Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-23

In the ''<endallabrum" me year
book OF Kendall college j. Burr Glib
bonS, assisted by f. T. Tucker. COM
piled a very interesting article setting
forth the advantage of an education
secured at the Tulsa school Of higher
learning 1t follows:
II takes two things to make a coll
lege education worth while; the
proper college facilities followed by
the opportunity to utilize a technical
knowledge. In these Henry Kendall
college and the city Of Tulsa excel
Tulsa is more than a college town.
IT is college city. II possesses not
only the educational facilities Of the
average college town but offers TO the
student opportunities for acquaint-
aucc. friendship, industrial atmos-
phcre and business observations that
become valuable assets to him when
he leaves the school and selects his
Vocation in life,
The majority Of schools i'm the mid
die west are situated in towns that
POSSESS no other asset than the school
itself. and he Is forced TO go from
school to a strange town to apply his
vocation. He loses the friendships
and acQuaintances of his college
period. Not so in Tulsa. Ii is a city
in every sense Of the word and
young man or woman finds here
openings in whatever avenue Of en-
Geavor they may choose.
Ideal College Town.
Henry Kendall college was estab-
lshed in Tulsa because after several
years in a neighboring city it did not
find the same atmosphere as exists
here. And since the institution was
located here hundreds of prominent
men in the coal oil and gas business
brought their families here because
of its high class schools and social
and moral conditions.
Tulsa Is known as a city of schools,
churches. social life and business op-
ortunties The growth of ner edu'
CatiOnal, religious and industrial in
stituttons during recent years reads
like fiction and Is the marvel of
twentieth century city building,
In its course Of Instructions Henry
Kendall college emphasizes the ap-
Piled sciences, the study of geology,
chemicals and matters technical that
makes it possible for the young man
to adapt himself to the conditions
obtaining in the Industrial world.
The pupils acquaintance and
friendships among the local students
afford opportunities for him to Sc
cure the responsible position he is
capable of filling at the end of his
school period.
Tulsa is one Of the phenomenal
cities Of the couutry today 1t COM
mands q position of commercial su-
permacy in the great Arkansas river
valley, where agriculture has been an
important industry for many years.
OF recent years dairying, stock rails
ing and fruit growing has been inttn-
sificd in this fertile and productive
section. The city is but six miles from
the great coal field that was the
chief attraction before the days Of the
pioneering Of the oil industry
Heart of Oil Fields.
Tulsa lies IN the heart Of the
worlds greatest oil field activity, and
has grown to her present proport tons
through the energy, determination
and success IF her people in the de-
Nclopmcnt Of the many resources
which ueccssitate the Iulsa of today
"a clearing house for her raw and
manufactured products and wealth
An important element i'm the
growth Of Henry Kendall college mas
been and is the vast opportunity af-
fordcd its graduating students to be-
come engaged in some one of the
twenty different industries OF Wnlcn
Tulsa is the clearing house, dstrib-
utng point and very nerve center.
The lates. report Of the United
states comptroller Of currency states
that Tulsas national bank deposits
are more than a million dollars
greater than any other city in the
statc--a little less than half the de-
pcsits in the national banks of Hous-
ton. Atlanta or New Orleans, and
more than one-fifth of the combined
deposits of the two Kansas Cities
cities whose population are four to
ten times the population of tulsa
Tulsas growth in population was
the surprise Cf the federal census 1t
grew from 1880 people in 1900 TO
1852 in 1910, and Tulsa was de-
Clared the 1,20S per cent increase city
Of the United States. Since then
Tulsa has passed all calculated cXpec-
tations, The federal government now
finds it necessary to take a special