Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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C ODILLY. LLEWELLYN J. DAVIES B . . A Assistant in Acad emy. EDWARD M. BOOTH, M. A., Knapp Instructor in Elocution. REV. FRAN LECTURERS, 1888-89. K W. GUNSAULUS, D. D Chicago, 111. HON. JOHN C. SPOONER, LL. D., U. S. Senator, Wisconsin. ELISHA GRAY, LL. D., Chicago, I11. REV. W. H. S. AUBREY, LL. D., London, England. REV. HENRY D. PORTER., M. Pano' Ch D., D uang, China.. 'ex www' jk ' JJ ,,.. 'ii aka LH? V . 4 :W Q u. 'ba m f

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Faculty. IREV. EDWARD D. EATON, D. D., LL. D., President, and Professor of History. REV. AARON L. CHAPIN, D. D.. LL. D., President Emeritus, and Professor of Civil Polity. REV. JOSEPH EMERSON, D. D., Williams Professor of Greek, and Librztrizui. REV. WILLIAM PORTER, D. D., Brinsniade Professor of Latin, and Secretary. ,REv. JAMES J. BLAISDELL, D. D., , Squier Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Instructor i1 REV. HENRY M. WHITNEY, M. A., Root Professor of Rhetoric and English Lite1':Lt1u'e. ' THOMAS A. SMITH, PH. D., Hale Professor of Mathematics and Physics. ERASTUS G. SMITH, PH. D.. Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy. ROLLIN D. SALISBURY, M. A., Professor of Geology, Zoology and Botany. REV. ALMON W. BURR, M. A., Principal of the Academy, and Professor of Pedegogics. CHARLES A. BACON, M. A., 1 Hebrew Professor of Astronomy, and Director ofthe Observatory. ' CALVIN W. PEARSON, PH. D.. Harwood Professor of Modern Languages. THEODORE L. WRIGHT, M. A., Assistant Professor of Ancient Languztges. HIRAM D. DENSMORE, B. A.. Instructor in Botany and Zoology. ROBERT C. CI-IAPIN, M. A., Instructer in Civil Polity. RUFUS B. MCCLENON, M. A., Assistant in Academy.

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The 1-Iistorg of Beloit College. APPY is the college with whose beginnings are associated things of a picturesque, impressive, emblematic, or elevating sort. At Yale there was the little group of clergymen laying down a few precious books and saying, I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony , in Massachusetts, the frail but scholarly young clergyman, john Harvard, dying too soon for much usefulness, and yet having a wonderful usefulness in beginning the endowment of the college that bears his name, at Dartmouth, Wheelock's Indian school, and, later, the scene where Daniel Webster defended the college-charter before the Supreme Court of the United States, at lVilliams, the heroic soldier of the Revolution, whose name the college bears, and, not long after, the group of students at the haystack, consecrating themselves as the beginners of the foreign missionary work of the American churches, at Oberlin, the wild beast, a symbol of barbarism, descending from a tree upon the selected site, and fieeing westward when the founders ap- peared. By such beginnings the work of the college is prophesied and shaped. At Beloit the student of the beginnings hnds much upon which he loves to dwell, and in which he sees the promise and the dehnition of the things to come. The Ordinance of 1787. There was, far back and first of all, the Ordinance of I787,i' dedicating the great Interior to freedom. In that law and compact, which has come to be awarded a foremost place among the great state- papers of the world, the most famous sentence, after the prohibition of slavery, was this: Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. Of the tract covered by the original ordinance, Wisconsin was the farthest away and the last to be occupied by civilized men. Manasseh Cutler and the Ohio Company, in demanding the passage of the Ordinance of 1787 as the condition of their purchase of so many million acres in the