Walla Walla College by E. C. Kellogg

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1916

Walla Walla College

By E. C. Kellogg

Walla Walla College was opened Dec. 7, 1892. It is located on an electric interurban line about two and one-half miles west of Walla Walla, a city of 22,000 inhabitants, situated in the celebrated Walla Walla Valley, justly noted for its orchards and gardens. The climate is mild and healthful. Seven splendid mountain streams and countless spring brooks flow through the valley to water its luxuriant vegetation. From these sparkling and musical streams the name “Walla Walla” is derived, meaning “many waters.” The college may be reached by two systems of railway: the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co., and the Northern Pacific Railway. A macadamized road has been constructed from Walla Walla through College Place.

Buildings and Grounds

The college building is a substantial brick structure of four stories, at the rear of an elevated campus comprising about ten acres, and commands a pleasing view of the Blue Mountains lying to the east and south. Connected with the main buildings are two brick dormitories with rooms and dining-room capacity for more than one hundred students. A little to the south of this structure is a neat and well-equipped normal building. A little to the north is the Walla Walla Sanitarium, a well-equipped medical and surgical institution built on the college campus, and conducted by the Upper Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. This institution is of inestimable value to the school.

Adjacent to the campus, extending to the west and south, is the college farm, a fifty-acre tract of fruit and garden land, which supplies the home with an abundance and variety of produce for the table. Just north of the college building a six-inch well has been drilled to a depth of six hundred feet. This furnishes in an ever-flowing stream all the water that is needed about the buildings and farm.

WALLA WALLA COLLEGE, COLLEGE PLACE, WASH.

In connection with these important and necessary features, the college also conducts a food factory, a general merchandise store, and a printing office.

Religious Basis of Instruction

The college is under the control of the North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It is the purpose of the managers that the work in various lines of study shall be conducted in such a manner as to inculcate confidence in the Bible, and lead as many as possible to the practical enjoyment of a genuine Christian experience. Accordingly, the study of the Holy Scriptures and of history interpreted in the light of prophecy, is made a prominent feature of the school. Each day religious services are held in the chapel, at which attendance is required. Morning and evening worship is also conducted in the home. Sabbath school is held every Sabbath, and the weekly prayer meeting is of especial interest. The Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Society is a strong organization. The Foreign Mission Band has a large membership.

Objects of the School

The objects for which Walla Walla College was founded are as follows:—

1. To serve as a training school for the education of young people from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

2. To help young men and women develop symmetrically their physical, mental, and moral natures, and to assist them in acquiring culture, refinement, and a Christian character.

3. To train laborers for the ministry, missionary teaching, and other branches of Christian work.

The Outlook for the Future

We believe the outlook for the college is the most favorable it has been during the history of the institution. This is not said because it is generally best to take an optimistic view of matters, but because we believe conditions are such as to warrant us in entertaining bright hopes for the future.

The college has an excellent faculty. The several members are well qualified for efficient work in their respective departments. They work together with the utmost unity and feeling of good will. This means much for the upbuilding of the school.

The institution likewise has an excellent class of students. They have high ideals. They are earnest, enthusiastic, and loyal to the college, and to the principles for which it stands. This also means much for the advancement of college interests.

There is an educational awakening throughout our field. More people are interested in advanced learning, more individuals are favorable toward the college, more brethren are praying for the institution, and more prospective students are planning to attend the school than ever before in its history. An unusually large number of letters have come to the college during the summer, stating a definite purpose of individuals to attend the coming year.

The leading men of the denomination look with appreciation upon the work of the school. Their words of commendation are reacting favorably for the advancement of the college. They look to the institution for laborers, and are not disappointed. Those taking positions have performed their work in a creditable way. This, too, gives added impetus to the onward movement.

Probably the greatest reason for expecting rapid advancement of the college in the future is the fact that it is a part of a rapidly advancing movement. The work of the third angel’s message is developing with great celerity. It is to be completed in a little while. In fact, it is to be cut short in righteousness. But it is a great work. Now, if the denomination

is to do much greater work during a very short time in the future than it is doing at present, it must increase its efforts with marked acceleration; and the college, as an important part of the great plan, must advance in its place in sympathy with the whole.

E. C. Kellogg, Pres. Walla Walla College.