The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-10-04
VISITORS At UNIVERSITY
Several Distinguished Visitors Were
Mt Dakota Wesleyan and Talked
to Students.

to Students.
The chapel service at the Dakota
Wesleyan University was graced by
the presence of several distinguished
visitors on Friday morning. Govern
or Coe I Crawford, Senator Robert j.
Gamble, and United States District
Attorney e. e. Wagner were among
a large number of visitors. and each
of them gave an address to the stud
ents. They were greeted most heart
lily and with true student enthusiasm.
Governor Crawford spoke enter
tainingly Of his great delight in the
large company Of students who ap-
peared before him. and expressed his
surprise at the very large enrolment
Of Dakota Wesleyan. He knew It
was a prosperous institution. but ha
had scarcely realized what q magni-
1cent body Of students he would zee.
He ~rejoiced in the prosperity Of al
such institutions In the state, and
gave an impressive address regarding
the value of such training al waa
received in these Christian colleges.
Senator Gamble made an excellent
speech, the gist Of which vas the
great value of an education in the
practical work Of life. He gave some
figures, showing that the college edu-
cation increases the chances Of Q
young man from three hundred to
fifteen hundred fold in the struggle
of life. He, too, paid his tribute to
the success of the Dakota Wesleyan.
and congratulated the management
upon its steady and solid growth.
The Honorable e.. e. Wagner
spoke of the significance of the
jamestown Exposition, and told the
students that it commemorated the
early struggles Of a noble manhood.
and womanhood to build a great new
civilization. Our generation was In
another struggle equally great. name
ly, the struggle for civic righteous
ness and Industrial freedom. The
outcome of hat struggle depended
quite largely upon the output of such
colleges as this. He rejoiced in the
standards, the ideals, and the spirit
which were manifested here, because
he believed the whole influence OF
the institution was in the direction of
the highest citizenship, and of the
noblest ideals Of righteousness and
truth.
The visitors expressed themselves
as highly pleased with the great pros
perity of the University at Mitchell.
It's faculty now numbers twenty-sev-
en- members, all high grade teachers.
many of them very superior special
lists in their departments.
The enrolment at the close of the
first week was about three hundred
and fifty and students are coming
in every day. The freshman class
this term will number more than six
ty, which indicates that it has more
than doubled in the last three years.
Instead of classes of three and four
graduating from the college depart
ment two or three years back, the
number this year will be more than
twenty, beside a large number from
the special departments. The anvass
for 100000 endowment goes on
steadily with increasing success. Less
than $4,000 now remains to be Sc
cured to complete the amount. The
total attendance of the Dakota Wes-
lcyan University last year reached
six hundred and forty-six, while the
number of students in the college de-
partment proper was more than dou-
Bile the number of three years be-
fore.
The library, the general equip
ment, and the c~onveniences about the
college have shown a constant adj
vancement. The University is TAX
ing rank among the larger colleges
of the central northwest. This year
there are quite a number of students
from the Black Hills district, and q
still larger number from North Da-
kota; about the same number as last
year from six or seven other states
outside of South Dakota. These and
other facts were the occasion Of sur
prise when communicated to the Wis
I}<opa h,,k tho PoNt u $hot 0x>nth n.