The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-11
WOMEN SHOULD RULE.
President Reed of Dickin-
son College Advocates
Co-EduCation.
LIVELY CONFERENCE SESSION.
Marvellous Growth of Several COL
leges-Aihletics Denounced
Needy Ministers.
LIVELY CONFERENCE SESSION

Ladies in greater number, In their
bright Easter %colors, graced the business
meeting of the Newark Conference, last
evening, while the gallery was packed
with younger members of the congre2a-
ton of both sexes. 1t was fifteen min
utes of eight when DR.. S. l.. Baldwin.
Secretary Of the Missionary Society OF
New York called the session to order, DR..
Baldwin presiding in Bishop Fitzgerald's
absence. After hyma aud prayer, stand
ing committees, on motion. were ordered
to report. The first to hand in the result
of its labors being the Tract Society. DIR.
Richard Johns ofsHackensack said that
the works of th@ society go among the
Italians, Poles. Hebrews and Chinese I'm
migrants.
GROWTH OF DREW SEMINARY.
The Rev. j.. 4. Boswell, d. D.. for the
Board of Education. said that Drew
Seminary gave great evidence of growing
prosperity. Wesleyan University re-
ported that it owned property which has
increased half a million in value. There
are 81 students. and 81 members OF the
faculty.
HAcKETTsTowN's SHOWING.
Report of the Conference College OF
Hackettstowu showed a property owner
ship of $500. 600, and all entirely free from
debt. AT this point, DR.. Solomon Par
SONS sprang up, and made a strong pro-
test against the growth OF athletics In
Hackettstown, and, for that matter, n
other college.
ATHLETICS GONE MAD.
"The maih feature of a college," said
he, sis for mental and moral purpose,
aud, incidentally, physical culture. We
are getting down to the pluu OF the
Roman gladiators, and / hope we can
push this institution without the clap
the pulpit is needed. have q boy at col
lege, and he writes me that he has OUT
jumped everything. I wrote to him on
the back of a postal card card: The
Lord hath no delight in the legs OF a
mani" Laughter).
ATHLETICS A FEATURE.
The report was endorsed by DIR. Free
man Of the Seminary, and he said that
while athletics were not predominant in
the college, physical culture was a fea-
ture, but was not carried to excess. Tit
institution is a literary one, and not an
athletic college, and President Whitney
of the college also made a short address.
A gymnasium. a football team and plenty
of athletic exercise were features The
school has been out of debt for ten
years. He praised the memory of George
]. Seney. who gave TO the institution
SIS, 900. That was the beginning Of the
payment of its debt.
METHODIST COLLEGE RIVALRY.
AN invitation was extended to the
members of the conference by the Rev.
DR.. Bryan to visit the Hackettstown
commencement, and he polluted out the
rivalry of the New Jersey Conference
Seminary. and the work Of the ministers
of hat conference.
CONFERENCE SUPPORT.
Resolutions communicating President
Whitney were offered by DIR. BUTTE, COM
mending his administration and pledging
the support of Conference. They Were
adopted subsequently, and the Rev. NJ. d.
Church advised members TO use their in
fiuence to send pupils TO it.
A GROWING DEMAND.
The Rev. Alex. Craig spoke of the