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32 above that of the last session and 17 above that of
the year 1903-4, which made the highest previous
enrollment. North Carolina sends 313, South Carolina
19, Georgia and Virginia 4 each, Maryland 2, Alabama,
Arkansas and Kentucky 1 each. All sections of North
Carolina are represented, from Cherokee and Yancey
counties to Cartaret and Tyrrell. Wake County leads
with 43, while Northampton and Halifax tie with 12,
Union and Cleveland with 11. No fatal illness has
befallen the student body, but several serious cases have
occurred, among them four of typhoid fever. These latter
were isolated and the source of infection was discovered
and condemned. The spirit of the students has been well
nigh all that could be desired, both in loyalty to the
College and the administration and in the sense of propriety
and honor coming rapidly to the supreme. The only form
of hazing here, that known as "blacking", is not yet
eliminated, but it is passing away under the censure of
the great majority of the students and the summary
dismissal by the Faculty of every detected participator
in it.
The removal of the morning chapel services from Leigh
Hall to the Memorial Hall at the beginning of the session
was followed by a marked improvement in the character of
the exercises. The general religious condition prevailing
in the college has been most gratifying. It was greatly
helped by protracted services beginning the first of
October and continuing to the 13th. Dr. A. B. Dunnaway
of Oxford conducted these services. The Young Men's
Christian Association has enlisted a larger number of
students in active Christian work than in any previous
session. It has influenced effectively the nonministerial
section of the student body, which now supplies its
principal officers. It carries forward voluntary Bible
study and mission study. Eighty-eight per cent of the
students are members of churches.
The action of the Board of Trustees in their last
annual session touching the secret clubs which they had
legalized a year before has been observed, and there has
been no effort to perpetuate them the present session.
For the coming year the base ball team will be required
to play intercollegiate games in accordance with the rules
of the Southern Intercollegiate association. The base ball
team, the basket ball team, and the Glee Club are allowed
to be absent from their work in the College for only five
days in the aggregate, and no student is allowed to be
a member of any of these organizations whose average dally
standing in his classes falls below 80.
There has been a notable improvement in theplant under
the control of the Trustees by the erection of the Alumni
Building. The first brick of that building was laid
May 21st, 1904, by J. B. Carlyle, Jr., three years of age.
The corner stone was laid May 24th 1904, by the Sentor
class of that year. It has been constructed under the
plans prepared by C. W. Barrett of Raleigh and under the
direction of a building committee consisting of J. B.
Powers, Chairman, T. E. Holding, W. L. Poteat, J. H.
Gorrell and J. B. Carlyle. The cost of the building is
$16,066 which amount was collected by Prof. J. B.
Carlyle. The College is under special obligations fo
Prof. Carlyle for this achievement, and to Prof. J. H.
Gorrell, under whese immediate and constent supervision
the work advanced to a most satisfactory completion.
The building is the gift of the Alumni of the College as
a testimonial of their devotion to their Alma Mater and
their faith in her widening future. Some formal
recognition of this handsome gift might be fittingly made