future of the college will be very bright indeed. Up to June 6, 1911, 2,234 different students were enrolled in the institution and are credited to the following departments: college, 233; academy, 697; normal, 247; commercial, 269; music, 750; art, 49. How long each of these students remained in school would be difficult to compute. On the average, 117 new students enrolled each year. Excluding music students, the yearly enrollment of college students has been about 175. Including music students about 225 have attended the various departments of the college. The conservatory of music attracts large numbers, but it does not seem to be vitally connected with the rest of the school and its increase does not greatly increase the prosperity of the college.
   After the resignation of Dr. Sutherland on June 10, 1911, Dr. L. A. Garrison, A.M., D.D., became president. For the five years previous to his coming to Grand Island College he had been president of Central University at Pella, Iowa. He continued with the college two years. During his presidency the foundations of a gymnasium were laid. Dr. Garrison's successor was the Rev. G. W. Taft, D.D. He came from the pastorate of the Baptist church at Hastings to the educational work of the college. He employed many of the methods of a successful pastor in his administration of the affairs of the college and succeeded in making many personal friends. After three years he retired, November 1, 1917, from the office and college. The trustees elected as his successor E. F. Jorden, D.D., Ph.D. Dr. Jorden came to the college with an enviable reputation as an educator and college builder. He had been president of Sioux Falls College, South Dakota, for ten years and had done great work. His plans and leadership resulted in additional buildings for the institution, in a faculty of capable men and women, and in a large body of students. He is energetically devoting himself to Grand Island College. The friends of Dr. Jorden and the friends of the college believe a great educational work is to be accomplished.

    UNION COLLEGE. Educational work among the Seventh-day Adventists in the Mississippi valley began with the "Minnesota Conference School," at Minnneapolis (sic), in the fall of 1888. This school was held three years in the basement of the Seventh-day Adventist church at the corner of Fourth avenue and Lake street. It enrolled each year over one hundred young men and women as students. From the first, the accommodations were too small and were otherwise unsuitable, hence a council was held at Owatonna, Minnesota, May 20, 1889, to plan for better facilities. This meeting was attended by Professor W. W. Prescott, president of Battle Creek College and educational secretary of the denomination; Pastor A. J. Breed, president of the Wisconsin conference; Pastors W. B. White and N. P. Nelson, from Dakota; Pastors H. Grant, Allen Moon, and F. L. Mead, representing the Minnesota conference; and C. C. Lewis, principal of the Minneapolis school. At this council it was recommended that the several conferences of the northwest unite in establishing and maintaining a well equipped and centrally located school, and that a committee be appointed, consisting of two members from each conference, with power to act in the matter of building and opening such a school. The committee was called to meet again at Owatonna in July, 1889.
   The meeting thus appointed was not held. Before the time arrived, the idea had entirely outgrown its original form. At a meeting held at Lincoln, Nebraska, a few weeks later, a large council recommended the establishment of an educational institution of college grade which would serve all the conferences of the Mississippi valley.
   At the annual session of the general conference held at Battle Creek, Michigan, in October, 1889, it was decided to establish a college, under the auspices of the denomination, at some point between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains. A committee was appointed to select a suitable location. Invitations, accompanied by promises of a substantial bonus, were received from various

cities in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. The committee spent some time in investigating these places, and considering the advantages offered. While the question of a central location with reference to the territory from which the patronage was expected was regarded as an important one, there were other considerations also that were deemed to be weighty. The general atmosphere of the community and its attitude toward education in general are important features in deciding a question of this character. It was found that while Lincoln was comparatively a new city, it was at the front in its efforts to advance the well being of its citizens. Its substantial school buildings, its many and well built churches, and the fact that it was the seat of three universities already, with a prospect that this number would soon be increased, testified to the interest of its citizens in education and religion. These considerations, together with the hearty interest shown in the project by leading citizens and the offer of very substantial aid, led the committee, at a meeting held at Knoxville, Iowa, June 28, 1890, to determine upon the city of Lincoln as the location of the new institution, which was afterwards named Union College. The

