The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Part 72

Author: Wesern historical company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 899

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Of the first classes, there were graduated in 1851, three ; in 1852, one; in 1853, five ; in 1854, four; in 1855, four; in 1850, seven, and, in 1957, cight -- thirty-two graduates in the first ten years of the existence of the College. The preparatory department of the College was inaugurated in the fall of 1848, and, if the number of attendants upon this department be added to the students in the College proper, the whole number of those connected with the institution during the first ten years will reach very nearly to one thousand. At the close of the first decade of the life of the College, a convention of its friends was held July 8, 1857, of which Ilon. L. P. Harvey, afterward Governor of Wisconsin, was President, and Hon. William Bross, of Chicago, Secretary. On this occasion, Prof. J. Emerson delivered an address reciting the history and work of the Institution, and the Faculty and Board of Trustees presented : report of the condition of the funds and the prospects of the College.

The site of the College is an elevated plateau, near the center of the city, overlooking, though not immediately on, the bank of the river. The grounds, embracing an area of twenty-four acres, are bounded by streets on every side, the surface diversified by groves and various slopes on the west to the river, fron which it is separated by a street and a narrow tier of lots. A number of mounds scattered through the grounds show that the spot must have been held in special honor by the prehistoric races.

Six buildings have been erected for college purposes, as follows :

Middle College, begun in 1847, is a brick building, measuring sixty by forty-four feet, and has three stories and an attic, surmounted by a cupola and belfry. The attic is to be raised and improved and occupied by the society rooms. The other floors are divided into ten rooms, devoted to lectures, recitations and laboratory work. The cost of this building was about $10,000, which amount, together with the site, was almost wholly donated by the citizens of Beloit.

North College, a dormitory of brick, three stories and a basement, measuring fifty-four feet by forty, was erected in 1854. The basement is used as a dining-room and appendages for $ students' club, and the three stories are divided into twelve suites of rooms for students. This building cost $8,000, a portion of which was contributed for the specific purpose.

The Chapel, a two-story brick edifice, sixty feet long by forty wide, was erected in 1858. The lower story is divided into two schoolrooms, appropriated to the Preparatory Department, and the upper story is used for religious services.

South College is a two-story frame building, erected in 1868, to supply additional dormi- tory accommodations. The building is seventy-two feet long by thirty-five feet wide, is divided into sixteen rooms, and cost $5,000.

Memorial HIall was erected in 1869, in honor of more than four hundred sons of the College who volunteered during the war, forty-six of whom lost their lives. The Hall is built of the rich,

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cream-colored Batavia stone, rough hewn, and laid in what is technically known as "rock range." The style of architecture is modern Gothic. The main building is seventy fect in length by forty in width, and the wing, or vestibule, is twenty-eight feet long by twenty wide. Both parts are divided into two stories. The height of the principal story of the main building is fifteen feet, and, of the second story, twenty feet at the walls and twenty-six feet in the center. The stories of the vestibule are, respectively, fifteen and thirteen feet. The exterior side walls of the building are forty-one feet in height from the ground to the eaves. The gable ands measure sixty feet from the ground to the ridge. From the ridge, at the center, rises a ventilator, in the form of a slender pinnacle, to the height of twenty fect, making the entire height from the ground to the top of the ventilator, eighty feet. The cost of the edifice was $26,000, the greater portion of which was contributed for the purpose in the region with which the College is especially identified. The vestibule is devoted to marble tablets, upon which are recorded the names of the soldier-students and citizens, and their patriotic deeds and fate, and to other memorials of the struggle in which they bore so heroic a part. The upper story of the main building is occupied by the library, and the lower by the cabinet, though it is probable that both will be required, eventually, for the library ; in which event, other provision will be made for the cabinet.

The Gymnasium is a frame structure, consisting of a single story and basement, seventy feet long by thirty-eight feet wide, and was erected in 1874 at a cost, including apparatus, of $3,900, contributed by Alumni and students and the citizens of Beloit. This building, though the property of the College, is under the control of an association composed of members of the Faculty and students. Each student is required to take part in a daily drill, for half an hour, in light gymnastics and vocal culture. A bowling-alley in the basement, and other apparatus, furnish facilities for additional voluntary exercise.

The six buildings of the College have thus cost $58,900. The present value of the college property is placed at $230,000, 8130,000 of which is in invested funds.

