The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-06-19

of study in the past few years, and he
said that improvement was finding Its
way out into the world, declaring
that 1T was such work as was being
done in the classrooms that enabled
tne representatives of Dakota Yves
leyan to win eleven victories in the
intercollegiate o%ratorical contest;
That 1T was such work which enabled
the debaters of Dakota Wesleyan to
enter five different debating contests
and win every one of them. four of
which We're won my unanimous de-
cisions of the judges. He spoke of
what the college had in the way of
equipment, and impressed more what
the college needed, adding that with
all of the splendid success of DR..
Nicholson, yet he leaves the heritage
of need when he goes.
DR.. H. S. Wilkinson, pastor Of the
Methodist church, dealt with the fu-
ture of the college, and he found that
some of the speakers had been tread
ing on his ground in the course of
their remarks. The two factors that
he looked into the future to see was
the matter of students and faculty
two very essential things for the
grwoth of the institution. He urged
the development of the boys and girls
OF Dawson county into college stud
ents and thought that there were
sufficient right here in the county to
make a pretty big collegiate body.
thought that the faculty question
was a serious one right now, and that
the men and women who occupy posi-
lions should be maintained, and this
he said lead up to the question of
salaries. 1t is admitted that these
men are lot working for salaries that
are adequate, for they would not be
here now. He declared that the con-
stituency of the University was excel
lent, and illustrated his point by re-
ferring to the meeting of the Dakota
Conference last fall when the endow-
ment was being raised-how minis
tiers from their small salaries pledged
something like $4,000 for it and
when the laymen at a glorious meet
ing pledged $4,000 to make the en-
dowment an assured thing. Speaking
of the advancement of the work of
the college, he referred to the pro-
gram which DR.. Nicholson mapped
out when he came here to be COM
pleted in 1910 and it was his great
joy to say that it had been completed
in 1908.
Hon. r. S. Vessey, a member of
the board of trustees, and the repub-
lican candidate for the nomination of
was called upon to speak
upon the subject of 1.-THE Factor That
Dakota Wesleyan Will be in the Flu
ture of South Dakota Mr.. Wesley
spoke very optimistically of the col
lege and said that he had a great
interest in it, and believed that 1t
had a great mission to perform in the
years to come, and that its graduates
should be equipped in the best man
ner to perform that mission. There
is room in the state for improvement
in political circles where we need a
higher type of manhood, and if you
could graduate politicians who would
make a better citizenship it would be
a great act, for the standard has fall
len pretty low. He said that he con-
sidered Dakota Wesleyan the greatest
institution in the state.
Its quality was better, it's standard
higher and he felt that in the years
to come its position would be even
higher than it is today.
DR.. J.. o. Dobson, district superin-
tendent of the Mitchell district, spoke
''The Christian College in National
Life" which the DR.. regarded as
very broad and far-reaching and we
fail to comprehend it to the fullest
extent. The Christian college is
made up of the highest type of indi-
viduality, and it began in the most
humble way, the first graduate of
which he did not think would be able
to receive a diploma from the average
high school of today. But the sue
cession of years has been great i'd
vancement in the Christian college,
through which God has been fit to
pour himself for the uplift of the in
1t is the greatest thing
America has produced. The battle
ship will last a decade and goes to
the great railroad trains last
but a few years and they have to be
rebuilt; the business institutions
have an end in time, but the Chris
tian college grows under adversely,
is nurtured by those who love and
sacrifice for it and in payment it