Cornell College - Royal Purple Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IA)

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written in the hearts of those other thousands who did not attain to the formal honors of graduation, but who attained in college halls the greater boon of inspiration and courage for 'the battle of life? Beyond the public life, to its inspiring support and inspiration in the home life, the curious eye of the stranger may not see. But to one who knew Margaret lVIcKell in Chillicothe, Ohio, in the olden days, this sketch would be incomplete without at least her name, just as the life of President King would have been incomplete without the sunny cheerfulness and child-like faith, and beautiful flavor of hospitality, that she brought to his home. To her President King was married in August, 1865. One child, the beautiful Lucy Hayes King, gladdened their home with infant prattle and childish innocence for a dozen years, and then one little year ago exchanged the uncertain possibilities of a sinstained earth for the many mansions in Ouif Heavenly Father's house, where the Lord God shall wipe away the tears from all faces. To these stricken hearts, the one bowed beneath the crushing weight of sorrow, the other carry- ing in concealment the pain of private grief in order to be faithful to the path of public duty, go up ten thousand prayers that they may have strength to endure, as seeing Him who is invisible, until the Angel of the Resurrection shall roll away the stoiie from the door of earth's myriad sepulchers, and until the Voice that once flashed across the darkness of earthly sorrow may again gladden the hearts of all earth's sorrowing millions with all the quickening power and glory of the old acclaim, He is not here. He is risen. HUGH Bovo.

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that a man's effecftive pulpit power begins to wane at fifty years of age, it has been remarked by Dr. King's friends that his ability as an effective public speaker, has very materially increased since he has reached the age of fifty years. Thus it may be seen that a great purpose, worthily assumed and unflinchingly followed, is a perennial fountain of mental and moral vigor. In r87o, President King received frpm the Illinois Wesleyan University, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1887 he received from his Alma Mater, the Ohio Wesleyan University the degree of Doctor of Laws. The latter degree was also conferred at the same time by the State University of Iowa. t While Dr. King has thus been honored, both at home and abroad, it is worthy not only of in- cidental mention, but of constant iteration, that he has never used his position as a vantage ground to bring any promotion or honor to himself. He has not looked beyond his allotted duties in anti- cipation of reaching any higher place. Doubtless he has wisely thought that there is no higher place and no larger work. Be this as it may, he has never wavered in his evident purpose to build up and endow a successful christian college. To this one end he has devoted all his energies with a con- stancy that has never wavered, and a vigilance thatihas never slept. Withal he does not hold the position which he occupies either for the honor or the emoluments connected therewith. Certainly not for the emoluments of the office, for he serves the, Church and the State at a less compensation than any other man is known to do in a position of equal import- ance and dignity. He has never made his own compensation a matter of stipulation, and, whenever the affairs of the' College have been such as to demand retrenchment anywhere, the President is always the first to propose that his own inadequate salary shall be diminished, and diminished in greater ratio than that of any one else. And just as certainly, while he appreciates the honor of holding the headship of a prosperous college, he does not hold it for that honor alone. First, in 1873, and since that on several occasions, he has felt that he might lay down his work and formally tendered his resignation to the Board of Trustees. just as often his resignation has been unanimously declined. Thus he continues with us unto this day in simple obedience to his Lord's command, Occupy till I come. The History of his life is in a great measure the history of Cornell College, and is it not all written in the hearts of the hundreds of alumni who have been trained for honor and usefulness, and who have already, even at this early day, attained by scores and hundreds to positions of fair eminence in church and in state, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Golden Gate? Is it not ! I-

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6 ,CD . QXQJ .19 x ,QQ 2 f o f Q, SN - afrrzette QQXGXSQIQ, 65 Quik? Jw' X PROFESSOR HARRIETTE J. COOKE was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire. She is a descendant of the Puritans. In her ancestry four nationalities are represented, the English, Irish, Scotch, and French. Through her father she is related to the Adams family, whose characteristics, in some respects, she has inherited. When very young she imbibed the good old New England belief that a thorough education was the best of fortunes, and the greatest of helps to a life of usefulness. In 1853 she graduated at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary-now 'l'ilden College. As there were no colleges open to women in those days-:mf our-in all this land, she was obliged to gather what learning she could from the various schools and seminaries accessible to her, supplemented by aid from private instructors. She entered Cornell College as a teacher, in 1857,-its opening year. She was then a young woman possessing an innate ambition to excel in whatever she undertook to do? Her character was well adapted to aggressive and reformatory work, having in it the decidedly marked combination of strength and tender womanly sympathy. These qualities were much need- ed at that time in the genesis of this rapidly developing west. Prior to her coming to Cornell College she had been a successful teacher in the state of Massachussetts, in some of the thorough training schools for Harvard, Amherst, Dartmouth and other great colleges of the east. She was fully up with the times in the best methods of instruction and mental discipline required in those centers of learning. Having been born to her chosen life work, she has never failed to bear an en- viable reputation as a more than ordinarily successful educator. She has especially had stamped on her soul-as if by divine impress-a desire to assist in the higher education of woman. She has always been irresistibly impelled to earnest efforts in this direction from a profound conviction that it is only by intellectual and moral culture the world can be raised from the degrading influences of