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* WAKEFIELD. 251 WALAPI. tho lesser monasteries. Among his works printed by Wyiikyn ile Worde was one re|)Utei,l to be the first ijook printed in Eni;land willi Hebrew and Araliic eharaoters.OraricK/f Laudibus ct Ctilitate Trillin Linguarum Arabicw, Vhaldaicai cl lle- biiiiccE (1524). WAKEFIELD, The Vicar of. See Vicar of AKEl'lELl). WAKE FOREST COLLEGE. An educational institution under Haptist eonliol at Wake Forest, N. C, founded in 1833 as ake K<}rest Institute and reorganized as a college in 1838. It is or- ganized in schools of Latin. Creek, English, mod- ern languages, pure mathematics, api)lied mathe- matics and astronomy, chemistry, hiolog}', physics, moral philosophy, history and political science, law, the Bible, pedagogj', and medicine, and confers the degrees of B. A., B. S., LL.B., and M. A. There is no preparatory department, but subcollegiate classes are maintained in Latin, Greek, mathematics, and English for students not fully prepared for collegiate work. In 1903 the students numbered 309. the faculty 17, and the library contained 10,000 volumes. The en- dowment was .$200,000, with an income of about .$32,000. The value of the college property was estimated at .$350,000, with buildings and grounds valued at $93,000. WAKE ISLAND. A small island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the LTjiited States. It lies in latitude 19° 10' north and longitude 100° 30' east, on the cable route between the United States and the Philippines, 1505 miles cast-northeast of Guam and 2325 miles west of Honolulu (Jlap: Guam, B 9). It is only about one square mile in area, and is uninhabited. It Avas acquired for the United States by the second Philippines expedition in 1898. WAKE'LEY, Joseph Beaumont (1809-75). A :lethodist Episcopal minister. He was born at Danbury, Conn., and entered the New York Con- ference "in 1833. He filled various appointments in the neighborhood of New York and won re- nown as an ecclesiastical antiquary. As the result of his researches he published Heroes of Methodism (1857); Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of Methodism (1858) ; Anecdotes of the 'Wesleys (1869) ; Portraiture of Rcr. William- Cravens (1809) ; A Prince of Pulpit Orators— Whitefield (1871); Temperance Cyolo- pwdia (1875) : and The ^Veslcyan Demosthenes: Coinprisinfi .Select Sermons of Joseph, Benupiont (1875). He edited the Reminiscences Historical and Biographical of Rev. Henry Boehm ( 1865) . WAKEM, Philip. A piteously misshapen lad, in love with ^Maggie Tulliver, in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss. W AKE'M AN, Henry Offley (1852-99). An English historical writer, educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1S73, with first honors in modern history. His life was passed at Oxford. He became a tutor in Keble College, and afterwards fellow and bursa.r of All Souls. As a member of the board of the faculty of modern history and of the Hebdomadal Council, he performed iinportant services to the university. His History of the Church of Eng- land (1896, 5th ed. 1898) is regarded as the standard work from the Anglican point of view. Next to this comes The Church and the Puritans, Vol.. XX.— 17. IStO-lOGO (1887; 3d ed. 1892). Among his other works are History of Religion in England (1885) ; Europe, 16<J8-nib (1894) ; and Life of Charles James Eox (1890). WAKE-ROBIN. See Abum. WAKIDI, wa-ke'de (Ar. Abu 'Abd Allah Mu- hammad ibn 'IJmar al-Waiddd) (747-823). One of the first biogra])hers of Alohaninied. He was born in Medina, the centre of the traditions con- cerning the Prophet. Unsuccessful as a mer- chant, ho finally gained patronage in Bagdad, and found ojiport unity for his literary labors. His cliief work is the Kitiib al-maghazi, or Book of tlie Campaign.s of Jlohammed. He was a close student of the traditions concerning the Prophet, and excelled in chronolog}'. The book has been translated by Krcmcr, Hi-story of Muhainnicd's Cainpuiyns (Calcutta, 1856), and it has been condensed into German by Wellhausen in Muhammed in Medina (Berlin, 1882). A number of later works have been erroneously ascribed to this historian. Consult Brockel- mann, (Jescliivhie der arabischen Litteratur. WAKLEY, wfdc'll, Thomas (1795-1802). An English surgi.on and reformer, born at Membury, Devonshire. He studied medicine in the Bor- ough Hospitals in London and at a private school of anatomy founded by Edward Grainger. For several years he practiced in London, and then in 1823 founded a weekly medical journal called the Lancet, tlirough which he made many bitter enemies, but accomplished much good. From 1835 till 1852 he was a mcndjer of the House of Commons, and carried through many reforms. In 1851 he began in the Lancet a crusade against adulterated foods which resulted in legislation to correct the evil. WALAFRID (vii'la-frct) STRA'BO (c.808- 849 ). A mediipval German monk and scholar. At an early age he went to the famous cloister of Roichenau for his education, and entered the Bene- dictine Order at the age of fifteen. He spent about three years at Fulda under Rabanis Maurus, and then returned to the Imperial Court as in- structor of the young son of Louis the Pious. As a reward, the Emperor bestowed on him the Abbey of Reichcnau. In the contest that fol- lowed the dcatli of Louis, Walafrid, like Rabanus, took the side of German unity as represented by Lothair; he was obliged to leave his abbey, but recovered it in 842. Little is known of his life after this. He was of a poetical nature, and left some notable verse, distinguished by eleva- tion of thought. Conspicuous is the Yisio ll'cf- <!)){, a description of the experiences of his teacher Wettin in the other world, and the first of that class of mediseval poems which reached its highest point in the Dirina Commedia. His name is even better known for his. CHussa Ordi- naria, only a compilation, but the most popu- lar commentary on Scripture throughout the Middle Ages. His works are in Migne, Patro- logia Latino, cxiii. and exiv. WALAPI, wii'la-pl. or HITALAPAI (Pine People). A tribe of Yuman stock (q.v.) orig- inally residing about the Great Bend of the Colorado and extending eastward into Arizona. They are now gathered upon a reservation in the same country. . They were agricultural and generally peaceable and friendly toward the