HEALDSBURG COLLEGE by F. W. Howe

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.

By F. W. Howe

WE are glad to report that the College at Healdsburg opens this year with more encouraging prospects than it has enjoyed for several years. Notwithstanding the postponement of the beginning of the school year from September 9 to September 23, the withholding of the printed Fall Announcement, and a somewhat general feeling of uncertainty as to what the exact character of the year's work would be, upwards of eighty young people assembled in the chapel on the opening day, and twenty-five presented themselves at the Primary Department. Since then a number of others have arrived, and now students are coming in daily.

A specially encouraging feature is that a large proportion of the students are quite mature, and of a class that give evidence of more than average ability. With this quality of students, who come with a distinct purpose to fit themselves for the highest usefulness, the prospects are very favorable for doing more satisfactory work than ever before.

A large number who have been in correspondence with the school, are still waiting to receive the Fall Announcement; but it has been thought best to prepare the Announcement in a new form, including a statement of such modifications of the course of study as were determined at the recent institute of the Trustees and Faculty. In the meantime we urge all who have been waiting for the Announcement to start at once for the College. The courses of study already arranged are sufficiently extensive to meet the needs of all who come; and whenever it is necessary to form new classes for the requirements of those who ought to take certain lines of study, provision will be made to the full extent of the available teaching force. Students may rest assured, therefore, that their needs are amply provided for, and it is a great disadvantage to delay entering upon school work at the beginning of the year. What the students really need, who are yet to come, will largely determine the character of the work that will be provided. The quality of the work will, if possible, be superior to what the school has done in the past. All are urged to come as soon as possible. Our accommodations are being rapidly taken up, and the school work organized in a form that can not be easily modified later. We expect the blessing of God on our labors, and the support of those who believe in the agency of Healdsburg College as an important means in educating laborers for his cause.

F. W. HOWE.