Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 6, 1909

WORD is received from Prof. N. W. Lawrence that Mrs. Anna E. Shepherd, preceptress of the Sheyenne River Academy, at Harvey, N. D., has failed in health, and is obliged to leave the school to seek rest. Professor Lawrence also speaks of the very sudden death, from heart failure, of one of their young men, a student in the school.

PROF. C. P. CRAGER writes of the safe arrival in Cape Town of himself and wife and Miss Mary I. Cobban, and of the hearty reception accorded them by the workers and friends. He has been chosen business manager and treasurer of the college. These duties, together with his work as principal, will fill his time full of responsibilities. Miss Cobban is to serve as preceptress and matron

PROF. C. SORENSON, of Keene, Tex., says: “Our school is progressing nicely; while we have our usual amount of perplexities and difficulties, we find that on the whole, there is an earnest spirit among the students, and they are making advancement. There are about fifteen in the senior class this year. This does not include any music or short term students; so we are making quite a gain in that respect. Our enrolment in the academic department is about two hundred twenty-five; in the normal department, about seventy-five.”

WORD is received from Elder Allen Moon, president of the Lake Union Conference, to the effect that the Cedar Lake Academy, at Cedar Lake, Mich., which has heretofore been under the ownership and management of the West Michigan Conference, has been transferred to the North Michigan Conference, and will hereafter be under its direction. The intermediate school of the North Michigan Conference located at Petoskey, will be consolidated with this school, and hereafter the intermediate school of this conference will be located at Cedar Lake.

BROTHER H. E. PIPER writes, regarding their school at Haapai, Tonga Islands: “Our school, which is only nine months old, has an enrolment of forty-two pupils, whose ages range from ten to thirty-five years. From the first, the school has been a success; and what is better still, it has fully paid its own way. Thus far we have only the day-school, but land has been secured upon which to build a mission home and training-school. Already one young man and his wife have decided to obey the fourth commandment in all its fulness.”

IN a letter received from Brother W. E. Hancock, who recently left the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary to take up school work in Guatemala City, Guatemala, he says that at the present time the attendance of the school is about forty. On account of the delay in getting teachers for the school, about twenty-eight students left to take up other work. Several of these are coming back since they have learned that the school is to continue. The purpose of this school is to become acquainted with the people, and obtain opportunities for doing missionary work with them. Brother and Sister Hancock write that they are of good courage, are not at all homesick, and are too busy to think of becoming blue. This is a good spirit not only for teachers in other lands under trying and difficult circumstances, but in the home land as well.