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BUDLONG HALL, pmLANDER SMITH COLLEGE, LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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girls in dome tic science. The uperinay
mith has erved fourteen year .
Equipped for training
tendent, Mr . H. M.
one-half rec ived a part or all of their training in this chooI.
Two hundred and twenty students have graduated from the
literary course. In 1908 the enrollment was 23 teacher,
677 tudent, and 16 studying for the
mini try. Of the 75 counti in Arkan
a , 47 are repre ented, in addition
to students from 12 state .
The course of tudy include college,
normal, Engli h, musical, commercial,
and indu trial. There is also a elas
in theology. The annual expen es are
$16,000. Students paid $5,500 for
board and tuition in 1907-8, the Freedmen's
Aid Society contributed $3,200,
and the balance was received from
friends. Property value, $54,000. Rev. James M. Cox, D.D.
The Adeline M. Smith Industrial Home, located oppo ite the
college, is the property of the Methodist Woman' Home Missionary
Society. Erected by Mrs. Philander Smith, in 1884.
Philander Slllith College.
Little Rock. Ark.
Rev. JaIlles M. Cox, D.D., President
I N 1877 Mis Helen M. Perkins, under the direction of the
Freedmen's Aid Society, opened a chool with eleven students
in a small building in Little Rock, Ark. The school wa
named Walden Seminary, in honor of Rev. Dr. (now Bi hop)
John M. Walden, of Cincinnati, for many year a leader in the
Society's work. Within two years the school was moved to
We ley Chapel, the first church built in Arkansas for egroes.
The first building, a handsome brick structure, the south wing
of the present main structure, was erected in 1883. The school
was then named in honor of Philander Smith, of Oak Park,
lil., whose family gave $10,000 toward the erection of the
building. The family of Mr. Smith have continued in generous
giving, their contributions aggregating more than $25,000.
The main building i now called Budlong Hall, in honor of
Mr. Budlong, of Rockford,
lil., who contributed largely
for its completion.
The recitation rooms, the
chapel, offices, the library with
4,000 volumes, the dining room
and the kitchen occupy the first
two floors and a paIt of the
third. The remainder of the
third, and the fourth story. is
used as a girls' dormitory.
Arter Hall, named for Mr.
F. A. Arter, Cleveland, Ohio,
is to be a five-story building
for boys, and for recitations
and industries. The Epworth
Leagues of Arkan as and other
friends are raising the money
for its erection. The foundation
has been laid.
More than seven thousand
young men and young women
have received instruction in Philander Smith College. Of the
sL,-'teen hundred public school teachers in Arkan as, more than
197
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