The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-01
EARLHAM COLLEGE.
Close of the Winter Term-The Present and
Future of the College.

Close of the Winter Term-The Present and
Future of the College.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, March 3l.-The winter
term at Earlham College closed Saturday noon
with 100 students in attendance. larger class
than for many years before. Half of these are
in the college classes proper the remainder in
the preparatory. Earlham now has yearly in
come of about $l6 000 made up of interest on
the endowment fund, tuition fees, and rents
from farm and properties. The farm of 12O
acres was acquired when the school was founded,
in 1847, by the Indiana Yearly Meeting. as an
industrial and boarding-schooL Earlham was
raised to the rank of college in 1859. In 1881
the Western Yearly Meeting was invited to as
sumo share in the management and now
these two yearly meetings-the two largest bod
les of Friends in Amercahave the college in joint
control and elect the board of governors.
Since the two meetings. Plainfeld and Rich
mond have joined in its support. the attendance
in the college classes has nearly doubled. Last
year $40, 900 was expended In education at Earl
ham, the deficiency being met by the combined
meetings. Both sexes have been admitted from
the first, and 36 per cent of its graduates are
women. In respect to standard of scholarship
required for admission, the extent Of ito courses
of study, and the thoroughness of instruction
able place among the colleges of Indiana, and
with reference TO its own denomination stands
equal with any other Friends college in the
country. 1t has educated over 4, 900 young peo-
pie In the thirty eight years of its existence. OF
these, 1000 have been engaged as teachers. Ia as
college professors and as college presi-
dents, and as PRINCIPALS of Friends
academies. Sixty-seven Earlham students have
become ministers of the gospel; twelve mission
aries to the freedmen of the South and to the
American Indians.
The college has missionaries in Jamaica and
Africa; it supports foreign missionary society
among its students. The field tributary to
Earlham extends from the Alleghenies to the
Friends Church.
Earlham is one of three colleges included In
the plan of the Educational Association of
Friends in America" TO be liberally-endowed and
fully equipped centers of higher education, Ha-
verford and Penn being the other two It's field
includes PAT Friends meetings. thirty-four
Quarterly meetings." and three yearly meet
ings," and preparatory to it are eight academies,
whose courses are all harmonized with reference
to the college course at Earlham.
The board of trustees are doing all in their
power to meet the needs of the faculty. They
do not much desire new build
ings as specialization in college work
and exquisite apparatus for instruction in the
| sciences. There is an observatory in the cam
pus with the transit instrument used at Fort
| Sumter. All students take q term in descriptive
| astronomy.
| the cabinet is rich in lower silurian fossils.
| Both the Niagara and the Cincinnati groups
| crop out on the college farm, and the gorge of
Whitewater, as it cuts through Richmond city
is one of the finest geological sections and col
| lecting grounds in Indiana, furnishing 100 we'll
| defined species of fossils
| The cabinet collection owes most of its great
value to Dr. Moore the former college president
| and weii-known naturalist. now in North Caro-
lima for his health He has enriched the cabinet
from all quarters of the globe. and notably by
collections OF sea life from the Sandwich Islands
| Professor Dennis has just purchased com
plete outit-four hundred dollars worth-in-
| scopes. in order that biology NAV be taucht
| by the approved methods in which Wabash and
Purdue are rapidly taking the lead. large
room is being fitted up for biology, and Profess
| sor Dennis is this week visiting the biological
laboratories of sister colleges collecting data and
/ composing methods of work
Substantial work is done in chemistry and
| physics, and much better than the average in
| geology. 1t is the intent Of the board to add n
| new professor In these departments The dav
| has gone by when the college science teacher il
| expected TO present both the inorganic and the
| vitalized aspects of nature No ono man can
carry such load without becoming a mere pack
horse. -
President Mills is in good health, and Ia wors-
| ing hard. He has the familiar air of the over
| worked and too conscientiously painstakine
Western college president But hard work
and A}s aSl&a cheerfulness seems the
rule IS lham. All are busy AZ
/ oses; s. a1ss4 contented and happy. The GIRLS
n&gs 2 ergye e fifty acres TO promenade ia: