Spanish at Keene Academy.
One of the valuable suggestions of the last General Conference was that of Elder W. C. White to the effect that each training school make a specialty of teaching a certain language with the view to preparing missionaries for the field where that language is spoken. This suggestion was embodied in the following recommendation on education:— “18. Resolved, That we approve the plan set forth on page 8 of the General Conference Bulletin, of helping our larger schools to teach the languages of the countries nearest their respective fields, and of printing tracts in those languages; and we request the General Conference Committee to take measures to set this plan into speedy operation.” Keene Academy has taken steps, since issuing the annual calendar, toward carrying out this recommendation by employing Brother Fitch, of El Paso, Tex., to whom the Castilian, or Spanish, language is native, and who has had much experience in teaching it, as he has also the English language. He is competent to translate from Spanish to English, or vice versa. Furthermore, he is a printer by trade, and an editor of more than twenty years’ experience. Brother Fitch is now in charge of the Academy printing office, which is equipped for printing tracts and small pamphlets. If any have work of this kind, in either English, German, or Spanish; if they have translations to be made involving these languages; if they have bills, letter-heads, circulars, posters, etc., to be printed, it will aid the effort we are making for industrial education, and will assist worthy students struggling for an education, if they will give us their patronage. We can deliver jobs to them as cheap as they can get them at home. Please address Keene Academy, Keene, Tex. We would also call the attention of the General Conference Committee to the fact that we are ready to do our part in carrying out the recommendation of the General Conference.