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THE OHIO UNIVERSITY IN EDUCATION. BY ONE OF ITS BOYS. When men become champions of a new idea in politics or science, they publish a paper whose pages are devoted to the promulgating of their new idea. When, on the other hand, a body of men become zealous defenders of some new doctrine of religion or of education, a college is established in which are to be trained valiant defenders of the favorite creed. In Ohio, in the first decades of its history, several colleges were established by denominational zeal and philanthropic en- thusiasm. But the Ohio University, the first college in the Northwest Territory, was purposed to be for the young colonies of the territory what the French Academy is to French learning and culture. Its builders hoped that in it the acquisition of knowledge would be placed upon a more respectable footing than in any other place in the world. Manasseh Cutler, who wrote its charter, said : I have consulted the charters of public seminaries in Europe and America, .... but none appear to me to accord with a plan so liberal and extensive as I think ought to be the con- stitution of this university. Even the general government, a new thing in its history, made provisions for building and maintaining this institution ; so that in the new country beyond the mountains, a school, founded on right principles, before custom or prejudice could gather rubbish in its way, might grow up to be the center of learning and culture in the Western land ; and the new college soon reached the high place its planner had hoped. Manasseh Cutler was a practical edu- cator, of extensive and accurate scholarship, and of prophetic vision of the coming needs of the colonies. Of Rufus Putnam
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and his followers, who were the actual founders of the uni- versity, Ex President K. B. Hayes once said: They were the best educated men the world ever knew. No wonder, then, that the college, organized under the direction and supervision of such men, soon became not only the center of culture and scholarship, but especially the fountain whence there flowed streams to nurture younger colleges which sprung up all around. Men trained in its halls have sat in the Gov- ernor ' s chair, on the judge ' s bench, in legislative halls of State and nation ; have filled presidential and professorial chairs in State and denominational schools, and have stood in the most important pulpits of Methodist and Presbyterian and of other congregations. In The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Val- ley, W. H. Venable, LL.D. , says: Many of the graduates of the Ohio University rose to eminence in the professions of law and divinity; but the college is peculiarly distinguished for the large number of noted educators it has sent, and is sending forth, annually, from its famous pedagogical department. Among the teachers who were taught at Athens may be men- tioned Dr. Daniel Read, who, at the time of his death, was ' the oldest college teacher in continuous service in the United States, ' and whose professional services were enjoyed in turn by four State universities ; Dr. Elisha Ballantyne, of Indiana, who devoted fifty years to teaching in university and college ; Dr. Lorenzo Dow McCabc, distinguished as clergyman, pro fessor and author ; Dr. James M. Safford, the geologist ; Hon. Chas. Sheldon Smart, school commissioner of Ohio in 1874, and Dr. Wm. H. Scott, now president of the Ohio State University. Alumni of the Ohio University have filled the president ' s chair, also, in LaFayette College, Pa.; Ohio Universiiy and Rio Grande College, ().; State University, Ploomington, Ind., and Columbus, Mo.; Denver University, Denver, Col. They have also filled professorial chairs or principalship of preparatory
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