Excerpt from The Bethanian, Vol. 31: October, 1939 The Hundred Years have rolled - and the first hundred are reputed to be the hardest. It has been a tough hundred years. Although the years have merely rolled, Bethany has climbed. In its long climb the college has met adversity and even failure. Bacon claimed prosperity dis covers vice; adversity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.