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citizens of Lincoln and vicinity donated three hundred acres of land, three and three-fourths miles southeast of the state capitol, and the general conference association of Seventh-day Adventists gave a bond of one thousand dollars to erect, by July 1, 1911, buildings to cost not less than seventy thousand dollars. The raising of funds and the erection of the buildings were under the direction of A. R. Henry, agent and attorney-in-fact for the general conference. W. C. Sisley was the architect and superintendent of the work. Pastor J. P. Gardiner, president of the Nebraska conference, and J. M. Morrison, one of the first builders at College View, with others too numerous to mention, labored strenuously for the success of the enterprise.
   On April 10, 1890, ground was broken for the main college building, and on May 3d the first stone was laid. There were many difficulties in the way, but all were overcome, and the buildings were ready for dedication September 24, 1891. On that occasion the chapel, with a seating capacity of five hundred, was filled to overflowing with citizens from Lincoln, College View, and the surrounding country. Pastor 0. A. Olsen, president of the Seventh-Day Adventist general conference,

presided, and opened the exercises with prayer. Professor Wm. P. Aylsworth, of Cotner University, conducted the scripture reading. W. S. Siley presented to the trustees the keys of the college buildings, accompanying the presentation with a history of the work of building. A. R. Henry, on the part of the trustees, received the keys and responded in an appropriate address. The chief address of the occasion was delivered by Professor W. W. Prescott, the first president of Union College. In this address he emphasized the three leading features of Christian education as consisting of the study of God's word in the revelation of the Bible, the study of His works in nature, and the study of His dealings with men and nations as revealed in history. Chancellor James H. Canfield, of the University of Nebraska, followed with an appropriate speech of welcome, delivered in his happiest manner. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Pastor Uriah Smith, editor of the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Michigan, and the benediction was pronounced by Pastor W. B. White, president of the Nebraska conference.
   The first board of managers and the first faculty of Union College were as follows:

    Board of managers: A. R. Henry, president; W. C. Sisley, secretary; W. B. White, J. P. Gardiner, J. H. Morrison, A. J. Breed, W. W. Prescott. Faculty: William W. Prescott, president; James W. Loughhead, principal; Charles C. Lewis, higher English and Hebrew; E. L. Stewart, mathematics; John A. Bobbs, biblical history and literature (died the day before school opened); C. Walter Irwin, Greek and Latin languages; George A. Droll, natural sciences; Joel C. Rogers, general history; 0. A. Johnson, Scandinavian department; Professor Severin, German department; Ida E. Rankin, preceptress; Mrs. Cora M. Loughhead, assistant in English language; Mrs. Lydia M. Droll, assistant in Latin; Angelia Washburn, assistant in mathematics; Effie M. Rankin, superintendent of domestic department; Alma J. Warren, physical culture; Lars Nelson, steward.
   When Union College was founded there were only two or three farm houses in the vicinity, and no trees but a few locusts and cottonwoods on the campus. Now College View is a pleasant village of about seventeen hundred inhabitants, well shaded with fruit and ornamental trees. It is far enough from the city to avoid its noise and smoke and excitement, yet near enough to obtain its benefits. By its charter no saloon can ever be erected, nor intoxicating drinks be sold, within its limits. Electric cars run between the campus and Lincoln, thus connecting sufficiently the village with the city.
   The college campus consists of twenty-two acres upon elevated ground, commanding an extensive view in every direction, and overlooking the city of Lincoln. The grounds have a natural slope, thus affording perfect drainage, and are carpeted with blue grass and clover sod, dotted with trees, thus producing a restful and pleasing effect. The main building stands well forward in the midst of the campus, and is flanked by North and South halls, retiring modestly a little to the east.
   The main college building is 80 x 140 feet, four stories in height. It is surmounted by a tower, which was furnished by the students with a two thousand pound bell. North hall is 130 x 68 feet, four stories in height. South hall consists of the main part, 38 feet square, with two wings, each 36x6O feet. All of these buildings are veneered with pressed brick, and have stone basement and trimmings, and no pains have been spared to render them well adapted to the purpose for which they were designed. Special attention has been paid to the matter of heating and proper ventilation and to other sanitary conditions. The buildings are heated by one centrally located boiler house, a building covering about one hundred feet square, with laundry and electric light plant all under one roof. The class rooms of the main building are large, well lighted, and steam heated. The chapel is a beautiful room, seated with opera chairs, with accommodations for about five hundred students. In the main building, besides chapel and class rooms, are the business office, president's office, the faculty room, laboratories, library and reading room, music rooms, gymnasium, museum, and book store. The dormitory, or South hall, as it is usually called,

