p. 20 | Southwestern Junior College

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1916

Southwestern Junior College

The transfer of Prof. F. R. Isaac, who was principal of Keene Academy last year, to the principalship of the German Seminary, made it necessary to call Prof. W. E. Nelson, formerly head of the science department of Walla Walla College, to take the presidency of the Keene school, which has been rechristened Southwestern Junior College. In a recent letter Professor Nelson sends the following encouraging report:—

“Our school is increasing; our enrolment at present is one hundred and seventy above the eighth grade, and the young people are taking hold of their work in an enthusiastic way, and we are looking forward to a splendid year. We have about twenty-five taking work above the twelfth grade.

“Our Friday evening meetings are an inspiration to our students, and we are having a full attendance at these devotional exercises. We have our school divided into prayer bands, which meet every Wednesday morning at the chapel hour, where most of the students are divided into small groups for prayer. We organized a foreign missionary band about two weeks ago, with a membership of about forty. The students are planning definitely to enter some branch of the Lord’s work as soon as their preparation is sufficient.”