The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01
FRIENDS OUT In FORCE
YESTERDAY WAS THE .BIG DAY. OF
THE YEARLY MEETING.
Report Of the Trustees and President
of Earlham Coliege-Fairmount
and spfcelapd Academies.

RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 3o.-This was
the big day of the Indiana Yearly Meeting
Of Friends. and the attendance was large,
said TO be the greatest since Sunday ex-
cursions were done away with. Quaker
ministers occupied almost every pulpit in
the city. and tonight the Yearly Meeting
house was crowded TO hear Mrs. Esther
Frame. the great evangelist.
There was much important work done by
the meeting on Saturday afternoon and
night. In the afternoon Edmund White
and Esther Pugh were elected trustees of
Earlham College, and a collection for
evengelistic work, amounting to $1,000. was
taken up. The approved minutes of the
representative meeting showed that $30S10
had been expended in helping aged minis
ters; that Amos Kenworthy, on account of
Ill health. had abandoned his proposed
evangelistic tour, and the money app-o-
priated for the same was returned to the
Yearly Meeting treasury. The committee
recommended that Friends be more active
in the matter of holding religious services
in jails and county infirmaries. Marion
quarterly meeting reported that Eli Thomas
had been appointed a member of the meet
ing. Luke Woodland was liberated to do
evangelistic work in London and Dublin
Yearly Meetings. Daniel Lawrence is clerk
and Margaret Schultz assistant clerk Of
the representative meeting for the ensuing
year.
The report of the trustees of Earlham
College was next introduced. Owing to
the hard times the attendance was con-
siderably less than last year, and there
was a deficit at the end Of the year of
~ 00 hoci6a tho fpfarocf on tho h,,;1I;no
debt. This deficit, with the exception of
$500, has been raised by popular subscrip-
ton. Elizabeth Kidder. of Portland. Ind.
gave 500 toward the endowment of the
Biblical Institute. and placed in the hands
of the trustees securities amounting to
$2,375, the income of this amount to come
to her during her life and then go to the
biblical department fund.
EARLHAM COLLEGE.
President j. J.. Mills, of Earlham, then
read his report. 1t was complete in every
respect and showed that the college is
wideawake and progressive. Following are
the statistics: Total enrolment. 277; in col
1ege department, 16s; post graduates. 2;
graduated at end of year, 26; number in
biblical department, %; number in prepara-
tory department.. u; number in English
department, 10; number in drawing and
painting department, A; number in music
department, S.; young men in college de-
partment, 50; young women in college de-
pdrtments 80; young men in all depart
ments, Ill; young women in all depart
ments, 1866; Friends in college department.
III; Friends in all departments. l49; profess
sors In college department, IL; teachers in
other departments, 4; librarian, 1; assistants
in library, etc, 3.
among the students. as follows: Indiana,
a; Western, So; Wilmington. IL; Ohio, 8;
Kansas, A; New York. 8; New England, 1.
hlfty,three per cent Of all the students
cent. of all the students in the college de-
partment were Friends. The following
were gathered last year: Illinois, III; In
diana, 213; Kansas, s.; Kentucky, L; Mis-
souri. /: New York., 4; Ohio. "a; oregon, L;
Then followed a long report on the work
OF the alumni of the college. They are
holding Important positions in all parts of
other professional work. Several students
from the college are doing postgraduate
graduates of the college are doing mis-
sionary work in Mexico, one in Indian Ter
ritory and one in Japan.
During the summer a school of five weeks
was held in the college buildings: classes
were organized in review studies and the
hlghsr branches, and 1T is proposed to hold
anotner term next year. Early i'm the wear
the college faculty decided to engage in
university extension work, and two courses
or lectures We're given in Richmond and
one at Rockville, Ina. Examinatinns are
held on the work done and all students are
credited on the records of the college. Nine
courses have been organized for the com
ing year.
The college library has made substantial
growth during the year, the class of 1896
making a donation of 500 worth of books
as a memorial to the class of 1894. The
museum and laboratories have also received
substantial gifts during the year. The re-
port or the treasurer of the college is as
follows: