Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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H I S T O R Y to seek a more certain income. VV 'V I VV ' ifnfzis He was succeeded in 1860 by -V V5 , ing, f Y iii , Herman Merrills johnson, for , JV ,LQ V 5- A 5 7 ten years a member of the 4' V i V ,V ' VVjg gt . ' QV faculty. J gf L V l1VVl. l President Johnson met a 1 V LV. . Xqfggg V VVV 5,-'Vi crisis. The scholarship sale plan, . I V VVVVGV H, 1,14 1 a legacy from Collins' time, rose ll Il :li g?g,j1.,3Vg to plague the new man. Within . -slr L wif, .l- -' --'-' 'TT V V S , a year the Civil War broke and V' f 'A V . I ' ' 1 H at once the Southern students .. . ,- V 31. V ' V VV vgthdlrew. dEn1!olment declinegil f N A , . .f-1-,F s ar y an I was su este . - V T - thatpthe College close. if few - .ff a - .Zs-..- A. ' -'fi' :gee-3 more years found Dickinson with professors' salaries unpaid, with debts impending, with inf come diminishing. In 1866, how' ever, a brighter outlook for the College was brought by the Centenary of American Methodism. Donations from the Church increased the endowment of the College and the decreasing enrolment was checked. just as the prospect cleared, Johnson died. He had fought a good fight- and he had won. EAST COLLEGE Amour 1875, SHOWING THE PAGODA EIIECTED IN THE TIME or PRESIDENT DASHIELL After the brief fourfyear administration of Robert Laurenson Dashiell, remarkable only for certain minor material improvements and a host of student troubles, james Andrew McCauley was elected fourteenth president of the College. His sixteenfyear administration was to be the most progressive the College had known. The enrolment, which had declined dangerously in the years following the Civil War, gradually climbed again to normal. The endowment of the College in McCauley's term reached three hundred thousand dollars. After a suspension of eight years the Grammar School, descendant of the one which the Scotchflrish settlers of Carlisle had founded in 177 3, was revived. With the 'introduction of a modern language course Latin and Greek ceased to be required for admission into the College. West and East College buildings were thoroughly renovated and South College was encased with brick. Jacob Tome, a trustee, presented a scientific building in 1884. Mrs. james W. Bosler erected a library and chapel hall in memory of her husband and Lemuel R. Woodin anonymously donated a gymnasium to the College. A significant step was taken in 1884, when, after consideration of eight years, Dickinson was made coeduca' tional. D e s p i t e these lengthy strides forward McCauley was opposed. Shortly after his com' ing to Dickinson the Collegz had been split over the probably unjust removal of three mem' bers of the faculty. One of th: wronged men remained in Carl' isle, outspoken in justifying himself, active in winning chamf pions. The affair divided stu' WEST COLLEGE ABOUT 1870 Nineteen F , ' .ix 1 -' was . ' f 1- f ' ,. ' if . I ' 'a'.- 1 D T : 11 '- , J- sf.: , , .,' 7 ' - 'VW 51 : I .fl- I . L1l'l . I llfI. VM n..A 'T' 1' V '. 'L-J' Ali- : 4, l Q V lt' . LL' ll f jf 1 'VI' Af ' .l l - I I If f 'f , I .I bn . I .w - l 1 fi- , V.. sy g I , 'IV' -, ll' . , l,,1,f' , I , Q 5 I 'ff' - I. lj' f ' - -I Rf, Y 1' l' jf, V ai-In 'V I,- V -, If -1: .I ' ,, 4' 4 ' ,f-S 1 H I,--'J' of I , , r - , JL, I 1 J I. XX F.,-,, '- ff . -. I - -5,---. , I , ,ff N ..' . 4 , ,, -V X 'll X f ...d x I A , .f I, es. v ' I-, ff-, aw R fr- 5 Q, 1 ' '- , ' -. 1 . NC , ' , J' ' ,.,'.' f ' I I ', gi . :ii 'x' ' I . x V, V , V . .. V Q .I V , V . ,. I 'P' f ' f 7--1..l.a..+, L4-,, ,, ,V x. 1 I Y ' g' Y Y l

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J H I S T O R Y . of the College the president of the Board of Trustees and giving the faculty complete authority over problems of A discipline. In September, 1834, the College opened. Dickinf V son had been rescued from certain extinction and by wise 4 changes in its government was assured of a healthier existence than it had known. ' A faculty unequalled in the history of the College and probably unexcelled in any college of the day was assembled. John Price Durbin, thirtyfthree year olll Kentuckian, success' sively a cabinetfmaker, itinerant preacher, honor graduate at Cincinnati College, professor of languages at Augusta College, chaplain of the United States Senate, and editor of The Christian Advocate, was president. Young Merritt SOUTH COLLEGE ABOUT Caldwell, whose promising life was cut short by death, boy' 1870 ish Robert Emory, a beautiful soul, destined to succeed to the presidencyg twentyftwo year old john McClintock, soon to make a high reputation as an author of classical grammars and long to be remembered by the Negroes of Carlisle-if without sufficient cause-as their champion in an anti' slavery riot