Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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1968 HOWLER Wake Forest U P The New University: From a Tight Family Background to the Liberal Community Wake Forest is nothing else but Wake Forest. There can be no other description of the institu- tion, simply because there is no other college like it. The history of the University is rich, long, and often humorous. The traditions may be categorized similarly. But the Wake Forest of today is a dynamic moving center of increasing prominence and ideas. Last year Wake Forest received a new title. Wake Forest Univer- sity carries on where the heritage of Wake Forest Institute and Wake Forest College left off. The spirit of the new university can be traced through the roots of its past as can that of any organism. But the philosophy of the sixties demands new approaches, new outlooks, and new visions. During the 134 years of its existence, Wake Forest ' s objectives have not changed drastically, but the means to achieve these ends of total education have evolved with the times. To liberate men, pro Humanitate, for humanity, is the goal of Wake Forest Univer- sity, says Tom Elmore, Dean of Students. It is to free students from the limiting factors of im- maturity, fear, prejudice, re stricted vision, paucity o amo- tion, confused objectives, and ig- norance of self, society, and things — to free them for self-fulfillment and responsible living. Throughout its history Wake Forest has been an integral part of the Baptist State Convention. Following the founding of the organization in 1830, the leaders realized the need for Christian higher education in North Caro- lina. By 1834 Wake Forest Insti- tute had been established under the principalship of Dr. Samuel Wait.

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WAKE FOREST COLLEGE BIRTHPLACE This simple provincial house was built before 1820. For some year It was the home of Dr. Cah in Jones, a founder of the North Carolina Medical Society, major -general ar of, r»rder ' 1812 and Grand Master of the in North Carolina. He was for 30 years a trustee of the University of North Carolina. In 1832 Dr. Jones sotd his home and plantation at Wake Forest to the Baptist State Convention. On February 3. 1834. Wake Forest Institute, as It was called until 1838. was opened in the building with an enrollment of 16 ' ajudents. The dwelling house was used . of the first President of the Wait, and for classroom purposes. ' house was used as a chapel substantial log cabins The house, now on its fourth, from its original location In the campus in 1839 to make College Building. and later to on Wingale Street It Is now 1830 period. For the first five years Wake was also a manual labor school. But in 1838, this aspect of a lib- eral education was abandoned in favor of the new Wake Forest College. The curriculum was in harmony with the times; the em- phasis was on training young men for the ministry. In 1894, Wake Forest moved rapidly toward the twentieth cen- tury by establishing schools of law, medicine, business administration, and graduate studies. By 1948, Wake Forest had moved far be- yond the closed conservatism of one-track education. No longer