Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-07-22
TWO COLLEGES UNITE.
Morning Side and Charles City
Colleges Unite.


The joint commission of Morning
side College and Charles City Col
lege met at Morningside College,
Tuesday, June 30th and drafted a.
basis for the union of the two insti-
tutions at Morningside to take imme-
date effect. This basis of union was
submitted to the trustees of Morning
side College and adopted The
Charles City College Commission
were given full power to act which
enables the agreement to go into i'm
mediate effect. There were many
difficult and even delicate matters to
adjust and that so unanimous a de-
cision was reached is a matter for
cOngratulation. The united college
will be one of the strongest and best
equipped institutions in Iowa and a
bright future is assured. Under the
terms of the agreement the work now
being carried on by the separate in
situations will be conducted at Nor
ningside College, beginning with the
opening of the college year in Sep
TENDER. The united institution will
be administered by Board of forty
two trustees as Morningside College
is at present, nine of which will be
elected by the Northwest German
Conference. The trustees of Charles
City College are authorized to dis
pose of their realty and other prop
critics, care for all their outstand-
ing obligations and then transfer all
proceeds TO the new corporation. The
proceeds of the Charles City holdings
are to be held in separate fund to
be known as The Northwest Ger
man Conference Endowment Fund of
Morningside College," The principal
| is to be invested and the income to
be used for the general maintenance
fund Of Morningside College 1t is
conseryatively estimated that this
fund will not be less than 100000.
This added to the present endowment
of Morningside College will bring
the total up to the half million mark.
The equipment of Charles City
| College will be transferred to Nor
ningside College and become a per-
manent part of it's assets. This
equipment includes a valuable IL
brary of upwards of seven thousand
volumes; a rare geological collection
estimated by experts to be worth
$4,000 a scientific apparatus, must
cal instruments and other equipment
to the value of about $4,000.
Under this arrangement five melp-
bers of the present faculty of Charles
City College will be transferred TO
Morningside College. The President,
w. c. Hilmer, Phi. d. will become the
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lege and Professor OF German Liter
ature. The Department of German
will be divided into German Lam
guage with Miss Ferguson, the pres
ent Professor of German at Morning
side College in charge and German
Literature to be in charge Of DR..
Hilmer. Professor Friedrich Schaub,
ID. d. becomes the head OF the de-
rartment of Biblical and Religious
| Literature. Professor w. F. Finke,
Lit. ID. becomes Professor of Eng
lish and principal OF the Academy.
Miss Laura c. Fisher, A. NJ. be-
comes instructor in Latin and Ger
man. Mr.. B. +. Patton, A. B. will
be instructor in mathematics and
science.
AS it will require some time to
adjust all details and effect a legal
merger the institutions are directed
to operate for one year under con-
tract. In the meantime the joint COM
mission is to constitute a committee
to attend to all the practical and le-
gal matters involved and to make If
possible final report at the annual
trustee meeting of 1915.
Charles City College has had ov-
er 200 students during this past
year. 1t is expected that a large
number of those will be transferred
to Morningside College. The mer-
ger will bring to the support of Nor
ningside College the Northwest Ger
man Conference which includes the
northern half of Iowa, South Dakota
and portions of Wisconsin and I'LL
nois.
! The attendance at Morningside
College increased last year from SOL
to 63S. With the completion of the
new gymnasium. the installation of
domestic science, and the union of
the two colleges ii is expected that
a very marked increase will take
place this coming year The friends
OF the college are predicting that
the 1000 mark will be reached in a
very few years. With its splendid
isolation from all the other colleges
of the state Morningside is destined
to have very notable future.