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

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llut for the nonce all forward activity rested. and every effort was directed toward the linal grim solution on the lield of hattle of the knotty problem students had contested so long and earnestly through the years in their campus lyceums. On the wings of the wind came rushing to Hudson and the Nort'1 the crackling news from llarper's lierry, and many an alumnus heard with a peculiar inter- est, and strange memories of the idealism in it seamed face stamped with a rugged single- ness of purpose. 'l'hen Sumter was tired upon. ln a few days, in the city of t'leveland. hlue platoons were swinging down liuclid ave- nue for the front. to the shrilling of lifes and the long roll of drums, their hayonets glitter- ing hright in the morning sun. 'l'hey were singing as they marched, and the deep surge of the chorus echoed and re-echoed all over the North, as other marching voices caught it up: C'1mrlv.r Ifrunkliu Tlzteiny l'1't'.virlt'1lI INOU-l921 lohn llrown's hodv lies a-mould'ring in the grave, llut his soul goes marching on ! Ill XYAR-'l'l M IES .-XNIJ .-Xl' I lull Une hundred and forty-six alumni served in the armies and navies of the United States during the Civil Xtar, a remarkably high percentage considering the relative size of the entire hody. lleavy drains were also made upon the student hody. 'l'he students had at once formed and drilled themselves into a military company. and in 1862, after the defeat of Ilanlas in the Shenandoah Val- ley. and in response to President l.incoln's call for volunteers, they offered their services to Ciov. Tod. .-Xs Co. ll., 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, they marched away lirst for Columbus and thence to the front at Yiclcshurg, and for the first time in almost forty years a strange silence dwelt in the halls of t'ie college during ,.c 0 will t ,X 'E' 'egg itil ' 'll ll,,i QT' H' z. X Mg -I J in-'IYU l 1 2' g.l...a..X..kL V I.l1.E!iTTF lTu-.7 - - '-.L.......u- r I ' ' ' - 53 ' 'b , 9 , Swv i I It W XJ ' , XA J Qin 1 i xl if ' ,U K 1 ' Kt,,.t:,,,Fl-131 M a n , g - IX , i ,Vpv ,jg -i5y:ll5.,t-my 'tl r,l, t5ltQ.5Kw..Q,, gf, 1 -U' tltfsft --v lr- i' 'I'-,hit L 1, ,nfl - ' V , 1' itll- rvlilli'-llllgi ,- '-if.-lla Q t NH- li? . ,it 'W ' 'lfarfll i l tl 1 Q 1 1 '- A ll' .gli - I-. 1i', if1l l X ' . , qi ' , W ' ' M . sl yu ' . :W 321, yum,- f' f ,- - ',.. -E-my ' The Old Ford llmm'.vlt'mi 17 term-time. Though the war seriouslv allccted the forward move- ment. it did not hftlt it entire- ly. 'l'he college had alreadv passed too many crises to he discouraged. lfnon the resignation of Pres. lliteheock in 1871, Pro- fessor Carrol Cutler reluc- tantly accepted the responsi- hility. ln an editorial of Dec. 15, 1877. the Cleveland Her-

