The Educator du lieu suivant : McPherson, Kansas • 4

"-HE EDUCATOR ADVANTAGES OF THE SMALL COLLEGE. was the pleasantest. I wonder what that baby's name is? If any OUR REUNION. The boys and girls are respond of you are dying to know, just ad ing nobly. Here is a batch of dress Mrs.

Nora M. Buchanan, Lake Cecott, Ind. etters part of which we reproduce here for our mutual bent fit. David Betts of Independence, Did you ever hear of Mis. J.

O. Kansas, has been called to the Miller, of Station Waterloo, Duukard ministry and is the father Iowa. Possibly not But all of of a little boy, he being married, and they live on a farm. I re member David very well and you know Maggie Peck and the two are one and the same, person. She taught school eleven terms, got married and is soon going to THE EDUCATOR, A semi-monthly Journal, published in the interest of education, both secular and religious.

neither he nor any other student need jog my memory about recalling thein. He always was the move into their own home where she and her husband, who teaches kind of material to make a good preacher and there's nothing music, will be glad to see you when you come their way. Her S. SHARP. Editors and DANIEL VANIMAN, Proprietors.

strange in the church's choosing him. The numerous colleges which have been planted in the Mississippi valley states have constituted a theme for much disappointment from sources none too well informed. If one will but keep in mind reasonable distinction between the proper work of the Americau college on the one hand and the post-graduate and professional work of a great university on the other, he may easily find much ground for defending and for praising the college system of the states west of the Alleghany Mountains. A central state university with its series of special schools for advanced study and research, and with its group of professional and technical colleges, is worthy of all commendatiou. But for the best results in strictly collegiate, that is to say, undergraduate work, it may well be claimed that ten well organized colleges with five hundred students apiece, properly distributed through a state, will be productive of better results than would one great central college, injwhich several thou letter sounds natural and has a healthy ring to it.

Jas. M. Mohlei's postoffice ad And I. T. Vaniman comes to the dress is Cornelia, Missouri, where front to say that he and his people he is farming.

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are in business in Virden, Illinois. name was Mips Ida Campbell and Like all the. rest of the students he her greatest misfortune is that she says that the first year at college was never a student at McPherson. was his pleasantest, and that he is "Jim" asks whether I remember his spell of typhoid at school. not likely to forget it.

He spent a couple of years in California, then Well, yes, I do. Everybody in the went to Mt. Morris, and, as stated, is now in business. He building heard the delirious raving of the last stages of the disease and we all thought the end had come. And we were glad when says he hasn't committeJ matii- mony yet.

John hj. Mohler writes from the turn come and he got better. Warrensburg, Missouri. It is a James has only ben mar.ied a sort of partnership letter for he sand undergraduates would find couple of months. Supposa you write him a letter of sympathy.

married Viola Deardorf, aud one child is dead, and Bernice, the McPHERSON COLLEGE FACULTY. S. Z. Sharp, A. M.

Mental and Moral Science and Bible History Edward Frantz, A. B. I). Ancient Languages and isii Hist iry. H.

J. Harnly, S. A. M. Prof.

Natural Sciences. E. Arnold, M. Mathematics. A.C.WleHnd.

A. B. Eng. Literature 8. Fahuesioek, M.

Pen Art, Supt. Commercial Department. Freeman Mulr, Vocal and Instrumental Music TRUSTEES. Eld. Daniel Vaniman.

President. Eld. Henry Bruhaker, Vice President H. Harnly, Secretary F. A.

Vaniman, i Treasurer John L. Kuns, ild. S. Sharp, o. VISITING BOARD.

Kid. W. Fitzwater, uashia'i, Kan. Kid John Wise, Conway Springs Kan. Eld.

Chas M. Yearout, Westphalia. Kan. themselves massed, subject to the instruction of transient tutors aud perfunctory assistant professors. A jolly girl was Amy IiedJick other, is living.

