Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1909 — NOTES FROM COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

NOTES FROM COLLEGEVILLE.

On Thursday of this week St. Joseph’s College will open its 19th scholastic year. Conditions here for the opening are not as favorable as they might be, owing to the delays of the contractors in completing the new buildings, which were all to be ready for use by the 15th. In another few days, however, the Bisters’ dwelling and the large dining rooms in the basement of the church will be in order for occupation. Though this will not do away with all the crowding inconveniences, it will brightne matters very much and offer the students a far more pleasant college home. It would be a mere surmise to try and fix the date now on which the keys of the church will be surrendered by the builders. The attendance at St. oseph’s this year will be beyond all expectations if the reports and applications can be taken as a true Indication. The enrollment will, no doubt, reach the 250 mark before the last straggler has arrived; this would raise last year’s record by fifty. There has been but one faculty change and one addition to the teaching force. The Rev. A. Scheutte, C. PP. 8. has the Rev. J. W. Gormley’s place, and Prof, A Steger will have charge of the music pupils. Very bright, Indeed, are the pros-

pects for the coming year, "faith all the improvements, the increase in attendance and the old teaching force doing duty the college authorities feel certain that St. Joseph’s has crossed the threshold of the most successful year in the history of the institution.