The College library was begun in 1848, and has since been maintained and augmented by donations of books, or of means for their purchase, from different friends of the institution. Among the largest benefactors of the library have been Rev. Dr. H. N. Brinsmade, Rev. Prof. M. P. Squier, Rev. Dr. Merrill (late of Middlebury, Vt.), Rev. A. Benton and the United States Government. The library now contains about ten thousand volumes, besides nearly five thousand pamphlets. To increase this number, there are several available funds. The Davis Fund, of $500, given by Miss Elizabeth Davis, of Boston, Mass., for the Department of English Literature ; the Colton Fund, of $5,000, bequeathed by Mrs. Love Colton, devoted, chiefly, to the Department of History and Civil Polity ; and the Emerson Fund, estimated at $15,000, given in memory of Rev. Ralph Emerson, D. D., formerly professor in Andover Theological Seminary, devoted to the Department of Sacred and Classical Learning.

The cabinet is made up of minerals, rocks, fossils, and zoological and botanical specimens. The collection of minerals embraces a large and very choice suite of American and European typical minerals, representing the more important species in considerable variety. The litho- logical collection embraces a series of crystalline and sedimentary rocks representing the forma- tions of Wisconsin, to which are added specimens from other parts of America and Europe and & suite of specimens of lava from Vesuvius, from eruptions of different dates. A fine collection of marine shells and corals, and smaller ones of birds, reptiles and mammals, insects, mollusks and crustaceans represent the animal kingdom. The collection of fossils consists of a suite recently deposited by the State Geological Survey, representing all the Paleozoic formations of the State authoritatively identified, a large local collection from the Trenton limestone of the vicinity, some smaller ones from different parts of this county, a suite of European specimens representing about two hundred species from the later geological formations. To these there has recently been added a very interesting collection of fossil tracks from the Potsdam sand- stone, probably the most valuable of its kind from the primeval age in existence. The botanical

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collection embraces more than three thousand specimens, collected both in this country and Europe.

But this development of the College has not been reached without financial difficulty. When the Board of Trustees first decided to locate the institution at Beloit, the citizens agreed to donate ten acres of land for a site, and to contribute the money necessary to erect the first build- ing-about $7,000. This sum was subsequently increased to about $12,000. The first donation to the College. outside of Beloit, was in 1845, and consisted of 160 acres of land, presented to the institution by Rev. Henry Barber, of Dutchess County, N. Y., through the solicitation of Rev. Stephen Peet. This land was sold for about $1,000, which was appropriated to the enlarge- ment of the site. The first foundation for a professorship was laid in 1847, by Hon. T. W. Williams, of New London, Conn., who gave Wisconsin and Indiana land, which realized about $10,000. This fund has been increased, by subsequent donations, to about $12,000. In 1848, Prof. Bushnell secured a number of books from Eastern friends, and, at the same time obtained the Saybrook scholarship of $500, designed to assist students of limited means. In 1850, the Rev. A. Kent secured $500 for the Austin scholarship. About the same time, Rev. David Root, of Connecticut, began his contributions to a second professorship, by donations of land and land claims in the West, which eventually reached the handsome aggregate of $10.000. F'riends of the College in Milwaukee supplied $2,300 through Dr. Chapin. Prof. Bushnell col- lected $3,300 in Chicago, and Rev. S. Peet, as agent, canvassed the West generally, and secured over $8,000. In 1850, also, Rev. M. P. Squier pledged, for the endowment of a chair of men- tal and moral philosophy, to which he had been elected, $10,000, which pledge was subsequently redeemed by the transfer to the College of land and claims which realized the full sum. In the autumn of the same year. the largest donation from any one person was made by Mrs. Sarah W. Hale, Newburyport, Mass., in deeds for more than five thousand acres of land in Illinois, upon which $35,000 were obtained, $25,000 of which amount was set apart to endow the chair of mathematics. In 1854, Rev. Dr. H. N. Brinsmade, of Beloit, began his contributions toward the endowment of the Latin professorship, which have since reached the munificent sum of about $15,000. During the same year, the educational fund for the aid of students in necessitous cir- cumstances, was increased by a bequest of $2,000 from Joseph Otis, of Norwich, Conn., and $1,000 from Capt. John Emerson and his heirs. During 1853 and 1854, Rev. S. O. Powell, Rev. H. Lyman and the President of the College, Rev. A. L. Chapin, were engaged in special agencies to obtain assistance from the West, which ultimately yielded about $15,000. From 1858 to 1860, the Regents of the State Normal Fund assisted the College by sums aggregating about $3.300. In 1857, Mrs. L. Colton, of Beloit, who had previously aided the College to the amount of about $1,000, bequeathed a permanent fund of $5,000 for the increase of the library. In 1858, the citizens of Beloit made a special contribution of $3,000, for the erection of the chapel. Agencies in the East, in 1863, succeeded in securing assistance, which, added to benefactions previously made, amounted to about $30,000. A Western agency, conducted by Rev. P. C. Pettibone, and continued through seven or eight years, secured some $60,000, which includes a donation of $12,000 from Mr. O. Harwood, of Wauwatosa, to endow a profes- sorship ; $1,500 from a bequest of Miss Nye, of Falmouth, Mass., and about $18,000 contrib- uted by the Alumni and friends of the institution for the erection of Memorial Hall. The books of the College show fifteen scholarships, of $500 each, and 106 individual scholarships of $100 each, fully paid. Partial payments in other cases swell the whole amount contributed in this form to nearly $20,000. Beside the foregoing, Miss Elizabeth Davis, of Boston, donated $500 for the purchase of books on English Literature, and Mrs. Ripley, of Chicago, $500, for the purchase of chemicals, etc., for the scientific department.

