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Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec. 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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. It is a suffi-cient testimony to the influence of thisfaculty to say that during the eleven yearsof the life of the college there has neverbeen reported to us a case of drunkennessamong the students, and during last yearnot one case of the use of tobacco. 2. Library.—Beginning ten years agowith a Websters Dictionary, the gift of J.Ambrose Wight, D.D., of sainted memory,and a copy of the Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica, from Dr. H. M. Cooper, thelibrary has become a magnificent collectionof about 30,000 volumes and pamphlets,representing very department of literature,especially rich in works of reference, in his-tory, biography, belles-lettres, science andbibliography. We often hear it called the best college library in Michigan.Upon the tables of the reading-room are thebest periodicals of current literature. Thiswealth of knowledge is accessible to studentand visitor live days in the week, from 9A.M. to 5 P.M. 3. Apparatus.—Recent education de-pends more and more upon object lessons.
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508 ALMA COLLEGE. (December, Biology and botany are studied through themicroscope; geology in the museum and onthe mountains; astronomy from the obser-vatory; light, heat and electricity in thephysical laboratory, and the class in chem-istry reminds one of the description of thestudy in Faust, minus the darkness, thecobwebs and the dust. Even the classicsmust have maps, charts and diagrams; theRoman soldier described by St. Paul inEphesians 6 is pictured on the walls of theLatin room in Alma College. In theserespects our friends have enabled us to makegood beginnings, but the enlargementneeded is great. The college is appreciated. This ismanifest in two facts : by increase in giftsof individuals and churches and in stu-dents. Givers are increasing year by year,and the amount of their combined gifts isenlarging. Through the wisdom and gener-osity of our treasurer, Mr. A. W. Wright,the college did not lose a penny of intereston its endowment during the years of finan-cial chaos through

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