Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-07-24
MAY BE MOVED.
College of Philomath is Seeking
New Location.

The<e4eeatiQn and rebuilding
OF IPhilomath College (which
was destroyed by hfe last Fall,
for the second time IN its history,
was the main tropic for consider
a ion by the Oregon conference
of the United Brethren Church,
in session in the Cloverdale
Church, near Woodlawn, yester-s
day. Bishop H. L. Barkley ac-
ted as chairman, and the question
was brought up by the report on
education submitted by Mrs. c.
P. Blanchard, in which she urged
the importance of rebuilding the
Philomath College, now in ashes,
and also the establishing in con-
nection with it of a theological
department. Rt. Rev. w. Stew
ard opened the discussion by ur-
ging importance of the school and
the necessity of making a school
for young men to study for the
ministry. He said that Myrtle
Point, Coos County, wanted the
school and that the business men
offered a site and from $4,000 to
$1,000.
Rev. E. N. Cooking said Phil
omath College had turned out
some of the best educators in the
state, and declared in his judg-
ment it ought to be rebuilt some
where else more central. Rev.
A. J. Ware declared the Board of
Trustees should settle the location
and rebuilt at once. Walter
Reynolds said the school should
be better located and rebuilt on
better lines than before. Rev.
R. Miller said the school ought
to be rebuilt. Professor Davis re-
marked that in selecting a new
location the Board of Trustees
shoald select the place that would
be most central.
''Without question Portland is
the most central he said, "and it
is the most accessible point in
this state from all parts and from
Washington. 1t has a large and
growing population. Our men,
bers live here or near here, and
it is most easily reached. If you
relocate the college at some out
of-the- way place the church men,
bers will be loyal for a while,
but they will become tired OF
sending their children there, and
the result will be failure"
Bishop Barkley, who is is said
has help=d out more colleges and
built more churches than most
any other minister in the United
States, declared that there must
be an endowment of from $45,-
900 to $4,000 before he would
advise the rebuilding of the Phil
omath College. He declared
that unless the members were
willing to subscribe hundreds
and thousands of dollars to this
fund he would advise the closing
up of the institution. He and
six others had carried the Philo-
math College for more than IS
years, and he now wanted the
whole membership to back up
the institution Or he would say
close up. He proposed that the
members give their notes for
500 up to $1,000 or $40, 900,
bearing six per cent interest.
That, he said, would enable the
college to be- rebuilt and run sue
cessfullv.
The above is an excerpt of an
article which appeared in the
Sunday Oregonian. In one re-
spect it is undoubtedly in error:
The college which was burned
was the College of Philomath, not
Phi lomath College. There were
two United Brethren colleges
maintained in Phi]omath for
years by two factions of this
church and one was known as
Philomath College while the
other was called the College of
Philomath. 1t was the latter
which was consumed by flames
not long since.