Carthage College - Driftwood / Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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-X f :- CRIMSON RAr,IBLER YIEXY OF lil-INIl.XR'l' HALL School was first begun by Profes- sor L. BI. F. Easterday, assisted by Dr. Conrad Kuhl, in the second story of the Burbank Building on the south side of the square. Sixteen students regis- tered in September, but fifty-eight were enrolled by the end of the year. The next year eighty-four were on the roll. In 1872 the school was transferred to the basement of Old Main. Dr. D. L. Tressler was elected to the presidency the following spring. Professor L. ll. F. Easterday was made Professor of mathematics and astronomy: Rev. J. M. Richard. Professor of Lating J. M. Helfrich. Professor of Musicg Dr. E. F. Bartholomew. Professor of Natural Sciences: and John Brubaker. Profes- sor of English. College opened in 1873 with one hundred and sixty stu- dents. This first faculty of Carthage Col- lege was self-sacrificing and full of enthusiasm. President Tressler did a wonderful work. Dr. Griffith said he was the best man he had ever known. At this time there were o11ly three trees on the campus, three giant cotton- woods planted by nature. Two of these trees are still in existence. President Tressler with his own money bought tiny evergreens which have made possible Evergreen lvalk. memory of which is dear to every student of Cartilage College. The days of prosperity continued until the death of Dr. D. L. Tressler on February 20. 1880. There followed a cris- is for Carthage College. ln 1883 the entire fac- ulty resigned. The next year the one yearn faculty decided to close the college and the win- dows of the basement were boarded up. How- ever. the students loved Cartilage so much that they raised money to pay the professors' salaries so that school could be kept up until the close of that year. In the fall of 188-1 Dr. Bartholomew was elected President and Dr. Hill came to VIEXV OF DENHART HALL . Q Q llilu-Jlllhllllclilllllllllvlllolllrfnm mn I lllillllllalDluI0llunlll0 EIGHT

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XYIIITIQ 11OI'Sli History of Carthage College HE Carthage of yesterday was born in 181-6 at Hillsboro, Illinois. as Hills- boro College. In 1852 the college was moved to Springfield. Illinois, and for eighteen years was known as Illinois State University. At Christ- mas time in 1869 while Major McClaughry was standing on the National Bank corner in Carthage. he saw coming down the street a group of strangers. In con- versation. one of them told him that they had met in Carthage with Dr. Conrad Kuhl to consider founding a college. Major Mc-Claughry said. Since Carthage is a convenient place for your meeting, it is the logical place for the college. The result of those words was that a new charter was obtained in 1870 under the n:une. Carthage College, and the institution has been located at Carthage. Illinois, since that date. Dr.'GrifIith, the father of Mrs. VV. K. Hill, gave the grounds upon which Old Main was built in 1872 at a cost of thirty-live thousand dollars. Mr. B. I . Peter- son, a signer of the charter, built the t'VVhite House, in which all of the presidents. except President E. F. Bartholomew. have lived. Two dormitories were erected in 1873. Philo Hall for the boys, east of Old Main. and Clio Hall for the girls west of Old Main. These buildings served the college for years until Clio Hall burned and Philo Hall was torn down and sold to farmers for granaries. QI. UWIIIIIIIIOIIIIDIIIII lunnloelumffui ,wi If-glial: I aannupiimuu u 1 :O SEVEN

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,A 2 0 1 ' cnimsosimmmp . 'V :A iv l, Y V 4 '- f 11 lull 1 'x , .fi 772 vniw or xoieru n.xl.i. ' Carthage. Both of these men were an inspiration to the College. Under the Presidency of Rev. J. M. Rutln'autf. Henry Dnnhart agreed to give ten thousand dollars to the endowment of the eollege, provided the city and county would build one new dormitory and make other improvements. the whole to eost at least ten thousand dollars: also that the ehureh would pay its indebtedness and raise enough to make an endowment of at least fifty thousand dollars. Mr. llenhart ' paid for half of the construction of llenhart Q Hall, now called North Hall. ln 1903 a H 1 new gymnasium was built at the eost of twelve thousand dollars. In 19116 Mr. Den- hart added 0110 hundred thousand dollars to the endowment ,fund. after the eollege had added the same amount. Mr. Carnegie gave twenty thousand dollars for the erection of a seienee hall when the two hundred thousand dollar endowment was raised. As a con- sequence of these two offers, Carnegie ' Science Hall was built and the endow- ment fund of Carthage was increased. The new Denhart Hall for girls was finished in 1918 at a eost of ninety thousand dollars. half of which was given by Hr. Denhart. The old Denhart Hall became North Hall for boys. During the YVorld's Yvar the bar- racks ill which we now hold eonvocation was built for the S. A. T. C. At the present ' time the alumni are planning a new library for Cartllage. CAM PL' S SC' li N Ii '! l.L.J''ll'lHOl11IrlIsln:uni-noun WA L W-fruoun-1 ul -no-.ual--1. fo NINE