DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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A $111111 itliahirg nf 532135111111 ' o E PAUVV UNIVERSITY is a child of the Circuit-Riders. ' Though most of these early pioneer preachers were men of little education, as far as the schools g0, yet they had a deep appreciation of the need of schools and colleges, and' no group of men in the history of America have done more for education. It is signihcant that Indiana Asbury was born in the very year of the great panic, When banking and commercial houses were failing on every hand. But the Circuit-Riders, accustomed as they were to harde ships, were not affected by the failures about them. The men who guided the infant years of Indiana Asbury were men who knew not What failure was. And so it was that Bishop Robert R. Roberts, Allen Wiley, C 'W. Ruter and James Armstrong, with their colleagues con- ceived a dream and that dream began to come true in 1837 when Cyrus Nutt started instruction in the old town Seminary in the village of Greencastle. And then came Matthew Simpson, that prince of preachers. and with him W. C. Larrabee, the founder of Indianak Public School system. And through those early years the College grew, her grad- uates were soon found in every useful walk of life, and her fame began to be spread abroad. Matthew Simpson was called to a higher task in 1848 and during the next ten years Lucian W. Berry and Daniel Currey were at the helm. In 1858 came Thomas Bowman. and for fourteen years, through the dark days of Civil War, he stood steady and held firm, speeding on their way to war two companies of students, though the number left behind were few. 3y the year 1870, forty- seven ministers. three missionaries, ten college presidents, twenty pro- fessors. hfty-nine physicians. one hundred and twenty nine lawyers, and one hundred and twenty-one in Other useful callings had gone forth. Following the Civil W ar came a period of rapid growth. Genen ous donors made possible new buildings and expanding usefulness. Thomas Bowman was called to higher Church leadership, Reuben An- -;;.,; .Wwiwwe Page Eighteen