The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-07-24
STETSON UNIVERSITY.


.lled to the advertisement OF the
stetson University in another part o!
this paper. This magnificent insti-
tuition does not cost the state OF
Florida one dollar. 1t represents an
investment of over million dollars
il active endowment funds and about
half a million dollars in buildings
and grounds. This vast sum OF
money has been given by friends o.
education and goes to the benefit OF
Florida.
The people of the State should en-
courage investments in the State OF
this character. We are continually
inviting capital from the outside t.
come here to invest, and our people
may well give liberal patronage tc
an institution of so high an order as
John B. StctsOn University.
The last catalogue OF Stetson is
sued in May showed that the Uni
versity employs fOrty-six professors
and instructors in the various sub
jects taught. These teachers are de-
voting their time TO the upbuldin"
OF character in young men and wom
en-. In addition to that they are i'm
parting instruction in ancient ana
modern languages. in mathematics
and science. in history and philoso-
ply, in political economy and sociol-
ogy, in business, law, music and fine
arts, engineering and pedagogy.
John 3. .StetsOn University is the
| pride of our beautiful Florida city OF
DeI.and. Its seventeen university
buildings are a contribution to its
architecture. These are located on 4
twenty-eight acre campus, and the
people who reside in DeI.and are
Justly proud OF this institution and
the noble men and women who con-
stitutc its faculty and who are .
large part of the social life of the
community
Last year JOl students were in at
tendance. They came from all parts
of the State of Florida. and from
nearly every State in the Union. This
shows the wide reputation of Stet-
son for high standards and eXccllcn.
work. Its graduates are in demand
everywhere. Some are in the Legs.
lature. Many are practicing law.
Seine are teaching. Others are in the
ministry, and many have gone into
banks and various industries of the
state. Wherever they go they carry
the high ideals acquired at Stctson
University and become ministers OF
high order in the communities in
which they reside
The library at Stctson is growing
apacc. II is now housed in a beau
tiul building given by Mr. Carnegie
and it is richly endowed by the
Countess of Santa Eulaia and b.
the Honorable {. r. Sampson. There
are twenty-Onc thousand volumes or
it's shelves all accessible to the stu
dents, and for work in science there
arc ten large laboratories, and al
the chapel where the students are
daily assembled for worship there is
a beautiful and costly pipe organ.
John B. Stetson University is fol
men and women. The college fol
men comprises courses in liberal arts
in law, in engineering, and in bust
ness. The college for women Offe"'
courses in liberal arts. in music. il
fine arts, in business. in teaching
and i'm domestic science. The youns
women are under the care of eigh
lady teachers in separate buildings
and have advantages equal to thos'
in the college for men
The State of Florida is proud o
John b. Stetson University. 1t i
glad to have in its midst an institu
ton of SO high an order that doe
not cost the State cent for its M
keep or for its endowment. and i
congratulates Stetson on its prospcs
J ity, on its high standing, and on tn
friends it has made for itself al
over the State.