All of our property is free from mortgage, and is deeded
to an undenominational board of trustees who have the control of
the institution.
From thirty students the number has grown to fourteen hundred,
coming from twenty-seven states and territories, from Africa,
Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and other foreign countries. In our
departments there are one hundred and ten officers and
instructors; and if we add the families of our instructors, we
have a constant population upon our grounds of not far from
seventeen hundred people.
I have often been asked how we keep so large a body of people
together, and at the same time keep them out of mischief. There
are two answers: that the men and women who come to us for an
education are in earnest; and that everybody is kept busy. The
following outline of our daily work will testify to this:--
5 a.m., rising bell; 5.50 a.m., warning breakfast bell; 6 a.m.,
breakfast bell; 6.20 a.m., breakfast over; 6.20 to 6.50 a.m.,
rooms are cleaned; 6.50, work bell; 7.30, morning study hours;
8.20, morning school bell; 8.25, inspection of young men's toilet
in ranks; 8.40, devotional exercises in chapel; 8.55, "five
minutes with the daily news;" 9 a.m., class work begins; 12,
class work closes; 12.15 p.m., dinner; 1 p.
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