Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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George Lewes Mackintosh, 0.B., LL.B. 1908-1926 Dr. Mackintosh was born in Nova Scotia, January 1, 1860 and came west to study at Wabash during the 1870’s. While at college his interests were chiefly academic though he found time to participate considerably in oratory. He graduated from Wabash in 1884. After receiving his masters degree in 1887 Dr. Mackintosh entered the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio to study for the ministry. In 1889 he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church and received his first charge in Indianapolis two years later, where he served until 1907. His first official connection with Wabash College after his graduation came in 1897 when he was elected a member of the board of trustees. Six years later in 1903 he began to teach part time. From then on his connection with the college strengthened rapidly. Two years later he was teaching full time, and in 1906 upon the ill- ness of President Kane he was appointed acting president. The following April Dr. Mackintosh was inaugurated as president. During his administration Wabash prospered. It had many difficulties to overcome, especially during the World War. Despite these handicaps Dr. Mackintosh left the college with an endowment fund three hundred per cent. larger than that which it had when he assumed charge. Substantial subscrip- tions were obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation and the general board of education of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mackintosh was known through- out the state, partly from his long pastorate in Indianapolis and partly as a result of his speaking tours to interest all Indiana in Wabash. He was a strict classicist and so kept the traditional liberal arts character of the college in- tact. In 1903 he received the Docter of Divinity degree from Wooster College and in 1908 that of Doctor of Laws from Hanover. He was forced to retire from the presidency in 1926 on account of ill health and spent the years until his death living near the campus he had known most of his life. Upon his death, February 28, 1932, President Hopkins characterized him as a man of “daring intellect, a delightful sense of humor, and high scholarly attainment, a man of great faith and great works.” Page Twenty SGLIENTIAR ET AVIkT Ole To Science and Virtue. Such was the early and sincere dedication of this Institution. While its Trustees and patrons disclaim sectarian and party motives, they have ever avowed it as a leading object to pro- mote True Religion, as well as sound learning. Indeed they fully be- l’eve that the interests of sound learning can not be effectually pro- moted without the aid and sanctions of the Christian religion. And it is matter of grateful recollection that, of the twelve stu- (eT AZD BIT BIS Sipe - POPE ae MNS OIE TE nL Sm OO tne

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From the Portrat by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple dents first enrolled as members of the Institution, nine were pro- fessedly and hopefully Christians. And the subsequent history, down to the present time, will show that this important element has been constant, active, effective. In January, 1834, application was made to the State Legislature for a charter, which was granted, under the name of “Wabash Manual Labor College and Teacher’s Seminary”. The trustees were not among those who vainly hoped that Manual Labor was to supvort the EE