is a comfortable substantial structure, located a few rods south of the college building. The buildings are all heated with steam and lighted with electricity, and are provided with bath rooms and a perfect sewerage system, so that everything possible is done for the comfort and convenience of the students. Fire escapes are providing for each building, and a well-organized system of fire protection is maintained.
   The Nebraska Sanitarium stands a few rods north of the main college building. Originally, it was built as a dormitory for young men, and was called North hall; but as academies and intermediate schools were established in the different conferences tributary to Union College, thus accommodating many of the preparatory students, this building was not so much needed for its original purpose, and was leased to the Nebraska Sanitarium Association in 1896, and finally sold to the same association in 1905.
   The entire property, as estimated by appraisers appointed by the state, was originally valued at $305,000. The college property now, since the sale of the building for sanitarium purposes, is valued at about $200,000.
   When William W. Prescott resigned the presidency Charles C. Lewis, who was professor of Hebrew and higher English, was appointed. He continued in office until the summer of 1910. When he resigned the trustees elected as his successor Frederick Griggs who was at the time general secretary of education for the church with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Mr. Griggs in 1914 retired from the college to take up again the work of secretary of the general educational board. The trustees elected Henry A. Morrison, A.M., president. Professor Morrison was, at the time of his election to the presidency, a member of the faculty and head of the department of mathematics. In connection with the administrative work of the college Mr. Morrison retains the direction of the mathematical work. There has been an encouraging and substantial growth in the college from year to year from the beginning of its history. The gains have been especially marked during the past four or five years. A building for the bakery business has been erected at a cost including the equipment, of $10,000. A modern dairy barn has been put up at a cost of $6,400 and a herd of especially fine cattle has been developed. For the purpose for which the barn was constructed it is regarded by good judges as one of the best to be found anywhere. In addition to those already mentioned, about $15,000 has been spent in repairing and improving the buildings. During the last four years there has been a gain in the number of students of about thirty-five per cent. During the lifetime of the institution, which began in September, 1891, there has gone out about two hundred teachers and students as missionaries. Twenty-five of this number have gone to foreign fields within the last four years. The college during the last three years raised the money and paid off debts of $72,000. This effort took off a heavy burden as it placed the institution free of any debt. The president, faculty, and teachers greatly rejoice in the fact that there are no debts. And more particularly do they rejoice that this condition gives them the time and freedom to devote their thought and energy to the development of the institution. It enables them to look forward to the time when Union College shall occupy the place and possess the strength for which they have been hoping and striving from the day it was determined at Knoxville, Iowa, June 28, 1890, to establish and maintain at Lincoln, Nebraska, an institution of higher education.

   EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN TEACHERS' SEMINARY (NORMAL), SEWARD, NEBRASKA. This institution was founded, 1893, by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states. The organization was the outcome of a demand for such a school in the west other than the one at Addison, Illinois. Four members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church of Seward, Nebraska, offered twenty acres of ground and $8,000, and the college was located at this point. The donors to this fund were Herman Diers, J. F. Goehner, O. E. Bernecker, and P. Goehner. The present board of trustees is as follows: The Rev. C. H. Becker, president; the Rev. H. Miessler, secretary, Columbus, Nebraska; 0.

