Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — VALPARAISO A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

VALPARAISO A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE

Valparaiso college was organized Sept. 16, 1873, by H. B. Brown, who was then and has been ever since its president. The enrollment at the opening of the school was thirty-five students.' and these were In charge of four Instructors There were three departments. The total number of students enrolled the first year was 217. The total number enrolled the past year was 3,164. The average enrollment for the first year was 102. The average enrollment during the past year was 2,123. Now there are sixty-one teachers and the nineteen following departments: Preparatory, teacher* psychology and pedagogy, kindergarten, penmanship, scientific, classic, higher English, biology, geology and mineralogy, engineering, elocution end oratory, pharmacy, medical, musical, fine art. law, commercial, phonography and typewriting, review. The value of the buildings at the beginning was SIO,OOO. Up to the present time there has been expended perhaps a quarter of a million dollars in buildings and Improvements The college has a llbrary consistlng of 12,000 volumes. The school Is well equipped with apparatus, laboratories, etc., for doing the highest grade of work. The new science hall, which Is completed and occupied, has laboratory facilities for accommodating 400 students working at one time. The total expense of board, tuition, furnished room, fuel, light, laundry. etc., for one year of fifty weeks, at the beginning of the school, was about (300. Now the same accommodations will not cost to exceed (200, and the student has the advantage of all of the additional departments of the school. The credits of the school are accepted In the best universities everywhere.