Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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and both together furnish proof of the increasing usefulness of the College. Causes and processes lie hidden from the public gaze, but building and other material etpiipments strike the eyes of all observers. .lint XYestern Maryland College points with pride to her educated sons and daughters as the most enduring proof of her merit. and of her right to seek public patronage. Over four hundred grarluated students stand as monuments of the fostering care and of the faithful service of this lnstitution. NVherever these INTERIOR OF LIB RARY. make history in the various lines of business or in the learned professions, VVest- ern Maryland College is making history. ' Success may or may not be the criterion of merit, and rank conferred by Act of Parliament may be doubted, but among all peoples and at all times. the Workman is known by his work. The College, whose history I have briefly sketched, stands on its own merit and asks to be judged simply by its own Work. 33

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The original building with all its wings, the gymnasium, the president's house, the Alumni Hall and other buildings on the premises are lighted wi-th electricity from a plant owned by the College and situated in the boiler-house, from which the buildings are also heated by steam. In addition to the property above mentioned in this sketch, the trustees own four houses in front of the main building on College Avenue, occupied by the baker, the watchman, the fireman and the launclryman, who are thus situated so as to furnish constant and faithful service. y INTERIOR OF LABORATORY. The fact that a number of young men the present year have been compelled to seek rooms in the Theological Seminary, for lack of accommodations in the College, indicates that additional space will have to be providedg and so the present summer will be likely to find the mechanics engaged in their accustomed work of adding to. Let the good work go on! The successive architectural enlargements are only the counterpart of inner'life, growth and development, ' n ffl ,

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westminster Cbeological Seminary. HE Westminster Theological Seminary is owned and controlled b Y the Methodist Protestant Church, through a Board of Governors and a Boafd of Visitors. The Board of Governors consists of tive ministers and five laymen, appointed as follows: Three ministers and two laymen are appointed by the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church every fourth session succeedin th ' - g e session of 1884. Two ministers and three laymen are appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. and hold office for four years. This Board of Governors holds the 1. i I 1 Q! Q' 1 far., , . WESTMINSTER THE property,' elects the Faculty and excercise p , 4 s general supervision over the interests of the Seminary. The Board of Visitors is com osed f l f ' OLOGICAL SEMINARY. p o one minister and one' ay man. appointed by each patronizii ff A 1 V A 16 nnual Conference-i. e., each Conference appfopriatingthe College collection to the Seminary. I ' The Board of Visitors, or any of them, has authority to visit and inspect the Seminary at all times, with a view to recommending to the Board of Governors 34