Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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From the Portrait by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple The prime movers in this new enterprise were fully aware it would require not only present immediate effort, but continued perse- vering, untiring exertions. That the means requisite to carry it for- ward would be very considerable, even in its incipient stages. But they adopted as their motto the noble sentiment of the venerated Carey, “What ought to be done, can be done’. Having settled the question that the interests of neligion and the general good of the country demanded an Institution of the kind, they fully believed that

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fs I My ggrmeneremry Sosa a ah BRON Farrand Cuttle, 2.B., LL. B. 18h2-1892 The third president of Wabash, Dr. Joseph F. Tuttle, took official charge in May, 1862. He came just before the Civil War at a time when the college was suffering serious financial difficulties. Despite the loss of many students due to the war Wabash prospered during his thirty years of administration, so that when he died the college had an endowment fund of $500,000 and was enjoying a high reputation among the colleges of the middle west. Dr. Tuttle was born in Bloomfield, N. J., March 12, 1818, the son of a pastor. His early education was received in the schools of Newark, which he left at the age of fourteen to go to work on his uncle’s farm in Ohio. He spent four years on the farm, and liked farming so well that he had practically decided to make it his life work. One day when he was eighteen years old one o f his brothers who had graduated from Princeton came to visit him, and Dr. Tuttle was so charmed by the intellectual superiority of his brother that he decided to go to college himself. In 1836 he began his studies at Marietta College, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1841. He began his theological studies the same year at Lane Seminary under Dr. Lyman Beecher. Three years later he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister. Dr. Tuttle began his career as a minister in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained only until 1847. At that time he accepted a call to the church of his wife’s father in Rockaway, N. J. Here he worked for fifteen years until he became president of Wabash. His church grew; he acquired an increasing experience of life; and he made a name for himself in both the religious and secular world by his numerous contributions to magazines and by the publi- cation of several books. Two years before he assumed his duties at Wabash he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by his alma mater, Marietta College. From Rockaway, Dr. Tuttle came to the presidency of Wabash College, where he remained until his death. The school prospered. He was accorded two more honors in the years 1884 and 1885 when he was made a member of the “Societv of Cincinnatus” and was given the Doctor of Laws degree by Marietta College. In 1892 he retired from active participation in the work of the college, though he continued to conduct the Monday morning chapel exercises almost until his death, Tune 8, 1901. Page Fourteen The contrast between the settlement of our own great Western domain, and the early settlements of New England and Virginia, is very wide. The latter were effected only by slow degrees, their growth was very gradual; the former especially of the newer States, has been, with a rush and rapidity unknown in the history of emigra- tion. Hfforts to plant and sustain institutions of learning and religion were demanded in a corresponding ratio.

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George Stockton Burroughs, 0.0., LL. B. 1892-1899 Like many of the men who had come to serve Wabash, President Bur- roughs came from the East. He was born in Waterloo, New York, of solid : ; | English stock. His youth was spent in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. At the | age of eighteen he graduated from Princeton College with highest honors. tL In 1877 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton later —————+- om gave him two degrees, one in 1883, Doctor of Philosophy for his semitic ue i studies, and the other in 1887, Doctor of Divinity. After graduation he ac- pee cepted a pastorate at Slatington, Pennsylvania. From here he went to Con- necticut where he spent four years at Fairfield and three at New Britain. Next he spent six years as pastor of the College Church at Amherst. While “2s at Amherst, in September, 1892, he received the offer to become president of ) Wabash College. His administration at Wabash was doomed to trouble, though it began auspiciously enough. He worked hard and took part in everything. He was pleasant and easy to approach, always the genial gentleman. For four years Wabash progressed continually. The faculty was enthusiastic. Then a period | set in, when, due to uncontrollable circumstances, almost everything in the school seemed to go wrong. Finances went wrong; enrollment dropped ; activi- ties were not supported and a cynical attitude was apparent throughout the ! school. During this time came the struggle over co-education, which was fi- ) nally settled in 1899 with a decision of the trustees against it. Despite the trouble of the administration, the scholastic standing of the college remained high, and there was perhaps more genuine scholarship during these years than ever before. In 1899 Wabash was granted a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the forty-second chapter of the fraternity. a SR a A ah SINR EI i i Because of the difficulties the President received much censure, and so he quietly handed in his resignation in June, 1899. From Wabash he went to Oberlin College as Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature. | Two years later he was attacked by a bone disease. First one arm broke and had to be amputated, and then a like misfortune befell the other. At the com- kee paratively youthful age of forty-four, he died—October 22, 1901. bY wah Enh hI LL Li A ITI i | | | ' 2a Page Sixteen me ae |b ] Are eecrsreamea Pan % . PE eESES the means could be procured. At their second meeting, January, 1833, it was resolved to take immediate measures to erect a building upon the site presented by Judge Dunn. This building was designed to be occupied as a boarding house for the Teachers and Students, and to afford accommodations for a Preparatory Depargment, and Teach- er’s Seminary. Its dimensions were forty by thirty feet, three sto- ries. In this comparatively limited view, with their narrow means, ; - by! | ——— —— :