OUR COLLEGE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
By Editor
IN the Cape Town Argus of October 7 we find a complimentary report of our new college building, from which we extract the following:— Just as quietly and unostentatiously as they built and furnished one of the neatest and most substantial churches in the peninsula, so the Seventh-day Adventist community have erected at Kennilworth the college which they promised twelve months ago, and which is going to make a distinct impression upon the education of the Cape, to say nothing of the creation of a township in one of the most beautiful of the suburbs. Having purchased from Mr. Ernest Ingle a farm of 23 acres last year, the Board of Trustees proceeded to draw their own plans, preferring to be independent in this matter, as in the matter of finances, and having called in the aid of Mr. Robert Green, contractor, Claremont, have built a college, the dimensions of which will be gathered from the fact that, in addition to a dining room 68 feet by 25 feet, and accommodation for the entire teaching staff, it contains 38 roomy bedrooms and the requisite day accommodation for 60 or 70 scholars. The college is situated on what is known as the One Hundred Feet Road, but which, to judge from a recent report of the proceedings of the Claremont Municipal Council, will be named the College Road. Though severely plain in its exterior, it has been so built as to supply the maximum of stability and convenience to be obtained without an extravagant expenditure. Although for the present a portion of the building has been set apart for scholastic purposes, the ultimate purpose of the present building is the College "Home," for within the next year or two, perhaps at an earlier date, a college proper will be erected on an adjoining site, already the property of the community, wherein the occupants of the Home will be educated. Prof. E. B. Miller, formerly of Battle Creek (Mich.) College, is principal. Sister Miller, Professor Lindsay, and Sister Peck, also of Battle Creek, are assistants. Teachers in Dutch and other special branches are to be added as occasion demands.