The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-10-25
HAD JoLIEIcATIoN Meeting
Scene of Great Enthusiasm Prevailed
at University With Citizens and
STUDENTS.

The Mitchell contingent which has
been in Vermillion for the week at
tending the Methodist conference
reached home Monday evening after
"a week OF much strenuosity, in which
the raising the balance of the en-
dowment fund for Dakota Wesleyan
University cut the greatest figure.
The appointments were read Mon
day morning by Bishop Mcdowell and
as they referred to Mitchell Presid-
ing Elder Dobson was re-appointed
for the Mitchell district and Presiding
Elder Hager was re-appointed for
the Huron district. Mr.. Hager expects
to move over to Huron soon. Rev.
H. S. Wilkinson was sent back to
Mitchell, he having been endorsed by
the unanimous vote Of the last quar-
terly conference for his return. The
Methodist people are we'll satisfied
with the work of Mr.. Wilkinson and
he will have an opportunity to spend
a year in the church which is now
approaching completion.
Over the raising of the 800. 900
endowment fund there is great re-
joicing at the University and the
event was of such Importance that it
could not be passed by without a dem
onstratton. This was held Tuesday
morning in the chapel hall, which was
filled to overlooking by the enthusiast
tic student body and the citizens
from the city. Notwithstanding the ex
expressed JOY there was a deep feel
ing prevalent of the great Importance
of acquiring the endowment and in
the speeches that followed this fact
was impressed time and again.
President Nicholson called the
great assemblage to order and after
the audience Joined in singing a stir
ring hymn, Rev. G. T. Notson, of
Alexandria, conducted the devotional
exercises. Prof. Hobson sang one of
his best solos. the accompaniment of
which was played by Miss Fannie Nc
|Cormick, and his singing was cheered
again and again.
There was a large array of speak
lers on the platform, minister's, menu
bers OF the board Of trustees, citizens
and members of the faculty.
Rev. G. v. Gflliland was the nrst
speaker and he presented the situa-
ton Of raising the money as to how
1T was done. He compared the rails
ing of an endowment fund at Cornell
college Of $150,00O, and n Of $780,
600 at Morningside. with the $780,
600 at Vermillion for Mitchell. He
considered that the effort made for
the Dakota vas a much greater n
from the fact that Cornell is an older
institution with an alumni Of a
thousand o more members, and
IMorningside had a constituency Of
three or four times the number in
northwestern Iowa than Methodism
had in South Dakota. He spoke of
the sacrificial effort made by the
ministers and the laymen in contrib
uting the balance of the money re-
CURED, and he said that the money
that the ministers gave he knew was
something of a great effort, but they
showed a wonderfully generous spirit
when they pledged themselves for
$4,000. The laymen, too, he said.
made a magnificent concession and
showed the true idea of Christian
spirit when they gave a little over
$4,000. The raising Of all this
money he said aroused a greater en-
thusiasm for education in South Da-
kota than ever before and for this
institution.
Rev. ]. o. Dobson made one of the
most enthusiastic speeches of the
morning, touching on the great spirit
which moved the people at vermillion
and what an effect it would have in
still further attaching the University
to the hearts of it's supporters. In
looking into the future of the COL
lege DR.. Dobson predicted a magnt-
icent future for the institution and
which he believed would come to pas
which he believed would come to
pass. Rev. H. S. Wilkinson spoke of
what the endowment meant to the
college, in that it would have a bet-
ter equipment for the better instruc-
ton Of the students, that it would
lift a vast burden from the shoulders
of President Nicholson, and that it
had lifted the college over the first
big hill and that the next hill would
be easier %surmounted when a LARGER
sum Of money would be in sight, He
considered it a great thing to Law
the college before the people of this
state, and he declared that in the
years to come that it would be the
equal OF any of the eastern colleges
in the matter of giving an education.
In introducing the speakers DR.,