Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Louis Beriram Hopkins, A.A, LAB. 1926- The Wabash College educational plan, which was established soon after the beginning of the administration of President Louis B. Hopkins, reaches the conclusion of its first four year cycle with the graduation of the Class of 1932. It has as its ultimate goal the highest possible development of the in- dividual student, so that he will be better able to accept and to fulfill his social obligations after four years of study at Wabash. The program of emphasis on the individual student involves the selection of a particular type of student; the securing of the intelligent, sympathetic, and whole-hearted support of the faculty; the adoption of a well-balanced and unified curriculum; and the harmonizing of all student activities, athletic as well as non-athletic, with the rest of the plan. President Hopkins, who was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, at- tended the Coburn Classical Institute, being graduated in 1904, and Dartmouth Colleze. from which he received in 1925 th e Master of Arts degree. Recently, he has been given the degree of Doctor of Laws from Marietta College and from DePauw University. For approximately twenty years before his inaugu- ration as president of Wabash in 1926, he was engaged in personnel work in industry and in education. During the War he was Director of the Trade Test Division of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the United States Army. From that time until 1922 he was a consultant in personnel and or- ganization for industrial and commercial companies. In 1919 he lectured for a year at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. During that and the following year he was a lecturer at the Tuck School of Administration and Finance of Dartmouth College. His sub- jects were economics and labor relations during both these engagements. Dr. Hopkins came to Wabash from Northwestern University, and was inaugurated on Founders’ Day, 1926. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Per- sonnel Research Federation, and the University and the OQuiatenon clubs. At present he is serving on two national committees, as a member of the Com- mittee on Personnel of the American Council on Education, and as personnel director of the Executive Committee of the National Young Mens’ Christian Association. RESP OAIEIN A EPID A er aiekamect caine nekacoas anata } = Vapor mrmeirerere : : rr Page Twenty-two a ee ee Institution, Teachers and Pupils; nor had they much confidence in the utility of this feature, further than as an important means of securing health to the Student, and those active and useful habits of industry which go far in the development of a valuable character, a healthy and vigorous constitution, while it might prove of essential service to young men who were mainly dependent upon their own exertions for support.

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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

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CTE ET OTE TTT a - E E f | | | | eee TEER, Zé From the Portrait by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple The charter did not make it the duty of the Institution to require manual labor; only to provide it. A fair experiment with this feature convinced the Trustees that the good secured would not justify the expenditure requisite to sustain a system of Manual Labor; they, therefore, in the charter amended in 1851, were excused from this requisition. The other feature of the Institution, set forth in its chartered | i 2 ob) Sb