Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash.
By M. E. Cady
The work of the school has been in progress just one month, and there has been a steady increase in numbers and a growing interest in the work from the very first day. At the present time we have an enrolment of one hundred sixty-seven in the college and sixty-three in the normal department, making a total of two hundred thirty. The total enrolment in the normal department last year was sixty-five, but doubtless the enrolment this year will reach one hundred. The total enrolment last year in the college was two hundred three, and we have no doubt that it will reach two hundred fifty this year. If it does, it will have given us an increase of a little over fifty students each year for the past three years. The gentlemen’s dormitory is full, and the overflow find rooms on the fourth floor of the college building. The ladies’ dormitory is full, and arrangements are being made to have the overflow of the students in the ladies’ dormitory find rooms in a cottage owned by the college. This cottage is now being fitted up. In addition to the large attendance, we find something still more encouraging, and that is that the students are a fine class of young men and women, who are in school for the purpose of speedily preparing for some place in the Lord’s work. We expect by January 15 next to see the school relieved of a debt of twenty-five thousand dollars. Truly the Lord is blessing this institution, for which we feel grateful; and our prayer is that he will so abundantly bless both the faculty and the students that the best work in the entire history of the school may be accomplished this year. We believe there are many more in the North Pacific Union Conference who should be in the school, and trust that our young people will hasten in the work of preparing for service.