The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-04
TWENTY YEARS OLD.
Gustavus- AdOlphus College CeIe-
brates an Anniversary.

ST. PETER, Mimi, Nov. SIT was
twenty years ago last Saturday since
Gustavus Adolphus college was found
ed at this place. The celebration COM
nemorating this event was begun the
preceding Friday evening when con-
cert was given in the college auditori-
UNI. Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the weather during the day as we'll
as during the evening the hall was
We'll filled by an appreciative audience.
and the entertainment is pronounced
a great success not only from a mu-
steal, but also from a financial point of
view.
On Saturday morning the annivers-
airy exercises were held in the Luth-
eran church. The Rev. Dr. E. More
Inns, OF Vasa, Mimi, the founder of the
institution, thirty-four years age, made
the historical address in which he
traced it's growth from the very in
ception at Red Wing in the year 1862.
following it to East Union Carver
county. where it was located for some
years, and giving the events that ul-
timately led to it's removal to this city
in 1876.
Hon. P. H. Stolberg, of Harris, Mimi,
delivered an able discourse on the ne
cessity on the part of the church to
carry on educational work, in which
he took the ground that the state
could not, on account of the many re-
Hg1ouS sectS and denominations give
the moral and religious instruction so
necessary for the development of the
whole man. but that their work was
reserved for the church.
In the afternoon the College Mis-.
sion society celebrated its fifth anni-
versary. At this occasion the Rev. j.
Telleen, of Rock Island, ILL.,, superin-
tendent of all the foreign missions, adj
dressed the society in the college au-
ditorium on the subject, obstacles in
the Foreign Missionary Work" The
Rev. DR.. S. P. A. Lindahl, editor of
AuguStana, gave some interesting rem
lnlScenceS of his travels in Germany.
and the president of the society, DR..
J. P. Uhler, spoke of the work done
by the society during its five years of
existence. stating that nearly $1,000
had been raised for the foreign mis-
sion during this time.
The closing anniversary exercises
We're held in the evening when the
auditorium was taxed to its capacity
by friends and patrons of the college
who were eager to hear the speakers
announced for this occasion. President
DR.. Wahlstrom first read a number
of congratulatOry kilograms and let
ters received from other institutions
among which were Augustana college,
Rock Island, ILL.,. Bethany college,
LindSburg, Kan, and Luther academy,
WalrOO, Neb., and from many former
students and others interested in the
college, now busy in various fields Of
labor.
Hon. G. S. Ives, of this city, then
spoke on the advantages to a COM
munity Of an educational institution
these being, he said, not only material,
but also. and more so, intellectual
moral and social, DR.. Wahlstrom gave
a history Of the college. during the
twenty years it had been located at
this place, showing how it had from
year to year increased it's facilities, and
added new courses from time to time
until it now embraces five different
departments of instruction. Mr.. A. O..
Eberhart, class 49, representing the
alumni and former students, spoke of
their rights and privileges and EN-,
phasiZed their duties toward their
alma mater, the commonwealth and
the nation.
The musical selections with which
the programme for the various exer.
cises was interfered, were rendered by
DR.. Logerstrom, Miss Peluson the
Lyric and Gounod quartette, the Circle
Orchestra club, and several other mu-
steal organizations.