (1845). etc. It is
evidently the COLLECTION of a man who
loved books and who had a fine sense
Of discrimination in selecting them.
Another notable gift to the college
library may be announced. 1t is made
by the directors of the Biblical Re
corder, and consists of twelve bound
volumes Of the Religious Herald in
Guiding the issues from 1866 to 1889.
together with eNht bound volumes OF
the Biblical Recorder SuppIenaenting
the invaluable set of this journal al
ready in possession of The library.
Pastor Walter ~. Johnson left today
for the University of Chicago. where
he viii spend the six weeks Of his va
cation in special study.
President Poteat goes today to Mon
treat where he has engagements to
address the Southern Students Con-
terence on the evening Of the 18th
and to d q course on Compare
tive Religion.