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

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— The spirit of the new University can be traced through the roots of its past . . . FOREST UNIVERSmr MAY 2 5 ' 68 uauRv

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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

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