DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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In September, 1839, the first regular faculty, under the presidency of the Rev. Matthew Simpson, ofered instruction to the student body of eleven. The corner stone of the original college building tnow West Collegej had been laid in 1837 and the University toolf possession in 1840. Thus was initiated the long and useful career of Indiana Asbury. The history of the institution and its possibilities of service have been dominated by its struggle for funds. It should be remembered that every dollar of the University's capital investment in campus buildings, equipment and endowment has come as a voluntary gift. The fees paid by students from the beginning have not been more than half of the cost upon the University for instructional purposes. In 1883 long continued financial stress threatened its continued operation. At this time Washington C. DePauw began his notable benefactions to the University and, over his protest, Indiana Asbury gave may to DePauw University. Through large and small gifts from many friends the institution has grown until now the campus has eighteen buildings and the productive endowment is approximately three million dollars. However, the University today faces a critical problem, a problem created by its constantly increasing student body. The financial resources of the institution have grown but the student body has grown faster. Moreover the purchasing power of the University's income has materially declined. The educational ideal has been that of a high grade college emphasizing instruction in small classes where the instructor has an opportunity to study the personal problem presented by each student and to bring out the best in that student. With the present large student body, and a faculty limited in number by the financial inability of the University to employ more, the students are forced into large classes and the possibilities of individual attention to each student fades to a mini- mum. With its present fnancial resources, the University has already passed the limits of safe expansion. As it was in the beginning, so it is now, growth has forced upon the University a ceaseless search for funds with which to meet in adequate degree the increasing demands of its constituency. ' W. W. CARSON

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InMem01fia1n.Q N Sunday morning, December 7, DePauw University suffered a great loss. At that time there passed into the greater life beyond the soul of Professor joseph Tomsett Dobell. The grief to the campus and to the entire University was universal-faculty, townspeople, alumni, and students joined in the last services of tribute to his sterling character and his life of service. Thousands of alumni and friends who were unable to attend the last rites bowed their heads in grief over the death of a man whose life was one that well could be patterned by any. Professor Dobell was one of the oldest men in the University. Graduating from De Pauw in 1874, he immediately became associated with the neld of education and for the next thirty years was principal and teacher in many high schools, including Gosport, Newcastle, Green- town, Evansville, and Atchison, Kansas. In 1901 he was called by his alma mater to act as instructor in the DePauw academy: At the same time he also assumed charge of the Registrafs office in the Uni- versity. It is in the latter position that we remember him best. He became so closely associated with the students in matters of grades, absences, deficiencies, and graduating troubles of all lfinds that he can never be forgotten by those who came within close and lfindly touch with him. Franlg almost to a fault, but big hearted and lgind to an excess, Dobey presented a picture that will ever be remembered. Professor Dobell had a most dynamic and forceful spirit. Long before the office of the Registrar opened oficially one could find him laboring in his o17iceg long after the office closed he still was at his job. An indominatable forcefulness, a true conception of responsibility, an almost idol worship to franlffulness, integrity, hope, ambition, and truth-these are inseparable from a picture of Dobey. But our tribute becomes futile, and words form inadequate reflections of him. Dean Edwin Post pays him a compliment and at the same time enables us to see Professor Dobell as one who has been associated with him for more than two decades would estimate the rnan. He says: 1 have lfnown Professor T. Dobell oficially since 1901. 1 came to have a great appreciation of his untiring industry and faith- fulness to duty. He had a high ideal of what was expected of him as a registrar, so much so that he seemed at times to students to be unduly insistent. ln personal intercourse he was very lgind-hearted, while officially he felt that he could not do too much for his Alma Mater.