DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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DR. HILARY A. GOBIN Vice-President of DePauw University J J

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Historical Sketch of DePauw University A brief sketch of DeI'auw L'niversity may well begin with a reference to the city in which it is located. The first white man who lived on the present site of Greencastle was Epliraim Dukes, who entered land here in l82l and built the first house on what is now the northeast corner of College Avenue and VVashington Street. Ile donated land for the town site on condition that it should become the County Seat. He came from Greencastle, Pennsylvania, and named the town after his former home. lt has been found that Greencastle, Pennsylvania, was named after Greencastle, Ireland, which is no mean city, when its ivy clad castle and surrounding scenery are taken into account. In this respect our Greencastle is a worthy grand-daughter of her Irish fore-mother. It had become the policy of the leaders in lvlethodism both in lingland and in this country to establish schools for higher education. In many instances the zeal of the fathers in this direction was more praiseworthy in motive than in achievement. Some hopeful beginnings of schools had been made in the older conferences, as for instance at liast Greenwich, R. I., Meadville, lla., and Middle- town, Conn. In this state the movement took definite form in 1835 when the In- diana Conference comprised all of Indiana and part of Illinois. A committee was raised, consisting of Allen Wiley, Calvin W. Ruter, and james Armstrong, to consider and report to the Conference on the advisability of projecting 21 Sem- inary or College. The report of this committee contains some very interesting expressions. Notwithstanding our limited space we will quote it in full as given in the journal of the Conference: Deeming, next to the religion of the Son of God, the lights of Science best calculated to lessen human woe and to increase the snm of human happiness, and having learned from observation and information that where superior schools and colleges are neglected ordinary schools are almost universally in a langnid state, and many persons live and die without any educa- tion, we, therefore, report that a Seminary or College, under good literary and moral regulations, would be of incalculable beneht to our people, and reconimend the establislnnent of such an institution. The report was adopted and other coni- mittees were appointed to raise funds. select a location and a name for the new institution of learning. The contest over the question of location was very interesting, The principal competitors were Rockville, Greencastle and Indianapolis. VVhen it seemed certain that the last named would obtain the prize a motion was adopted that the decision 23 I