The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-29
GOOD YEAR AHEAD
C. of E. Is. Expecting an In
crease in Enrolment.
Nearly One-Half of Million
Fund Already Raised.
tBy the Ass6eiated Presa.l

Emporia, Kan, Aug. 29.-The Col
Iege of Emporia is expecting an in
crease in enrolment in September OF
at least 10 per cent over last year
The total enrolment last year was
343. OF that number 1913 were men
! and IT'S women DIR. F. T. Owen,
registrar, and Orson Angel, director OF
estimate the fall enrolment Will be
at least S75. They look for an in
crease in the proportion of men.
From our student correspondence
and the reports of field men," Mr.. An
CELL said, 1--WE have found an unusual
ly large number of high school boys
are intending to enter college this
fall. Fellows who would not have
years ago, because of lack OF re-
sources, are planning to work their
way
college of Emporia has had more
than fifty applications for employ
ment from prospective students who
desire to earn part or all OF their ex-
penses."
Seven New Instructors.
The college will begin the year with
seven new instructors on its faculty of
twenty-nine. Miss Anna Paterson of
Clinton, Iowa, will succeed Miss Caro-
line B. Phelps as dean of women and
will assist in the English department.
Miss Alma White, graduate OF the
State Norma here, will succeed Miss
Kathleen Blachly as head of the home
economics department. DR.. Charles
A. Mohr of New York will take charge
of the department of education. Guy
v. Price, former superintendent of
schools at Colony, Kan, will fill the
place of A. o. Craven, head of the his
tory department, who has been given
a years leave of absence, to study in
the University of Chicago. In the alb
lsence of Raymond f. Miller, head of
10 ay-fv rF rrri11
do graduate work this year in the
University of Iowa, the department
will be in charge of Henry Taylor of
Howard, Kan. Mr.. Taylor was gradu-
ated from the college in 1921 and took
his masters degree from the Univer-
sity of Kansas in June.
The vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Miss Ula Wishard in the dra-
mates and expression department will
be filled by Miss Nancy Turner. Miss
Turner is a graduate of the Emerson
College of Oratory, Boston. Journal
ism and advertising will be taught by
Orson Angel, who succeeds Hugh r.
Brewer in that department. Mr..
Fairfield, Ia.
Finish In Two Years.
The College of Emporia is in the
midst of a campaign for million dol
lars, to be raised among the college
constituency. The campaign was bes
gun last January and is expected to
take two years to complete
Thus far S402. 900 has been pledged,
to be paid over a 5-year period. This
amount includes conditional gifts of
100000 from the general education
board, (Rockefeller), and $4,000
from the Carnegie corporation.
From the returns Of the campaign.
the college expects to spend half a
million for new buildings and equip
ment and to set aside half a million
for endowment. A third women'S
dormitory, to cost 100000 and ac-
commodate about 100 women, will be
started the first of the year and is ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy at
the opening of school in September.
1928. Plans are bling made to COM
plete, also, the administration build
ing, which was begun in 1916. The
cost will be about $4,000, including
euuipment