Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04

ton to the large expenditure made in
improvements in the city, the past year
by the company, it proposes to expend
an additional $4,000 the present year
In the Improvement OF Its railroad
yards, this announcement having been
made by Fl. V. Plat. of Sal. Lake,
vice president and general manager of
the company, the latter part OF last
month. From the vast amount OF
money which has been expended by
the company in the city, the Inference
IS drawn that 1t Is destined to be a
division point of the Oregon Short Line
at no distant day
Plans are also under way for the
esta blishment of extensive stockyards
in the city to care for the vast live
stock shipments, which are constantly
being made from the Long Valley sec
ton and the Owyhee county country,
as we'll as from the surrounding coun-
try, and the fullest measure Of optim-
ism Is entertained as to the success
full contamination of the plans by those
10 whom they have been entrusted.
COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
OF no less significance has been the
construction of the Northwest Naz-
arene college buildings erected in the
city during the last year. The build
ings consist OF three highly modern
structures of the bungalow type sur
rounded by spacious grounds beautiful
ly parked. The cost of the buildings
has been approximately $4,000, and
the establishment of the college here
the past year Is to be reckoned as one
OF the city's greatest achievements,
for Its marks its entry into the educa-
tional field as one of the leading edu-
cational centers OF the Pacific north
west, and already 1t has proven an i'm
migration magnet to the extent that
more than so different families from
different states have come to the city
during the year and purchased homes
that they might be the beneficiaries of
its educational opportunities. It's fac
ulty Is composed OF educators who
rank high in the educational world
and who have left the impress of their
scholarship and pedagogical training
up the student bodies of some of the
most widely known educational insti-
tutions of the country. The curricu-
ium Of the institution is broad and
comprehensive one and features the
cational progress of the times. The
progressive educators are rapidly max :
ing themselves strong factors in the
progress OF the city and that this in
stitution of learning will prove one of
its most valuable assets is not to be
doubted.
Rev. G. Arnold Hodgin has been
elected dean Of the faculty and will
be in charge OF the administrative
work during the absence of the presi-
dent. Dean Hodgin has had eight
years experience in connection with
holiness institutions. the past two
years having been spent with the MAJ
arene university as dean Of men and
professor OF homiletics. Dean and Mrs
Hodgin will have charge of the young
mems dormitory and will give part OF
their time to the perfecting of the in
dustrial feature as a means Of self-helr
to students.
Rev. Lewis I. Hadley continues as
dean of the theological department. He
has had Is years experience as a
teacher, having been connected with
both the Huntington Park school and
the Deets Pacific Bible College of the
Nazarene university. The ripe schol-
arship and rich experience Of Dean
Hadley have made him an exceptional
teacher Of the Word and given him
great influence with the student body
sDean and Mrs. Hadley will have
charge Of the young ladies' dormitory
and the superintendency OF the dining
hall.
Professor c. ". Marshall will have
nf
and mathematics. Professor Marshall
carries his masters degree from Penn
college, part OF his graduate work
having been taken in the University
q Chicago. He 10 an experienced