DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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What They Say About It W110 GAVE THE NEW l 1ALF-1111LLIONF The best and only fair full answer to that question would be, tiliive thousand very gen- erous friends of DePanw University. Their contributions ranged between fifty cents to twenty-five thousand dollars. M 1's. Frances M. DePanw, widow of the generous patron whose name the Uni- versity is prowl to bear, matle the first subscription, $10,000. Mrs. Ann M. Studebaker, widow of another liberal patron of precious memory, made a like subscription of $10,000. The Methodist preachers of ,lndiana subscribed $73000, and by that heroic sacri- fice inspired a long line of generous givers in the Churches. Alumni from near and far responded to the call of Alma lilater in a way to make her oltl heart warm and young: The Board of Trustees texactly half of them are alnninil gave more than $100,000. Mein- bers of the Faculty are on the list for $6,300, and students in attendance last year and this, have made the splendid aggregate subscription of $10,076, distributed by classes as follows: Class of 1911 ...... $2700 Class Of 1914 ...... $1.046 Class of 1912 ...... 31770 Class of 1915 ...... 714 Class of 1913 ...... 1250 Academy .......... 596 SALEM R, Tow N. JOHN CLARK eran Sun: tllf lndiana Nlethmlism has any one duty which is inexorable, it is to rebuild, and build high, the ramparts of DePauw University. This is a great truth uttered near a score of years since, and while there have been many dark days for the University covering that period, yet today light is breaking and the future 01 old Dellauw as a leader in the educa- tional world is assuredethat great ntteranee will soon be a fact. The one imperative demand of the church is high inspiring leadership and such leadership must come from the Christian colleges, Page eight Delflanw, with a million endowment will now enter into a new life and the time and worry in the past by the Board of Trustees as to how to make ends meet. will be given to direction which will redountl t0 the benefit of the student body. TO say there was no misgivings by the Board Of Trustees when we entered into the work of raising so large a sum would be far from the mark, and while the task was a hard one we ate all glad of 0111 part in it. ' HUGH Dmrmuck'rv. The Campaign for the l'lwlall Million Dollars additional lin- dowment for HOltl DePanw was courageously, hopefully and pelt sistently made. It was without blare of trumpets 01' waving of banners. The work was done in a personal every day ianvass. so quietly conducted that many of the good and loyal friends of the University feared the outcome; but on January Erst, nineteen hun- tlted and twelve, when the bells rang out the Ultl Year, and joyously rang in the New. there was added joy and rejoicing at DePanm for lfive Hundred and Forty-liive Thousand Dollars had been secured, and the victory had come. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done 3 . There are thousands to prophesy lfailnre :, There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. :lnt. just lbnekle in' with a bit of grin, Just take off your coat and lgo at it 2' Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing: That tcannot be ilone' and you'll do it. CYRUS ll. XVlmn.

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Those F ew Words 9 1 HE MIRAGE is the year book of De pauw University. It is issued annually by a board . of editors elected from the Junior Class and contains a complete record of the collegiate year. The first MIRROR appeared in May, 1884, published by editors elected from the T '1 student body at large- With the next issue, in 1886, the name was changed to the W MIRAGE. The 1886 book was a Junior publication and it has remained as such to the , present year- in 1908 the SOMBRERO appeareci, a Senior venture. Since 1905 an annual has been published regularly. At present, the staff of editors numbers thirtywne, representing the fourteen departments into which the editing work is divided. 1n presenting this, the 1912 MIRAGE, the class of 1913 feels that it has not fallen below the high standard set by its predecessors. 1ndeed,just as hitherto, each annual has been superior to the previous one, the 1912 MIRAGE will, it is hoped, he found to be a fitting climax to the long list- Most notable events have been stamped upon De Pauw's history during the past year- The unbounded success of the great Endowment Campaign will go down as an unprecedented tepoch in our chronicles. We, the editors, are deeply indebted to Dr. H. A. Gobin for his kindness in mirroring to our readers De Pauw's Beginning, where he so skillfully portrays those facts in the embyronic history of our institution which we ever cherish. Many unforseen obstacles have arisen in the work of compiling the present annual, and for help in surmounting these the editors thank their many friends- Page seven

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Hy HIE older aml more distinguished an institution becomes the greater is the interest attached to its beginning. The new'era in the history of DePanw. signalized by the victory in the en- dmvment eaiirpuign, leads us to hark back to the simple and humble origin 01 the University. The progress of the institution can be traced by a sketch of the men who were prominent in its organization and early career. The first name to attract our attention is that of Robert Richford Roberts, commonly known as Bishop Roberts. He was the sixth Bishop, countingr Bishop Coke the first. of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. He was elected at the General Conference held in Baltimore in 1816. With his family he came to Tndiana in November. 1819, and settled on the old farm in Lawrence County, and lived in it primitive log cabin. Notwithstanding the pi'ivzltions of his early life, Hishop Rolr el'ts was an earnest student, a diligent reader, a tine organizer and a preacher of great power. He was, perhaps, the leading: spirit in promoting the establishment of a Methodist university in Indiana. He was the first President of the Board of 'Iitistees. t. .. WV: uns Beginnin L IWI DR. HILLARY A. GOIJIN .rl it A mtvmy N Out of his limited means he gave $100.00 in the first endowment campaign. Then an ettort was made to secure a larger foundae tion by the sale of perpetual scholarships at $100.00 each. In the Life of Roberts. by Dr. Charles Elliott, this allusion is made to his relation to the University: ttHis interest in the Universityandhisardetitdesires for its success continued to the last. 011 his deathbed, after providing for his faithful wife, pay- ing his debts and providing for some poor relatives, he made the University his first residnary legzitee. There is an example of poetic justice in the fact that the remains of the good Bishopaml his wife rest in the oldest campus of the university. 0in the unpretentious monument there is in- scribed an epitaph written by Bishop Smile. He could not have desired a more honorable resting place than in the scene of his most productive labor, and where an endless procession of stur dents will he pasuing his grave for unnumbered years to come. Not the least of the many great services of Bishop Roberts was the fact that he was ehieHy instrumental in the election of Matthew Simpson, PFOfCSSOY of Atlathematies in Allegheny Cole loge, as the Ilitst President of this institutimi. President Simpson Page nine