Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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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

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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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William Patterson Kane, 2B., LL. B. 1895-1906 In 1899 Dr. IKkane became president of Wabash, for which he was des- tined to do much during his brief, seven-year administration. While he was president Wabash grew in size and prestige. He developed the “Wabash Plan” which emphasized the place of the small college in the life of the na- tion. This plan was widely adopted and secured recognition for Wabash throughout the educational world. He fostered activities on the campus. He created a spirit of genuine fellowship and love for Wabash in the hearts of all who attended the school. His death cut short even greater plans for the col- lege he loved. Dr. Kane was born in Carroll County, Ohio, April 13, 1847. For his early education he attended the common schools and Oakdale Academy near Pitts- burgh. Then he went to the Iron City Business College, from which he gradu- ated with the intention of entering the business world. He was not, however, satisfied with his education, so he went to Monmouth College in Illinois. Here he was converted and decided to become a minister in the United Presbyterian Church. While he was preparing for the ministry, he taught school at Ida- ville, Indiana, where he was an unusually successful teacher. From there he entered the United Presbyterian Seminary at Xenia, Ohio. Later he changed to the Seminary at Newbury, N. Y., from which he graduated in 1872. For twelve years, until 1884, Dr. Kane was pastor in Argyle, N. Y. Then he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church of Lafayette, Indiana. Though the church was in difficulties at the time he took over the pastorate, he soon built up one of the strongest churches in Indiana. Early in his stay at Lafayette he became interested in Wabash College, from which he received a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1887. In 1889 he was elected to the board of directors, and a few years later he became president of the board. Upon the death of Dr. Tuttle in 1892 he was asked to become president of Wabash, but his congregation in Bloomington, Illinois, where he had gone just two months before, refused to allow him to resign. However, when Dr. Burroughs re- signed the presidency in 1899, he was again offered it, and this time he ac- cepted. Is bal q ct { rent cS oe Et ON pre it la Sadan sa aR Ei I ie NL a His administration was short but fruitful to Wabash. He died November 28, 1906, during a rest cure in a sanatorium in the Ozarks. na eee ane} ic; ? a | RP Ft Semen cece Page Liyghteen 4 —= tare . — a friends of education touching the interests of the enterprise. An im- portant question was to be settled in the appotntment of the first Teacher. After much deliberation, the action of the Board resulted in the appointment of Mr. Caleb Mills, then a Theological Student at Andover, Mass., as the Principal of the Preparatory Department and Teacher’s Seminary. Mr. Mills had been favonably known to some members of the Board as ardently devoted to the cause of Christian education, and one well fitted in moral qualities, and by extended and