Asbury University - Asburian Yearbook (Wilmore, KY)

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CLASS OF I895 sTraTe The naTural laws, and To Take The sTudy ouT oT The realm oT Theory. ln l893, T. W. Shan- non received The TirsT college diploma. To allow more sTudenTs To receive an educa- Tion, lvlinisTer's Hall, a Two-sTory Trame building oT sixTeen rooms, was erecTed in l894. Theo- logical subiecTs were gradually Tinding a place in The curriculum as shown by The addiTion oT a Three-year course emphasizing The Classics, Eng- lish, lvleThodisT Theology, and Discipline. From The beginning Asbury has emphasized The spiriTual condiTion oT The sTudenT body. There have always been Two scheduled revivals: The Tall revival To lead new sTudenTs inTo regen- eraTion and enTire sancTiTicaTion, and The spring one To conTinue ThaT work and To prepare sTu- denTs Tor summer work. AT diTTerenT periods, sponTaneous revivals have broken ouT as The re- Suli OT PVGYGF or TesTimony. An evangelisTic aTrnosphere is and always should be a parT of our normal liTe here aT Asbury. An onlooker can iudge Tairly well The char- acTer oT The sTudenT body by The + G of Back Row: Ella M. Carson-Baughman, Maflie Greer. Front Row: W. L. Clark, W. O. Humphrey, F. D. Pain. oT The LIGHT OF THE CROSS bursT TorTh on The campus in a new manner. Under The leader- ship oT F. B. Jones, who had volunTeered Tor Toreign missionary work The previous year, a Missionary SocieTy wiTh TiTTy charTer members was Tormed. lTs TirsT responsibiliTy was The sup- porT of B. SarmoT who had reTurned To his naTive land oT Persia. For Those who held Themselves in readiness To go anywhere aT any Time ThaT The Lord mighT lead, a STudenT VolunTeer Band was organized in l898. Through iT The missionary spiriT was TurThered and The way Tor oThers To volunTeer made easier. The noonday proyef meeTings oT This group proved a dynamo Tor The enTire school. The organizaTion had a dual aim: ThaT oT preparing sTudenTs Tor Their respeCTiV6 Tields and ThaT oT providing acTual experience in soul winning while ,sTilI in Training. When The STudenT VolunTeer ConvenTion mef in l9OO aT ToronTo, Canada, Fred B. Fisher WGS senT To represenT Asbury College. One aTTer- noon while lisTening To Bishop James Thoburn izahons ThaT is prevailing B l895yT3h ' Organ- Speak on The Kind oT Missionaries ThaT AFS ' Y e 'nTlUenCe Needed Abroad, he TelT a deTiniTe call TrOm A T T181 S 5 ss i SE

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5 A., 2, Qing' !4i CLASS OF I897 minisTraTion Building, one was consTrucTed. WiTh iTs seaTs compacTly arranged, nine hundred could be cared Tor in iTs audiTorium on The second floor. The same year by purchasing eighT and one-TourTh acres oT bluegrass land, Rev. l-lughes enlarged The campus To TourTeen and one-TourTh acres. This work was Truly ThaT of a man wiTh a vision and a will To work. As The sTudenT body grew, liTerary socieTies increased. From The Aconian, which was Tormed in I898, Two oThers, The AThenia, wiTh iTs moTTo, ..S. 1. . . . impiciTy, SinceriTy, Success, and Columbia wifh iTs moTTo, Wisdom, TruTh, Eloquence, ey sTrove To Teach a lznowledge oT parliamenTa were laTer Tormed. Th VY law. plaTTorm grace, w Through Them and Similar OrganizaTions Tormed laT lq GF. Te culTural 0TmO5Pl'19re oT The school has been upheld and freedom oT expression. 5 12 4 , . I Standing: C. A. Bromley, E. D. Seafed: Pearl Mullikin, Maggie Lowry, Ada Humphrey. The Temperance movemenT had iTs inTluence on our campus Through The lnTernaTional Prohi- biTion AssociaTion esTablished in l903. A sTudy class and oraTorical conTesT were sponsored year- ly by iT. ln i920 Asbury had The unique dis- TincTion oT being represenTed in The NaTional OraTorical ConTesT. Now aTTer TourTeen years oT successTully run- ning his holiness school, Dr. John Wesley l'lU9lTe5 realized ThaT he had TulTilled The call laid UPON his hearT by The Lord baclc in The old railroad sTaTion. Also realizing The hesiTancy of mam' people To supporT a school owned by one mfifh and realizing his waning. physical condiTion. he Transferred The properTy To a Board oT TruST6'95 of Tive members which was increased To TiTTe6U The Tollowing May. As soon as This was aCCOm' plished Dr. l-lughes resigned. I 201 .T 's S 1' 'zz ff asf ix N N -4 ff Sas ff' ---sz 1:25 N sw- sr SX X X 'Ai N X '- GHT OF 1' E VCRs -.,.:. 4-:-: ei: :,:,- gk as. X ,9' MQW is Cornish, R. B. Sadler.