Progress at Keene Academy
The following notes from the South-western Union Record speak encouragingly of the work at Keene Academy:— “Our stock of calendars is exhausted. The faculty is now preparing copy for next year’s calendar. We plan to issue it shortly after the union conference. “On January 8 last year, our enrolment was one hundred and seven; on the same date this year, it is one hundred and forty-four. There were forty-two students in the Home on January 8 last year; this year there are fifty-one. “The demand for more room for the preparatory school makes it necessary to provide new quarters for the music department. Rooms will be prepared for it in the upper story of Assembly Hall. “We are glad to see the progress on the church building, for it will give the school more room when meetings are no longer held in the chapel; and the old seats in our recitation rooms, which belong to the church, will be replaced with modern recitation seats. “The increasing attendance in the preparatory school makes it necessary to order more seats; so we have ordered fourteen single seats. It is our plan to have all our preparatory rooms seated with single seats as far as possible. A first-class teacher’s desk has been ordered for the chapel.”