College Notes by Sidney Brownsberger

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 14, 1884

College Notes.

By Sidney Brownsberger

The present term of school which opened Jan. 14 promises to be the very best in all the essentials of success.

The students have never before manifested a deeper interest in their school work and in the general success of the school.

The order and deportment of all in attendance is almost wholly above adverse criticism.

The students boarding at the North College Hall at present number fifty-four. There are now in daily attendance in our various classes, 132 students.

Our work is advancing steadily. It will be limited only by our accommodations and facilities to meet the growing demand. It may be twice as great in a very few years if our plans are made broad enough to meet the necessities now pressing upon us.

We must have increased facilities for boarding students next year. Our present capacity is not half as great as it should be.

Without reserving any rooms at the North Hall, we can now lodge sixty-five students. We should have facilities to board and lodge at our Students' Home not less than 150 students.

We can safely expect that about half of our attendance at any time in the growth of our school shall want to board at the College Hall. Though the number now there is somewhat less, it is just what we would expect during the first year of the boarding system. The general attendance will soon reach 300 if we plan to accommodate that number. I recommend to the friends of the College that we should not cripple so important a work as our school enterprise by failing to provide ample accommodations for its growth.

I believe the Lord wants it to be a blessing to our youth on this entire coast. S. BROWNSBERGER.