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Annual Report of the President of Wake Forest College
for the Session September 2, 1913-May 22, 1914

To the Board of Trustees:

I have the honor, gentlemen, to lay before you the following
report of the session which is now closing:

One of the chief factors in the maintenance of the Wake Forest
standard and traditions is the solidity of the Wake Forest Faculty.
One-half of the full professors have been in
continuous service here for twenty or more
years, and few changes occur from year to year.
In your choice of new men for positions in the
faculty you have shown a wise recognition of the special fitness of
the Wake Forest training, without forgetting the value of foreign
blood for the stimulus of new methods and ideas. Of the profes-
sorial body, 59 per cent. received their college training here, while
41 per cent. received their college training in other institutions, as
Trinity, Washington and Lee, South Carolina Military Academy,
Richmond, the University of Missouri, and the University of Vir-
ginia. Inbreeding in some of the great eastern institutions is
much closer, showing in Harvard 67 per cent. and in Yale 63 per
cent.

The only change of importance in the Faculty since your last
regular session was the appointmnet by you, September 26, 1913,
of Dr. Wilbur C. Smith, of the teaching snap of the Bellevue Hospi-
tal Medical College, New York City, Professor of Anatomy, to
succeed Dr. Edward S. Ruth, resigned. Dr Ruth went to take a
position in the Southwestern University Medical School, Dallas,
Texas. A statement in detail of Dr Smith's professional training
and experience is given in THE BULLETIN for October, 1913. From
the first he won the confidence and esteem of Faculty and students
alike.

The appointment of Dr. Benjamin Sledd, of the chair of English,
to one of the two Travelling Fellowships on the Kahn Foundation,
open to American scholars for the ensuing year, is a distinction
which he well deserves. The purpose of that Foundation is "to
enable men of proved intellectual attainments to enjoy during one
year or more sufficient leisure and freedom from all professorial
pursuits or preoccupations, to enter into personal contact with men
and countries they might otherwise never have known." In view
of the marked credit which the College receives from this appoint-
ment, and more especially in view of Dr. Sledd's distinguished
service of twenty-five years, it is believed that you will deal
generously with any request which he may make of you in con-
nection with this Travelling Fellowship.

Associate Professor Jay B. Hubbell, after two years of success-
ful teaching in the department of English, desires a year's leave of
absence to complete his studies for the Doctor's degree in Columbia
University. In case both the gentlemen in charge of that depart-
ment are out during the next session, it will be necessary for you
to make provision for the conduct of its work.

Mr. J.D. Ives done faithful service as Instructor in Biology
for eight years, during much of that period conducting entirely all
of the courses except one. He is asking for an advance in position
and in salary.

Appointments of instructors in the several departments were
made as follows: William G. Dotson, in Chemistry, salary college
fees and $150; Clyde E. Rodwell, reappointed in Chemistry, salary
college fees and $100; Guorrant Ferguson, in Latin, salary college
fees; Roy J. Hart, reappointed in German, salary college fees;
John W. Vann, reappointed in German, salary college fees; Alfred
C. Warlick, in Mathematics, salary college fees. Assistance in the
several departments are printed in the current catalogue.

Miss Iola Temple, who served college most acceptably as
Head Nurse of the Hospital from September, 1911, to January 15,
1914, was succeeded on the latter date by Miss Xanie Stowe, of the
Rex Hospital staff, for the remainder of the spring term. You are
asked to make permanent provision for this important position.

Your attention is asked to the need of assistance other than
student assistance in the departments of Chemistry and Modern
Languages and Political Science. Dr Brewer's classes aggregate
166 men, and they require hours of laboratory work a week, in-
volving every afternoon and Saturday morning besides. His work
as Dean of the College is of the highest importance and cannot be
shifted or abridged; but it makes serious inroads upon the energy
and time which he gave wholly to Chemistry before he accepted
this responsibility. In the department of Modern Languages the
work has been increased practically one-third in the past two
sessions by the elevation of the standard for entrance. The classes,
moreover, are fuller and are now quite beyond the capacity of the
indefatigable head of the department. The Faculty has been com-
pelled to turn two of these classes over to student instructors, as
in the case of Chemistry. The cost of these four instructors is
$566. The demand of an enlarged teaching force is quite as press-
ing in the department of Political Science, in which more students
are enrolled than in any other department of the college. These
and other additions to the faculty will have to be made sooner or