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The resources of the college are :

PERMANENT FUNDS.

1. Professorships-Williams Professorship. $12,000

Hale Professorship

25,000

Squier Professorship. 10,000

Root Professorship.

10,000

Brinsmade Professorship. 10,000

Harwood Professorship 12,000

$79,000

2. Endowments not designated

40,000

3. Education Fund

9,000*

4. Library Fund.

15,000

5. Prize Fund.

600

Total invested funds.

$143,600 -

UNPRODUCTIVE PROPERTY.

1. Site and buildings

$75,000

2 Library, cabinet and apparatus ..

20,000

95,000

Total property of the College.

$238,600

SUCCESSIVE MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY.

Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy-

Elected.

Retired.

Jackson J. Bushnell, M. A ...

1848

1858

Rev. Henry S. Kelsey, M. A.

1860

1863

+Jackson J. Bushnell, M. A.

1864

1873

Thomas A. Smith, Ph. D.

1879

Chair of latin and Greek Languages-

Joseph Emerson, M. A.

1848

1856

Chair of Chemistry and Natural Science-

+Stephen P. Lathrop, M. D.

1849

1854

Henry B. Nason, Ph. D.

1858

1866

Elijah P. Harris, Ph. D ..

1866

1868

+James H. Eaton, Ph. D.

1868

1877

Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy-

t Miles P. Squier, D. D.

1850

1866

James J. Blaisdell, D. D ..

1864

Chair of History and Civil Polity- Aaron L. Chapin, D. D ..

1853

Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature-

Franklin W. Fisk, D. D.

1853

1859

James J. Blaisdell, D. D ..

1859

1864

Rev. Lyman 8. Rowland, M. A.

1868

1870

Rev. Henry M. Whitney, M. A.

1871

Chair of Mathematics-

Rev. William Porter, M. A.

1854

1856

Chair of Greek Language and Literature-

Rev. Joseph Emerson, M. A.

1856

Chair of Latin Language and Literature-

Rev. William Porter, M. A

1856

Chair of Modern Languages-

Peter Hendrickson, M. A.

1871

Chair of Geology. Zoology and Botany- Thomas C. Chamberlin, M. A ..

1872

Principals of Preparatory School- Lucius D. Chapin, M. A.

1854

1855

John. P. Fisk, M. A.

1855

1871

Ira W. Pettibone, M. A.

1871

. This includes a recent bequest of Mr. Rufus Dodge, which, added to fands before received for the purpose, enables the College to appro. priste the income of $9,000 to aid students who design embracing the ministry. t Deceased.

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Instructors in Mathematics-

Elected.

Retired

Rev. Mason P. Grosvenor ..

1855

1856

*Rev. Melzar Montague, M. A.

1856

1857

Thomas A. Smith, Ph. D.

1877

1879

Instructor in Chemistry-

*James Richards, M. D.

1856

1867

Instructors in Rhetoric-

Henry C. Dickinson, B. A

1865

1866

*Rev. E. G. Miner. M. A

1866

1867

Instructor in Natural History -

Goodwin D. Swezey, M. A.

