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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
clubbing together. A room thus occupied by two students costs each from 90 cents to $1.25 per month. Club
boarding ranges from $5.00 to $6.50 per month, as the members desire. Wood can be secured, delivered, at $2.50
per cord. Washing can be obtained at 75 cents per month.
The expenses of the student are of such importance to those who think of attending school, that we give
an estimate of the necessary yearly expenses:
Tuition and Incidental Fees from $12.50 to $ 38.00
Boarding, Fuel, Light and Washing from
Textbooks from 70.00 to 113.00
Literary Societies from
Total from 5.00 to 12.00
0.00 to 1.00
$87.50 to $164.00
At these rates an education is within the reach of all, and no one need deprive himself of that which is
really necessary. Students need but little pocket-money. One-half the tuition fee is remitted to children of active
ministers of any church. The Common English Branches include Orthography, English Grammar, Elementary
Geography, Mental and Written Arithmetic, and Reading. The Intermediate Branches include Higher Arithmetic,
Elementary Algebra, Analysis, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Penmanship, and Bookkeeping. The Higher
Branches include the Higher English studies, together with Mathematics, Latin, and Greek.
NOTE.—It is proper to say that plans are now maturing for the erection of a building during the summer
(to be ready for occupancy by the opening of the Fall term), which will contain recitation rooms. This, with other
improvements, will fully supply a need long felt, and will offer a comfortable home and pleasant surroundings for
the students.
14. 1887 Reports
Officers of the Conference (p. 2). Trustees of Shenandoah Institute—George P. Hott, J. W.
Howe, W. J. Miller, S. Burtner, J. H. Fleming, J. N. Fries, Henry Jones, J. E. Hott, and E. Ruebush;
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute—Rev. C. H. Crowell and Rev. C. P. Dyche.
Report of the Presiding Elder, Shenandoah District (p. 5). A building, 35-ft by 46-ft and two
stories high, has been erected at Shenandoah Institute, with only a small debt resting upon it. J. W.
Howe
Report of the Committee on Education (p. 12). The 19th century is essentially one of mental
activity and of vigorous thought. As the world grows older, it is but natural that she should become
more enlightened. It used to be that a certain class of men employed others to do all of their thinking for
them, but now all are beginning to think for themselves. In former times, there was an idea largely
extant that only a few occupations required minds well disciplined. But now it is becoming more and
more apparent that the work in the most humble as well as in the most honored relations in life is
facilitated by having the mind well stored with knowledge. That knowledge is power has been attested
by our own Church since institutions of learning have become part and parcel of her existence. All will
admit that we must have thorough-going revivals of religion in order to succeed as a Church, but at the
same time all should acknowledge the fact that our educational enterprises give us recognition as a
denomination as well as efficiency in every department of our Church work. It is this more especially
that has caused the star of United Brethrenism to reveal itself in the galaxy of protestant denominations.
We need an educated ministry, to be sure. This is a statement the full force of which is brought to bear
upon our lives more and more each day. The final precept of our Savior to his disciples was “Go ye
therefore and teach all nations.” However it may have been in the past, it is very difficult at this age of
the world to teach others unless we ourselves have first been taught. And then we need, as far as
possible, an educated laity. Let the laity once be prepared to appreciate fully the labor of the ministry,
and then the growth of our Church will be steady, rapid, and permanent; therefore be it: Resolved,
(1) That we are in hearty sympathy with the cause of Christian education everywhere. (2) That we
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clubbing together. A room thus occupied by two students costs each from 90 cents to $1.25 per month. Club
boarding ranges from $5.00 to $6.50 per month, as the members desire. Wood can be secured, delivered, at $2.50
per cord. Washing can be obtained at 75 cents per month.
The expenses of the student are of such importance to those who think of attending school, that we give
an estimate of the necessary yearly expenses:
Tuition and Incidental Fees from $12.50 to $ 38.00
Boarding, Fuel, Light and Washing from
Textbooks from 70.00 to 113.00
Literary Societies from
Total from 5.00 to 12.00
0.00 to 1.00
$87.50 to $164.00
At these rates an education is within the reach of all, and no one need deprive himself of that which is
really necessary. Students need but little pocket-money. One-half the tuition fee is remitted to children of active
ministers of any church. The Common English Branches include Orthography, English Grammar, Elementary
Geography, Mental and Written Arithmetic, and Reading. The Intermediate Branches include Higher Arithmetic,
Elementary Algebra, Analysis, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Penmanship, and Bookkeeping. The Higher
Branches include the Higher English studies, together with Mathematics, Latin, and Greek.
NOTE.—It is proper to say that plans are now maturing for the erection of a building during the summer
(to be ready for occupancy by the opening of the Fall term), which will contain recitation rooms. This, with other
improvements, will fully supply a need long felt, and will offer a comfortable home and pleasant surroundings for
the students.
14. 1887 Reports
Officers of the Conference (p. 2). Trustees of Shenandoah Institute—George P. Hott, J. W.
Howe, W. J. Miller, S. Burtner, J. H. Fleming, J. N. Fries, Henry Jones, J. E. Hott, and E. Ruebush;
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute—Rev. C. H. Crowell and Rev. C. P. Dyche.
Report of the Presiding Elder, Shenandoah District (p. 5). A building, 35-ft by 46-ft and two
stories high, has been erected at Shenandoah Institute, with only a small debt resting upon it. J. W.
Howe
Report of the Committee on Education (p. 12). The 19th century is essentially one of mental
activity and of vigorous thought. As the world grows older, it is but natural that she should become
more enlightened. It used to be that a certain class of men employed others to do all of their thinking for
them, but now all are beginning to think for themselves. In former times, there was an idea largely
extant that only a few occupations required minds well disciplined. But now it is becoming more and
more apparent that the work in the most humble as well as in the most honored relations in life is
facilitated by having the mind well stored with knowledge. That knowledge is power has been attested
by our own Church since institutions of learning have become part and parcel of her existence. All will
admit that we must have thorough-going revivals of religion in order to succeed as a Church, but at the
same time all should acknowledge the fact that our educational enterprises give us recognition as a
denomination as well as efficiency in every department of our Church work. It is this more especially
that has caused the star of United Brethrenism to reveal itself in the galaxy of protestant denominations.
We need an educated ministry, to be sure. This is a statement the full force of which is brought to bear
upon our lives more and more each day. The final precept of our Savior to his disciples was “Go ye
therefore and teach all nations.” However it may have been in the past, it is very difficult at this age of
the world to teach others unless we ourselves have first been taught. And then we need, as far as
possible, an educated laity. Let the laity once be prepared to appreciate fully the labor of the ministry,
and then the growth of our Church will be steady, rapid, and permanent; therefore be it: Resolved,
(1) That we are in hearty sympathy with the cause of Christian education everywhere. (2) That we
Reports 1886 121
