The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-07-01
BOARDING PLACES FOR STUDENTS.
Prospects for Large Attendance at West Texas
State Normal College Good, if City Can
Care for Such a Large Number.

Judging from indications gath
cred from correspondence and
from personal applications to the
faculty and the president of the
West Texas State Normal Col
lege which is to be opened in
this city on September 20, this
city will practically be swamped
with students for the first year
of the new state institution. Ev
cry day comes letters asking
about boarding places, rates and
such like information as well as
inquiries for courses of study.
The matter of taking care of
these students when they come
is just now exercising President
Cousins of the college and the
local board of trustees of the in
stitution. In fact they are be-
ginning to wonder if it will be
possible for all of the applicants
to be taken care of under such
conditions as these students will
deserve. The board of trustees
know that the citizens of the
town will be amply able to take
care of them if these citizens will
only come forward and assist in
the work. In some cases it may
cause some inconvenience to the
people of the city, but in order
to accomplish the good for the
town that will come from the
successful operation of the school
these inconvenience will prove
a step, leading to the largest
normal school in the state if not
in the entire Southwest
Speaking of the conditions
which confronted the local board
of trustees, r. A. Terrill, secre-
tary of the board stated to the
News reporter yesterday:
The people of Canyon City |
are going to be surprised at the
attendance which will be here at |
the opening of the West Texas
State Normal College this fall. |
Numerous inquiries are coming
daily requesting information
about the course of study, the |
boarding facilities, rooms, and |
such information. From these |
letters and from the applications
which are being made to the |
various members of the faculty, |
it may be expected that the in
tial attendance will exceed the
number that has confidently
been expected from the first. 1t
is now up to the citizens of the
town as to the question of board
ing facilities. We must take
care of the students else the eff
forts of the citizens to build uD |
the city as an educational center
will prove failure,
The matter of aScertaining
the names of homes and number
of pupils that can be accomoda-
ted has been left with President |
Cousins and myself, and we ex-
pect to call upon every citizen of
the town to assist in this matter
and we ask the News to call the
attention of the people to the
fact that a canvass of the town
will be made within the next
week for this purpose and to re-
quest the citizens to be thinking
about the matter in the mean
time. 1t does not mean that just
those who are inclined are ex-
pected to help out, but we conf
dently expect that every avail
able room in town will be filled |
with students and, while Mr..
Cousins and myself do not like to
request it, it now appears as if
the people will have to sacrifice
some of their own comforts and
conveniences for the benefit of
the school for few monthS-at
least, until proper boarding
houses can be erected to take
care of these young men and
young ladies. "