E. Bernecker, J. V. Goehner, Herman Diers, and Paul Herpolsheimer, treasurer, all of Seward, Nebraska. The members of the faculty are the Rev. Prof. Weller, director; Prof. J. A. F. Strieter; Prof. Karl Haase, professor of music; Prof. H. B. Fehner; the Rev. Prof. Aug. Schuelke; Prof. J. T. Link; the Rev. Prof. Paul Reuter. The growth of the school has been steady and satisfactory. From an enrollment of fourteen the first year, the number has increased each year, until last year the number was 120. Most of these students come from Nebraska, some from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Germany. The principal business of the college is the fitting of teachers for parochial schools, the course of training being about the same as in the Nebraska state normals, with the addition of religion and music. A teachers' training school is maintained in connection with the college. The main building, lecture hall, containing six class rooms, a large (36x80 feet) assembly hall, library rooms, office, etc., is built of brick. The second building, the oldest, has a number of small and one large music room, living rooms, dormitory, lavatories, etc. A boarding hall and hospital are maintained, well equipped to care for 150 scholars. The demand for teachers is greater than the supply.
   Prof. George Weller, who was the first teacher of the college in 1894, is the president of the faculty. He was born January 8, 1860, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shortly after the war was closed his parents moved to New York City and after a short time to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the son received his training in the parochial school of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church. At the age of fourteen years he entered Concordia college of the Missouri synod at Fort Wayne. After graduating he took a theological course at St. Louis, Missouri, in Concordia Seminary, from which he graduated in 1882 and took charge of the Lutheran church and school at Marysville, near Staplehurst, Nebraska. Here he remained until he was elected as first teacher of the new institution at Seward, the Lutheran Seminary. He was married in 1882 to Miss Clara Eirich, of Nashville, Illinois. The children born to them are John, Hulda, George, Elsie, Helen, Anna, Paula, Raymond, and Alfred. John, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, department of civil engineering, is engaged on the Panama canal. He achieved considerable fame as captain of the football team of the university in 1907. George is one of the teachers of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran parochial school at Fort Wayne, indiana.
   The Rev. Carl H. Becker became president of the college board of trustees and supervisors in 1901, when he was elected president of the Nebraska district of the Missouri synod, which position he still holds. He had been vice president of the district synod since 1891 up to his election as president. The Nebraska district, one of the twenty districts of the Missouri synod, was organized in 1882, and elected as its first president the Rev. John Hilgendorf, Arlington Nebraska, and as secretary the Rev. John Meyer, Davenport, Nebraska, who is still serving in that capacity. The district synod is composed of 147 ministers, 208 organized congregations, and 75 missions. The communicants number 23,877, and the total adherents, 42,028. There are 168 parochial schools in the district. Of these 55 are taught by parochial school teachers, the others by the ministers of the respective congregations, instructing 4,953 children. The Missouri synod has from its very beginning, in 1847, recognized the necessity of the Christian day school. As the state cannot provide it for obvious reasons, the congregations and the pastors of this synod considered it their duty to supply what the state cannot and shall not supply according to Scriptures and the constitution of our country. Parochial schools were taught and are taught by the clergy of the Missouri synod so long as the congregation is not in position to engage a teacher for that purpose. Synod maintains large institutions for the exclusive purpose of furnishing well trained teachers for the parochial schools. These institutions and schools are provided for by free offerings and collections of the congregations. They are maintained not from opposition to the state school. The Lutherans willingly pay their public school taxes as citizens

who love their country and "seek the peace of the city." But they consider as most important for the welfare of their children Christian education, not merely instruction in religion, but Christian training and nurture. Scripture teaches, experience verifies, and schoolmen who have grown up with and become renowned by their success in the state school work, testify to the fact that the education of children, not brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, is morally defective. Therefore these Lutherans maintain the Christian day school, and 93,890 children are educated in the 2,100 parochial Schools of the Missouri synod, which is one of the Lutheran Synods of our country laying great stress on the Christian education of children. For this reason it maintains at an annual expense of thousands of dollars, among others, its institution at Seward, Nebraska, the

 

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Lutheran seminary. It is the only one of its kind in Nebraska. The denomination maintains an orphans' home at Fremont.