1877

1879

Tutors-

Isaac E. Carey, B. A.

1849

1851

*Joseph Hurlbut. B. A

1850

1851

Thomas S. Potwin, B. A

1851

1853

Fisk P. Brewer, B. A.

1858

18%4

Lewis C. Baker, B. A ..

1854

1855

William D. Alexander, B. A.

1855

1856

Peter McVicar, B. A.

1856

1857

William H. Ward, B. A ..

1857

1858

Franklin C. Jones, B. A

1857

1858

Henry S. DeForest, B. A ..

1858

1860

*Henry C. Dickinson, B. A.

1864

1865

Assistants in Preparatory School-

Allison D. Adams, B. A.

1871

1872

Thomas D. Christie, B. A

1872

1874

George B. Adams, B. A ....

1874

1875

Goodwin D. Swezey, B. A.

1874

1875

Samuel T. Kidder, B. A.

1875

1876

John V. Horne, B. A.

1876

1877

Robert B. Riggs, B. A.

1877

1879

John V. Horne, M. A

1879

Degrees .- Honorary degrees have been conferred as follows : 1857, LL. D. on *Edward V. Whiton ; 1857, M. A. on John P. Fisk; 1858, M. A. on Henry Freeman ; 1858, M. A. on James F. Hunnewell; 1861, M. A. on *Rev. Martin P. Kinney ; 1861, M. A. on Rev. Edward Brown; 1861, LL. D. on Orsamus Cole; 1863, LL. D. on *Richard Yates ; 1863, LL. D. on David Davis ; 1864, M. A. on Prof. Chester S. Lyman ; 1869. LL. D. on Timothy O. Howe; 1869, LL. D. on Matthew H. Carpenter; 1869, D. D. on Rev. Flavel Bascom; 1869, D. D. on *Rev. John J. Miter; 1869, M. A. on Rev. James R. Danforth; 1870, LL. D. on Josiah L. Pickard; 1870, LL. D. on Jason Downer ; 1870, D. D. on Prof. James T. Hyde ; 1871, D. D. on Pres. James W. Strong; 1871, D. D. on Pres. Peter McVicar; 1872, LL. D. on Cadwallader C. Washburn; 1872, M. A. on Alfred A. Jackson ; 1873, D. D. on Stephen R. Riggs; 1873, D. D. on *Rev. James B. Miles ; 1874, M. A. on Rev. Edward P. Salmon ; 1874, M. A. on Rev. Joel G. Sabin ; 1875, M. A. on Rev. Spencer R. Wells; 1875, D. D. on Rev. C. D. Helmer; 1876, D. D. on Rev. A. M. Henderson ; 1878, B. S. on Rev. H. Burton ; 1878, D. D. on Rev. J. Collie ; 1878, D. D. on Rev. C. C. Kimball ; 1879, D. D. on Rev. George Bushnell ; 1879, D. D. on Rev. S. J. Humphrey ; 1879, LL. D. on David Taylor.

Alumni of the College .- Class of 1851-Joseph Collie, William C. Hooker and Stephen D. Peet. 1852-Philo S. Bennett. 1853-Jonas M. Bundy, A. W. Curtis, Henry M. Lilly,1 George L. Tucker, Horace White. 1854-James A. Brewster, Benjamin Durham, Edward F. Hobart and Harlan M. Page. 1855-Francis W. Case, Moses S. Hinman, Alexander Kerr and Sterne Rogers. 1856-Henry C. Hyde, Frederick A. Lord,2 Peter McVicar, John A. Mc Whorter, David Owen,3 Alfred Taggart and George 1. Waterman. 1857-Jacob Baay, Henry Durham, Josiah Hinman, George P. Jacobs, William A. Montgomery, Philip F. Schirmer, Charles W. Storey and James A. White." 1858-Eugene H. Avery, Daniel Densmore, John H. Edwards, John G. Lambert," Webster P. Moore, Iloratio Pratt, Sherwood

* Deceased.

