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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 2.

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Union College

By C. C. Lewis

THE enrolment at Union College is now four hundred twenty-seven. I think this is about fifty less than the enrolment last year at the same time. At the close of the first week of school this year the enrolment was more than last year, but we have been making a strenuous effort to get students to enroll at the beginning of each term, making the registration free at that time, and charging a fee of one dollar for registration later. There are two other apparent causes for the smaller enrolment. Two new intermediate schools have been started in the territory from which Union College draws students, and some of the academies already established are filled with students this year. Then we have been trying to carry out the recommendation of the General Conference not to receive students below the eleventh grade from the territory of other academies without the consent of the president of the conference.
So far as the character of the students and the quality of their work is concerned, I think we have never had a better term. It has been quiet and orderly.
We believe that, with the departure of the foreign department, Union College will enter upon a new era of development. We are planning to drop off all preparatory work except the church-school work to the eighth grade connected with the normal department, and the academic work, which must be retained to accommodate College View and Nebraska students. So far as other States are concerned, we shall continue to keep back students under the eleventh grade, unless there is some special reason for their coming to Union College. It is our purpose to put forth strenuous efforts next year to fill up the ranks of all our enrolment (depleted by the withdrawal of the foreign students) with students drawn from the academies and high schools of the different States. I might add that there has been the utmost harmony during the term, so that the new plans have gone into operation with good success.
A large portion of our students took part in the Harvest Ingathering. A day was set apart for this purpose. They gathered over one hundred twenty-five dollars. This is about twenty-five dollars more than last year.
C. C. LEWIS.