   YORK COLLEGE. York College, York, Nebraska, is owned and operated by the church of the United Brethren in Christ.
   An eduational (sic) institution was talked of as early as the conference at Grand Island, which was in 1876, but nothing was really accomplished till 1886, when an academy was founded at Gibbon. This school was in operation for four years, C. M. Brooke, J. V. Lefler, and F. W. Jones following each other as principal. In 1890 the institution was located at York, a full collegiate department being added. York College has grown at a rapid rate. J. George, D.D., served as president for the first four years; W. S. Reese, D.D., for the next three years, and he was succeeded by Wm. E. Schell, A.M., D.D. M. 0. McLaughlin is at

the head of the institution at the present time. Under his administration the college has rapidly come into the front rank among the colleges of the state. Collegiate, academy, normal, pharmacy, business, music, oratory, and art departments are maintained. The college has three good buildings. The equipments are first class in every respect. It has state recognition and issues all grades of state certificates. Its assets will reach about $135,000. The surroundings are ideal, the advantages are second to none, and the rates are exceedingly low. Many graduates have already gone forth from its halls, and are doing a good and honorable part in the business and professional work of the great world. The enrollment of adult students for the last year was over five hundred. When Dr. Schell resigned the presidency of the college to accept the office of educational secretary for the denomination the board of trustees elected as his successor M. 0. McLaughlin of Omaha. President McLaughlin was at the time of his election the minister of the United Brethren church in that city. The work in all departments of the college has continued to grow, and the reputation of the institution for earnest and devoted work. has constantly increased. President McLaughlin and those associated with him understand the demands upon the college as an institution of higher education, and they are measuring up to the demand in a masterful way. The years, as they come and go, are seeing the endowment increasing, the student body enlarging and the influence of the college extending.

   NEBRASKA CENTRAL COLLEGE. Nebraska Central College, Central City, Nebraska, is owned, maintained, and conducted by an organization of the Friends in Nebraska. The organization was made early in the year 1896 The articles of incorporation were signed October 4, 1898. The corporate name of the organization which controls the college is "The Nebraska Church and Educational Association of Friends." The purpose and scope of the organization are presented in these words: "To establish and maintain at Central City, Nebraska, an educational institution for instruction in the higher branches of learning, of such grade and character as the situation May demand and the patronage justify." The property was deeded to the Association of Friends free from obligations of all kinds. Thus the people of the church secured the property at Central City free of charges of every. kind. This freedom from debt in the beginning has had much to do in determininng (sic) the financial policy of the church towards the college and, also, the policy of the institution itself. The officers and trustees of the Association of Friends were made an executive board and to this body was committed the management of the college. The doors of the institution were opened for the reception of students in September, 1899. The college was continued under the management of the executive board until 1908. At this time the Nebraska Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends was organized. When this was accomplished the college was placed under its care. From that date the college has represented the educational work of the Yearly. Meeting. Besides the main building. the college owns a boys' dormitory and a dormitory for girls. Besides the college courses the institution maintains an academy. Both the college and the academy are accredited to the University of Nebraska.
   From May, 1904, until June 1, 1917, Elie H. Parisho, Ph.B., A.M., was president. Professor Parisho resigned and the board of trustees on January 8, 1917, elected Homer J. Coppock, A.B., A.M., to the position. The institution prospered under the administration of President Parisho and the earnest, devoted work is being continued under the leadership of President Coppock. The first class was graduated in 1903, and year by year since that date the alumni have been increased. A campaign conducted by the Nebraska Yearly Meeting for funds for the college and for the church extension work was closed August 15, 1917. The net result for the college was $50,886.75. This is considered a good foundation on which to build the endowment fund.