1 Died in Fond du Lac November 27, 1870.

2 Died in Chicago September 14, 1872.

3 Die ! in New York October 30, 1856. 4 Died in Madison, November, 1867. 5 Died in Newark, 1862.

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Raymond and James W. Strong. 1859-Dennis C. Frink,1 Charles C. Kimball, Edwin N. Lewis, Isaac Linebarger. John D. McCord, James W. Porter. William W. Rose, Spencer R. Wells and Oliver A. Willard.2 1860-Edward P. Beebe, Charles W. Buckley, Dexter S. Clark, Edgar V. H. Danner, Luther P. Fitch, Horace R. Hobart and Charles II. Mann. 1861-Rollin L. Adams, Edwin R. IIcath, Russell M. Keyes and Charles E. Simmons. 1862 Jaames Bradley, Justin M. Brainard, Henry Burton, Francis II. Caswell.8 David W. Evans, William S. Gilbert, Edward E. Harmon,' John S. Kendall, Samuel K. Martin, Lucian D. Menrs, Ilenry S. Osborne, Philo F. Pettibone, Edwards W. Porter, Walter Rice, Jasper H. Waite, William A. Willis. 1863-II. F. Chesbrough," Julius L. Danner, Henry C. Dick- inson,' Charles H. Douglas.7 Samuel D. Ilastings, Jr., Fenner B. Hunt, Henry F. Merriman, Solomon II. Moon, Theodore M. Slosson, Marcus O. Southworth, Lewis O. Thompson, and Lyman W. Winslow. 1864-Charles P. Bascom, Alonzo M. May and Albert O. Wright. 1865-Salınon M. Allen, Frederick Alley, William II. Cross, James R. Danforth, Eugene B. Dyke, Harson A. Northrop® and John L. Taylor. 1866-George S. Bascom, William F. Brown, Thomas C. Chamberlin, Albert I. Church, Frederick C. Curtis, Walter W. Curtis, Jerome D. Davis, William II. Fitch, Dexter D. Ilill, John S. Lewis, Edward G. Newhall, James S. Norton, Jonathan F. Pierce, IIenry T. Rose, Gilbert Shepard, Sidney Shepard and Henry T. Wright. 1867-James W. Bass, Edward S. Chadwick, William M. Cochran, Tru- man H. Curtis, Julian H. Dixon, Peter Hendrickson, Stanley E. Lathrop, Albert L. Norton, 10 Henry D. Porter, Mervin C. Ross,11 Arthur II. Sinith, Edward A. Wanless and Ilorace E. Warner. 1868-David Brainard, Theron S. E. Dixon, IIenry C. IIammond, Willard T. Hyde, 13 James K. Kilbourn, Thomas L. Riggs, Lester S. Swezey and Robert M. Town. 1869- John C. Anderson, James C. Ayers, Willard C. Bailey, John W. Baird, John F. Bascom, 18 Joel B. Dow, Harlan P. Dunning, James D. Eaton, William J. Evans, Henry C. Simmons, Alfred M. Smith, Thomas O. Thompson, Ezra G. Valentine and Newe'l S. Wright. 1870- Anderson Bruner, Edwin F. Carpenter, Elmer J. Chamberlin, George W. Christic, Charles B. Curtis, William W. Curtis, Albert Durham, Jacob W. Iladden, Lyman M. Johnson, Charles W. Merrill, Richard Miller, George W. Nelson, John R. Reedy, Edward P. Salmon, Dana Sherrill, FLarmon B. Tuttle, Edward P. Wheeler and Charles F. White. 1871-Allison D. Adams, Frank F. Barrett, Thomas D. Christie, John P. Ilale, Edward R. Jones, Charles L. Morgan, Frederick B. Pullan, Robert Ritchie, Andrew J. Smith, Orville S. Smith and Sedgwick P. Wilder. 1872-Robert C. Bedford, Charles W. Butlin, Joseph II. Chamberlin, Joseph Chan- dler, Russell L. Cheney, Edward D. Eaton, James Gilham, Clark L. Goddard, James A. Harvey,"" Sanford A. Hooper, John A. Merrill, Julius E. Storm and Hibbard A. Tucker. 1873-George B. Adams, Willis C. Dewey, Samuel T. Kidder. William B. Keep, Corydon D. Lyman, Edgar W. Mann, George L. Merriman, Thomas N. Miller, Gregor Michaelian, Charles Sherrill, Goodwin D. Swezey, Charles G. Tattershall, Charles A. Works. 1874-Ira B. Allen,13 James E. Heg, Laurie D. Keyes,16 Adelinorn B. Manley, Roger HI. Mills, Jr., Thomas L. Smedes, William C. Stevens, William D. Swinton17 and Abram D. Waterbury. 1875- George T. Foster, John H. Mills, Henry V. Van Pelt. 1876-Isaac Buckeridge, Joseph P. Dyas, Franklin L. Fisk, Edward M. Hill, John F. Horne, Wm. B. Hubbard, Chas. D. Merrill, Robert B. Riggs, Almerin R. Sprague and John J. Wilcox. 1877-Charles N. Ainslie, John A. Ainslie, Franklin Bruner, Frank H. Burdick, William II. Carr, William B. Colt, Caleb F. Gates, Will- iam S. Gates, James W. Hallett, Osbert W. Jack, David W. Mackay, Booth M. Malone, Will- iam H. Malone, William J. McDowell, George S. Merrill. Josiah F. Miller, Lucius HI. Perkins, Luman A. Pettibone, Robert F. Pettibone and Julius A. Truesdell. 1878-Charles S. Bacon.

