The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-01
DR.. CHAS. EVANS
LECTUREDHERE
LAST SUNDAY
ARDMORE SUPERlNTEND-
ENT TOLD OF HIS PLANS TO
BUILD A GREAT CHRISTIAN COL
lEGE IN OKLAHOMA.

AT the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning splendid audience com
posed, in part, of every denomination
in the city. listened to President
Charles Evans, president of Central
State Normal and president-elect of
Henry Kendall College, tell why he
has turned from one of the largest
state schools of America to take up
the business of developing a great,
free Christian college in Oklahoma.
Perhaps a half of the audience was
composed of Dr. Evans former pupils.
Many were his pupils this year at
Edmond. Nearly fifty pupils from
Carter county have been with him in
his school this year. 1t was interest
ing to note how eagerly the young
life that learned to love and follow
him here through his six years of
superintendency hung upon his words
assured that what he said be would
do. He seemed to think that the best
thing he could do with an Ardmore
crowd would be to make plain why he
was leaving the large institution he
had builded at Edmond, when he
could have stayed as long as he de
sired. He gave the following views:
He was leaving first, because the
no E,1l OF nt,w
one. Including complete college
course one of the chief pieces of bus,
mess would be to give to the state
a department or school of education
which would not only equal and par
allel the present curriculum of the
state normal schools but pass beyond
two years and end with the degree of
A. =. or b. S. with special reference
to education. He would give to the
state another state normal, and more.
He would keep every connection al
ready possessed as a teacher of
teachers and besides that he would
add the gracious power of the church.
He was sure that Oklahoma need
ed as it needed nothing else, a strong
and permanent Christian institution
of learning free from politics, free
from denominationalism, free from
narrow conceptions of education.
Tulsa was rich, Tulsa was progress
i've, Tulsa had proved itself interest
ed in just such things, when in one
week it gave $4,000 for the best
Y. NJ. C. A. work in the southwest.
Tulsa would give a half million to
found great free institution or learn
ing, the Presbyterians of Oklahoma
would give 100000 and the church
of the United States would give in
as they had been doing
and so in five years Kendall would
have one million dollars upon which !
to base its claim to perpetuation. !
There might have been desire on
the part of the stranger to smile at
such optimism, but those who knew |
Charles Evans here in the old days, |
when he dreamed Ardmore High |
school and ward schools into exist
ance overnight, did not smile. They
if it would take five years.
He wanted. he said, school where
he worthy poor would have not only
/ chance to get free tuitiOns as state
schools are proud to offer but mucn
more, easy bread and butter until
school was conquered. He told of
low he saw that the claims of the
tate schools for free tuitions had
o be met and how he met il. He
vent 10 a rich man of Tulsa and told
lin how he wanted him to introduce
he future president of Kendall to
bank of Tulsa. The man wanted to
now his purpose. Mr.. Evans told
i'm it was to secure a loan fund
hat any boy or girl who could give
record Of good character and want
d a college education could get
,an Of from 500 to 5000 for a years
chooling at Kendall at that bank. ,
he rich man heard and at the end ,
aid that there was no need to go ,
, a bank, as he would make that .
,an himself. DR.. Evans asked his ,
ldienoe if he could get $4,000 IN
,rty minutes what might he not do
Tulsa in a whole day. The audi !
ace smiled and wondered. I
DR.. Evans said that Kendall was
)ing TO make a preparatory school I
Id a college where every boy and .
ri could go to school and have e
b. Any boy or girl in oklahoma h
no wanted an education could get it O
Kendall by furnishing character. n
The most interesting feature Of his b
marks was the statement that on a
about June 20. 1916 the biggest 2
ctory for Christian education in q