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142 JOHN C. ALMACK

Monmouth Ashland Drain Weston

1891 216 93

1893 376 332 141

1895 243 133 306 317

1899 202 203

1901 399 206 156 448

1903 419 283 247

1905 207

1907 311 379* 279 348

In 1905 the president of Drain said:

"The year has been a successful one, notwithstanding the financial troubles we have had. The public school of 180 pupils has been added as our training department."

In 1908 the board of regents made a report to the governor giving these statistics :

Monmouth Ashland Drain Weston

Receipts $13,996.27 $33,320.72 $4,159.06 $33,299.21

Expenditures 13,722.85 32,025.27 4,037.56 32,969.86 Donations. . . 7,000.00 100.00 2,950.00

Summer School 248 68

Graduates 48 28 14 22

Appropria- tions $100,000.00 $108,060.00 $107,600.00

Student government seems to have been reasonable and fair, and not a matter of great difficulty. Ashland announced :

"It is the aim of the teachers and of the government to lead the students to a willing co-operation in the right and the good. Students are urged to resist those impulses which oppose what reason teaches best. If students do not do well, a request will be made for their withdrawal."

That there were students who were not incapable of plan- ning mischief is shown by the minutes of the Zamzamian lit- erary society of Drain. The secretary recorded that members created a disturbance during a meeting, and the president in- structed the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the rules. Exemplify- ing the adage that prevention is better than a cure, Monmouth 43 published a formidable set of rules for the guidance of the young men and young women of the school:


 * Normal school and training school pupils combined.

43 The catalogue of 1870, Christian College, contained a long list of "laws"