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Show B. Y. COLLEGE READY FOR' THE SCHOOL OPENING Forging Department Is one of the Bst In the State. Buildings Have Been Given Thorough Renovating The B. Y. Collego is fast being placed in excellent shape for tho. beginning be-ginning of tho school year, September Septem-ber 20. While strolling about the campus and through tho buildings, ono Is forcibly siruck with the neat, excellent appearance and condition illicit everything assumes. There has never been a year In history of tho collego when tho grounds wore so beautiful and when so many repairs havo been mado as this summer. Of particular interest to all old B. Y. patrons and students Is tho remodeled re-modeled blacksmith shop. This year a special appropriation to bo used principally In tho forging department was mado by tho Gcnernl Church Board of Education. As a result a new cement floor has been laid. An excellent class room 1ms been partitioned parti-tioned oft from tho workshop and a largo roomy office has been supplied. The old forges havo beon replaced by tho most modern and best Iron forg es on tho market. It Is giving Justice only her own to say that tho blacksmith black-smith shop Is now ono of tho best equipped and attractive shops In tho state. Anyono who Is fortunate enough to obtain a placo In this part 0 tho school should certainly feel proud of tho opportunity. Tho carpentry shop has also been remembered. This part of the college has boon well qulppod for somo tlmo but of recent years tho benches lipvo been somowhnt In need of repairing. This has beon attended to so that tho work In this department can con-tlnuo con-tlnuo Its high standard. Tho classes In forging nnd carpentry car-pentry will hereafter meet four times a week for practical work and onco a weok for theory. It la folt that better bet-ter results will follow this method of teaching these subjects than has heretofore here-tofore prevailed. Tho old dilapidated greenhouso has como In for Its sharo of overhauling. An entirely now root has replaced tho old and tho building has been pnint-od pnint-od both in and outsldo. Tho biology dopartment plans to mako good use of tho greenhouso. This should strengthen this phaso of school work as thoro has been somowhat of a handicap for want of fresh 'botanical material for laboratory purposes. Tho old fir flooring of tho principal princip-al halls of Hie West building havo beon replaced with maplo. This feature fea-ture will bo welcomed as tho old floors wero fast becoming unsightly. Just now Custodian Holmnn has a Inrgo force of wornon cleaning all the wood work and windows aro bolng thoroughly clonnod. All tho rooms will ho In Ideal condition for tho largo nttendanco which reports show what tho collego will havo. In fact it is reported from canvass mado. that this promises to bo tho bannor year In the history of tho collego ns far as work nad nttendanco aro concerned |