   LUTHER COLLEGE. The founding of Luther Academy at Wahoo, Nebraska, was inspired by the ideas and ideals expressed in the following sentences: "No people that neglects the training of the ideal side of man's nature call

prosper. The Pilgrim Fathers of our church in the state recognized this fact, and acted accordingly. As soon as a rude shanty or sod house on the plains was built they planned for a congregation and a church. In less than twenty years they were ready for the second step, an institution of higher education."
   So far as history makes any record, the first person to give expression to the idea that an institution of learning ought to be established was made by the Rev. J. E. Nordling. Mr. Nordling and the Rev. S. G. Larson were strolling about the part of the country where the college buildings now stand when he said to Mr. Larson; "What a beautiful site for a school?" In the summer of 1882, the Rev. J. P. Nyquist came to the Swedish Lutheran church at Malmo. He aided in establishing Gustavus College in St. Peters, Minnesota, and was very much interested in having an institution of learning of like character in Nebraska. The need of an institution of higher learning was discussed publicly first at a mission meeting held near York, Nebraska, in November, 1882.
   A committee to take up the question was appointed. It consisted of the Rev. J. P. Nyquist, C. J. E. Harterus, and E. A. Fogelstrom. After investigation and consideration of the advantages of different places the committee agreed in March, 1883, to locate the college at Wahoo. It was stipulated that $6,000 should be raised in Wahoo and $4,000 by the friends of the enterprise in the churches in Mead, Swedeburg, and Malmo. This $10,000 with the campus of ten acres where the buildings now stand, were the material beginnings of Luther College. The articles of incorporation were filled March 29, 1883. Plans for the main building were accepted the first of May of that year. The corner-stone for the south wing of the building was laid July 23, 1883. The school was opened for students October 18, 1883. The roll for the first year contained the names of thirty-seven students. The beginning years were in some respects especially difficult. The Swedish churches were not many in number at that day in Nebraska and the number of persons who could contribute money to build and maintain an institution was comparatively small. But those who had entered into this college enterprise faced the many difficulties with faith and hope, with courage and intelligence, with zeal and determination. Debts were paid, money was raised, students were found, buildings were erected, equipped, and supplied, a library was started, a reading room was arranged, and courses of study were constructed.
   The academy sent out the first class of graduates, nine in number, at the commencement, May 20, 1886. The Rev. Martin Noyd was the first president, who, with Prof. S. M. Hill, did the academic work for the first few years. As the years have come and gone new and additional courses of study and departments of work have been added, the number of students has increased, the interests of the college have taken hold of the people in whose behalf the institution was established, and the circle of influence has continued to enlarge. The completion of the new building in 1903 marked an era in the history of the college and most naturally that event linked the past with the future of the institution. The dedication of the building after twenty years of life and work gave an opportunity to recount the steps that had been taken during that period. Addresses were made calling up memories of the past and looking to the successes of the future. Among those who took part in the exercises were Dr. C. A. Swanson of Lindsborg, Kansas; Dr. Nord, the first president of the institution, and the Rev. 0. J. Johnson, who was president of the college at the time of dedication. The years which have followed this planting of a milestone which marks a stage in the progress in the institution have been full of hope and accomplishments. The roll of students from year to year shows a slow and at the same time a healthy and appreciable growth. The policy of the institution from the beginning has been to maintain a faculty of men and women of religious faith and character, of intellectual sight and insight, of mental ability and intelligence, of educational vision and ideals, and of moral earnestness and appreciation. These fundamental and outstanding characteristics of the college have