St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-17
HAMLINE,s OPENING.
The Methodist University Starts
Off Under Favorable Auspices.


The college year which opened yesterday
at Hamline bids fair to be the most prosper
GUS yet. Through the summer months Presi-s
dent Bridgman has been securing the state
in the interests of tine university. and it is
greatly owing to his interchangeable efforts that
the increased number of students is due.
The rain OF Monday probably kept soma
at their homes, but still q large number ar
rived, and every train of Tuesday brought its
contingent to swell the number. There was
the usual Hello, old fellow from the boys.
and 'Oh, dear, I'm SO glad TO see you! Did
you have nice time?''Oh, perfectlyIlovely l''
from the lips of the sweet undergraduate,
rooms and procured the little white slip
which admitted them as full-fedged
students in the Hamline university.
The chapel exercises were held as usual at
attended, the ladies outnumbering the gentle.
men, for it seems that the women of Mime;
sofa, at least of the Methodist persuasion, are
the more anxious for higher education. One
hundred and fifty was the number
last Year. About 500 are expected
which is good showing considering the
failure i'll crops, which will detain many in
the smaller villages. The graduating class
win number nine, two young ladies having
dropped out. Miss Dunn is teaching in Eau
Claire and Miss Frost will attend a school in
the East. The class will be composed of
Misses Ella Door, Lena Putnam, Elite
Grant, Blanche Eames and Messrs Camp.
bell, Bean, Dobner, Norton and Empey
The faculty has been increased in number
and will be more efficient than ever. Dr. G.
). INNS has just returned from a fifteen
months trip through Europe and the Holy
Land and became thoroughly imbued with
the spirit and enthusiasm of the old world,
and will be better fitted than before
to instruct his always interested classes
in history. He will also be in charge of the
library, end, as formerly, will make it real
working room. Prof. l.. H. Batchelder has
had charge of the department in chemistry
IN the summer school atLakeC hautauqua.a and
DR.. II. L. Osborne taught the biology classes
at Waseca, both adding to their re-
putatlon as masters in their line,
the latter being the foremost biolo-
gist of the Northwest. The biographical
laboratory has also been enlarged by addi-
tional apparatus. Miss Katherine Oliver is
teacher on account of illness. Prof Smythe,
student at Evanston under Prof. Cumnock.
and now teacher at the state university, will
have charge of that department The mu-
steal department will be under Prof Mer-
name. instructor in Instrumental music, and
Prof. Willard Patten, teacher in voice culture.
b. S. Hays, OF Minneapolis, will continue his
instructions in painting, and be supple
mented by Julius Segall. The latter is
Munich: has taught in Venice, Milwaukee,
and for the past four years in St. Paul. He
is quite Bowguerean in drawing, the slight
est line being full OF expression. and is es-
pecially effective in figure pieces These
artists are all superior in their departments,
and will make Hamline second tc no college
of its size in the land.