Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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LOCATION AND HEALTH IN CHOOSING a school, from among the hundreds scattered over our land, a very important consideration is the healthfuluess of the location. We mean physical healthfulness. It is unnecessary to say that the moral and spiritual atmosphere of the institution of learning is everything. No matter how magnificent the equipment, or how able the instructors, if there is poison in the religious and moral teachings of the school, it should be shunned as a pest house would be. There are institutions, called colleges and universities, which utterly ignore the spiritual element, or even do worse than that. Of other schools, of which this cannot be truthfully said, there are all degrees of spiritual good from the highest down to the vanishing point. Taylor University has always stood among the very highest in this respect. But we started out to speak of physical healthfulness. Certainly no young person would wish to go to school in a locality where the atmos- phere was poisoned with malaria or where the drainage, or absence of drainage, was such as to make the conditions hostile to health and vigor. Everybody remembers reading of the dreadful scourge of typhoid fever which swept through one of the largest universities of the State of New York one or two years ago. It was the poorest possible advertisement that the university covild have had. How many hundreds of students were thereby turned aside to other institutions, no one can tell. We are confident that no institution is better situated in regard to sanitary conditions than Taylor University. It is situated on the highest land in all this part of the State of Indiana — the highest between Columbus and Chicago. Healthful breezes sweep over the Campus and University Extension from all quarters. Pure air and pure water and a safe dis- position of sewerage are the possessions of Taylor University. We are not drawing on our fancies for what we have said. The United States Health Bulletin publishes the following: The United States Health Bulletin has had occasion to examine into this subject quite extensively ; and if some of the facts that have come to our notice during these investigations were generally known, we believe that prosi3ective patrons would be shocked at the unsanitary and disease-breeding conditions existing at some of the highest-priced and most fashionable schools. ' ' These investigations have been made without the instigation of the proprietors ' and generally without their knowledge, consequently they are absolutely unbiased and unprejudiced. ' ' Among the schools that met with the general approval of the experts investigating these matters for us, and which we have no hesi- tancy in recommending to our readers, is the Taylor University, Upland, Ind. ' ' We know nothing about the course of study at this chool, for it is of no interest to us, but if the same care is taken with mental welfare of pupil as is shown, and plainly shown, to be taken with the physical, we feel that it deserves the support of parents and encouragement of the public. ' ' Are the days of Dotheboys Hall so long past that parents can trust their children ' s future to the care of strangers without the most search- ing investigation?

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H. MARIA WRIGHT LITERARYTHALL TAYLOR UNIVERSITY

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REV. CHARLES W. WINCHESTER, D. D. The President of Taylor Uuiversity was born in Westminster, Vt., anil was converted at the early age of fonrteen. Preparation for college was made at Springfield, Vt., and he was graduated from Genesee Col- lege, now Syracuse University, in the class of 1867. After graduation he taught at Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., and at Cazenovia, N. Y.