Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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American coins and copies of newspapers. Then, in the village church, M-r. Stephen Ql. Bradstreet delivers a scholarly address upon the progress of education, and the momen- tous occasion is history. The Erie Literary Society had been estab- lished in 1803. The l'resbyteries of Portage and Grand River had effected a partial lia- ison of forces in 1822, hoping to build on the foundation of the Burton school, but they speedily became convinced that no such arrangement could ever be consummated amid l3urton's miasmic fevers, and straightway cast about for a location of their own. Hudson had been selected, and an appeal broadcast over the Reserve for support and funds. The answer came in the events of that April ClZ1V. Cf1'n1'g1' 1511111111111 1Jf!'1'l'C ' l'r1'.v1.1ie1zI 7834-1855 Now the trustees settled clown to the tasks before them, difficult in the ex- treme. They knew only too well that it is one thing to found an institution and another to breathe into it the breath of life which will mean its perpetuation. Money was scarce and access to markets difficult. The people WC1'C still mostly engaged in the rough work -of pioneers, contributing chiefly in land, cattle, or some variety of merchandise. The alchemy required to transmute these into buildings and professors' salaries was most extraordinary, and a snrpassingly slow process. l.ess resolute minds would have quailed at the prospects. Assets at the time the charter was obtained were only ten thousand dollars-an appallingly small sum on which to found a college in any day. Hut these men were pioneers, trail-blazers, quelling the wilderness in the ringing of an axe, possessing wills as unswerving as their constant faith in the benignancy of Eternal Providence. Being such, they persevered. And the college began to take form. Professors came from Yale, NVilliams, and Dartmouth. Many of the founders were Yale men, and, with the high tradi- tions of Old Eli ever before themf, they came to speak of the new college as the Yale of the XVest. The buildings were planned along the same lines as those in New Ilaven. The standard of scholarship was established as identical with that of the New line'l'mcl college 6 ' 5 5 V Reserve bemff the onlv institu-- 1 ' A -- - . 6 ' . -- . ' 1' X K l tion in the west from which ,J 1-5 ,.-1 I ,,-X 1 A , 1 M P ff gig' one could go to New hngland Q ,gli--ff . ' 9. L.. Mb' 'Q with full acceptance of cred- ' .ff ,5,f? ? !1 !7 its. The trustees had made ,4 . lf it an institution of the kind in mv? V 5 ,t1v234.6vl' Aix 'lark' ,. . -- N 'E , 'fi K 'X i l ll 'T iggfllg- f 'Note: Mr. lidxvard P. Bradstreet, 4, f Ji. lf -j '53, son of the speaker, still lives - ' W ll 1 - S ' c' -' r o 'r1- n--r I Q I ,Wi X ' lll llllcllllla l, I . . li, 0 CLS 1110111- vgx 1 'tm li ,X T Q , will ber of the Ohio bar and the oldest E29 -f 1 5, L living member of any Reserve ' i. . N111 W- W 1 lf l iivf class, at 95 he is still well and able to write frequent reminiscent N The f.tI.l'liHfl 111' UH' C0'l'll4'l'Sl0IIC, April 26, 1826 letters to the alumni office.