Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09
College Work
At Louisburg
Begins Soon

Louisburg, Aug. 9-It was under-
stood in the spring that Loulspurs
College would have a recofd-oreah-
ing number of students this coming
wear. The summer office work mas
Justified all expectations and Pres-
ydent Earnhardt reported that on
august 6 the advanced registration
was ten percent more than 1T was
the same day year ago. Inc ool-
mitory space for young men is a.
ready filled and number OF appil-
Giants for rooms will be placed IN
,homes adjacent to the campus. Rooms
Ihave been provided off the campus
for more than half a hundred young
men. It seems that every room In
the womans dormitories Will be I'LL
ed. registration of 400 is expected
this coming year.
No sooner than the rooms were
cleared of students after the last
commencement than Prof. Patrick
head of the department of industrial
arts. took a squad of young men anu
commenced renovating the dormltorv
buildings. The Pattie Julia Wright
Memorial dormitory has been COM
pletely renovated and looks like
new building inside, and the work
men are just comp citing the renova-
ton of the Franklin building. The
Davis dormitOry building was reno
waited last summer, SO nothing but
some touching up work will be done
in this building this summer. Also
the dormitory part of the Admmlstra-
ton Building was renewed entirely
last wear and no work is needed on
that building now.
President Earnhardt has just put a
group to work on a new auditorium
for the college. Some two years ago
the college outgrew it's auditorium.
Meanwhile the college has had the
use of the Methodist church for as
sembly purposes. But the call for
an auditorium on the campus has be-
come acute, so goodly portion of
the second floor of the annex to the
Administration Building is being
completed into an auditorium that,
we trust, will be sufficient for the
college until large auditorium and
fine arts building is erected on the
campus, which, we trust, will not be
many moons away.
The faculty of the college will COM
mence coming in soon. Prof. I. D.
Moon and Mrs. w. B. Perry are ex-
| pected from their summer work in
| Bowling Green University about the
18th; Prof. and Mrs. v. r. Kilby are
| expected from Columbia University
about the goth; Prof. G. M. Oliver
| is expected in from the University of
North Carolina about the 25th; and
Dean Peele will be in from Duke Uni
versity about the same time.
The college indebtedness has taken
big slump. Since the last annual
through the hard work of President
Earnhardt and Dr.. Walter Patten.
the financial representative of the
college, the Indebtedness of the col
lege has been reduced from nearly
| two hundred thousand dol ars to
| twenty five thousand dollars, and Dr.,
Patten is reducing this at the rate
of one thousand five hundred dollars
a month. We are all taking our hats
off to DR.. Patten.
All the work on the college build
ingS and on the farm is being done
by student labor. The electrical work,
p umbing, plastering and the like is
being supervised by Prof. J. T. Pat
rick, the work on the auditorium is
supervised by j. w. Pruitt, and the
work on the farm is supervised by
Mack Marks. The farm, although in
the hands of the college less than a
year, is already self-supporting and
is furnishing goodly share of the
food stuff for the college dining hall.