Blackburn College - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Carlinville, IL)

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Ww Universitas Blackburntana “The university is located at Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, on the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, fifty-nine miles north of St. Louis, in the midst of a beautiful and healthful country. The build- ings of the institution are surrounced by spacious grounds, including a beautiful park of native oaks.” Catalogue, 1869 The physical plant of Blackburn in 1869 consisted of one building, University Hall. Old Main, as it was called until it burned in 1927, housed the men’s resi- dence hall, a library of several hunzred volumes, offices and “recitation” rooms, and a cafeteria in the base- ment. Old Main was erected in two units. The first, begun in 1858, was built at a cost of $12,000. The second unit was begun in 1867. Blackburn has been a coeducational institution from its beginning. Women have been admitted to all courses and have been considered for the same degrees. A note of interest here is that, now as well as then, there are fewer women than men. Of the seven 1870 graduates, one was a woman — Orrie Dawes. Women were housed with private families in Carlinville. A

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Blackburn’s Faculty of 1870: Robert Minton, Math; John Conley, Science; John Soule, Latin and Greek; John Bai- ley, President, Hebrew and Theology.