of 1847g and Wilham Henry Allen, inspiring teacher of the sciences, fated to become iirst president of Girard College, composed the faculty of the invigorated institution. They were great men, a peerless group, towering mightily in the minds of those who came under their influence. Their students in later years mentioned their names with a respect akin to awe and they lacked words to express the true moral and intellectual grandeur of their old professors. ' Durbin's elevenfyear regime saw an enlargement of the material resources of the College. The abandoned Theological School of the German Reformed Church in Carlisle was bought by the Trustees and after its destruction by iire was rebuilt as South College. The interior construction of West College was completed. East College was erected in 183 7. W Upon Durbin's resignation in 1845 the Trustees selected as his successor Robert Emory, a member of the faculty since the reorganization of the College. Sickness weakened the man and death cut short in 1848 what might have proved a brilliant administration. The next president, Jesse Truesdell Peck, who had received his educaf tional experience in secondary schools, was not fitted for the work before him and his adminis' tration, in consequence, was perplexed with stu' dent disorders. Charles Collins, succeeding after four years, enforced his authority over the stu' dents, acquiring among them the reputation of a disciplinarian and winning, if not their affection, surely their respect. A foolish scholarship sale plan, by which it was proposed to increase the endowment of the College, had been adopted by the Trustees shortly before Collins' coming. It was left to the new president to struggle with this illfconsidered scheme which, launched at a time when the College was prospering, had as i its immediate result the decreasing of income from tuition fees. Collins might have remained at his post to pilot the College through this storm ,N 1929 had not the demands of a large family caused him LovER's LANE, ALONG THE EASTERN WALI. OF THB CAMPUS, ERASED Eighteen 1-v??- V -

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3539 H I S T O R Y dents, faculty, alumni, and townspeople into two camps. Although nominally ' T' closed, the question smouldered for ten - years, when it burst out with renewed vigor. As president during these trying times, McCauley was exposed to jealousy and open hostility. Wearied by the at- tacks of an outspoken opposition, he resigned the presidency in 1888. In choosing McCauley's successor, the Trustees went far afield and selected for their president the most eloquent and A - Powerful Pfeaehef in Northern M2510-' FIRST ATHLETIC FIELD, WEST LOUTHBR AND dism, George Edward Reed. The win- CHERRY STREETS, ACQUIRED IN 1890 ning personality, the tireless zeal, and the huge abilities of the man brought immediate results. The enrolment jumped to dizzy heights and a program of expanf sion unparalleled was undertaken. An athletic field was secured in the new president's Hrst year and the old home of Judge John Reed, first professor of law in the College, was purchased as the presidents mansion. A woman's dormitory was bought in 1895 and in the same year Denny Hall was erected on land donated by the Denny family of Pittsburgh. Conway Hall was built in 1904 and Denny Hall, destroyed by fire in the same year, was rebuilt at once solely through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie. Although his early dream of university status for Dickinson never materialized, Reed did establish under William Trickett the School of Law, a continuation of the profes- sorship of law held by john Reed from 1834 to 1850 and by James Hutchinson Graham from 1862 to 1882. The twentyftwofyear administration was without parallel but the very expansion was dangerous, for in failing to increase the endowment of the College, Reed had made a fatal mistake. The result of this shortfsighted policy became apparent in the brief three' year administration of Eugene A Allen Noble. In 1914 Dick' inson reached the most serious crisis of its history and the advisability of liquidating its affairs was seriously considered. Having, however, decided to continue the College, the Trusf tees selected James Henry Ivlorf gan, for thirty years a member of the faculty, for the great task. Without sacrificing aca- demic standards, President Mor' gan increased the enrolment, bringing it in two years to the highest peak in the history of the College. A huge debt of one hundred thirty-six thousand dole lars was erased in seven years, faculty salaries were increased, and the endowment trebled dur' EMORY HALL, SUCCESSIVBLY THE HOME or A ing President Morgan's regime. METHODIST CHURCH, THE GRALIMAR SCHOOL, East College was renovalted in AND THE SCHOOL or LAW L, . Twenty l 'i '