Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-06
AN OUTSIDERS VIEWS
OF Black Hills College. it's President, its
Work and its RcSults.

OF Black Hills College. its President, it's
Work and lis Results.
The Black Hills college at Hot Springs
isan institution of learning which prom
ises to effect profoundly the life of this
section in years to come: and regardless
of the fact that it is located hundred
miles from Whitewood. the Plaindealer
Interested in everything thattends to
elevate the moral tenor of the country.
and bring youngmen and women up to
Il better understanding of the grandeur
and possibilities of life-cannot refrain
from calling the attention of the people
i'll the 1900 homes reached by this issue
to the fact that Black Hills college en-
phasizes the higher elements of Black
Hills life. by giving our young people
an opportunity to acquire that knowl-
edge which shall fit them, not only to
do the every day work of life better, to
meet their civic duties more faithfully
and intelligently, but also to live the
highest life of which they are capable.
Into the great fields of science, litera-
ture, history and art the student gets
glimpses which fill the world with
meaning it had not had before. He
learns to appreciated what Phillip Brooks
loved to call "the richness of life,'' and
as he goes out into the world, which, if
it fail not in the stress and struggle
that come to him, will cause him to con-
slider not the question, "What is there
i'll this world for me?" but rather that
other question, What is there i'll me
for this world?"
The president of this college, Rev.
John w. Hancher is a broad-minded
educator, whose presence is an inspira-
tion to young men and women, and who
believes-as does every student of So
cial and economic conditions that the
boys and girls who are shortly to be-
come men and women, should be di-
rected into this truer attitude toward
life.
He has, therefore. made it possible
for every boy and girl to attend. The
poor and the rich sit side by side
in its classrooms. receive the same in
struction. and enjoy the same privileges
The poor boy. with an ambition to rise
above his environment, to make the
most of himself. secures in Black Hills
college the preparation that puts him
on his feet.
Under the supervision of DIR. j. w.
Hancher. some OF the most successful
teachers and ministers have gone out
from Black Hills college with no capi-
tai. but the intellectual training and
impulse to useful activity which it has
given them. They have met the duties
of life faithfully and fully, and their
home communities are proud of them.
There are at present number of
young men and women from White
wood and vicinity attending this school
and three of our residents have gradu-
ated therefrom, viz: Misses Lottie
Denman and Anna Walton: and Mr..
Albert Gidley.
Intelligence rules the world today as
it never ruled it before, and every
young man and woman who would make
the most of life and succeed in the
sharp competitive conditions which
mark existence today, should see to il
that they lack not the general and spec.
ial cultivation of their powers, without
which they may be at serious disad.
vantage. A course in some good school
will be correct start-and for the boy
or girl of moderate resources, there Is
no better institution in the northwest
than Black Hills college.-Whitewood
Plaindealer.