The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-01-09
EIGHTY ENROLLED
State Seheol d Forestry Attendance
Increased 50 per Cent Thls Year
BASKETBALL GAME on FRIDAY
Rev. Walker and z. &. Bowen Ad-
drossd Student Body on Be-
ginning Of Winter Term

The enrolment at this time
is 80. This is 70 more than
the total enrolment for the
past year, being an increase of
about 60 per cent over last
years enrolment. Some of
the departments are becoming
crowded and it looks very
much as if some arrangement
will have to be made next year
for additional room space.
Should it be possible to ar
range for a dormitory the num-
Der of students would probably
double. Students are enroll
ing every day, 80 that it is like
ly the enrolment will be con-
siderably larger by the end of
this month.
The first chapel exercises for
the winter term were held on
Wednesday. At that time
several business men were
present, among whom were
Mayor Bate, E. c. Bowen and
Rev. Walker. Miss Lawrence.
although not well enough to
resume her classes, was pres
ent. The scripture was read
and prayer offered by Rev.
Walker. Mr.. Bowen in his
address to the students said in
part: Il might say here that
you want to bear this fact in
mind that it is not only the
book learning that you get that
is valuable, but in a school like
this there are other things to
consider. One thing that /
wish particularly to bring out
is the study of human nature.
Learn to know other people.
You might take the books you
use here home with you and
learn to master them, but you
will not get the broad educa-
ton that is obtained only by
being with and studying other
people. In my experience as a
lawyer l have defended and
prosecuted good people and bad
people, but l have found some
good in every individual. We
can learn something from every
person. You have all had a
certain amount of experience
and does not matter whether a
person can read the alphabet
or not. you can learn some
thing from him, | have learn
ed from a man who could not
write his name. We are all
learning as long as we live
and the last thing we learn is
to die. | am glad today to be
able to congratulate you on the
large attendance of this year
and hope your success may be
long continued. Mr.. Walk
er's address was in part as fol-
lows: Il want to indorse every
thing said by Mr.. Bowen and
especially the good things he
said about this school. l know
that the people of Bottineau,
Bottineau county and in fact
the whole state. are saying
good things about the School
of Forestry and are rejoicing
at the unexpected growth of
the school this year. The
ideals and the material things
of this world are very import
ant. When you see great
machine perfectly adapted for
the work it has to do you think
that the object il more import
ant, forgetting for the moment
that had not some inventor had
a great ideal the machine could
never have been perfected.
While in school we should bear
in mind that we are here to
learn; we should keep high
ideals before ue, and must have
ideals and live up to them in
order to get the real things in
life. We should always keep
the highest and best ideals be-
fore us and work in an honest
and upright way. The man Of
low ideals is becoming more
and more handicapped each
year. There is no room for
the mean or dishonest man.
The world stands ready to re-
ward the man Of high ideals. 3
President Smith reported the
total enrolment ct the pfesent
ccntinred on psge6