Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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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! | ——— —— :

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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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From the Portrait by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple the undertaking seemed to the Trustees one of no ordinary magnitude and responsibility. The heavy forest was to be removed, materials for building to be obtained under serious disadvantages and at heavy expense. But with their motto before them, they went forward, and in December, 1832, had the building nearly completed. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT OPENED. In the meanwhile extensive correspondence was held with the