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JUNIATA COLLEGE
The school was first announced under the name, " Huntingdon Normal School." But it soon took the name, " Brethren's Normal School and Collegiate Insti- tute." In 1881 it assumed the name, " Brethren's Normal College," and continued under that designation until 1893. Then, in honor of the valley in which it is the lone college and the far-famed river on whose banks it is located, it adopted its present name, Juniata College.
Its trustees, by the terms of the charter, must be mem- bers of the Church of the Brethren. From the first they
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Some of those who stood by Juniata through its trying years. Top, from left : Trustees, Jacob F. Oller, Waynesboro, Pa. ; John Harley, Pottstown, Pa. ; D. F. Stouffer, Benevola, Md., and Isaac Price, Schuylkill, Pa. Teachers, Joseph E. Saylor and William Beery.
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numbered fifteen ; since 1922, twenty-one. Let the reader turn to the page on which the trustees are tabulated and note the men who fathered this enterprise through its perplexing, because unpopular, days and you will dis- cover who has carried the burden of Juniata College through the years. The trustee board has had but two
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presidents,-Henry B. Brumbaugh, from 1878 until 1919, and Martin Grove Brumbaugh, from 1919 to the present.
In addition to Founders' Hall, occupied in the spring of 1879, the following buildings have been added: Ladies' Hall, 1890; Students' Hall, 1895; Oneida Hall, 1898; In- firmary, 1900; Gymnasium, 1901; Library, 1907; Stone Church, 1910; Grand Stand on Athletic Field, 1914; Heating Plant and Laundry, 1915; Science Build- ing, 1916.
Principals or Presidents. Prin- cipals : Jacob M. Zuck, from April 17, 1876, until May 19, 1879 ; Jacob H. Brumbaugh, until 1881. Presi- dents : James Quinter, until 1888; Henry B. Brumbaugh, until 1893; Martin G. Brumbaugh, until 1910; I. Harvey Brumbaugh, Acting
President, 1899-1911; President, 1911-24; Martin G. Brumbaugh, 1924 to the present.
Students. The first day they were three; the first term, seven- teen ; the first full school year, 29;
JAMES QUINTER, First President of Juniata College
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the second, 117. Enrollment for 1924-25, all college grade, 347. The first graduates from any Brethren's school were from Juniata, July 3, 1879, the class, M. Linnie Bosser- man, of Polo (Mo.) ; Phoebe R. Norris, of Gettysburg, (Pa.) ; and Gaius M. Brumbaugh, of Huntingdon, (Pa.),
GYMNASIUM AT COMMENCEMENT TIME
each receiving the degree, Bachelor of English. In 1882 were catalogued the first pupils in the college scientific course. In 1889-90 a two-years' Bible course was begun with thirty students enrolled. In 1890-91 Juniata Business College began with twenty-eight students. In 1895 the first students (eight) in the Classical course were cata- logued. In 1897 Daniel C. Reber, now occupying a chair in Manchester College, (Ind.), was the first, and in 1898 Charles C. Ellis, Vice-President of Juniata and a member of her faculty, was the second to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from any Brethren's college. It was during Martin G. Brumbaugh's administration (1893-99) that the institution took advanced steps and became a college in fact. In 1924 the Academy was dropped.
Faculty. The first term, one instructor ; the first year,
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three; second year, seven; 1924-25, twenty-five. The table of instructors who served three years or more, extensive attitude and the summer school was dropped. found on another page, will prove interesting study to the one who wishes to know who has exerted the larger in- fluence over the student body.
Summer School. This has had a checkered history. In the early years of the institution, under the name, " Pennsylvania Summer School," a few sessions were held. Then the school took on a rather intensive than
SCIENCE BUILDING
Between 1909 and 1914, six-weeks' summer sessions were held. Beginning with 1921 a nine weeks' summer school has been conducted,-the first year the enrolment being 177, and for 1924, 468.
Soon after the school started, the Eclectic Literary Society was organized. This continued to meet at regu- lar times until the Spring of 1892, when the Oriental and Wahneeta societies were organized in its stead.
Periodicals. In January, 1892, under the editorship of Dr. A. B. Brumbaugh, who was the agitator of the idea, the Juniata Echo made its first appearance. First, it was
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LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY.
THE READING ROOM IN THE LIBRARY.
