Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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J orewor6 THE Annual of 1909. We offer it for your pleasure, your profit and your criticism. We wish to take this opportunity of expressing our appreciation of the kindly interest and aid of Dr. Hunt and many other friends in the preparation and publication of this book. It has been our aim to touch all the phases of College life. We send it out without apology and with the hope that friends and Alumni will find many things of interest and that the students as they glance through these pages may be enabled to live over again the experiences of the past. The Editor.

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To Ambrose Swaze , sq., A man who is showing his faith and interest in Denison by his works. A business man luhose eyes business has not dimmed to the need of others.

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iDeRbORs 5 atio of pro vdss AUGUSTINE S. CARMAN IF Denison ' s progress for the coming decade or quarter century were to be reckoned at the rate for its first generation it would seem to us a snail ' s pace. If the ratio of progress for the past decade be taken as the index of future the record will be something to be proud of. But if, as has been the case hitherto, the ratio of progress itself be in the future an accelerating one, the Uemson of coming generations will be a magnificent thing. Denison is seventy-eight years old, and there has been no year or period of its whole career when worthy deeds have not been accomplished and noble men helped to a fitness for life. But there are notable respects in which the past decade has seen more of progress almost than the two entire generations of its previous history. 1 his progress is not as striking in every direction, and it requires special research into the records to show how great the advance movement has been, but it is marked in the direction of numbers, of strengthened curriculum, of material resources and of mcreasmg radius of influence. I. Denison s Progress in Numbers. To realize what progress has actually been made in numbers, one must consider the college proper. The catalogue of a few years ago made a brave showing in names until one sat down to analyze it and found how large a proportion of the names represented prepar- atory work or work unconnected with the college curriculum It is a startling thing to find that there were never one hundred men altogether in the college classes of Denison until about 1802. This was of course, before Shepardson College became an integral part of the University but the graduates of Shepardson from its first college classes in 1890 to 1893 were but three,one, one and two for the four classes By 1898 there were 180 enrolled in the college classes. But m 1908 there were 393. This increase in college numbers in fifteen years from one hundred to nearly four hundred is a remark- able one. 1 hese numbers include with the regular classes the elec- tive or special students who have at the time of issuing the catalogues no regular classification. If for the sake of accurate comparison of distinctively collegiate work we take only the numbers in regular classes from Freshmen to Seniors, including a few residem graduate page seven