Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — COMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH OPENS AMERICA’S “UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITY” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH OPENS AMERICA’S “UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITY”

The “University of Humanity," Just dedicated In-New York by Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army. Here the Army’s officers will henceforth be trained. (Ineert) Commander Miss Booth (Left) and members of Ker staff.

The doors of the first "University of /Humanity" have Just been opened. To the blare of trumpets and the march of men and women wearing insignia of crimson and . gold the dream of a patriarch was realised the other day In New York, and 100 students began a course In the art of serving their fellow men. ’ That course will teach them net only sociology, social service and first aid; not only theology and Bible study, but cooking, scrubbing, sweeping and laundering as well. This “University of Humanity” Is known as the Salvation Anny Training College, ft was a dream of the founder of the Army, General William Booth. The realization of his dream is a brick and brownstone building upon a height on the outskirts of New York city, a modern buildlpg with a lecture room, class rooms, six study rooms, sitting rooms, dormitories and offices. Commander Evangeline Booth,

daughter of the man who dreamed It, dedicated the building. She stood upon the steps, her staff about her, while rank upon rank of bonneted Army lassies and uniformed officers marched past to the music of a Salvation Army band. Later In the lecture room she interpreted the Ideals of the new college, while the portrait of her father, the General, looked down upon this new advance of his forces. Here will be trained the 500 men and women that the Salvation Army needs for officers. They will rise to the bugle ball, study in the classrooms and In the homes of the unfortunate; do their own work, that they may be ready to help in whatever way they may be needed. Then they will go out into the slums of American cities and to far countries where other divisions of the Army are working. To support this work of training will go part of the $10,000,000 Home Service Fund for which the Army will appeal from May 10 to 20.