College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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Preliminary Hisfory of the Unifversify of Wooster. UBLIC institutions are not usually of mushroom growth. Their roots often lie deeply hidden in the past, long before the institutions themselves take shape above ground. Their history cannot be fully understood until these beginnings are carefully traced and the sources of their nourishment laid bare. The province of the true historian must begin with the study of origins, and ultimate causes. For causes ever underlie conditions. Theories that attempt to explain conditions without study of causes belong to the realm of the imagination. Materials for such study in connection with our University were collected some time since by the writer with considerable research and much care from original sources in the records of the Ohio Synods of the Presbyterian church by which it was constituted and in other documents. These materials were compared with statements of Dr. John Robinson, a chief actor in the early history, to whose presentation of the subject reference is made hereafter. The Index can scarcely do greater or more permanent service to the University than by placing upon record such a sketch of the details of its history in the preliminary movements leading to its organization. To the general public this outline may not prove fascinating reading. But it is not devoid of interest and its permanent value can scarcely be questioned. The great tide of Scotch Irish immigration that flowed into South Eastern, Central and Western Ohio from 'Western Pennsylvania and New jersey early in this century, brought with it intense love of learning. These home- educated pioneers remembered the favorite maxim of john Knox,- Put up the school house with the church. Hence schools and academies speedily sprang up here and there throughout this territory. In the South Eastern quar- ter of the State old attachments drew Presbyterian patronage for higher education largely to Jefferson College and Washington College 'in Pennsylvania, already well established, while others, particularly students for the ministry, were attracted to the old Presbyterian College of New Jersey at Princeton. After the division of the Presbyterian church, the New School branch united with the Congregationalists in Marietta, founded 1835, in Southern Ohio, and in Western Reserve College, founded in 1827, at Hudson, in the North Eastern portion of the State. The Presbyterians of the other branch, Old School, had united with the United Presby-