The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-20
lie average for each Year has heen.


The number of boarding Students has aver
aged fifty eight per year. The College build
ings Including the large addition erected in
lo1O-Il,l are capable of accommodating at
least eighty boarding students. During some
OF the years nearly that number were in at
tendance; and it is to be hoped that we shall
for the futare have the number full all the
time. Indeed there should be a larger num-
Der, and then our Westminster friends would
have good opportunity to show their appre-
citation of the College by aiding in the cree
ton of the additional buildings which would
be necessary in that case.
While the advantage TO our citizens, grow
ing out Of the location of the College in their
midst, must be apparent to all, in the facility
it affords for the higher education of their
own children, we think it important to call
special attention TO its advantage to them, in
the fact of its bringing so many from other
parts Of the State, and from distant States,
ltor we have had representatives from no
less than fifteen States besides our own, and
few even from beyond the seas, to reside
in our midst. After the long summer vaca-
tons Notwithstanding the number of visitors
we usually have from the more crowded cities
to avail themselves of the pure air of our
high and healthful locality q sort of new life
is impaired by the arrival of the students at
the reopening of College in September; and
on, until the next vacation, we feel this new
life, which takes its most interesting phaze
when Commencement week comes; after
this over, there is comparative duluess In our
city, occasioned by the departure Of the stu
dents, and the dulness is not relieved until
they, or others in the stead of such as had
finished their College course, arrive, bringing
new life again at the opening of the Fall Term.
Tins fe n In, unrf.t -
of view, therefore, there is reason for interest
on the part Of our Gi.iZpns in the sustenauce
and extension of the influence of the College.
Again, land more particularly in a finan-
cial point of view, the College enterprise has
been and must in proportion to its success
continue to be, source of great advantage to
our citizens, and especially to our business
men of eyeFy olass. This will plainly appear
from the following items which have taken
the pains TO gather, touching the amount oil
money passing through the College, into the
various avenues of trade, TO great extent in
Westminster and vicinity.
Amount received aud expended by tia Col
lege, on all accounts, from MARCH, 1869. to
the present time, Sl26, 1892, being an aver.
age for each of the nine years embraced in
the statement Of Sli,l52.32. Il is also TO be
borne IN mind that 2 large additional sum
iAAs nEEAA sllEllk III QuE nN the 5tu-
dents themselves and their visiting relatives
and friends.
As to the localities represented by the stu
dents during these years, it is worthy of no
iiee that while we have had q respectable
number FROM places out of our own State the
mass of the students have been from our own
State, and that nearly every county has been
represented, Carroll, Frederick, Baltimore.
Hartford, Anne Arundel, Kent, Somerset,
Talbot and CECIL, having sent the largest mum.
hers. 1t may be interesting for you 10 knav
that the number of students from Westmin-
ster, up TO the present time is 100; total from
Carroll county, 276; Baltimore city and coun-
ty have furnished 80 Students Frederick
city and county, 81; Hartford and Kent coun-
ties each -; the District OF Columbia. y
As TO other States, the principal patronage
has been from Virginia, West Virginia. Penn
sylgapia, Delaware and North Carolina
The number of graduates OF our eollegp Is
90, as follows Glass of Il, seven; class of
y, SIX; class of 70, nine; class of ~, six
teen; class Of 10, three; class of 10, eight:
class of ~, ten. The class of rs numbers
six members who are expected to graduate
in June. Many of the graduates are now or
have been teachers in the public or other
sehaG!s Of the State; some have had charge of
academies Of high grads; others are prgclic.
ing physicians; others in the legal profession:
others in mercantile positions fof honor and
trust, aad sdE.e Ere efficient pastors of Chris
tlan churches. Besides these might BIZ mau
toned large number Of students who LEFT
college before completing the full course OF
study, but are nov gsefully employed in lit
eTary and other important spheres of society.
Duly recognizing these facts the Legislature
OF Maryland at its recent session granted US