Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-02-07
COLLEGE COLUMN.
PROFESSOR B. F. POwELsoN, Sup't.

COLLEGE COLI MN.
PROFESSOR B. F. POwELsoN, Sup't.
DODGE CRY, KAN, Feb. Z.
President Wright felt constrained OF
last Sabbath, while making his an
nouncements from the pulpit, to say
SOME plain words in reference to tn,
college Certain reports had been pu
in circulation respecting the present EN-
barassing condition of the work. cor,sc
qI'nt nlon the failure To have the build
ings ready for use last August as pei
| agreement, and later npon the failure ol
the contractor tending much
II lessen the confidence of the peopl. in
| the enterprise and in the purposes al
those il charge OF the establishment OF
this institution of learning These re-
ports were very manifestly doing a great
injustice to those who have been and
are struggling to carry forward this en-.
terprise to a successful issue.
President Wright said in behalf of those
having the management of the college,
that they had undertaken the work in
good faith and intended to stand by it,
and to make it great success, provided
the citizens of Dodge City will give prop.
err sympathy and aid He said: I'VE are
here to stay, and should anyone hereaf-
ter hear any statement to the contrary,
let him or her correct it. Don't throw
cold water on the enterprise; support ii
by your sympathy and aid; lend helping
hand to those who are making sacrifices
keep the work moving on" He ex-
pressed himself as truly grateful to those
who were standing nobly by him and his
colleagues. but he most earnestly asked
every person to give us words of cheer
and such aid as our present condition de-
mands.
1t ought to be understood once for all
that the presbytery of Larned understood
themselves when they entered on this
work, and that understanding it in good
faith. they proposed. as Presbyterians.
to do all that could be expected of them.
They will be known in this by their time
honored characteristic perseverance.
So let the work go on. The citizens
of Dodge City-thOse in charge of the
erection of buildings, owe it to the pres
bytery to at once see that the buildings
are completed and the property trans
ferred. The presbytery has already ssf-
fered loss. Its board of trustees have
been hindered in their work. The in
structors are subjected to inconvenience
and hardships. The board of trustees
have waited in patience for what was
rightly theirs. They have not sought re-
dress All they now ask is the pushing
of the work, so that needed relief can be
afforded and the institution put on good
footing.
Dodge City to man ought to stand by
this enterprise. and by the presbytery too,
who accepted the city's offer when other
cities were ready and waiting to have the
presbytery join them in similar enter
prise; and we connot but believe that
the good and enterprising citizens of
Dodge City and Ford county will see to it
that all endorsements and hindrances
are removed and that the presbytery shall
have at no distant day what it ought to
have. and that the faculty will have an
open field and free hands and light hearts
to work up good attendance for the
summer term. commencing in April. and
especially tor the next year. There is no
reason thai the main building should not
be completed within two months. 1t can
be done, and why not? 1t cannot be that
the building committee vii. longer delay.
or that the H-onsy meu of Dodge Cl,y
will Tor the consideration of n few more
hundred dollars, allow q matter of this
kind to stand against the good name of the
city Then let the work of building be
resumed at once.
The rhetorical exercises were quite
we'll sustained last Friday forenoon,
Bertha Powelson and Maggie Spindler
receiving the highest grades, and -
- the lowest. BE careful, boys; we
may feel constrained tc fill up the
blanks next week.
Each student should aim to do the
best. Initiate worthy examples. The
measure is not that you are no worse
THAI another. Let others be drawn
upward aud onward by your example
and teaching.
lis presumed that no one who
thinks ahead, supposes that our college
project will be a failure at last; Ia.
/ mucl, adverse talk in the face OF o..
verse circumstances : vrry depressing.
Two or three months ri II could be pref
! ty easily borne, but continued thrcugi.
! ii1e or SIX months. it becomes a load.
! So the best way is not tn allow the dis
couraging talk. tt is No. that anyone
who really has the college interest al
heart, has los. faith n It's success. bat
il Is this patieDce-trying waiting tia:
tests the patience al: over. when there
is really no necessity FOR waiting. Il Is
not the slow rate Of the trains progVes.
that tires you so much as the waiting
at stations. We have too many sta
tons; stops are too long. So if some
do get impatient, let no one be discour
aged; for this enterprise must succeed,
and must succeed successfully; 50 thinl
il; % talk it; % act 1t.