Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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JOSEPH NEWTON HILL. AM. (Lincoln). William E. Dodge Prolessor ol English ULYSSES GRANT LEE. JR.. A M. (Howard). Assistant Prolessor ol English MANUEL RIVERO. AM. (Columbia). As- sistant Prolessor ol Physical Education and Director of Athletics REV PHILIP SHERIDAN MILLER. PhD., (Er- langen), Dean of the College, and John H. Cassidy Professor of Latin and Church History WILLIAM RAYMOND COLE. M.S. (Penn- sylvania), Burkitt Webb Professor of Physics NORMAN EDWARD GASKINS. M S. (Penn- sylvania). Instructor in Chemistry JOSEPH LEROY WILLIAMS. AM. (Penn- sylvania), Assistant Professor of B.ology and Chemistry JOHN AUBREY DAVIS. AM (Wisconsin), Assistant Prolessor ol History and Po- litical Science HAROLD FETTER GRIMM. M S. (Chicago), William A. Holliday Professor of Biology FRANK THEODORE WILSON. A M.. Ed.D. (Columbia). Dean of Men. and Professor of Education REV. GEORGE JOHNSON. Ph D. (Pennsyl- vania). Dean of the University, and John C. Baldwin Professor of Theology and Philosophy LAURENCE FOSTER. Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Professor ol Education and History WALTER EVERETT WARING, AM. (Penn- sylvania). Assistant Professor of French REV. GEORGE LAKE IMES. A M. (Fisk), D.D.. Lecturer in Practical Theology 13

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MRS. MAVIS DAVIS. A B. 2nd Assistant Librarian MRS LEONIA LANIER DORSEY. AB B.L.S., 1st Assistant Librarian MRS. CARRIE W. WILLIAMS. AM.. 2nd Assistant Librarian THEODORE RAYMOND STILL. A B (Lin- coln), Instructor in Political Science WAYMAN R COSTON. A.B., M.D. (Me- harry). University Physician and Instruc- tor in Hygiene IVAN EARLE TAYLOR. A M (Howard). Instructor in English ARMSTEAD OTEY GRUBB. Ph.D (Pennsyl- vania), Registrar and Assistant Prolessor of Spanish and French REV SAMUEL DICKEY. AM. (Princeton). Lecturer in Classical and New Testa- ment Greek REV ROBERT McEWAN LABAREE. AM (Columbia), Librarian, and Henry A Kerr Professor of Sociology. Economics and Missions PAUL KUEHNER. A.B. (Western Union). Assistant Professor of German and French JOSEPH DANIEL ROULHAC. A B (Lincoln). Instructor in Sociology JAMES ELMO DORSEY. A M. Mus.B (Pennsylvania). Assistant Professor of Music 1 IDEL W. E. TAYLOR. A B., S.T.B (Lincoln). Instructor in Philosophy and Psychology 12

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T H E HISTORY O F History tries not merely to date events, but to exhibit them as the expres- sion of some idea. Our endeavor, therefore, must be not only to chronicle what has happened in the eighty-five years of our University's life, but to interpret it as the realization of the ideal of the founders. THE VISION John Miller Dickey (1806-1878) founded our University in response to a vision that came to him, May 8, 1849. in the old historic Presbyterian church at New London, Pennsylvania. The vision was that of an institution that would provide for young colored men a higher'' education, higher, not because above the secondary level, nor because it embraced non-vocational subjects, but because it was directly related to God. the highest being, and to Redemption, the highest good. Dr. Dickey was a practical idealist. He wished to give immediate bene- fits to the Negro. The enslaved Negroes were at that time inaccessible, but there were an increasing number of free Negroes. Therefore he resolved to work for them. This attracted him to The National Colonization Society of America, the primary aim of which was To rescue the free colored people of the United States from their political and social disadvantages. With no immediate hope that slavery could be abolished, repatriation to Africa seemed ♦he only way out, but apart from education of the highest type, even this way would lead nowhere. Therefore in 1853 Dr. Dickey persuaded the Presbytery of New Castle to adopt an overture that There shall be estab- lished within our bounds and under our supervision an institution to be called The Ashmun Institute, for the scientific, classical, and theological edu- cation of colored youth of the male sex.' ASHMUN INSTITUTE AND THE FREE NEGROES In the same year 1853 thirty acres of land were purchased; in 1854 the charter was granted by the Pennsylvania legislature, in 1855 a building was begun and the Rev. John Pym Carter, A.M., of Baltimore was elected Principal and Teacher; and on December 31, 1856, Ashmun Institute was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, notably an address by the new Principal in which he vindicated the necessity of this institution and the capability of the colored man for intellectual and moral elevation. Next day, January 1, 1857, the work of instruction began with two pupils in the preparatory depart- ment and two in the theological department. For nine years the Institute continued its beneficent work. Necessarily it had to accept its students at the level on which they were, but it did not leave them there, for it gave them all the education it could impart without regard to the fact that they were colored. And the effort was abundantly justified by its results in providing leadership for the Free Negroes in America and in Africa. 14