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published quarterly. It is to be regretted that no files of the first four volumes, presumably quarterly issues, have been preserved. Volume V begins as a neat monthly. Thus it continued to represent the ideals and sentiments of the college until the Fall of 1924, when it was super- ceded by The Juniatian, a weekly publication. The Juniata Bulletin began publication January, 1904. It serves a unique purpose. Within its covers are special reports and papers dealing with subjects germane to the purpose and hopes of the college.
Grounds and Library. The college grounds consist of twenty-three acres. The library has over 30,000 volumes, over 3,000 of which are carefully selected texts on the shelves of the Reference Rooms.
Standing. Juniata College is a member of the Associ- ation of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland with recognition of first class.
Fundamentals. The Trustees, at their regular meeting, April 17, 1919, at a time when taking such a position meant almost standing alone among educational institu- tions, declared the position of the college as it relates to the Bible as follows :
1. The Divine authority and the full and complete inspiration of the whole of the Old and New Testament Scriptures.
2. The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
3. The Doctrine of the Trinity.
4. The Fall of Man and his consequent depravity and the necessity of the New Birth.
5. The sinless life of Jesus Christ, Atonement in His blood which was shed for sin, and His personal Resurrection.
6. Justification by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
8. The Personality of the Holy Spirit and as the Divine Paraclete, the Comforter and Guide of all the people of God.
9. Sanctification thru the Word and the Spirit.
10. The Personal and Visible Return of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Resurrection of the Dead, and the last Judgment.
Though the college was not founded to teach religion, as one of its founders expressly said in the beginning, the declaration of the trustees on the fundamentals indicates the atmosphere of real Christianity in class room and elsewhere, which is sought to be constantly realized.
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Chapel every day is a quiet hour most uplifting, the students declare.
Besides, in 1898, Jacob M. Blough, John M. Pittenger and Jesse B. Emmert formed a Volunteer Mission Band that has continued with increasing influence ever since. It should be noted, too, that these three have served on the mission field of India since they left college. The band has been a strong link between the college and the congregation through deputation work which has been carried on for a number of years. Since Jacob M. Blough sailed for India, in 1903, it has yearly raised the money for his support. While all the missionaries who were once students at Juniata have an abiding interest in the thought of the college and reference to them in prayer is often made, Jacob W. Blough, now on the India field, is the one direct tie that binds the institution closely to that part of the foreign work.
Jesse B. Emmert was the band's first president. Others who followed, as far as could be ascertained, are the fol- lowing: 1899, Lewis Keim; 1900, unknown; 1901, Jacob M. Blough, Mahlon J. Weaver and J. William Swigart ; 1902-3; unknokn; 1904, Daniel W. Kurtz; 1905, un- known; 1906, Arthur J. Culler ; 1907, Earl E. Eshelman ; 1908-17, unknown; 1918-19, Linwood Geiger; 1920, George Griffith; 1921-22, Dorsey Seese; 1923, Kenneth Bechtel ; 1924, Kenneth Bechtel and Paul Rummel.
The Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Associations each wield a healthy religious influence in the student body. These organizations, pleading for a real, practical Christianity, for a number of years have been meeting on Sunday evening before church. Then, afterwards, all attend services in the Stone Church.
Though the announcement of the election of Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Ph.D., LL.D., as president, was made at commencement of 1924, the formal inauguration into office was not held until January 29, 1925. On this occa- sion presidents from seventeen colleges and delegated representatives from fourteen more, coming from Ten- nessee, Ohio, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Maryland, and every part of Pennsylvania were present to give honor and recognition to the occasion,-a most impos- ing one.
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Among other points stressed in his address, the new President unequivocally reaffirmed the position of the trustees on the Bible as his position. The entire address is a foregleam of what may be ex- pected to be Juniata's future.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Archbishop Lang. of York and Lancas- ter, in a trying hour of the World War, came to the United States to impress upon our people the necessity of this country joining actively with the Allies to save civilization-Christian civilization. It was my fortune to escort him from Harris- burg to Philadelphia. As he looked over our Lancaster and our York he said, "We propose to carry on, but we need greatly your help."
Likewise for Juniata College, founded and fostered as a seat of Christian learn- ing-rich in service to God's people, I propose to carry on, but I need greatly PRESIDENT MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH your help. I not only need your help, but I earnestly solicit it to the end that we may here maintain the fine traditions of those pious men who have passed on and achieved by gradual ascent those heights which they visioned but could not attain.
Let us consider briefly some of the salient objectives of this college, for it is essential that any institution dedicated to the higher learning should be wisely led.
