The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-07

i0t u BCag3 ~ Educatlon; pE. /. l.
rhompsoa al Minneapolis; RiShol
Mcdowell, hishop herry, hishoi
loyce aud a score * other prominent
men, The University is S|nlendidl,
located and has tributary 10 IL Il w!d,
and %unoccupied territory, Fer it:
age we know OF no college in Meth.
odiSm which has So good a start.
There seems to be no doubt that The
next three OF tour years Will wltneS,
large railroad eNtens ons through
Mitchell and easy connections VIII
the Black Hills. This viii add tc
our accessibility and our field OF SER
vice The very size OF the ooportu-
nifty almost staggerS us. Ii this nsti-
tuition could command a million dol-
lars this Commencement, it would be
Que OF the very best Investments
Chat MethodiSm could make any
where within its Worldwide range.
You can scarcely imagine a better
use for money and it would be diM-
cult to see where any friends who
can possibly spare $1,000 could give it
SO rs to have Il greater permanent
satisfaction i'll the good that il will
be doing in the coming century.
The n thing which weighs down
the executive committee and the adj
m~inistration is the size of the oppof-
tunity compared with the smallness
OF the resources. We have Substan-
italy no endowment. from Sl00, 600
to 5000 900 must be had in the next
tive years il the institution is to
meet its opportunity. 1t would pay
the Christian Church 100 times over
in ten years if this investment could
be made at once, We appeal to our
friends to study this problem. Study
carefully the history OF the service
and value of similar institutions, in
the formative period, in the civiliza-
ton of other states ana note careful
ly their influence on the growth of
the church: In the "Cil istian Stu
dent" November, .l9Co. Bishop Nc
Dowel wrote the following, the ref
eIence Icing to Wesleyan University.
one of our ealliest Methodist colleges /:
"Hele is a faded old catalogue, dat
ing hack to 1915. 1t is the very small
small catalogue of a very small col
lege. numbering not more than l00
students. But that year-1S45-the
mighty Olin. president of the small
institution preached from the text
PUT ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and mean to provision for the flesh,
to fulfill the lustS thereof" More
than half a century has gone, but
the power of the sermon remains. 1t
gives n a strange and enlarged
sense Of the meaning of the occasion
to read, after half d century, the
names OF some of those who listened
as students, that day when Olin
preached. Not more than 100 names
are on the list, but here are some OF
them: John w. Beach, afterward
president of Wesleyan; Gilbert Haven,
Ammi b. Hyde, oliver Marcy, Fales
III. Newhall, Edward G.. Andrews.
Orange Judd, Alexander Wlnchell,
James e. Latimer and Daniel Steel.
DIN did not know-no college presi-
dent knows-wEat is in his audience
on b~accalauleate Sunday.
LESS than tell years later the enrol.
lment at Wesleyan is still only lO3
The catalogue is small, and the in.
Stitution is small: but here are ter
names out of The short list: William
t. Warren. Henry White Warren
Cyrus d. Foss, Joseph II. Knowles
Henry Lummis, William y. Ninde
Charles ii Payne, Samuel Il. Upbam
David j. Brewer. 1t is a very small
college--there are not many names al,
together-hut the whole churcl
might we'll have given herself tt
prayer for teachers and students tn,
day these boys gathered at OLD Yves
ieyan less than nalf a century ago
Now into many a college. large ant
: small, east and west, north and south
at home and abroad during thi
month. boys and girls are gathered
whose relation to the kingdom j
vital and imperial
Friends of DAKOTA Wesleyan tIbinl
, of it. Our Institution has now fou
times as many students as WESLEYAN
, had at this time and yet out of tba
small company of students came tw
, OF the greatest biologists of the pas
fifty years, one of the Justices of tn
Supreme Court of the United States
one of the pioneers in agriculture
Journalism, four of our bishops, thre
of our greatest college presidents
half a dozen of u best known pre-
fessors, and seventy-hye other me.
who have brought honor to the stat
and to the nation, and have nelpe
to build our great citizenship. On
of the graduates OF that ins~titutio
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