Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-31
Many Schools Are Located In and Around Lincoln

Lincoln and environs contain a col
legiate atmosphere because, in addi-
ton to the RAZOR institution, the
State university, there are located
1.ner schools around it which are OF
distinct importance in their fields.
Most of these schools are denomi-
national. They are located where
the students can have the utmost for
their expenditures in school life; they
are different from the university, but
they fill a niche in life which makes
them indispensable.
At University Place is situated
Wesleyan university. This is a
Methodist institution of upward of
1000 students. 1t is one of the most
thorough institutions the big church
has in the country, and its faculty is
one OF the most jealous and capable
Of any in the employ Of the parent
church.
The institution has large campus
and fosters athletics in way that
attracts hundreds of manly young
men to it. 1t seized all of the state
collegiate athletic prizes worth hav-
ing last year, among the secondary
schools Of Nebraska, and grabbed
some Of the honors from number
OF the best out-of-the-state institu-
lions Of its class.
Its basket ball team even defeated
Ire fast Cornhusker quintet last
season and thereby achieved some
thing which Coach Kline had been
seeking ever since he came to the
school.
Social life at Wesleyan is developed
upon most commendable plane,
TOO. Young men and young women
have their societies which give regu-
lar functions and which bring to the
student just enough Of this side Of
life to invigorate them and yet which
are not carried to an extreme in any
!. sense.
strangers who do not enter these
societies are provided for in church
and faculty functions OF various kinds
land every student who enters this
school is made to feel that he is an
cntit.. He is kept track OF, kept in
touch with and the ministrations are
4 TO his social self as well as to his
mental, moral and physical comfort.
Therein lies the success OF the de-
nominational school number OF the
faculty members OF Wesleyan feel.
They devote much time to study OF
their students and to touching them
where the points Of contact are most
in need Of sensitiveness.
Cotner University.
At Bethany, about three miles east
Of Lincoln, the Church Of Christ
years ago located Cotner university.
The school is one OF the beet in the
west in this denomination and has
been growing from year to year
steadily in way to encourage some
OF its oldest friends.
The institution makes men and
women. 1t is the modest insistence
Of the faculty members that an over
whelmingly large number Of their
graduates, and OF those who attend
the institution, make broad-mindcd,
splendid men and women when they
get out into the world.
That claim has never been dis
provsd, and !. is the hope Of the fac
ulty to see that such men and women
are sent out that it never will be.
In addition to the academic
courses which il offers, the institu-
ton gives a theological course which
prepares pastors for its charges and
which has developed numbers Of
those who are now filling pulpits over
the state. The number Is not large
that goes out each year, but they are
well prepared and all Of them have
entered into their work in way that
justified the faith which their instruc-
tors had in them.
Union College.
At College View, four and = halt
miles southeast Of Lincoln, the Ad-
ventists have an institution. 1t is
Union college, and its students are
drawn from a dozen or more states
west Of the Mississippi river. Al
though distinctly church school
academic courses are given by II and
along with the men who enter the
ministry are graduated those who
follow some OF the other vacations in
the employ Of the denomination.
A sanitarium 10 operated in connec-
lion with the college and nurses are
educated there. The same board has
charge Of the two institutions. The
college 10 run on highly creditable
lines and the aim Of the faculty, from
the beginning. has been to put the In
stitution on the same plane with
other institutions Of this character.
An increased enrolment from year
10 year testihcs as to the efficiency
81 the school and its operation from
the standpoint Of the church members
themselves.
The site OF Union college was fixed
near this city after dozen cities Of
the west and south had contended
vigorously for the honor. Various
activities Of the Adventist denomina-