The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-25
From the Agricultural college.

CORVALLIS, Or, Feb. %, 1892.
Editor Chronicle:
Mr.. Ernest Miller, whose illness L
mentioned last week, left this world to
try the realities of the next, between 9
and 10 p. m. Feb. 18th. The funeral
was conducted at the College about 9 a.
m. the next day by DIR. Thompson of
Corvallis. OF course there were no reci-
tations and the students walked in a sad
company to the o. P, depot, bearing
with them the lifeless remains of their
highly esteemed schoolmate. The story
OF strong young man may be told in a
few words: ''He came to college for an
education, but was taken home for
burial
Mr.. J. 4. Mott of New York, general
secretary of Y. M. G. A., stopped at
Corvallis Thursday afternoon and organ
lied an association i'll the o. A. c.
The first state convention of the Col
lege Y NJ. G. A., met in the State Cap
itol building at Salem, Oregon, Feb. 10,
1892. Following are the colleges repre-
sented and number of delegates from
each: Albany Collegiate Institute 2s,
McMinnville College II, Pacific College
l6, Pacific University II, Portland
Academy s, Portland University %,
State Normal 80, State University 9, and
Willamette University 2I to So. The
Alumni of Princeton, Williams, Wesleyan,
Oberlin, Wheaton, North Western,
Bethany Penn, and several other col
leges were represented. There are 96S
young men ia the ten colleges that were
represented in the convention, 500 are
now students. The convention was
conducted by four young men from a
distance: J. R. Mott of Cornell Uni
versity; S. M. Sayford, of Boston
Harry Hillard, college secretary of Cali
fornia and Jas. A. Dummett, travelling
secretary Pacific northwest.
Mr.. Sayford gave his confidential
talk to young men" Saturday evening in
the Assembly hall of the state capitol.
About 400 were present and of that
number fully 300 took the ''higher ground
stand" promising to quit smoking cigar
| arettes or give up some other bad habit
that is spelling them.
Harry Hillard led the Sunday conse-
Grafton service, in which prayer was Of
fered by twenty different delegates, and
such songs as ''I gave my life for thee,''
and "Just as l am without one plea,' -
were sung by packed audience.
l should like to write of the fourteen
young men who volunteered to be For
eign Missionaries, in fact all about this
great conference of students, but l have
not the time to do SO.
The following college presidents and
professors made brief speeches; Presi.
dent McClelland of the Forest Grove
school; President Stratton, of Portland
/ University; Prof. Shaw, of the State
Agricultural college; Prof. Jessup, o
Pacific College; Prof. Lee, of Albany
Collegiate Institute; President Whitta.
ker, of Willamette University; Presi
dent Bronson, of McMinnyille College
President Campbell, of the State Nor
nal, and, in the absence of professor
the State University was represented by
a student who was warmly applauded
The chairman of the Executive com
mittee, the pastor of the M. E. Church
of Salem, and several others made shor
speeches. When 1 say that Prof. Lee O
the Albany Glee Club led the music
and that we all visited the Insane Asy
lum and State prison, just as well qui
for this time. BUNoHGRAss.
Views OF the city and also of Cello Fall.
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