First of all, it is a Christian College-dedicated to the advancement of right living here and teaching that there is a hereafter of tre- mendous significance. This college teaches the Supremacy of God, the deity of Jesus, the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. It accepts without apology the inspiration of the Bible and teaches that it and it alone holds in its unfolding teachings the hope of immortal life, through the resurrected Christ of the world. From this ideal I' pray we shall never depart. In this respect the College is not only conservative, it is immovable. We shall not only endeavor to teach right, but we shall insist that our pupils shall do the right. Socrates was assuredly justified in his rebuke to the Athenian youth when he said, "The boys of Athens know the right, but the boys of Sparta do the right." Knowledge that is not refined into conduct is a curse, not a blessing. Hear the words of the Teacher sent from God : " Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Moreover, to carry on in this lofty purpose it is essential that it remain a small college. We have no ambitious dreams or plans for a college of many thousands. It is perhaps prudent to declare that our aim in this respect is a college of about five hundred students
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We purpose to maintain close personal touch with our student body. We want to know these young men and women. We want to counsel with them. We want to enter vitally into their life purposes, and help develop those qualities of mind and soul that will be received with favor in this world and the next.
We are not in any sense hostile to those great centers of learning, whose students are reckoned by the tens of thousands. We recog- nize the meaning of these as depositories of vital material for re- search work. In this age of increasingly widening educational demands, it is necessary to maintain graduate schools and specialized technical training. The vast business interests of the country call for this training. We shall be content if we can, year by year, forward to these universities those that are fitted wisely to pursue the studies and the research work there provided.
Is not the time ripe to indicate that only those holding to definite aims should pursue the higher learning? Is it not true that special culture should be given only to those that wish to use it for the welfare of the humankind and not to those that wish to use it to enhance personal fortune or gratify vanity? The business of the college and university is to train men and women for honorable competition in serving society. Whatever is revealed of God to a student in class room, in library, in laboratory, should be given, and given freely, for the welfare of one's kind. The crime of scholar- ship in the recent war was the hoarding of scientific knowledge and using it to destroy, not to conserve life. Shall we not stoutly main- tain with Whittier that
"Truth to us and to others is equal and one, Shall we bottle up the free air or hoard up the sun? "
We also shall insist upon thorough knowledge. The function of the elementary school is to impart clear knowledge, which is knowing the thing and not some other thing for it. In the upper grades of the elementary school should also be taught related knowledge, which is knowing the thing in its relation to other things in some system or category of truth. In the secondary school should be stressed ana- lytic knowledge, which is knowing the thing in its essential parts or factor or elements. The function of the college and the university is to secure thorough, exhaustive knowledge, which is knowing the thing in its causes. This, and this only, is the form of knowing upon which all specialized knowing should rest. The student receiving the approval of this College must have attained the ability to distinguish between logically significant things and mere incidental things. To see the reason for things is to know in the highest way a human mind can know. This involves in college the retention of those only that possess the capacity and industry essential to the mastery of the things of the college curriculum. We shall not hesitate to rid our- selves of the student who thinks that to be in residence is to be in college. College is no place for loafers. They poison the air and vitiate the atmosphere for those that wish to breathe the clear air of industry and scholarship. If an education is worth anything, it is worth working for. It can be acquired in no other way.
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These conditions imply the sacrificing of certain things not infre- quently regarded as part of the experience of a student in college. Beyond a training for health and the acquisition of experience in team work, we shall not stress competitive athletics. I am heartily in favor of a training that promotes vigor of body and alertness of mind. Intra-mural athletics have not as yet been stressed as they can be. When, however, athletic activities interfere with sound scholarship, this college will have none of it. To be one of a group studying, reciting and playing is valuable. The essence of American democracy lies in the fact that we must work together, think to- gether, play together, pray together for the enduring of the Republic. A good athlete subordinates his personal comfort, his idiosyncracies, his willfulness, his caprice to the good of the group, which is the law of the country. Wisely directed play is thus an important apprentice- ship of the country.
Moreover, we shall stoutly resist any dissipation of the student's time or energy. The business of the student is to secure in college all the knowledge and discipline he is capable of acquiring. What- ever his maximum is, that he should assuredly attain. Otherwise he graduates below his best. He is damaged goods, selling at a discount in all the markets for all times. Such would be a calamity. It is a matter of note that our graduates for the most part have demon- strated the wisdom of this set purpose of the College. We shall endeavor to improve the record.
