Asbury University - Asburian Yearbook (Wilmore, KY)

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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.

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vw -DV? . 1 f N fs? 1 - Q. Y QS EE sea :gk ,.52z? S52 .rs X .fs 2:24 52555 fi' 2, Cl: 2. ,. . ,J .1 ...- fl ,N .. Q use ...ff-' A . ' s... .-, .43 ...cf ,.,.f 4,1 .-.2 24 Q., wg gif W., ,wo TZ., Qing! 'Q Z' X The Lord To carry The LighT oT Full SalvaTion To India. During a privaTe conTerence The Bishop Told Fred To Tinish his educaTion and To come immedia+ely To The Tield. LaTer, Rev. Fisher gave This TesTimony con- cerning Asbury: lT was here ThaT a young man's personal ambiTion To make a place Tor himselT was changed To a burning desire To do some worThwhile work in The world. IT was here ThaT I caughT Tor The TirsT Time ThaT vision oT The world's need which iT seemed To me- ChrisT musT have had, and ThaT passion Tor The world which drives a life To give iTselT. ThaT indeed is The spiriT which keeps The Lord's work growing. The year T896 s-aw The beginning of anoTher organizaTion whose spiriT has been kepT alive Through The hisTory oT Asbury even Though iTs name has changed. lT was The Boy's ConTer- ence, Tormed by The minisTerial sTudenTs, ThaT meT Tor a halT hour aTTer supper Tour nighTs a week To keep The sTudenTs in spiriTual Trim and Train Them To appear in public. Some oT The CLASS OF I896 greaTesT revivals aT Asbury have had Their be ginnings in Those services. The TirsT college paper made iTs appearance in I895 wiTh S. B. Harper and C. A. Humphrey as ediTors. The paper was named Sophrosyne in honor oT The Two liTerary socieTies. WiTh a moTTo oT WiT and Wisdom, The monThly pub-A licaTion, arranged in newspaper sTyle, conTained inTeresTing iTems concerning The Town and col- lege. Humphrey laTer wroTe The Tollowing: There was a pardonable pride in ThaT TirsT issue. The seal was placed on iT by unanimous consenT. ArTicles were wriTTen, Tiled, ediTed, and aTTer laborious sTruggles, The copy was senT To The press. ThaT paper was in realiTy a work oT love. - E The building proiecT was conTinuing. ln i899 a Two-sTory girls dormiTory called The Girls Club Building was erecTed according To plans made by Mrs. Hughes, The real lvloTher oT Asbury College. The Tollowing year was The climacTic one Tor Dr. Hughes' building enTerprise. As There had been an increasing need Tor an Ad- J. W. McKee, Cora M. Dunn, C. A. Humphrey, MaTTie Risk, W. P. Gordon. . ff ,f , ,gf fffqlfyfyg, fg,,f f f H g ,, f f V, , M, , f Qf,,f,ff,,,ff,.1' L, www' if , ,f ,f ,, , , ' f .N .

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N.. N -N Kai Z - :HT .5552 afisi 'sz 55:2 war? Q55-' 21' i B KJ? Qsups ,-,-- '-:R - LIGHT OF THE EZCROSS N es - --Q -,.., ...V 4 . The growTh of The school during The period of Rev. John Wesley Hughes was ,liTTle shorT of marvelous when one considers The opposiTion which The founder of The school encounTered. The Conference conTribuTed noThing in The way of money and moral supporf. The large campus of fourfeen and one-fourTh acres and The eighT subsfanfial buildings were noThing more nor less Than a huge monumenf erecfed by The Tireless labors of Rev. J. W. l-lughes and The many friends of holiness. lf shows whaT can be done by a man wiTh a vision and a will To work. Upon The resignafion of Dr. l-lughes, Dr. F. B. Haynes became presidenf. Under The leader- ship of This scholarly and culfured man The col- lege and academy were made separaTe uniTs. Because of his fervenf missionary zeal There was a wholesome spirifual life on The campus. The STudenT Volunfeers, E. STanley Jones among Them,lwere responsible for a greaT revival. Their organizaTion was very spirifualq Their meefings were The besT held on The campus: and already They had represenTaTives in India, Japan, Persia, Cuba, Korea, and The Philippines. ln The summer of I906 The firsT move was made Toward The presenf campus when The Board purchased Bellevue College, a Presby- Terian school, siTuaTed on The norTh side of Wil- more. This campusof Ten acres included Two large brick buildings and Three cisTerns. The social rule policies of l-lughes and l-laynes differed. Whereas l-lughes had defended co- educaTion, l-laynesidefinifely opposed iT: and affer The purchase was proud of The facT ThaT lConTinued on page 231 Back Row: H. L. Humphrey, C. B. Kinney, J. M. Mafsumofo. Froni' Row: C S 0 F I Berfha Glasson, C. W. Hill, Mayme Humphrey Burden, W. G. Cram.