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

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R O 13 cz li -P U 2' p l Q 1859 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1869 1871 1872 1873 1876 COR N ELFCCLLEGE Samuel Mcflatfey Fellows elected President. Enlistment of a large 11umber of students in Company K, First Iowa In- fantry, Companies A and F, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, and in smaller numbers in other commands of Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery. Enlistment of a large number ot' students in Company F, Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and in smaller numbers in several other organizations and in the U. S. Navy. Professor W. F. King comes to Cornell as professor of Latin and Greek. Death of President Fellows. Professor King made Acting-President. Enlistment of a large number of students in Company D, Forty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and in other commands. Fund of 314,000 raised for the education of disabled soldiers and soldiers' orphans. Professor and Acting-President King elected President. Library contains 600 volumes. Department for Painting and Drawing founded. Colored students admitted. Library 3800 volumes. First issues of the Collegian published. tLater known as the Graphic, the Breeze, and finally as the Cortnellian.J Miltonian Literary Society founded. i Engineering Department founded by Hon. D. N. Cooley ot' Dubuque. Aesthesian Literary Society founded. Military Drill established. Boarding Ilall for men built fnow South I-Iallj. June 22-Corner stone of chapel laid. Star Literary Society founded Know Zetagathianl. fl I In 10

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R o 3? of Z P 4 2 r p J Q. I. ,...... .. I, , f -V f. Y f,f'4.A-3.4 .A X 3 1 1 .5 Biztnriral Summarg nf Qlinrnell Qlinllegz 1851 Rev. George B. Bowman begins to raise funds to build Cornell College. 1852 July 4-Ground broken for Seminary Building fnow Science Halll. September 29-Iowa Conference Male and Female Seminary accepted by the Iowa Conference at Burlington, and the first trustees appointed. 1853 November 14-Seminary Building completed and occupied CSeminary had opened in September in the Methodist Church which stood on the site of the present High School buildingl. FirstPrincipal of the Seminary, Samuel McGa1fey Fellows, A. M. Amphictyon Literary Society founded. 1854 Catalogue of 1853-54 published. September 20-Trustees of Seminary resolved That a subscription be put in circulation for a college edifice . 1855 March 20--Trustees appointed a committee to draft articles of incorpora- tion for College. July 12-Name changed from Iowa Conference to Cornell College. 1856 July 4-Corner stone of new College Building laid. 1857 July 8-Rev. Richard W. Keeler elected President of Cornell College. Hamline Professorship of Belles Lettrcs and History established. December-Main Hall completed and dedicated. Philomathean Literary Society founded. 1858 First class graduated on first Exhibition Day . Adelphian Literary Society founded. 1 fl Y Q1 if 9

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R 0 3? cz Z P zz 2' gn f c 1878 1882 1885 1888 1892 1898 1899 1901 1904 1908 Department of Music enlarged, becoming the Conservatory of Music. Chapel dedicated, at the time of the quarter-centennial. First teacher in elocution employed. Full length portrait of Dr. Bowman obtained. Bowman Hall built. Alethean, Clionian, Gladstone, and Irving Societies founded. The Sibylline fthe first college annual in Iowaj published. Ash Park purchased. Military Drill discontinued because of the Spanish-American Weir and the withdrawal of officer. King Society founded. First May Festival. First College Bulletin issued. Aonian Society founded. Semi-centennial held. Library built. Resignation of President King. Dr. James Elliot Harlan elected President. Gymnasium built. 1912 3500.000 endowment raised. ' 1913 Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the founding of Cornell Col- lege. 1914 Resignation of President Harlan. I 'J 1 , . 11 .