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HIGHER EDUCATION.

As an Educational Center Lincoln Has No Rival.

Union College, Trinity Hall, Lincoln Normal and Haish's Training School Added Last Year.

A City of Colleges.

It has now been one year since a committed appointed by the Seventh Day Adventist denomination came to this city to consider the matter of locating, a denominational college in one of Lincoln's suburbs. Several cities were competing for the location of this important institution. It was scarcely thought the college would be located west of the Missouri river and it was about settled that Des Moines had secured this much desired plum when several active members of Lincoln's real estate exchange paid the locating committee a visit at Iowa's capital and prevailed upon them to visit Lincoln before deciding upon their location. They came, they saw, and Lincoln enterprise conquered as usual and gave to Nebraska's captial one of the most important educational institutions in the United States.

The Seventh Day Adventist denomination have a college on the Pacific coast, one on the Atlantic coast and one at Battle Creek, Michigan, and the one now located at Lincoln is intended to accommodate some eight states not reached by their other institutions; among these states being Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and the Dakotas. Thus it can readily be seen that this institution is one of no ordinary pretentions and was well worth the efforts pur forth to secure its location in this city. The college is located on the David May farm about three miles south-east of the capitol. The donations consist chiefly of real estate, aggregating nearly 300 acres, conveyed by warrantee deed to the General Conference Association of the Seventh Day Adventists, an associtation incorporated under the laws of Michigan, and for the purpose of holding property and carrying on this enterprise was also incorporated in Nebraska. As soon as the deed was transfered to this association they gave a bond of $100,000 to insure the erection of two large buildings, one to be the college building and the other a dormitory, the size and plan of the buildings being stipulated in an accompanying contract. The campus contains twenty-two acres of beautifully located ground and has a commanding view of the surronnding country. As soon as the contracts were closed and before the time specified therin the ground was broken and work commenced on the buildings and everyting has progressed even more rapidly than the most sanguine had anticipated. The college building and dormitory are now built and ready for the inside finshing. The college building is 142x85 and has three stories and attic above a high stone basement which gives it the appearance of a five-story building. The walls are veneered with Weeping Water pressed brick with trimmings of cut stone, and the whole exterior presents a fine appearance. This structure contains twenty-five recitation rooms, three chapels, one of them capable of seating 1,000 persons, and reception rooms and offices.

South of this building a short distance is the dormitory, 104x104 and similar to the main building in appearance and height. As an earnestness of their faith in the future of this enterprise the management have excavated for and completed arrangements for another large building to be erected north of the main building. This building will be occupied by the German and Scandinavian students and will be 135x75 feet. The main portion of this building will be four stories and the three wings will each be three stories in height. On the eastern side of the campus another building will shortly be erected for the English male students, and a boiler house, power house and laundry will be built as soon as possible. An electric plant will be put in and all the buildings will be heated by steam and lighted by electricity.

More than $75,000 has already been expended on the two buildings erected and the entire ourtfit of buildings will cost more than $200,000 exclusive of the apparatus and funishings .

The association has made quite extensive purchases of land in addition to that given them by the citizens and the sales of real estate has far exceeded their expectations, having sold almost enough to pay the entire cost of improvements thus far. Quite a little village has sprung up in the vicinity of the campus, about forty dwellings have already been built and many more are under way. The management are confident of a patronage that will fill all the buildings they can get ready for the opening of the institution which is set for the first of next September. Both the management and those who have contributed towards this enterprise are highly pleased with the unquestionable success which now seems certain for the Union college.

HIGHER EDUCATION.

As an Educational Center Lincoln Has No Rival.

Union College, Trinity Hall, Lincoln Normal and Haish's Training School Added Last Year.

A City of Colleges.

It has now been one year since a committed appointed by the Seventh Day Adventist denomination came to this city to consider the matter of locating, a denominational college in one of Lincoln's suburbs. Several cities were competing for the location of this important institution. It was scarcely thought the college would be located west of the Missouri river and it was about settled that Des Moines had secured this much desired plum when several active members of Lincoln's real estate exchange paid the locating committee a visit at Iowa's capital and prevailed upon them to visit Lincoln before deciding upon their location. They came, they saw, and Lincoln enterprise conquered as usual and gave to Nebraska's captial one of the most important educational institutions in the United States.

The Seventh Day Adventist denomination have a college on the Pacific coast, one on the Atlantic coast and one at Battle Creek, Michigan, and the one now located at Lincoln is intended to accommodate some eight states not reached by their other institutions; among these states being Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and the Dakotas. Thus it can readily be seen that this institution is one of no ordinary pretentions and was well worth the efforts pur forth to secure its location in this city. The college is located on the David May farm about three miles south-east of the capitol. The donations consist chiefly of real estate, aggregating nearly 300 acres, conveyed by warrantee deed to the General Conference Association of the Seventh Day Adventists, an associtation incorporated under the laws of Michigan, and for the purpose of holding property and carrying on this enterprise was also incorporated in Nebraska. As soon as the deed was transfered to this association they gave a bond of $100,000 to insure the erection of two large buildings, one to be the college building and the other a dormitory, the size and plan of the buildings being stipulated in an accompanying contract. The campus contains twenty-two acres of beautifully located ground and has a commanding view of the surronnding country. As soon as the contracts were closed and before the time specified therin the ground was broken and work commenced on the buildings and everyting has progressed even more rapidly than the most sanguine had anticipated. The college building and dormitory are now built and ready for the inside finshing. The college building is 142x85 and has three stories and attic above a high stone basement which gives it the appearance of a five-story building. The walls are veneered with Weeping Water pressed brick with trimmings of cut stone, and the whole exterior presents a fine appearance. This structure contains twenty-five recitation rooms, three chapels, one of them capable of seating 1,000 persons, and reception rooms and offices.

South of this building a short distance is the dormitory, 104x104 and similar to the main building in appearance and height. As an earnestness of their faith in the future of this enterprise the management have excavated for and completed arrangements for another large building to be erected north of the main building. This building will be occupied by the German and Scandinavian students and will be 135x75 feet. The main portion of this building will be four stories and the three wings will each be three stories in height. On the eastern side of the campus another building will shortly be erected for the English male students, and a boiler house, power house and laundry will be built as soon as possible. An electric plant will be put in and all the buildings will be heated by steam and lighted by electricity.

More than $75,000 has already been expended on the two buildings erected and the entire ourtfit of buildings will cost more than $200,000 exclusive of the apparatus and funishings .

The association has made quite extensive purchases of land in addition to that given them by the citizens and the sales of real estate has far exceeded their expectations, having sold almost enough to pay the entire cost of improvements thus far. Quite a little village has sprung up in the vicinity of the campus, about forty dwellings have already been built and many more are under way. The management are confident of a patronage that will fill all the buildings they can get ready for the opening of the institution which is set for the first of next September. Both the management and those who have contributed towards this enterprise are highly pleased with the unquestionable success which now seems certain for the Union college.