The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-09
Plans Worked Out for EndOw.
ment of $25O,O0O.
Topeka School Will Be Placed
Among Leading Colleges.
PLAN FOR new BUILDING
Is Overtaxed in Capac-
ity, Says Miss Davis.
Enrolment VIII Be Doubled By
New Scheme.

large stone building for admin
istrative and academic purposes. fac
ing on Tenth avenue, which will re-
lieve the crowded condition of the
present buildings and allow the school
to accommodate zoe young women.
is part of the plan to be worked out
under the $25o.000 endowment fund
asked by Bethany college If the
plan materializes the college manage
ment is confident that Bethany COL
lege will take its place among the
chief colleges in the country for girls.
Announced by Bishop Wise
Announcement of the desired en-
dowment fund was made by bishop
James Wise in his annual address be-
fore the sixty-second annual confer
ence Sunday afternoon. Plans for use
of the $250,000 were made public to-
day by Miss Miranda Davis, principal
of Bethany college
Bethany is overtaxing it's capacity
now Miss Davis said. at is now a
question OF whether the school shall
remain in the nice little boarding
school class, cozily and comfortably
situated, or make the effort to have
our school live up to the expectations
for it as expressed in the charter given
in 1859"
To Double Enrolment.
Bethany college has sixty-five girls
enrolled in the college proper includ-
ing both boarding and day pupils, and
the plans outlined by Miss Davis point
toward an increase in enrolment OF
more than double that number The
dormitory room a new building will
provide, in what is now the admin
istration building. will easily care for
zoo girls, Miss Davis said
Miss Davis will present the plnns for
the college development to an official
conference Tuesday afternoon. She
has assurance that the endowment
campaign and its resulting improve
ments for the college will be well sup
ported nationally and locally.
Only College of Its Kind.
Bethany college is the only woman's
America, and undoubtedly will have a
generous helping hand from the ma
tional educational fund of the church
in its campaign for s250,000, Miss
Davis said. Definite action was taken
by the presiding bishop and his coun-
Gil on April 26 in New York City. pro-
viding for support and maintenance of
the church colleges, she said.
Actual carrying out of the plans is
hoped for as soon as possible, Miss
Davis said. The new building should
be well under way within this year,
if plans materialize, she said. An ad-
dition will be made to the present ad-
ministration building, and the whole
building will be coverted into dor
mitory.
Maintenance Fund of $4,000.
In addition to the sum of $250,00o,
the school will ask a maintenance
fund of $4,000 for increase in teach-
ers' salaries and for scholarships
Bethany college Is the only legally
chartered woman's college in this part
of the country, Miss Davis said. The
school now offers a college degree,
following the completion of an accred-
tied four years course. The four year
course for a degree has been offered
by the college in the last two years,
having been only junior college from
1883 to 1919. The school was char
tered in 1853. the organization of the
school being made before the Kansas
diocese of the church was esta blishad.
In 1870 the charter was re-granted by
the Kansas legislature. Topeka was
favored as the location of the school
by the national church council be-
cause of being in the geographical
center of the country.
Field for Woman's College.
We are not opposing co-educational
institutions with our woman's college"
Miss Davis said. There is a field for
a woman's college in this part of the
country, and a demand for such a
school. Bethany has an opportunity
able to do so. The woman's college
is doing for girls what no co-educa-
nonal institution can do"
The campaign for the endowment
fund probably will be under way in a
few months. Miss Davis said. If ii re-
ceives the support of the bishop ana
his council in the business conference
on Tuesday. A representative of the
general board for religious education
viii come to Topeka TO assist in work.
ing out the campaign plans.
School for Church Workers.
A school for church workers, to
train in a definite way young women
for church and social welfare work,
will be added to the curriculum of
Bethany college under the new pro-
gram. Miss Davis said. Bishop Wise
is making plans for such a course, she
said.
The three buildings now used by the
college are entirely inadequate for the
college needs. Miss Davis pointed out.
Class rooms are crowded, dormitories
are insufficient and the administration
rooms are limited in space.