The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-09-09
YEARLY MEETING
OF IOWA FRIENDS
Successful Assembly Closes With
Sunday Services.
INTEREST IN PENN COLLEGE
After a Splendid Report Made BY
President Rosenberger Over Si,-
200 Is Raised For Improve
ments to Main Building.

AFTER OpiCHuiu nSPSit "oAS -
President Rosenberger Over Sl,-
200 Is Raised For Improve
ments to Main Building.
Many thousand people visited the
Friends Yearly Meeting ground sun
day afternoon where four meetings
we're in progress at one time; two in
the building, one on the first floor and
one on the second floor; one in the
Tent Endeayor," and one On the
stand erected in the south part OF
the grounds. The Sabbath closed
the forty-seyenth annual assembly of
the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends,
and today the Yearly Meeting house
and grounds are being deserted and
will remain vacant for another whole
year.
Educational Work.
Saturday morning was devoted to
reports of the educational work of
the past year. The report of Pleas
ant Plain academy was presented,
showing that institution out of debt
and in prosperous condition. 1t was
approved by the meeting, as was also
Pres. A. Rosenberger's annual report
q for Penn college, which was read as
follows:
O. Report on Penn College.
To the Board of Trustees:-My
nineteenth annual report, and the thir-
ty-sixth of the college, is herewith sub
mitted for consideration:
Number of students enrolled. .... .40l
Number in College Department. .120
Number of Graduate Students. 80. II
Number graduating at the close of
the year Observation-Disclosures. 10.
Number ia Penn Academy. ...... .121
Number finishing Academy course. 25
Number in summer term. ....... Sc
Nine men and four women were ad-
mitted to Bachelors Degrees as fol-
lows:
Bachelor in Arts-Zella Bradley,
Carrie Anna Butler, Albert Nelson
Courtney, and J. Mabel Flint.
Bachelor in Science-Arthur Z.
Bailey, Ralph r. Else, Grover C. Hawk,
Anvil G. Hinshaw, Harry Morrill, Paine
and Earliest Adolph Zeliadt.
Bachelor in Phllosophy-Jessie Hes
ter Coleman, Warren ]. Dean and
Ralph Gossage.
Master in Arts-Anna Marie Bruff,
Joseph Linton Packer, Lucille Rosen-
berger, Edith G.. Smith, and Matthew
Herbert Watson.
Ralph r. Else is the holder of the
Haverford Undergraduate scholar
ship: Jessie Hester Coleman OF the
Bryn Mawr Graduate Scholarship,
and Ralph Gossage holder of the Iowa
State University Scholarship for next
year.
A scholarship in chemistry mas been
granted Harry Morrill, Paine in the
University of Chicago for next year.
The audience in attendance during
Commencement Week was large and
appreciative. The baccalaureate ad-
dress by Alexander McFerran, pastor
of the Presbyterian churcn of Oska-
loosa, the address to the Penn Acad-
envy by Eugene Allen, pastor of the
First NJ. Z. church of Oskaloosa, and
the Commencement Day address by
r. B. A. Mcbride, pastor of the United
Presbyterian church of Omaha, Neb-
raska, were all upon themes of great
moment, and listened to by large audi
eices.
The cultural and christian aetiyit-
Of Ia a l.
ly influential. Large memberships be-
longed to the Christian Associations
and their Bible classes were well at
tended. The missionary interests pos
sessed a healthful tone, and the evan
gelistic spirit was unusually active.
During the holiday vacation three COS
pei teams engaged IN series of meet
ings which proved very successful.
The teams brought back TO the college
a return benefit in an increased en-
thusiasm for Christian work. EDcour-
aged by the successes of the Gospel
teams it has been thought proper to
follow up the work during the summer
vacation, Consequently large tent
was secured, and five young men en-
tered upon a summers Gospel cam
paign. They have held protracted
meetings at LaGrand, Union, Ack.
worth, and Center, and are expecting
to continue the work at Honey Creek
at the close of the Yearly Meeting.
Their efforts have been attended by
many conversions, and general up
building and strengthening of the
church. 1t is hoped that similar
work can be carried on during the
longer vacation af the coming year.
The work of the college in all Its
departments has been of satisfactory
character. The attendance has beer
large and the work Of good quality.
1t is gratifying to note that the
scholarly atmosphere becomes in
creasingly apparent. In pursuance o.
its former practice OF granting leave
Of absence TO members of the facult,
for travel and advanced study sever
al leaves OF absence have been grant
I'd for the coming year. In view o
the long continued services OF the col
lege president he has been granite,
such time during the year as he ma.
see proper to use In travel and resi-
dence In the Holy Land, and durinI
this time DR. d. M Edwards has bee