. Journal of the ... Delegated General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ls. Prac-tically all of them have a good field, and usually are the onlyschools in the field. Their limited facilities oblige them eachyear to turn away ajiplicants for admission. For the studentsthey receive they do much more than the meager funds at theirdisposal would warrant us in expecting, though far less thanought to be done. Extensive improvements in buildings and equipment areessential in all the schools which are to be permanent. TheUniversity of Chattanooga is developing a plan of unique
. Journal of the ... Delegated General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ls. Prac-tically all of them have a good field, and usually are the onlyschools in the field. Their limited facilities oblige them eachyear to turn away ajiplicants for admission. For the studentsthey receive they do much more than the meager funds at theirdisposal would warrant us in expecting, though far less thanought to be done. Extensive improvements in buildings and equipment areessential in all the schools which are to be permanent. TheUniversity of Chattanooga is developing a plan of unique equally beautiful and distinctive, though differentin type and much less expensive, may be created for at least twoothers of our institutions—Murphy College, and John 11. SneadSeminary. Murphy. College, counseled and aided by the Board,has sold the old campus, where only an unsatisfactory develop-ment was possible, and purchased a new campus admirablylocated and large enough to provide for future expansion. Anadministration building, modeled on the lines of the Hermitage,. the near-by home of Andrew Jackson, will be erected during thecoming summer. By Christmas a dormitory for men will becompleted. At John H. Snead Seminary an administrationbuilding, to cost at least $75,000, is now in process of construc-tion. It is made possible by an appropriation from this Boardand an appropriation from the Board of Home Missions andChurch Extension. At Baxter Seminary is being erected asimple residence hall to accommodate thirty-six men. On ac-count of the lack of funds, building plans for other schools havebeen obliged to wait. At Mount Zion and Epworth charminglodges, adapted to the wooded hills in which the schools lie, couldbe erected at a moderate cost. By care in design and grouping 1172 Journal of the General Conference they would serve well the purposes of such schools as we wouldwish to maintain in those communities. In all of the schoolsadequate scientific apparatus and f
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