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streaks of dawn were in the sky. It was a feverish business, this freeing of a race from bondage! l'resident Storrs delivered a powerful ad- dress at Tallmage before the .Xnti-Slavery society on May 8, 1833. lt was his last work, for the over-exertion prostrated him, and he t went back to Massachusetts, to die a few months afterward. .-X gentle Quaker poet sat at his desk in a little New lingland town and wrote: The news of his death was a heavy blow to all of us -and to him who had passed on indited the poem that begins- 'l'hon has fallen in thine armor, 'l'hou martyr of the l.ord-- Xtith thy last breath Crying 'Onwardl' .-Xnd thy hand upon thy sword l Not only by .lohn Greenleaf lYhittier, but hy the staunch little Liberator was a ,X H f Wifi -K' H .l 'l champion missed, and a laudatorv article was .,.' . f - 71 . . . ' . P -f'fl 'V 7857 SM printed in the then nationally known journal. lilresident Storr's death cast a pall over the college that was not relieved by the rumors of schism between the faculty and the trustees on the great controversial issue. lt was indeed a trying task that faced the new president, George li. l'ieree, upon his assumption of otlice in 183-l. 'lihe question of tinances rose again, and continued to agitate those responsible for the maintenance of the institution along with that of slavery, which broke out more fiercely than ever, motives, characters, and actions being publicly and privately impugned. 'I'he administration of l'resident llieree is at once the brightest and the dark- est in the history of the college. llright because of the free manner in which these really extraordinary. but poorly paid men gave back freely out of their poverty for the upbuilding of the college. llark, when pledges failed and prop- erty depreciated, when boom bubbles burst, and panic spread over the land in that catastrophic year of ISS7. llow the stalwart president managed to struggle through tliose gloomy years when the college was bemired in the Slough of Uespond is a tale of rare heroism and devotion to duty. Xtorn with his task, in 1855 he resigned. President llitcheoek came of a distinguished literary family. lle himself was an excellent manager, and sue- , W. ceeded in collecting the wel- come sum of 32001300 in old and new pledges, and in can- celling the old debt of 325000, the last of it being paid in IS6-l. llad not the storm that had been gathering ever since the founding of the col- lege suddenly burst in all its fury in the spring of '61, there is no telling how much farther he might have taken the college. lcnlfuix:-Ihr cffzlnun' nj .rlrrrlcnl lift' tu the .vct'cuIn'.r. to

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ald strongly urged the removal of the college to Cleveland. 'l'hen one day .Xmasa Stone, one of t'leveland's first citizens, came forward with an offer to supply the grounds and the lirst buildings for the college, should it desire to more. The trustees voted to accept. 'l'he students were on the whole very much pleased over the prospect, venting their en- thusiasm by wheeling out an old cannon and firing salutes for a good share of'the day. lV .VX t'lCN'l'liRY OI? CIXNIPLYS l.lI7lC 'l'o those few who remember thc earlier lludson days comes back the long ride through the woods. the stage trailing its slow way around the stumps and careening through mud , holes: the college buildings, begirt on every side at the distance of half a mile by the primi- tive forest, and the wild deer bounding free over the campus. 'l'he new student entered in upon a life that contrasts strangely with that of today. In 1851 he paid twenty dollars tuition for a year of three semesters. Room was four dollars more, and board could be secured in the village, declares the cat- alogue, for 75 cents a week, rising to one dollar a week if the student uses tea or coffee. llowever, some students hoard themselves at considerably less than half the expense of hoard in private families. .Xll expenses were estimated at about S62.5Ol Campus activities and organizations started early. l'hilozetian, founded in lSZ8, and Phi Delta, in l8-l0. were the two literary societies that exercised a great deal of influence for decades. They maintained good libraries of their own on thereampus. lieing bitter rivals, many freslnnen were almost torn asunder between their respective headquarters at bidding time. 'lihe literary societies were the forums wherein were debated all the pulsing questions of the day. XYas the lixile of Napoleon justified? Can Any l'ious Young Man Conscientiously Study Law? Regularly every week were such questions settled. XYith their consent, they elected Clay, XY:-bster, Greeley, Sew- ard, Douglas, members, and other famous men honorary members and not infre- quently when they came by, l l lx'olvel'l lfl'II4'A'l f'flI.YHlI l'r4'.vidt'11l, l02.f- invited them to speak before the societies. , . ln IB-ll the mnth chap- ter of l'hi lleta Kappa to he established, and the first west of the .Xllegheny mountains, was installed at the college. ln that year also came ,Xlpha Delta l'hi, the first social fra- ternity, followed later in the year y -z lypsilon, in I8-l7, and Delta Kappa lipsilon, in ISGS, were I'ru,ry 'lilrzuiuy 4'01l1j1lt'lt'.r .31 .X't'tll'.f' ft onfznuelf on fume nfvfj 'lf f'f'l f'l' -l'1 f t'- N