The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-08
A FINE PROSPECT
Whitman College Will Have
Large Attendance.
ROOMS NEARLY ALL SPOKEN FOR
College Opens September 1e--Exten
sive Repairs Have Been Made
During Summer Months.
Whitman Co!,ao.a Sent 7 1903

Whitman College, Sept. 7, 1908
Although it is over a week before
college opens, everything points to the
fact Of tle largest attendance in the
history OF the institution. From in
formation now on file with the secre-
tary and letters from students com
ing it is estimated the Freshman
class this year Will consist Of al least
10 members and that there will be
over 200 hundred in Whitman Acad-
envy. Nearly every room in all the
dormitories is already spoken for and
it is expected that there will not be
room enough for the students in the
dOrmitOries and many will be obliged
to room in town.
Extensive repairs and renOyacin2
have been going on this summer. The
conservatory building and Prentiss
Hall have been given a coat of paint
and nicely fixed inside. The walls OF
the Memorial building have been
tinted and Reynolds Hall also put in
fine shape.
The grounds never looked finer al
the opening Of school year than
they do now. A fine new lawn sur
rounds Reynolds hall. The facilities
Tor obtaining water have been i'm
proved also. Instead of pumping
water for the buildings from the
ditch running through the campus
from Isaacs spring water will be
brought from this spring under
ground and collected in a large els
tern from which it will be pumped tC
the tanks in the attic Of Billings Hall
This VIII make the supply cleaner and
cooler than heretofore. A fine new
pump OF large capacity is being in
stalled in the cellar of Billings Hal
which will be run by an electric mo
tor.
The barn and woodshed back OF
Mrs. Bakers house will be removed
before school opens, although the col
Iege will not come into possession OF
the Baker property before the first OF
The year. It has not been decided
just what use will be made Of the
ground thus gained, possibly more
tennis courts will be installed.
School Opens September 18Th.
The college opens this year Oh the
18th. a week later than usual. 60
many Of the students are detained
each year by harvest work and are
unable to get in in time for the open
ing that the change was made this
year.
The most important change TO be
made this year is the separation of the
college and academy. 1he academy
students will occupy the upper floor
of the Memorial building. Professor
BrattOn's old room has been fitted
up with "A desks for use Of the aCad-
envy students during study hours
This will relieve the library which has
heretofore been used for that purpose
Additional alcoves are being built in
the library this week to accommodate
the new books which are being added.
In Billings Hall the college men
ana the academy boys will be separ-
ated. Board partitions have been
built in the different floors, and the
academy will have all the third floor
and the east end Of the other two
floors.
Professor Brode is busy arranging
a large collection Of marine specimens
which he has gathered this summer
on the coast of California and ii
Puget Sound. Large additions to the
apparatus in the physics department
have also been made and the physics
and chemistry departments will be
separated this year, each beinS given
a suite of three rooms in the cellar
of the Memorial building.
Every room in this building will be
occupied this year. The three unused
rooms in the basement will be fitted
up for Professors Allen, Ruby AMI
Brown.
Professor Horne, the new man in
mathematics who will take professor
Brat-on's place this year during his
a5zence in Germany, is expected to
arrive tomorrow Professor Horne is
a graduate of Bowdoin in the class OF
SO and has just taken his A. NJ. de
gree at Harvard He has been princi-
pal Of the high school in Braintree,
Mass, for the past ten years and has
the reputation of a remarkably Sic
cessful teacher.
Miss Lincoln. who was to have been
assistant in piano in the conservatory
will not be able to accept the posi-
ton on account Of illness in her fami-
ly and the place will be filled by Miss
Grace Jones Of Boston, who has just
returned from Europe, where she has
haan nurSIIing advanced S-u5ipS IN