North Carolina education . records show that he more than maintainedthis record in these subjects aud in English. Inmathematics his freshman record was about equalto his Latin record, but in his last year mathematicsdrops to 88 while Latin climbs up to 96. In thelanguages he ranked high but in matliematcis andthe sciences his place was down the line. Writing further of his career at Wake Forest,Dr. Vann says that in his first year, I saw noreason to anticipate any unusual career for him,and it was not until his senior year that the com-munity began to focus attention upon the UnionCounty
North Carolina education . records show that he more than maintainedthis record in these subjects aud in English. Inmathematics his freshman record was about equalto his Latin record, but in his last year mathematicsdrops to 88 while Latin climbs up to 96. In thelanguages he ranked high but in matliematcis andthe sciences his place was down the line. Writing further of his career at Wake Forest,Dr. Vann says that in his first year, I saw noreason to anticipate any unusual career for him,and it was not until his senior year that the com-munity began to focus attention upon the UnionCounty boy. In that year he was one of the vic-torious debaters in a very spirited contest; and heseems to be remembered by his argument in thatdebate. After twenty-five years, however, hisfriends still see in him many of the same char-acteristics that attracted the attention of teachersand schoolmates while he was a college student—a good command of language, strong, analyticalpower, an unbounded grace of humor, intense earn-. GO^ERXOR BICKETT. estness, and a genuine sympathy for all classes ofpeople. A college diploma never contains an esti-mate of those qualities. But such as it does eon-tain were rolled up aud laid away and forgottenuntil the paragrapher searchedthem out after a generation. The young college graduateleft the outgrown shell ofacademies in the spring of had to enter another worldand build anew. His first work,it is said, was that of teacher in]\Iarion. The minutes of theWinston graded school board ofSeptember 5. 1890. however, con-tains the following: ?•The application of T. , of Monroe, X. C. wasnow presented and xipon the rec-ommendation of Prof. Blair,Prof. Bickett was elected pro-fessor of the seventh grade ata salary of ?600 per year. Itwould be interesting to knowhow that salary compares todaywith that of the teacher of thesame grade. ? ? Professor Bickett taughtiu Winston until the close of the school year in 1893. His uncle, D. A. Covin
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