Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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Page Five Denison University, Cranville, Ohio lllllllllllli roreword BEHOLD, we present to you the finished product of all our efforts. The Adytum of 1914. To all its readers we send greetings and hope it will meet all expectations. We have done our best in trying to make it represent every phase of college in both work and play. May it recall to the alumnus happy days spent in his Alma Mater. May the Senior who is gomg away from us receive help and inspiration to great things in life and may he always reflect glory on old Denison. Let the Faculty take this as an appreciation of their efforts in assisting us in the prepara- tion for life ' s battles in the bleak and cruel world. May all who read this book gain some pleasure and enjoyment from it. We have made our mistakes. Try not to judge them harshly. We do not boast of our success, but ask that, in reading this book through, you see the true spirit behind the work and then give us our just deserts. CONTENTS Book I. Faculty and Classes Book 11. Athletics Book IIL Organizations iiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hill mill iiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii mil iiiiii I iiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii nil iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy iiiiiiiiiiiiiii inn ii i iiiiiii i i mil iiiiniiiiin miiiii niiniiiiiiin i mi mmimimmmimmimmimmimmmimmimmmimi iiimimmimmim

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The Nineteen Fourteen Advtum Page Four llllillllllllllliliiiillllilili From the University of Chicago he was called to the chair of Physics in Colby College in the Fall of 1900, but resigned the position a year later to take the chair of Chemistry and Physics in Denison, left vacant by the call of Professor A. D. Cole to Ohio State University. The work in Chemistry, done by an assistant under his oversight, was later separated entirely from his chair leaving him the opportunity to devote his time wholly to Physics. During the latter part of his service in this chair he was Treasurer of the University and upon him fell a great deal of the responsibility of oversight in the rebuilding of Barney Memorial Hall, after its almost complete destruction by fire. He also served as Faculty representative on the Athletic Board and was for a time a member of tiie Granville Council. In 1908, he resighed his position in Denison to accept the chair of Physics in Vassar College, which he held for five years, until his acceptance of the Presidency of Denison during the past Summer. By an arrangement between the authorities of Vassar College and Co- lumbia University, he was permitted to spend a portion of his time in special research in Columbia, and from Columbia he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In addition to his high standing as a physicist and his success as a teacher, the President and Board of Vassar placed a high value upon his administrative ability, and his discriminating appreciation of the conditions and needs of the institution as a whole. From this brief sketch it will be seen that President Chamberlain comes to Denison with a character and training well fitted to justify the confidence which the trustees have placed m him. The Editors of The Adytum take peculiar pleasure in dedicating the issue of this year to President Chamberlain. It is true that a college cannot keep itself rightly in touch with the educational currents of the time without the introduction into its faculty of a fair proportion of men whose undergrade work has been done elsewhere; but when the proper man is forthcoming, there is a great advantage in having an alumnus at the head. President Chamberlain comes to his work with an intimate first-hand knowledge of eveiy department of the institution placed under his care. As a student and later as a professor he has already made the personal acquaintance of a large body of its alumni and former students, its Faculty and its Board. Its traditions are ingrained into his nature. We would not question or depreciate the loyalty and affection which many a man or woman forms in later years for a college other than his own, but every man who has ever had a really normal experience of undergraduate college life will accept without controversy the statement that President Chamberlain is bound to Denison by a tie such as no man forms but once in a lifetime. But if this intimate relation of knowledge, of kinship, of sympathy, is a great advantage, it is still true that others must do their part to get out of these conditions the potential value that lies in them. The AdytUM bespeaks for President Chamberlain a warm-hearted, sympa- thetic and unremitting support on the part of every student and alumnus of Denison. We know that his aim is the solid upward growth of the college on the foundation of all that is good in its past, and even the somewhat selfish consideration of the influence of such growth upon the future value of our present or prospective Denison diplomas would counsel us to lead willing aid to every earnest effort in that direction. But does a Denison student or alumnus need that lower motive? NO! For love of all that Denison has meant to generations of loyal students in the past, for love of all that her name means to us of the present day. The Adytum pledges to President Chamberlain the support of one and all in his every effort to make our Alma Mater even more worthy of our devotion in the years to come. illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliy

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IN the year 1830 at a convention held in Lebanon, Ohio, it was deemed expedient that a Literary and Theological Seminary under the patronage of the regular Baptist denomination of Christians be established in the State of Ohio. In consequence of this, a society was formed for the carrying out of the plan. In October of the same year, a consti- tution was adopted, providing for the organization of an institution for literary and theological instruction which should be located as centrally as possible in Ohio, and inviting propositions and subscriptions for the purpose. When it came to the selection of a site for the institution, some difficulty arose, but Granville was finally selected. Elder Allen Darrow and Charles Sawyer of Granville took upon themselves the responsibility of offering a farm site near this village for the institution, although the funds for the purpose had not nearly all been subscribed. This eligible offer, the central location and the New England characteristics of Granville turned the scale decidedly in favor of that location. The farm site selected for the Granville Literary and Theological Institution, as it was first named, is situated about one mile southwest of Granville on the Columbus road. A large brick dwelling house on the premises was subjected to repairs and some additions put to it and this was to serve as the first college building. Such was the beginning of our college. With its slender resources and primitive equipment, it had a wealth of potential manhood and a fine spirit of achievement. A great crisis came in the college affairs with the burning of the college building in the Spring of 1832. When the fire swept away the nearly completed building they were not merely without a college building and without insurance, but had even a deficit of twenty-three hundred dollars in payment for the farm which had been thought wholly provided for But what made the affair particularly heart-breaking was the conviction which was generally held by the trustees that the origin was incendiary. Fortunately, however, the college was again put on its feet by subscriptions which helped it to start anew. In 1854 the name of the college was changed to that of Denison University, in honor of William S. Denison, donor of ten thousand dollars. Two years later this institution was removed from the farm to the present site on College Hil . That same year saw the building of the west dormitory known as Marsh H all, at a cost of twenty-five thousand dol- lars The year 1864 was an eventful one in the history of the college also. At this time, the university was re-incor- porated, thirty-six trustees to be members of good standing in Ohio Baptist churches. Between 1864 and 186 . the first permanent endowment, one hundred thousand dollars, was raised through the leadership of Ebenezer 1 hresher of Dayton.