John is the pro of Sheridan, Mo. She is Amy It is a curious new heresy in edu prietor of the "Wilson Glen Fruit Beddick yet, but who can tell what cational methods this American and Honey Farm." He always will happen in die future? She is opinion which holds that there can was a successful fruit aud flower raiser, and Viola was always a teaching school and has had trouble with her eyes which we hope will be all light in the near future. Just like all the rest she uu jiu nil ui uittu vtiutago in huddling together of undergradu- ates by the thousands. It grows good girl at school, and naturally everything is all right at home. I often recalled the fact that the out of confusion of ideas, and out says some of her brightest and happiest days were spent at Mc first day Johu E.

Mohler walked into the school I asked the afore Pherson College. If some of ou girls will write her a letter I be said Viola what she thought of lieve it will do you both good. him. She said he looked like a mau who would do anything for a Perry S. Myers is farming at woman he liked.

I didn't ask for Fredonia, Kansas, and after he is through with his woik looks with reasons, but now she knows she Send a two-cent stamp each for as many of Prof. Fahnestock's "booklets" as you want. About fifteen of our students are now preparing to take the examination for it rtate certificate. Prof. James H.

Canfield the "formerly of Kansas" educator, has been installed in his new posi was right. pride on his little boy, a girl, and, Theodore Snowberger address of course, his wife. These two children are what is called a is McPherson, Kansas, and he says that in 1894 "a sweet, blue-eyed of that transitional and bewildered condition iu which half a dozen important Eastern institutions hae found themselves by reason of their to be universities and colleges at the same time, without recoguizing any distinction between a "college boy" and a "university man." Perhaps it is time that the tables were turned, and that the task of criticism were directed to the anomalous of great educational caravansaries. The local or small endowed college which occupies so characteristic a place in the American educational system, is precisely the type of institutions of which we have the best reason to be proud. From "College Oratory in the West," iu lteview of Iteviews for Juue.

"pigeon pair' in Penn. The writer Missouri girl became my wife." has also a pigeon pair, a boy and a tion as president of the Ohio state Furthermore he says that his home is an ideal one of love and cheer girl, but they are not very little now. Perry wants to know if I niversity. County uniformity of text books fulness. That's the way I like to have that watch yet? I carried hear the boys talk.

Of course it is will be. voted on this year at the a very great misfortune that Mrs. S. wasn't a student at McPherson annual school meetings in the sev eral district of McPherson county College, but she did the next best that watch all over the U. S.

and Mexico and part of Central America aud like the people who gate it to me it never failed or went wroug ouce. Now we are ready for the rest of the students. Let every one stand The teachers are unanimously in favor of the change as it can be thing and married one of them. Enjoy yourselves while you can. accomplished without extra ex There's plenty of time for crying pense to the patrons of the schools.

later on and there's no necessity up and be counted. More next for anticipating the evil day. Did you ever hear of Mrs. Ex-secretary Foster seems to have been well paid for his labors as private advisor to the Chinese Buchanan? No? Well Nora time. Howard Millek, Lewisburgh, Pa.

The Reunion is increasing in in authorities while they were arrang Murray that whs is Nora Murray Buchanau that is. The sentence ing the terms of peace with Japan. Prof. Hunicke of Washington university, St. Louis, says he has discovered a process of extracting gold from sea-water.

Every ton of the water has from two to four cents worth of gold, and the professor Hays he can extract $10,000 worth at a cost of only one dollar. We rather doubt it, but should it be so, we would like to buy a couple of dollars worth of the process. terest and every student at college It is not known just what he re the first year should be in it. ceived but cue of the Chinese may not be the best Eugliah, but it is a fact all the same. Got a blue eyed boy baby, too.

Nora Should any one know of some one, living or dead, not yet reported. papers claims he was paid $150,000 by the government, to which Li send liia name and address to was away down in Louisana along the gulf for a time and like all the rest Bays the first year at college Hung Chang added $50,000 as a Prof. Howard Miller, Losfisburgh, 1'ennaylVftDla, personal contribution..