DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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The Future 0 DePauw HE future of DePauw University has never been brighter than it is today. It is full of hope and challenge. The stage of development for the near future gives promise of fruitful maturity. While no great gifts of money, such as have built a college in a dayn are forthcoming, yet rich increment of a faithful past is paying divi- dends more valuable than silver or gold. The outlines of the past are clear and distinct. The religious consecration of the foundersg the financial crises which made the college strong with each succeeding struggle: the unselfish service of devoted teachers whose rewards were greater than their compen- ationsg the advance in standards of scholarship among the members of the faculty and the studenisg the enviable records made by our students in graduate schools: the practical, value of more than 12000 former students and graduates now engaged in the taslfs of! life and the superior leadership of the presidents and loyal trustees and visitorsf these but augur a bright and hopeful future. The future, is, perhaps, more luminous than distinct. The struggles of the past have been rewarded. The serious demands for funds have been met by generous gifts. The earnest desire for a suficient number of serious students has been fulfilled. The em- barrassment of success in this respect, malges the policies of the college less clear. ff the college should expand into a great university having schools for the training of professional, industrial, commercial pursuits, it could have no better foundation upon which to build. Its integrity is strong enough to warrant the confidence and gifts of favored men and women who build the most enduring memorials by their investments in the training of christian scholars. If a college will confine itself to the intensive training of the liberal arts, young men and women should receive here the very best foundation for a christian education upon which superior professional training can be built in the best graduate schools at home or abroad. Moreover, the strongest possible faculty should be secured composed of men who are thoroughly trained and informed in their subjects. As in the past, DePauw should have great teachers whose personality and information are alilge inspiring. There should be a sufficient number of teachers to afford the personal association between teacher and disciple, which is the indispensable element in great teaching. The compensations should be suficient not only to secure and hold good teachers, but sufficient to leave them un- hampered for research and contribution in their own field. lu ten years the enrollment has more than doubled. The classroom facilities have been increased but slightly. It is painfully obvious that a larger number of students cannot be received with the present limitations in teaching stab' and material equipment. The limitation of students is inescapable, but how, and who shall be excluded? Per- haps careful selection of the very best prospective students by loyal alumni in every state will do much to advance the quality of the student body. If the future depends upon business and administrative leadership, then confidence and success are clearly defined for the days ahead. President Lemuel Herbert Murlin, a native of the Middle West, a graduate and afterwards a teacher in De Pauw, trained for thirty years in college administration brings to his Alma Mater the rich and mature experience which even his successful predecessors did not possess. DePauw has the opportunity of being sone of the great denominational college standing for christian scholarship and service. The brightness of the future will become even more clear and distinct with the promise of success as we proceed courageously and faifhfully- -W. HENRY MCLEAN.

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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.

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Oar Bishops N the history of DePauw University, five of its presidents have been called to the bishopric of the Metliodist Episcopal Church. Five men, marlfed by their exceptional brilliance in the field of college education and by their position lfnown as leaders in that field, were nominated to spheres of even more outstanding usefulness. After first honor- ing these men by the presidency of a great institution, the Methodist Church recognized their excellence by the highest ranlf that it can confer. ln the elevation of these men to the episcopate, DePauw has been done even greater honor, for as surely as the presidents labored and toiled for this university, so surely did they leave the stamp of their character upon it. So, in recognition of their important part in the history of DePauw, in appreciation of their splendid service and devotion to this school, and in aclgnowledgement of their character as men of worth, we include in this volume the portraits of DePauw's bishop-presidents. Dr. Matthenz Simpson came to Greencastle in 1839 as the first president of Indiana Asbury University. Under his administration, the young school thrived and became firmly established as an educational institution. In 1848 Dr. Simpson left his position to become editor of the Western Christian Advocate and was elected a bishop in 1852. He was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, and when the Great Emancipator met his- death, conducted his funeral services. In 1859, Thomas Bowman was called to the presidency of Old Asbury from Williarnsport Dielginson Seminary. Through the troubled days of the Civil War, he piloted the yet uncertain college and successfully defended it against the competition of numerous other small Indiana colleges. He was elected bishop in 1872 and became senior bishop in 1884. Edwin Holt Hughes came to the academic chair from the Methodist Church of hdalden, Massachusetts, in 1908. He held degrees from Ohio Wesleyan, Boston, and Syracuse Universities. It was under the leadership of President Hughes that DePauw came to be one of the strongest institutions in the state. In 1908, he became a bishop. Bishop Hughes is the author of a number of boolgs and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Delta Tau Delta. Francis fohn Mccoiinell graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1894, and after receiving his S. T. B. degree from Boston University in 1897, held several pastor- ates in Massacliusetts and New Yorlf. He was chosen as president of DePauw, in 1909, and after only three years in Greencastle, was elected to the episcopacy. Bishop Mcconriell is also the author of several boolgs. Dr. George Richmond Grose came to DePauw from a pastorate in Baltimore, in 1912. He had received degrees from Ohio Wesleyan and Boston University. During his twelve years in Greencastle, Dr. Grose labored zealouslyg perhaps one of his greatest accomplishments was the completion of the million dollar endowment fund in 1923. The distinguished educator was made a bishop in 1924. Among the several boolfs of which he is author is the Life of Francis Asbury, which recently appeared. Bishop Grose is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.