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78 The President's Report For 1908-1909
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To the Board of Trustees of Wake Forest College:

The President of the College has the honor to present his fourth
annual report. It covers the academic year which began September 1st,
1908, and closes May 21st, 1909.

Reverend Jesse Bynum Boone, a useful member of your body, passed
away at this home in Hendersonville, June 17, 1908. His service as
trustee began in 1888 and, with an interruption of two years during
his residence in another State, continued to the day of his death. Mr.
Boone's college course was cut short by the Civil War. The years
1869-71 he spent in the Theological Seminary at Greenville, S. C. His
pastorates were in Northampton County, in Charlotte ('71-3), in Inde-
pendent Hill ('73-81), in Statesville ('75-82), Salisbury ('76-83), in
Hendersonville ('86-7), in Moberly, Mo. ('89-91), in Windsor and
Saluda. From 1883 to 1889 he was the President of Judson College.
In 1891 he was Agent of the North Carolina Baptist University for
Women. For ten years beginning in 1895 he was the General Manager
of the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville. He attained the age of
seventy-two years. The interment was in Asheville.

THE FACULTY.-At a meeting of the Board of Trustees in Raleigh,
July 23, 1908, Dr. Edgar Eginton Stewart, of New York City, was
elected Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, succeeding Dr. Lewis M.
Gaines, resigned. A native of New York City, Dr. Stewart had four
years of collegiate training in the College of the City of New York and
received his professional degree from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1906. From that time his hospital experience was exten-
sive,-in the City Hospital, in the City Alms House, in the Roosevelt
Hospital, and in the House of Relief of the New York Hospital, where
as physician and surgeon for a year and a half he had charge of all
cases.

The resignation of Dr. Watson S. Rankin, of the chair of Bacteri-
ology and Pathology, is herwith transmitted to you. In the fall of
1903 Dr. Rankin began his work in the College. Since 1903 he has been
Dean of the School of Medicine. He has been Superintendent of the
College Hospital this year. Apart from his classroom duties his service
has been notable. The official recognition of this school as of the first
rank in its methods, equipment, and standard is largely due to his
enthusiasm and professional intelligence. His loss is a matter of the
deepest regret. It will be necessary for you to elect his successor.

Professor Luther R. Mills, appointed by you at your last annual
meeting Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, has preferred to
undertake no teaching work this year.

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With the beginning of the present session Professor J. B. Carlyle
resumed his full professorial duties, making it unnecessary to continue
the position of Instructor in Latin, held for the three previous sessions
by Mr. Hubert McNeill Proteat. Professor Carlyle continues to assist
the Bursar in the collection of the subscriptions to the Endowment Fund.

The work in the Department of Mathematics has been done again
this year by Professor Lanneau and Professor Lake, with the assistance
of Instructor Hubert A. Jones. Mr Jones has taught the classes which
Instructor William Harvey Vann taught in 1907-8, and his compensation
was, accordingly, raised to $450.

Mr. J. E. Allen, appointed by you Instructor in Chemistry at a
salary of $350, later declined the appointment, and Mr. J. Santford
Martin was elected by the Executive Committee, his compensation being
fixed at $250. It will be necessary for you to appoint an Instructor in
this department for the next year who can take a larger share of the
instruction of classes.

Instructor Hubbard F. Page, who has continued this session his work
in the department of English at a cost of $500, will not accept reappoint-
ment for the coming year. Accordingly, you will need to appoint his
successor.

The following Assistants were appointed by the Executive Committee
in consultation with the Faculty:

F. T. Collins, in Political Science, compensation, $78.

R. L. McMillan, in English, compensation, $78.

R. P. McCutcheon, in English, compensation $56.

B. P. Marshbanks, B.A., in Physics, compensation, $78.

O. W. McManus, in Biology, spring term, compensation, $34.

A. D. Morgan, in Chemistry, compensation, $78.

L. L. Tilley, in Physical Culture, compensation, $50.

B. S. Bazemore, B.A., in Medicine, compensation $50.

H. B. Ivey, in Medicine, compensation, $50.

The total teaching body of the College now numbers thirty-two, dis-
tributed in position as follows: Professors, 16; Associate Professors,
2; Instructors, 5; Assistants, 9. The total cost of instruction a year
is $27,552, which stands to the total cost of administration proper,
$4,500, in the ratio of about six to one.

THE STUDENTS.-The number of students enrolling is gratifying. The
unfavorablee financial situation which prevailed so generally in our State
last year, considered with the stricter interpretation of the entrance
requirements, might have explained a reduction of matriculations. But
the roll shows an excess over that of last session of sixteen. The first
year men number 181, as against 147 last session. The ministerial
students number 73. The representation of States in the student body
is as follows: NOrth Carolina, 341; South Carolina, 25; Viriginia, 6;