Maplewood Academy by X.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 29, 1906

Maplewood Academy

By X.

MAPLEWOOD ACADEMY is situated two miles and a half southeast of Maple Plain, a small town on the Great Northern Railway, about twenty-two miles from the city of Minneapolis, Minn.

A farm was purchased in connection with the academy in 1902. This farm consists of ninety acres of land, fifty of which are cleared, and the remaining forty are covered with timber, mostly maple trees, hence the name Maplewood. Of the fifty acres of cleared land there are seven acres of raspberries, four acres of strawberries, and ten acres of hay meadow. The object of the farm is to raise such produce as the academy may use, and eventually to furnish employment in the summer to students who wish to earn their way through school. South of the farm, and bordering on it, is a small lake called Rice Lake, which furnishes a nice skating pond for the students in the winter.

The main school building is situated in the southern part of the grove, where a good view is had of the lake. It is a frame building, forty by forty-four feet, two and one-half stories above the basement. The building is finished inside with Georgia pine, and is heated by a hot-water plant. In the basement are the dining-room and kitchen; the first floor is being used for dormitory purposes, and on the second and third floors are the chapel and recitation rooms.

The new dormitory erected in 1905 is also a frame building, and contains twenty-six rooms, besides the laundry and the furnace room in the basement. It is finished inside with hard pine, and is heated by the hot-water system.

The faculty is composed of seven members,—five instructors, the matron, and the farm superintendent.

The purpose of this institution is to give to students a thorough course in the branches studied, and a training that will help to fit them for life's duties. The studies are those that are necessary to secure a first-grade teachers' certificate.

Each student is required to do two hours' manual work every day, Sabbaths excepted, and thus help to lessen expenses. The price, ten dollars a month for tuition and board, is the lowest of any institution of like character.

Everything is done systematically and in order. The training received here by students, teaches them to be faithful in the discharge of their duties, thorough and punctual in all their work. This helps them to form characteristics that are invaluable to them in after-life.

“X.”