The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-12
WOMEN SHOULD RULE
President Reed of Dickin-
son College Advocates
Co-Education.
LIVELY CONFERENCE SESSION.
Marvellous Growth of Several COL
leges-AthIetics Denounced
Needy Ministers.
LIVELY CONFERENCE SESSION

Ladies in greater number, in their
bright Easter. c%elors, graced the business
meeting of the Newark Conference, last
| evening, while the gallery was packed
| with younger members of the congreKa-
| tion of both sexes. 1t was fifteen min
| utes of eight when DIR. 5. l.. Baldwin.
| Secretary OF the Missionary Society OF
| New York called the session to order, DIR.
Baldwin presiding in Bishop Fitzgerald's
absence. After hymu and prayer, stand
ing committees, on motion. were ordered
to report. The first to hand in the result
of its labors being the Tract Society. DR..
Richard Johns ofsHackensack said that
the worEa of the society 20 among the
Italians, Poles. Hebrews and Chinese i'm
migrants.
GRowTH OF DREW SEMINARY.
The Rev. j.. 4. Boswell, ID. D.. for the
Board Of Education, said that Drew
Seminary gave great evidence of growing
prosperity. Wesleyan University re-
ported that 1t owned property which has
increased half a million In value. Theirs
are 271 Students and 81 members OF the
faculty.
HAcKETTsTowN's SHOWING.
Report of the Conference College OF
Hackettstown showed a property owner
ship of SEQ, 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, any
other college.
ATHLETICS GONE MAD.
"The main feature of a college" said
he, sis for mental and moral purpose,
and, incidentally, physical culture. We
are getting down to the plau OF the
Roman gladletors, and / hope we can
push this institution without the clap
trapery of athletics. A timely word from
the pulpit is needed. l have a boy at col
iage, aud 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 Seninary, and he said that
while athletics were not predominant in
the college, physical culture was a fea-
ture, but was not carried to excess. The
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 10 the institution
Sis, 900. That was the beginning of the
payment of it's debt.
METHODIST COLLEGE RIVALRY.
IAN invitation was extended to the
members of the conference by the Rev.
DR.. Bryan to visit the Hackettstown
commencement, and he pointed out the
rivalry of the New Jersey Conference
Seminary. and the work of the ministers
of nat conference.
CONFERENCE SUPPORT.
Resolutions communicating President
Whitney were offered. by Or. Buttz, 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