Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1906-06-22
A EY.ACk HiLF.S SEMINARY.
Dakota Wesleyan University Prernring Z"
Locate in Black filis.

Dakota Wesleyan University Preparing 4"
Locate, in Black nilis.
The following is taken from the re-
mort of the trustees of Dakota Wesley |
an University at their recent meeting |
at Mitchell:
We hove welcomed with pleasure the |
Rev. w. II. Jeffrey, Jr, the Official VS.
itor from the Black Hills Mission. we
have heard his statements. and also
those of the Rev. G. b. Clark, Super
intendent of the Mission, with great
satisfaction. We rejoice in the prosper
ity OF their section OF the State, ailo
find further satisfaction in the pros
pect of an early realization of our long
deferred hope of convenient railroad
connections with the Hills, We assure
our frieuds of the Mission and OF the
TERRITORY thev represent, OF our salts
faction in their recent action adopting
the Dakota Wesleyan University as
their official college, and we assure
theme that their students will receive
our best attention and all the favors
ever granted to students from any
quarter. We invite them to continue
to send representative as an official
visitor and agree to pay one half OF the
travelling expenses of such represen-
tatiye until such time as there is direct
railroad communication across the
Missouri River, between the eastern
section of the State aud the Hills.
We have heard the report made by
the President of the University, our
Executive Committe and these repre-
sentatives, concerning the project OF
establishing an Academy or Seminary
la some town IN the westeau part of
the State. We believe that great good
might come to the State by such a
project under proper conditions. We
affirm the following as seeming to us
to be those proper conditions.
l. We are, and we think our constt-
tuency throughout the State, almost, it
not quite, unanimously is, unalterably
committed to the principle that there
should be but one institutions OF col
legiate grade under the patronage and
receiving the support of Methodism in
South Dakota. The great embarrass-
ments of some other states which hav Q
allowed such institutions to multiply, {,
the various deliverances of confer ences
of our church on this subject, the
strong assertion of the principle OF one
Methodist School only, in given state
by our board of education and our un-
iversity senate, all tend to confirm
this judgment.
2. We believe, however, in the
feasibility and the utility of one, or in
time perhaps of two, institutions of
preparatory grade, doing substantially
work such as might be done in the
best high schools, together with such
work in music, art, elocution, business
etc, as would be consonant with the
best eastern seminaries and with this
other work of preparatory grade, and
we think the time is ripe for the estab
lishment of such an institution in the
Black Hills.
3. We authorize President Thomas
Nicholson to act for us with the pro
viso that no action of his in this mat
ter shall become official until it ha!
been ratified by majority of the En-
ecutive Committee of this Board, ano
by the Black Hills Mission or by
E{o tal \,
it, with power to act
We express the further judgmen
that when suitable location has beer
decided upon, no steps should be takel
toward opening such Il Seminary, un
less the town in which it is to be 10
Gated shall show sufficient interest il
the project to convey to the univerlt
for this purpose in absolute title a sit
eligible aud suitable for such semi
nary and not less than ten thousan,
dollars in money to be used in the con
struction of building suitable for tn
work of the faculty We think thi
site should have from ten to twent
acres of land, eligibly located an
proper for such purposes as we have il
mind, both for the present and for tn
future.
Believing and finding from eNper
cnce, that no institution thrives unles
it has the substantial endorsement an
support of the constituency to whic
it ministers, and further believin
from outside for such purposes will
out such cooperation and supper
from local sources are and must /
eventually wasted because of the a
most certain failure of the enterpris
sooner or later, we express the furtht
judgment, that the territory west
the Missouri river should raise n,
less than fifteen thousand dollars
addition to the amounts named aboy