BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE by Editor

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE.

By Editor

NEVER in the history of this institution have its friends felt a greater satisfaction at its general success than at present. Though it has never had special agents in the field to solicit support, yet its attendance is large, and but a trivial indebtedness remains. It sustains a good reputation for thoroughness in its methods of instruction as well as in discipline. It has demonstrated to the satisfaction of its patrons that a rigid, healthful discipline can be maintained even in this age of youthful folly and insubordination, and that, too, with a growing regard on the part of the students for the government of the College.

Moral young men and women will choose the right every time, if they are properly instructed in the same. One reason why so many young people err in conduct and opinion is because they have been accustomed to see good principles harnessed up with an undue zeal for the right, and all misdirected by a rash, impatient temper or an unbalanced judgment. Probably there is not another body of 350 students on the continent, so free from profanity, intemperance, tobacco, or any other filthy and debasing practices, as the students of Battle Creek College. Hundreds of parents are looking to this institution as the place best adapted for the care and proper instruction of their children, and the Trustees and Faculty are determined to make this school of such a character, in respect to the advantages for acquiring true culture, that it will not disappoint the expectation of its patrons. Already, in respect to thoroughness of methods, wholesome discipline, and general morality of our students,—indeed, in respect to all the essentials of a true education,—we acknowledge no superiors.

This institution does not claim to be an educational hot-bed, in which an ignorant, uncultivated youth can in a few short months be transformed into a remarkable type of educated manhood. We have known mushrooms and toad-stools to become fully developed in a single night, only to wither with the morrow's sun. But the work of educating and training the human mind is a gradual, laborious process, one which

requires long-continued patience and perseverance. It is thoroughly educated men and women of mature and solid growth that the world needs,—men and women who would not stoop to sham, nor be content with but the name. To produce such is our highest aim. May Heaven bless the effort.—College Record.