St. Paul daily globe., 1895-06-02

college. The catalogue for the current
year which has recently been issued,
shows tnat there are today $50 students
in the college. All of these are pursu-
ing full and regular courses leading to
the degree of Bachelor of Arts or
Bachelor Cf Philosophy. In addition
to these are 132 students, some Of
them in preparatory classes and others
studying oratJry or music. There are
% students in the senior class, all of
whom have honorably finished their
course and are candidates for the
bachelors degree.
These figures show an increase over
any previous year, and the total at
tendance in, the number in the strictly
collegiate classes. The ratio Of in
crease is as great as the rate of growth
of any other institution in Minnesota,
and the number is three times as great
as it was seven years ago. This in
crease in the attendance has not been
brought about through lowering the
entrance conditions, which are fully
equal to those of the best Eastern col
leges, or by any reduction in the grade
of work in the regular college classes.
Hamline did not join in a movement
some years ago to establish a course
equivalent with the regular baccalau-
Teate courses from which Latin is en-
tirely omitt$d, but maintained its
standard with the result of a better
grade of scholarship. 1t is impossible
for a student to graduate at Hamline
without having completed thorough
courses in mathematics, Latin, Eng
lish, history, modern languages and
the sciences, which are the full equiv
alent of those required in all first-class
colleges. There has also during this
period been a steady increase in the
number of elective courses open to the
student, and there are now opportunf-
ties for advanced elective study in
Latin, history, chemistry, physics and
biology. The
MODE OF GOVERNMENT
from the commencement of the pres
ent administration has been self-gov-
ernment. Each student is educated
from the beginning of his relation to
Hamline to be a Self-controlling agent.
The importance of this to American
citizenship cannot be overstated. He
is counseled and instructed to that
end, and is allowed to do as he pleases
so long as he pleases to do right"
This scheme of government is not in
the least a court of laissez faire, likely
to end in the destruction of a young
students moral character. the guards
against such a result being very nu-
merous, such as the fact that all the
students are personally known to all
of the faculty, and thus under a natu-
raj and familiar observation which
ha the same sort of restraint as the
hone influence, also the fact that the
student body has acquired as result
of the operation of the system a sort
of general conscience which throws
that potent influence, college-public-
opinion, in favor of uprightness.
All of the religious exercises of the
institution are really voluntary as to
attendance, such as morning chapel
and other religious meetings, and, in
consequence, there is a higher feeling
of respect toward these exercises than
in institutions where the attendance
is required and also a larger rela tive
attendance. Throughout the year the
average attendance at morning chapel
is 80 per cent of the total attendance
and often more.
THE LOCATION
of Hamline is very advantageous. 1t
combines the advantages of both a
city with a rural site and eliminates
the disadvantages of both Students
at the age of going to college should
not be withdrawn from modern life,
but should have a chance to such, as
n is shown in the great cities. Those
Especially whose homes are in the
country or in smaller towns should
be able during their college growth,
as at Hamline, to look directly at the
great industries, and the municipal
life in all it's various phases, and the
benevolent systems.
In full view of three lines of tracks
over which transcontinental lines of
railroad are running, and on one of