Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Che Wabash be Published by KCOICNI . Q : = 3 Che Senior Class nf Wahash College PS aE ea a cit ct Darah mmectnhcstont-hatcdepha Ini nt POTS TE NTE RP TE, PTT TT PC ADARD Beer sae 7 rrr width CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA E HA tf | rtp Paye Three i Ste stitution as young as this, there cannot be much of incident peculiar, or of such striking interest, as to demand special commemoration from the pen of the historian; yet the origin and early history of our. public imstitutions of learning should be faithfully traced and preserved, as constituting an interesting and valuable portion of the country’s his- tory. Besides, the spreading before the public mind of the difficulties and struggles, as well as the success of these early efforts for the bene-

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COPYRIGHT 1932 by JOHN M. PLUMMER, Editor and REILY G. ADAMS, Business Manager Page Two ORIGIN An acorn planted on the banks of the Connecticut, before the era of civilization on this continent, grew to be a stately oak, and not only sheltered the charter which willing hands of kings would have wrested from the sons of freedom, but it lived to witness the triumph of free- dom, and the dispersion of her sons to freedom’s farthest mountains. A college is said to be “a tree of centuries,” and although in an in- hae |) SE SR

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Hrdiration Cn those sometines eccentric, hut almays learned gentlemen, who haue been members of the Farulty of Wabash College ........ Page Four faction of mind, may serve as a means of widening, increasing, and perpetuating the interest which all good citizens should take in enter- prises of this kind. The design of establishing a permanent institution of learning in the Wabash Valley was first formed by those who traversed its ear- liest settlements as missionaries; and the wisdom of this design was rendered obvious by the unparalleled rapidity of its settlement, in connection with the vastness of its prospective resources.