The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-26

association in straightforward, honest
way. Eighty-eeven associations AZ, ncil-
BEES OF the league
This growth OF work in the educational
department is on the whole encouraging,
Ths extra tuition fees, aside from niomtei-
ship dues, paid by students int, ne treas
uty OF local associations. mas doubled DIR
ing the past two years, and ~ amounts
10 more than $4,000 annually. The per-
cehtage OF attendance has increased ftom
sevtnty-six to eighty. These facts piove
that the students appreciate the higher
Sic ndards and feluirsncp:s.
Signal progress has been realized in the
railroad department. Extension, especial
ly west OF the Mississippi along the vari-
GUS trunk lines, has been happily prose-
outed
Work among German speaking young
men has been done by the committee Tor
many years. During these years the Ger
man speaking element among us was fed
and fostered by strong incoming tide
OF German Immigration. OF late years
this immigration has greatly fallen off,
and the drift towards the use OF the Eng.
lish language among the members OF our
German branches has steadily increased.
Many OF the German young men, whom
our invitations and agencies seemed likely
to attract to these branches, have mani
tested and acted upon preference for the
English speaking departments of the as
ISOLATION in the same cities. For these,
and doubtless other reasons, the great
majority of tho German branches OF ten
years ago. have disappeared. In one in
stance the German branch of its own mo-
ton dropped the word German from ts
name and decided to conduct all its work
IN the English language Tho subsequent
growth of the work has indicated the wis
dom of this course. Though the tendency
is in this Americanizing direction, there is
still a division of opinion on this subject
among our German brethren But, as far
as the committee Is informed, the manage
ment Of the associations which have had
experience in German branch work is
unanimous in the conviction that this
tendency Is destined to prevail. In no case
where the German branch has ceased to
exist has there been a disposition on the
part OF the association management to re-
viye it.
Growth in the work among colored ana
Indian young men is necessarily slow, but
Is real and encouraging.
While much disappointed by the fall
ure to meet the exact instructions OF the
Mobile convention, the committee has
sought with good results to cooperate with
local ana State organizations In develop
ing the bible work of the association
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problem awakening soilcltuue anu not as
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receipts were @5'4'oof ana inc e%pehultIr %,
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cation account receipts Sso'So-' eNPenalt-
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anee SZl4oi,
of the $4,000 required for work in for
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