Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-29

Judge Hastings of Green Bay is q dis
tinguished graduate. At the recent
Congregational conference at Sparta
there were seventeen preachers who had
been educated at Beloit.
Claims of the small College.
The plant at Belot is worth about
100000. There is an equal amount of en-
dowment The annual expenditures is
only $4,000 a year. When President
Eaton took command twelve years ago
the total was perhaps 100000. 1t has
been a period of expansion The small
college has demonstrated that it Is here
to stay. Til ore are about $50 in the coll
lege and 125 in the academy. or prep
aratory school. These smaller numbers
make possible the personal touch. The
president knows every student. The pro-
fessors call on the students and have
them in their homes. 1t seems to bring
out some hidden qualities. Beloit has
given to forty colleges sixteen college
presidents, thirty professors and TWEEN
ty-five other teachers or officers. Then,
too, expenses are small at the small col
lege> Good table board at Commons
is 81 a week. For $500 a year a student
can go through Beloit without doing
any outside work to support himself,
and enjoy comforts and even luXuries.
Some bring but $500 year. and exc it
out with work. Before 1876, forty-two
of every 100 students entered the minis
try; and of graduates since that time
more than one in five becomes
a preacher. To counterbaance this de-
crease the output of teachers has in
creased. Fifteen in the hundred be-
came lawyers, and per cent. physi-
clans.
A Physician millionaire.
One of the most enthusiastic friends
of Beloit is DR.. d. X. Pearsons of Chi
cago, who has given an aggregate Of
$3.50 600 to Belot since 1879. OF the thir-
ty institutions of learning he has be-
friended Beloit is his pride. AS a young
man coming through the town in a
stage coach the humble beginnings of
the college were pointed out to him as
the effort of lot of abolition cranks.
Pearsons told his informant he was go
ing to make money in the new north
west and give some of it to those
"cranks" His first offer was of $780,
600 if the college would raise an equal
amount in six weeks; and 1t did. Then
he gave $4,000 conditioned on the rails
ing of 000-which was done. One of
the buildings bears his own name; 9TH
ers named for veteran professors, in one
case-Emerson hall-though the re-
ceipient of the honor is yet living. This
home for young women cost but $780,
600; but 1t is one of the most beautiful
of structures and the economy of its
construction is generally remarked.
Young People from Good Home.
1t was three years ago that Beloit
first admitted women as students: and
of course the protest was very great.
But it has proved a success. 1t has
raised the standard of scholarship, was
told; and of the refining influence of
woman there is no question. Experts
say her physical ability to stand the
strain of the modern college curriculum
is in grave doubt, and that few of
them show the effects in later life. But
no doubt many of them would waste
their energies in trivial and profitless
social or other ways. Our American
girls are not to be blocked in their de-
sire to know as much as their brothers.
The question of the extent of mental
effort and physical training to enable
them to withstand it is a mere matte
of detail. They are certainly choice
gathering at Beloit. Yes, beautiful and
animated faces to look upon. / trust
that each one may win, not only the
coveted degree of "B. A." but that
higher badge of distinction and useful
ness "E. M"-Eligible for Matr-
mony."
One is struck by the refined faces Of
both young men and women. They are
we'll born. They come from good
homes. Behind each one is a family
anda home-ambitious, orderly and god
ly. AS a rule, they are of native Amer
lean stock, glance at the list of even
recent alumni revealing a surprising
preponderence of names that obtain in
the New England states. They are
mainly from the homes of the middle
classes the rich often sending their
children to eastern colleges. Tuition
must be paid at Beloit-a matter of
some $45. The Yale tuition is $3.50 a
year.
Why Beloit Excels in Athletics.
The gymnasium is shabby and in
adequate affair and some philanthropist
should come along opprotunely.
Nevertheless, and despite itssmall num-
hers, Beloit puts up a good and often
winning fight in base ball and foot ball.
This is largely due to the vanity and
hearty spirit in the student body, which
is promoted by the fact that the course
of study is much the same for all stu
dents The first year they all take the
same studies. This gets them acquaint-
ed The optional system has been in
part adopted at Beloit; but the special
student"-the fellow who trifles with a
little literature or takes term or two
in history, and poses the rest of his
life as a college graduates unknown
at Baloit. There is no formal post
graduate work. No girl can enter I'M
less she takes the full course and
points directly for "B. A." degree.
The effect of this is far-reaching. It
promotes the college spirit for work,
and athletics, and makes
an enthusiastic alumni for their mem
cries and associations are the Same.
Men Versus wsmen as Teachers.
The study of the classics is still in
sited upon, and the claim of educators