BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE by S. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1877

BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE.

By S. B.

STUDENTS have been coming in during the past three days chiefly from the more distant States, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, New York, and a few from Pennsylvania. Scarcely any of our Michigan students have yet arrived. There were nearly fifty arrivals during the latter part of the past week. About as many more have engaged rooms and expect to be here at the opening of the school. Add to these the home attendance, which will not fall below seventy-five, and we can depend upon one hundred and seventy-five to be present the first day of school. It will be safe to estimate the whole attendance for the coming term at from two hundred and fifty to three hundred students.

It requires a close calculation to properly locate this great number where rooms are so few, and where so much of the room that has formerly been occupied by the students is now in possession of patients from the Sanitarium, and those engaged in erecting the new building of the Sanitarium. But all will be accommodated, even at this time of greatest demand, by crowding a little more closely than formerly.

Many rooms are for rent that are not fully furnished; it would be well, therefore, for students to come provided with bedding, towels, and such other things as can be easily carried in a trunk.

The more bulky articles of furniture can be readily obtained here. There will be ample provision made for club-boarding, or self-boarding, as the student may prefer. Students that cannot be here at the commencement of the term should not conclude it best to wait until the opening of the winter term, but come as soon as they can possibly make ready. If you wait for the winter term your classes will be just one term ahead of you. Come now, if possible; if not now, come as soon as you can.

Come with a determination to stay. If you are determined to remain, your change will be borne much more easily than it will if you are half decided about remaining before you arrive. Let there be very few of that class who come instructed by their parents to come home again if they become a little homesick.

The case of one young man is worthy of mention. He came here last Friday from the East, with the instructions mentioned above. He thought more of home and his tender parents’ parting charge, “If you get homesick, come home, my boy,” than of the many privileges and opportunities for improvement offered him at the College; and of the preparation for the responsibilities that devolve upon any young man of usefulness in the world. Home and mother was the central and all-absorbing thought of his mind. And home he must go. On Sunday morning down to the depot he rushed with his trunk, determined never to look back upon the scenes behind him. And there he waited sitting upon his trunk (which was the most like home of anything that met his gaze), for the first train eastward bound, which would be along some time in the night. Again I say, Come determined to stay, and all will be well.

S. B.