Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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26 cormx. Such things are impressive and elevating, they rouse us to realize the mission and the Worth of the college. And again we say, happy is that college which has associations of an ennobling sort connected with its very site. About us is an unusual wealth of the handiwork of God in the kingdom of the Howers. Here are three great geological formations, full of extinct creatures of the primal world, to incite us to reverent study. Far north and south extends our beautiful valley, teeming with fertility, the certain future abode of millions that will need and use and support the College. Far northward stretches that noble view which has thrilled many a heart with delight. About us are the three great types of prairie, spreading or rolling till they break into the billowy hills. Here is an antiquity dating far back of history, far back of the colonial times in which were the beginnings of the colleges of the Atlantic coast, for here, dotted, upon our very campus, are the memorials of a mighty but mysterious race: as among the trees and the mounds is poured, as seemingly nowhere else, the liquid gold of the sunset or the silver sheen of the moonlight, the spirits of their chiefs seem to come forth from these, their places of interment, and to bid us use well the inheritance that is ours. REFERENCES. Dr. Cutler and the Ordinance of 17873 an article by Dr. XV, I , Poole in the North American Review, April, 1876, First Annual Report ofthe Trustees of Beloit College, january, 1849. Inaugural Address of President Chapin, 1850. Inaugural Address of Professor Squier, july, 1851. The Chicago Magazine, March, 1857, Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary, july S, 1857, Beloit College-Its Origin and Aimsf' an article by President Chapin in the New Englander, April, 1872, Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary, july, 1872. i Historical Sketch of Beloit College: a pamphlet prepared by request of the United States Commissioner of Education for the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence, 1876. The Beloit College lrlonthly, and The Round Table, 1853-89. The Beloit College Register, 1862-7o. The University Quarterly, 1S6o-61. Catalogues, 1849-89. The Beloit Journal, Free Press, and other local newspapers. Proceedings at the Fiftieth Anniversary ofthe First Congregational Church of Beloit, Dec.. 28-30, 1888 fNot yet publishedl.

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Rev. A. La. Chapin, D.D., President Elngeritug. Aaron Lucius Chapin, first president of Beloit College, was born in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 4, 1817. His ancestors, on the side of both father and mother, were citizens of Connecticut, and were- persons of robust intelligence and character. He received his academic education in the Hartford Grammar School and at Yale College, graduating at the latter institution in 1837. Among the members of his class were several gentlemen of national reputation, Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Hon. Jeremiah Evarts, Chief justice Morrison R. Waite and Prof. Benjamin Silliman are of the number. During the year subsequent to his leaving college he was engaged in teaching in a family school in Baltimore, Md., and from 1838 to 1843 was a professor in the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. He studied Theology while there engaged, and received his diploma at Union Theological Seminary of New York, in 1842. . The Western States were at this time opening new fields for enter- prise, not only in the pursuits of ordinary industry, but to the Christian Ministry and academical instruction. Mr. Chapin, under the appointment of the American Home Missionary Society, removed in 1844 to Mil- waukee, Wis., where he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Here he remained six years. His pastorate in Milwaukee is spoken of as one of great thoroughness and efficiency, and his friendship in 'that city is affectionately cherished by not a few who were cognizant of his early ministry. In February of 1850, Dr. Chapin was called from Milwaukee to Beloit College, as its first President, and was inaugurated into the duties of that ofhce july 24th, of the same year. Rev. Iackson I. Bushnell and Rev. joseph Emerson, D. D., had just become professors of the new institution and to Dr. Chapin, in conjunction ,with these two nrst Professors, are, in large measure, due the wise principles and methods by which its administration has been rendered so eminently successful in the training of men. ' Dr. Chapin was married to Miss Martha Colton of Lenox, Mass., August 23, 1843. After her death, he married as his second wife Miss Fanny L. Coit, of New London, Conn., August 26, 1861. He is father