Battle Creek School Term Enrollment and Student Board
By George I. Butler
ment. There are very many of our young people who should attend this term. And those in more mature years, who have not had the advantages of early education, would do well to spend one term, at least, in study. It would be worth more to them than dollars and cents. We are never too old to learn, and it is always honorable to instruct the mind, and fit it for greater usefulness. There are many of our people who could afford to spend their winter months in just such mental discipline. They may never have had a good opportunity before. Now is a good time to improve their writing, grammar, and various branches in which they are deficient. We hope to see a large attendance. Tuition from three to six dollars a term, of twelve weeks, payable one half at the beginning of the term, the remainder at the middle. In the matter of board, the Battle Creek church have, after carefully looking at it, appointed a committee of five, consisting of Harmon Lindsay, Myron Cornell, Calvin Green, Aurora B. Lockwood, and Mary Gaskill, to find proper places and assist students and others in securing proper accommodations. It is expected that all who come here to school or to labor in the Offices, will report to this committee. It is not every place that is favorable, and those on the ground, persons of good judgment, are certainly better prepared to attend to this than strangers coming into the place. We do not expect board will exceed $2.50 per week, washing, room, lights, and wood included. We recommend many to hire rooms and board themselves. In that case, they should bring bedding, &c., with them. We think where two or more club together they can, in this way, board themselves for $1.50 per week, and live comfortably well. This is very cheap. We shall welcome to our school those who thirst for knowledge however poor their chances may have been hitherto. We hope to see those who want to prepare themselves for usefulness, those who are moral and upright, and who are willing to submit to reasonable discipline. But this is no place for lawless or reckless spirits bent on mischief. Such we advise to stay away; for if they come, we intend to promptly send them away unless they cheerfully submit to proper discipline. GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. Gen. Conf.
Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 30, 1873.