The Opening at Walla Walla College
By M. E. Cady
According to announcement the Walla Walla College was opened September 6, and the school has now been in operation for a little more than two weeks. The time of opening was about one month earlier than last year. When we consider that the month of September is the harvest month, and that students can make better wages during this month than any other of the vacation, we feel that the opening has been better than we could expect. At the present time the entire enrolment of the college is one hundred and twenty; a few more than one hundred meet in the chapel each morning, while the remainder meet in what has been considered the church-school department of the college. Quite a large number of the students who were here last year have returned, and during the month of October many others will come. We expect quite an increase in the attendance about the first of October, as that will be near the time of the opening of the school last year. In looking over the matriculation blanks, we find that sixty out of one hundred students have chosen definite lines of work, as follows: ministry, 10; Bible work, 6; church-school teaching, 12; music teaching, 8; business lines, 6; nursing, 10; medical profession, 8. We are glad to find that the more advanced classes are filling well; we have seven in chemistry, twelve in physics, fifteen in algebra, and ten in geometry. These classes will increase considerably in size as other students arrive. I am glad to report an older and more mature class of students coming into the school this year. In addition to the regular collegiate work, the industrial department is also receiving its proper share of attention. The students are taking hold of this work with a good spirit. We find that some who were feeling a little reluctant about taking up industrial work are now in full sympathy with it, and have made request to take up even more than one line of industry. Teachers and students are associated together in this work, and it brings in a spirit of fellowship and good-will. There are fifteen young ladies in the dress-making department; and the other departments, printing, baking, carpentry, engineering, cooking, farming, broom making, and simple treatments, have all the way from two to six in each department. We feel very grateful for the blessing of the Lord thus far in our work, and for the prospects before us for the year; but as we visit throughout the field and come in touch with the youth, we find many who are very anxious to enjoy the privileges of the Walla Walla College, and many have determined to lay their plans now to enter the school the coming year; and so while we have quite a good prospect for the present year, we feel that we are now sowing the seed which will make the year to come even more prosperous than the present one. Students can enter the college at any time of the year, although it is far more preferable to come at the beginning. Those who are six or eight weeks late will be placed at some inconvenience, but it will be better to come that much late than not at all. The second semester, or term, of the school begins January 10. At this time new classes will be formed, and it will be a good time for students to come to the school who can not come the first semester. Those desiring information are requested to send for calendar by addressing Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash. Further information than that contained in the calendar can be obtained by writing to the undersigned.