Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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University have exerted in behalf of education and humanity, learning and culture? The history of the college, thus very briefly sketched, was wrought under great difficulties. Unfavorable legislation for many years hindered it from competing with younger and better endowed rivals. For twelve years, however, the State has endeavored to make some reparation for the injury inflicted in the early years of the century, and by its yearly appropria- tions it lias enabled the trustees to build up the different de- partments. The library is receiving hundreds of new volumes each year. The laboratories are thoroughly equipped for original research in all directions. New chairs are established, and the graduates of recent years are prepared to meet the greatest demands made on college graduates by this ambitious and progressive last decade of the nineteenth century.

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Toledo, Wooster, Zanesville, and many other towns and cities in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illi- nois and in other States. If we were to mention all the prominent places filled by alumni of the O U. in politics, in law and in the ministry, we should exceed the limits allotted. Suffice to say that through- out the Western country the great number of the eminent names winch in early days were those of judges, and attorneys, and barristers, Presbyterian bishops and Methodist elders, are found also in the catalogues of the students of the Ohio Uni- versity. In more recent years it is the Methodist Church that has been more especially served by the vigorous alumni ol this ' ' oldest institution. While many of these are known far and near in the Church, yet two are of especial prominence ; and it would be no disparagement to the others if we mention, by name, these two— par nobilc fratrum —who preside over the publishing interests of their Church in Cincinnati, O.; one the superintendent of the Methodist Publishing House, Rev. Earl Cranston, D.D.; and the other the editor of the Western Christian Advocate, Rev. 1). H. Moore, D. D. — both honored sons of the Ohio University. We must keep in mind, however, that the influence of a college is not limited to its alumni. Of twenty young people that begin the preparatory course of a college, not more than one will continue through the whole curriculum. In the smaller colleges of the Western States ten out of the twenty depart with the second year, never to return. Nevertheless, those who have plodded through Caesar and Euclid have ac- quired strength beyond their neighbors who have never gone to college or the academy ; and they exert greater influence on their associates and in their neighborhood. Who, then, can estimate the influence, as teachers and citizens for seventy-five years, that the thousands who have matriculated at the Ohio LO

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Appointed. Chari.es W. Super (ex-officio) Athens (toy. William McKinley, Jr. (ex-officio) . Columbus Hon. Horace Wilson Columbus 1853 Hon. J. E. Hanna McConnelsville . 1854 Geo. M. Woodbridge, Esq Bellaire 1883 Hon. E. H. Moore Athens 1861 Hon. William Waddle. M.D Chillicothe 1804 Hon. H. S. Bundy Wellston 1864 Hon. Geo. W. Boyce Cincinnati 1875 Hon. Perry Wiles Zanesville 1882 Hon. V. C. Lowry Logan 1885 L. M. Jewett, Esq Athens 1887 Earl Cranston, D.D Cincinnati L888 David H. Moore, D.D Cincinnati L889 Robert E. Hamblin Pomeroy 1 890 Supt, C. C. Davidson Alliance 1891 Prof. A. Leue, Ph. I) Cincinnati 1891 Evan J Jones, Esq Athens 1892 Lucien J. Fenton, Esq Winchester 1892 Henry T. Brown. Esq Vthens L892 1 . F. Moreland Cincinnati .... 1892 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. Ciias. W. SUPER, President. L. M. Jewett, Esq., Secretary and Audit Hon. E. H. Moore, Treasurer. 12