1 Died in New Boston, N. H., June 30, 1871.

2 Died in Chicago March 17, 1878.

3 Died in Libby Prison, Va., February, 1864.

4 Died in Colorado, 1864.

5 Died in Chicago, December, 1870.

6 Died in Appleton March 11. 1873.

7 Diel in B-loit, December, 1868.

8 Died in Beloit, September, 1870.

9 Died in Chicago, September, 1807.

10 Died in Denver April 5, 1872.

11 Died in Turtle, January, 1875.

12 Died in Mason City, lown, February 14, 1874.

13 Died in Ottawa, IN., March 12, 1875.

14 Died in Northern Light Store, Scotland, April 30, 1875.

15 Died in New Haven April 7, 1878.

16 Died in Baltimore December 2 1876.

17 Died in Milwaukee February 10, 1878.

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HISTORY OF ROCK COUNTY.

Orville Brewer, Ira M. Buell, Lewis H. Bushnell, William M. Clarke, Walter E. Carr, Carlos S. Douglass, Franklin P. Fisk, George M. Herrick, Charles W. Merriman, Henry Neill, John Steel, George W. Trimble, Charles E. Wheeler and Charles M. Williams. 1879-Austin F. Butts, William D. Crosby, Theron Durham, Horace B. Goodwin, Horace B. Humphrey, William S. Jeffris, Arthur D. Johnson, Henry S. Metcalf, Fred A. Wilcox and Fayette D. Winslow.

The College in the War .- At the annual commencement July 14, 1869, Memorial Hall, erected to commemorate the part borne in the war by the students and others connected with the College, was formally dedicated with impressive ceremonies. On that occasion, Prof. Joseph Emerson made the following statement relative to the share of the College in the great contest then but recently closed :

STATEMENT OF PROF. EMERSON.

The festival with which the war closed was the commencement day of the nation-the ending of a long term of discipline, and its accession to the new degree of Magistra Artium, Queen of Civilization. The ordeal which pro- ceded it was the examination, testing the results of. that Puritan system of education by which the nation had been trained for more than two hundred years. The aim of that education was to make men. Its organization was the Christian college, standing beside the church and surrounded by public schools. The soul of it was a training in the truths of the Word of God and in the enthusiasms of the most heroic times and peoples, supported by scientific culture continually more manifold, as science itself should be enlarged.

As the developments of the war have been reviewed, the question has been pressed upon those institutions which still retained the idea of the fathers-that the center of a system of education must be the training in the Divine and the heroic-the question, What have been the results of your training? Where are the men whom you have prepared for the need of the country and of mankind ? For a general answer, the system can call up the whole nation, whom it has educated-the great army of the Republic, which sprung up at the country's call all over the region lying between the fortieth and the forty-eighth parallels of latitude, and extending from sea to sea, which King James called New England.

In the East, particular colleges have been proud to point to their own sons in the field. In this Northwest, too, from which came the power which decided the war, the question has been put to the young college which led been planted here, Where were thy sons when the land had need of them ? The answer, modestly given three years ago, was received with such favor that the guardians of the College appointed that an enduring testimonial should be prepared, not only of approval for the past, but also for example in the future. That memorial is now ready, and the question comes again, after three years of thought and further examination, Shall the garland be bestowed, and the young College, but twenty-one years of age to-day, sit henceforth tower-crowned as foster-mother of heroes!

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The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Part 72

Author: Wesern historical company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co. Number of Pages: 899

Author: Wesern historical company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 899