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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

On the third day of the winter term at Union College, the enrolment reached 397. This was just twenty-two more than the total enrolment last year. There is a most excellent class of students in attendance at the school. Two baptisms have already been held, with sixteen candidates. The Christian workers’ bands are reported as doing excellent work.

The attendance this year at the Emmanuel Missionary College is larger than it has been before for some time, perhaps larger than it ever was before. There is a most excellent spirit prevailing, and this is in every way encouraging. This school is located in the midst of our largest union conference. It should be filled to overflowing with a sturdy class of young men and women preparing to be workers.

Prof. M. D. Mattson, in charge of the department of Bible in Union College, has been obliged to give up his work for a few weeks on account of poor health. Elder Mattson was for years connected with the South Lancaster Academy as instructor in Bible and history. His many former pupils and friends will learn of his illness with sorrow, and will unite in prayer with the students of Union College for his speedy recovery to good health, that he may again take up his work. His illness is caused by heart trouble, with which he has been afflicted for years.

We are glad to note in the reports from the Keene (Tex.) Academy that students are continually entering the school, which is already full. There is a most excellent missionary spirit prevailing in the institution, and it has been very much prospered in the past two or three years in meeting its debts and providing facilities for its work. We trust that this prosperity may not be confined alone to this school.

From the Oakwood (Huntsville, Ala.) Manual Training-school comes the following: “Our school work is going on nicely. The second term’s work began December, 12. Our examinations are over, and the students passed fairly well. Our Manual Arts building is completed, and the foundation of Study Hall is well under way. We are building this last of cement blocks. Brother Auger, of Corinth, Miss., has been here, and gotten the work of making these blocks nicely started. However, he was suddenly called home last night on account of the illness of his wife, and we do not know just when he will return. This may delay our work somewhat.”

Healdsburg College has already enrolled over one hundred students in the college department. Seventy students are in the Home. The training-school, which includes grades one to eight, has an enrolment of sixty-five. In the normal department there is a class of fifteen. The work is being carried forward similar to that of the regular normal, with professional classes in methods, observation in the training-school, and lastly, teaching under the direction of the critic teacher. The plan is to give the pupil teachers two years of professional training; besides this, they are expected to have the amount of work which is usually given in an academy. The music department, under the direction of Miss Medora Stone, is prospering. She has over forty pupils in instrumental music. A spirit of courage is reported as prevailing in all departments of the school.

The bookmen’s convention, held at Washington, D. C., in October, passed the following resolutions with reference to our educational books: “(1) That we approve of the plan suggested by the convention of the Educational Department, held at College View, Neb., June 30 to July 10, to issue a standard series of text-books; (2) that these books be gotten out in a neat style, with durable bindings, and that the prices be made as moderate as consistent with first-class workmanship; (3) that we suggest to publishers and authors that the authors’ royalty be ten per cent of the retail price of the first three thousand sold, and five per cent thereafter; (4) that these books be ordered by the school boards direct from our publishing houses or their branch offices or such agencies as may hereafter be established; (5) in view of the heavy initial expense involved in the manufacture of these books in a satisfactory form, and the desirability of furnishing them at a moderate price, we suggest that the Educational Department invite gifts to help defray a portion of this initial expense, the same to be loaned to the publishers without interest, and to be returned to the Educational Department in annual payments accruing from five per cent of the retail price of books sold after the first three thousand.”