Excerpt from The Agromeck, 1909, Vol. 7 Roe. Robert E. L. Yates, Professor Of Pure Mathematics in our col lege, was born on his father's farm in Wake County, in December, 1815 lle had the good fortune to be prepared for college by such thorough and capable teachers as Capt. J. J. Frav and Prof. Hugh Morson, who in his youth conducted an academy in Raleigh. In 1884 Prof. Yates entered Wake Forest College. Where he made a most excellent record for scholarship and tine man hood. He was especially strong in mathematics. Endowed with the mathe matician's habit of concentration and love of overcoming difficulties, he made progress sufficiently rapid to receive the Master's degree in four vears and to be graduated as the salutatorian Of his class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.