Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-23
PROSPECTS ARE GOOD
For a Large Attendance at the COL
lege This Year.
MANY STATES REPRESENTED
New Teachers Assume Their Positions and
the Years Work Started Off.

Judging from present indications it
repeat this year what it has done for
about fifteen yers with astonishing
regularity: climbing a little higher
in the attendance of students than on
the previous year. The greater in
crease SO far is with the young women.
This is not to be wondered at when
one thinks of the beautiful home
which has been provided for them
at Wright Hall. The building was
never so beautiful without and within
as it is now. The ivies and other
vines. some of them now in bloom,
are covering large part of its walls !;
and inside everything is glistening
with varnish and fresco.
The wide reach of the college is in
dicated by the registration which tells
as that out of 1S2 students now enroll
ed five are from Alma. eight from
Howell six from ST. Louis, six from
Saginaw. five from Calumet, five frc no
Tecumseh. six from Detroit, three
from Iron Mountain, one from
Chicago. four from Ohio, one from
Boston. one from New Mexico, and one
from Japan.
President and Mrs Bruske gave a
reception to the faculty and officers of
the college on Tuesday evening. This
annual function serves to put the
working force of the college into in.
telligent and belpful sympathy. The
new members of the teaching staff
are introduced 10 their associates and
the old members swan vacation stories
over bits of ice and cake. OF course
this wear the ice suggested the North
Pole and how it was Cooked and
Feared. >
The opening address was delivered
in the chapel on Wednesday morning
bv Rev. Harry l.. Crane. pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Alma 1t was
most able and interesting dis.
cussiou upon what students should
definitely set before them as their
goal in a college education.
The new membres of the faculty are
Mr. Churchill of the com mercial school
Miss Roberts of the piano department.
Miss Robinson and Miss Merriam of
the school for kindergartners AL
though thew have been on the grounds
only few days thew have already
won golden opinions from their fellow
teachers and the students of their
several schools Thev are persons of
the best training and of manv years of
experience in teaching. Mr. Churchill
has been tearcher of the commercial
branches for over ten years: Miss
Roberts has taught in the Indianapolis
Conservatory for FIVE years. Miss
Robinson and Miss Merriam after be-
ing graduated, the one from Alma
and the other from the Chicgo kinder
garten college and teaching for several
years. were graduted from the
Teachers College at Colum bia
University. In the change of heads of
deprtments there is always great
risk lest student attendance will suffer
thereby. This does not seem to have
been the case in the present instance.
In one instance. that of the kinder
gartners, there has been an increase of
students.
There is one great perplexitv at
Anna. What shall we do for more
scholarships? Bv the contribution of
our friends we were able to announce
to the public that we had ffty-one
scholarships to offer to such students
of good moral character as should
show an average standing of 30 per
cent in the studies of the last year
wherever thew attended school. At the
close of the first week the registration
shows that Il have established their
claims to these scholarships Shall
we send some of them back or shall we
increase the scholarships2 x