The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-15

bethei Woman'S college,:
The Funeral Postponed.
The grave diggers were disappoir
ed and mourning friends cancelle
their orders for crepe. Bethel Wo
mans College at Hopkinsville, KY
last session had only 25 scholar
and while some were thinking of al
appropriate theme for the funera
discourse over the departed, an
while our Education Society wa
turning toward Russellville as the
place where it might build prosper.
GUS woman's college department, TO-
the college trustees of the dying
Hopkinsville school decided to blow
the resurrection trumphet! A $780,
900 dormitory-very handsome
was at once projected and in ten
weeks it was completed and filled
with students. A cablegram went
scudding away to Venice with its
presidential lasso for DR.. j. w.
Gaines, and in short while it land
ed him in Hopkinsville, and instead
of the % students of last year they
now have 106, and DR.. Gaines and
his trustees are saying TO the Bap-
lists of Kentucky, Don't you think
we deserve that 100000 for which
we are asking?"
Chow was Bethel started?" we
asked DR.. Gaines.
"By the Bethel Association-or
inally as Baptist high school,"
"When?"
"Sixty-six years ago"
"Of your LOG pupils this season,
how many are boarders?"
"Sixty."
GLOW long have you been presi-
dent of the College?"
"Since August 49,"
"Where did you come from?"
''From Venice"
"What were you doing there?"
81 was in the Italian army, where
for a month or so | had been doing Z
Y. M. c. A. work. came there from
Paris where l had been in charge of Z
a training conference of Y. M. C. A.
secretaries, having trained in all Z
100000 men and women. l spent :
a year in this kind of work in Amer
lea just before going to Europe"
How long were you in Europe?" 4
"Ten months" 4
what was your previous work in
American" 4
"Decn Of Shorter College in Geor-
g.s." =
'Fc ~e:c ecu led .nto this po- 4
sition?" 4
y was asked to come, That is all 4
know. | hardly knew there was =
such a school when in Venice | re- =
ceived cablegram, / was terribly q
hOmesick. l accepted the call" =
: What was your first impression =
of the school here?" Z
Il was much discouraged"
"Why?"
Because of the small attendance .,
last year" u
How do you feel now?"
Every much encouraged" In
"Why?" pl
First, because of the splendid hi
loyalty of the graduates of the in to
stitution. Secondly, because the NJ
Baptists of Kentucky seemed to be w
aroused as to the necessity of having sa
college for women, and thirdly, be- ne
cause of the manner in which the B
members of the different associa- I'll
ions greet me and promise me their I'll
st
"Why have a separate woman's W
college here rather than a woman's W
department at Bethel College at tn
Because experience has shown til
hat coeducational schools for wo-
nen during the junior period do de
lot prosper" til
What wuld you do with the
100000 which you are asking from wi
he $75,O0O,0O0 movement?" or
II would put 100000 in build Hi
ngs and 100000 in endowment. If tn
he denomination will give us $780, cl,
90, we think we can raise $4,000 ey
Inside of the denomination in this eli
oanty." lie,
"What new building is it that l pl,
e on the grounds?" 81
"A dormitory built~this summer wi
n $4,000 which was borrowed. "a
'e need another dormitory, chapel AS
I'D gymnasium" m,
What is the difference between tn
'ur college for women and the Wo-
ans department at Georgetown fo
tu
"This is junior college, while all
georgetown is senior. Ours is a us
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