We need a reconsecration of the ideals of this Republic. War has shattered and broken the spiritual values that civilization slowly wrought through the years. We look about and see crime where we should see regulated and rational behavior. We are paying in this Republic goodly sums for education, for religion, for charity, but if we put into one sum all we give for these constructive and humane forces,-the forces for Christian civilization,-we do not even ap- proximate the sum we pay for the conviction and the incarceration of our criminals. Moreover, the pitiful fact is that 71% of all these criminals are under the voting age. They are the boys and the girls of this age. They are the potential citizenry of the next age. Surely we must now devote time, thought, energy to the vitally needed duty of lessening crime by increasing in the Republic the group that not only obeys the laws but gives itself heroically to the duty of con- straining others to obey the laws.
After every great war arises the task of rebuilding the finer things of the spirit. If this be not done lawlessness runs riot. Finally industrial crises sweep the country. If, however, a people sense aright the situation, there arises a great spiritual revival. The people turn consciously and actively to the rehabilitation, through home and church and school, of the things of the Kingdom of Righteousness.
To this constructive service Juniata definitely dedicates its complete resources and hopes to be counted among those agencies that stand in a crisis for law,-for country,-for righteousness.
Juniata is a college of ideals, of hope, of faith. It is not as Emerson once characterized education, "a gesture of despair." We believe in the essential good of youth and in the abiding good of Christian culture. To the attainment of these ends I solicit most
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Beachey, J.W. , Elk Lick, Pa. Bechtel, Annie, Grafton, Pa. Beer, J.W., Huntingdon, Pa. Beery, William, Huntingdon, Pa. Blough, Perry J. , Johnstown, Pa. Brumbaugh, Dr.A. B. , Hunt : , Pa. Brumbaugh, Gaius M.,Wash.,D.C.
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Brumbaugh, S.P., James Creek, Pa. Buck, Amanda, New Enterprise, Pa. Burkholder, Wealthy A.C. Hunt.Pa. Cassady, John H., Huntingdon, Pa. Conner, Jacob L. , E.Coventry, Pa. Eby, Samuel, Huntingdon, Pa. Emmert, David, Huntingdon, Pa. Fike, John H., Somerset, Pa. Fitzwater, Jos. ,Phoenixville, Pa. Fogelsanger, J.M., Philadelphia.
Foster, Frank, Philadelphia. Gahagen, William, Windber, Pa. Geiger, Mary S., Philadelphia. Gibbel, Henry, Lititz, Pa. Grubb, Mary A., Pottstown, Pa. Harley, John, Pottstom, Pa. Howe, William, Maitland, Pa.
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Holsopple, F.F., Parker Ford, Pa. Kendig, E.D., Fishersville,Va. Knepper, Lewis S.,Windber, Pa. Kimmel, C.B., Elderton, Pa. Koenigmacher, Edwin, Ephrata, Pa.
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earnestly the sympathy, the counsel, the help of all good people, and I invoke the guidance and blessing of Almighty God. With these strong-sided champions to help, Juniata will carry on.
OFFICERS OF THE TRUSTEE BOARD (Only the years entered when a change occurs.)
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CHAPTER III District Missionary Work
The first work, when the preacher was called of God to go forth, by need recognized only by him and not by his congregation or district,-where the going meant sacri- fice, exposure, long, lonely and tedious journeys on horse- back,-when the preacher paid all his expenses and gave all his time,-whether these faithful ones lived in Lewis- town (Country) congregation and went across the moun- tains one direction or the other,-whether they lived in Bedford County and pushed southward over that vast, hilly country,-or elsewhere making similar effort,-this first work is not recorded. All this early endeavor to establish the kingdom, lives only in the results seen in later years,-and with the recording angel in heaven.
The first attempt at organized missionary effort was made in 1874, when the District Meeting was held in the Upper Codorus congregation (now part of Southern Dis- trict), but "the move was lost for want of agreement on a plan."
Then, in 1880, at the meeting held in the Woodbury congregation, the fifth and last item of business recorded is this: "Resolved, that we still feel the importance of missionary work in spreading the Gospel and are not at all discouraged with the work that has hitherto been done. We, therefore, recommend the churches all to work, either in their individual or united capacity. And we appoint two brethren to respond to the work of those churches which shall prefer to work in a united capacity, leaving those churches which prefer to work in their individual capacity to work as they think proper. In defraying expenses, those churches which work in a con- solidated capacity shall pay the expenses of their work, and all those who work in an individual capacity, shall pay the expenses of their work."
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