Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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o-0°- A T H E N A -cx o- The State of Ohio (NOTE: To illustrate the general theme of this annual — The History of the State of Ohio — each section page throughout this volume contains a view of an important event or industry in the history of the state. The views are arranged in chronological order so as to portray the progress of the state from the time of the first settlers leaving Ipswich Hamlet in 1787 to the present with its many and varied industries, depicting especially Agri- culture, Manufacturing, Mining and Transportation within the state.) Some Peaks of History lHIO has more colleges and universities than any other state in the ' Union — that in itself is very significant. When Bathsheba Rouse as the first school-teacher in the state taught school in the summer of 1789 at Belpre. she was a pioneer in that great educational scheme which was to place the state of Ohio among the very foremost in the instruction of her youth. In this early and later systems Ohio University, the first University west of the Alleghenies to receive a public land endowment, has always had a place of importance. It is uniquely interesting that the history of the United States as such, of the state of Ohio, and of Ohio University is contemporaneous, since their beginnings are rooted in that wonderful year of 1787. Every Ohioan knows of the famous Ordinance of 1787. but one provision is of more than common interest: religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of man- kind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper. members later of the Ohio Uni- versity Board of Trustees, first organized the Ohio Company, and Manasseh Cutler, its agent and an expert lobbyist, secured from congress nearly a million acres of land along the Muskingum River. On April 7, 1788 the first settlers came and founded Marietta, so named in honor of Marie Antoinette, the French queen. Before the end of the eighteenth century. Cincinnati. Dayton. Chillicothe. Cleveland, and Zanesville were established. Congress in 1800 divided the Northwest Territory into two parts, the Indiana Territory and the Northwest Territory, with the capital of the latter located at Chillicothe. This Northwest Territory became the seventeenth State — Ohio — on March 1, 1803. A constitution was drawn up and Edward Tiffin was elected first governor. A new constitution was adopted in 1851. which with some amendments in 1912 is the same we live under today. Fame in men and deeds have come to Ohio to prove her greatness as a state. Great and good governors Ohio has had and her national statesmen are numerous. Ohio by birth or training gave the greatest Union generals: Grant. Sherman. Sheridan. Buell. Rosecram, McClellan. McPherson. and McDowell. If we include William H. Harrison, who was born in Virginia and lived in Ohio after 1814. Ohio has produced eight presidents of the United States, namely. Grant. Hayes. Garfield. Benjamin Harrison. McKinley. Taft. and Harding. -CQ |L19 3 S[C - 12

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FTER three years of anticipation and eager expectation it has been .announced that the student body, within another twelve months, will be gathering for convocations, musicals, and college plays in a new and spacious auditorium. The building, seating several thousand people, will contain equipment for staging the finest dramatic and musical productions, and a splendid pipe organ for daily noon-hour or vesper recitals. All classes, with the possible exception of the class of 1928, are familiar with the details of the campaign inaugurated to secure for the University the finest auditorium to be found on any campus in the state. For the benefit of the Freshmen a brief resume is made. Early in May. 1922. a number of prominent alumni came together in a meeting which gave birth to the idea of a gift building for their Alma Mater. Plans for a structure such as they conceived called for an estimated expenditure of $300,000. An organization of students, alumni, faculty members, and citi- zens of Athens was effected to secure pledges for an Auditorium Fund. The efforts of the soliciting groups were not successful immediately. Many exten- uating circumstances and conditions were apparent for their failure to attain an early success. Continuous work on the project, however, has brought the total amount pledged and paid into the treasury to well near the $200,000 mark. The finance committees of the State Legislature, without hesitancy, approved a request of the state in the amount needed to complete the fund. The new building, therefore, will be under way shortly after Commencement, 1925. B 1ll £Sfefeacv 14