The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-20
Prospects at EarIham College
Were Never More FIatter-
ing Than on the Eve of Pres
ent School Year.
is EVERYTHING TO EN-
COURAGE THE SCHOOL.
Both in a Material and Educa-
tionaI Way There Has Been
Advancement Expecting a
Big Enrolment.

There is world OF room for tho
optim.st at Earlham college, but none
for the pessimist. With new build
ings. new instructors. slight revis-
ion In the courses offered, an indivi-
dual home for the boys and Que for
the girls. n beautiful campus and bril-
liant athletic prospects, professors
and Old students and friends OF the
institution are predicting that the
school year which begins Monday.
will be most brilliant one i'm all as
poets of the college life. 1t has been
said by one of the professors that
Earlham has Just approached the
point where there will be no retro
gression but progression all the way:
such rapid progress. that the in
stitution will within a few years be a
university
Registration for the school year OF
1907-S will begin Monday and continue
during all Of Tuesday. A larger num-
ber of new students is expected than
in any year previous, as the alumni
and last years students have been
bending every energy to increase the
attendance for the coming year On
next Wednesday morning. September
25, the first chapel exercises will be
held and active student work begun.
In his opening chapel address,
President Robert l.. Kelly is expected
to make several very significant state
ments as TO the future OF the school
M vxht ht..l cho
the student body during the coming
school year. New students will be
shown just what is expected OF them.
as attendants mt the institution.
Can House the Students.
With the increased attendance ex-
pected. the college for the first time
inf several years can meet the de-
mands of the students for proper lodg- /.
ing. Old Earlham hall will be aband-
oned by the boys and they will take
up their homes IN the new Edwin
Bundy memorial dormitory. one OF the
finest in the state. The furniture for
this building is being rapidly placed
and everything will be ready for the
reception of new pupils. Monday.
The new library building at the in
;titution cannot be completed before
although the contrac-
or promised the college authorities
hat IL would be ready for use by the
opening of the school year The con-
slant delay in the construction Of this
is the only thing which I'm
my way casts a dampcr on the en-
husiasm of professors and pupils
like.
The heating plant at the school can
lot be completed for several weeks.
n the meantime heat will be trans
erred to the new dormitory building
rom the old plant, such arrangements
aving been made. Just when the
lew heating plant will be completed
5 not known. but the work will be
ushed that 1t may be pressed into
ervice at the earliest date.
New Professors Here.
Professors are ready for the open
ng Of school. The new men who
ave arrived and are ready for duty
re w. c. McNown. professor OF civil
ngineering. III. NJ. Holmes, professor
T chemistry and Prof MendenhaIl,
c'tihoi vi eht bosr dof anu
of pure mathematics. Prof.
Iolmes has been at Earlham for sew
raj days. giving the chemical labor
tory thorough overhauling prepara-
Dry to the beginning of Earlham's
rst Official departmental chemical
purse. This department is expected
, be unusually attractive.
Coach r. G. Vail, who will have
1arge of all branches Of athletics
uring the coming year, will arrive i'm
edmond early Monday morning It
surmised that several of last years
,otball men will arrive Monday
orning and IL SO. Coach Vail will
ave the first practice Monday even
q. This practice VIII be a very stiff
he for the opening day, as Vail some
me ago informed all old players to
! in good condition for a hard work
1T. Monday.
IT is expected that n large number
Richmond students, known I'm col
ge terminology as day dodgers"
III register Monday and Tuesday.
furnishes a very large per
mt of the Earlham enrolment.