Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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seventh of Sixth-month. eighteen hundred forty-seven, the school was opened. Thus reads in brief the record of the founders of what was to become Earlhani College. Today, in prosperity, all honor is due to those sturdy men and women who pro- jected and brought to completion the Friends Boarding School. The success of the Boarding School, its high grade of work and the fact that so many of its young people chose to finish at other schools no more advanced except that they conferred degrees, led to the desire Cand in 1859 to its fullillmentj that the institution should assume the rank of a college. A faculty was established, a charter obtained from the State and with the name of Earlham the college was born. This name was given in honor of joseph john Gurney, one of the first contributors to the institution, whose ancestral English home was called Earlham -the Home of the Earl. To trace the steady growth of Earlham in numbers, in induence, in equipment, down the half century that brings us to the present, is a task that can be only outlined here. Indeed many aspects of that growth-museum, de- , . , , partments, library, ath- , ..i .1 M.. U .f.-.f-.':f!21?3's:s-':- . .ff- fzzi:IaWsi a,e , -V1-1154,-,q-.1-.z . - , letics and the like-are A 1 q-,W f entered in t o other- . , 1 ' 54. 141 1 . ,,n.N-5-A ' A . where with necessary on ' in - -T. 'f it 1 'QE 2 3 E , ' L' Q E-if .jfrfiinxrwif.:-,-53 , . as 1 - ... . 1. -1 X C0111P1C1e11eS'S- i H H ,M E in . , 1' . fs Y 1 ' .-for Q 1 ggfg H - gffggsiifsfgfl lhe college started , Y rw - - ,-, - ., -ff wif -,-H t1,5:,2ur1, 53f,g,.1:55e f e I E A E I -- ., -.i - - 1.4 . i , g E H V in g A out undei the most xfa 1 V ' .. as it 1 are 415 A vorable auspices. 'l he i . 1 g' 'I' ff ' 5 E I I I + . 4 . - ' , . E , .l I T: 1 - - 1 -14 ' s ':'.:gW. wt, .i6im2rifgf1'.ff1e-21 facult , though few in U I , A--, M, .. v: Ivglnilr -1 ,mg ,LIP L .- -'Ji , 5,3 uri- ,fbi ,QI-il - Ci - .. V - i 1' TDs--faith. 'nfs-we A-4-fic! 1.11.11 , f - ' . Ii H A ' 1 gn , E j 9, p ,Q 555, numbers, was strong UZ, 5, I 1 ET . , , y Vp . lk., w,p.., i.. . i i U , 1 115, ,. s -- . - ,l M . 1 . Wg- ,3,.Q,,,, .,t,3je:3 t 1.'..,,L .133 tk 1 in its make-up, includ- . 4 A,-V V: 4 -V. If t A. t . A Y. '11 , 1 . T V-5 ,.,?. :ill Ju: :giZ:i3.5'vAi.-11.11 I . l .At-L .,,- , A. fl! .gp-5 . 1' N A 1' linen- - , . ,1. 1 , Wi .,.,g'. -5,':Q',2fq,,5:'.f? . - Sgr, 3'a1-E:.'m- me ing such men as joseph ' . - 1 ' 1 .. . -fe--'r 1- 1 -- . 3' -i l g ' . F: '51 .. . 'n n -I -1-fi? ' 1 fl ' ' 1 . 9 1- 4, ,,. - . .. - ' 'ff ., 1' 'i'1j'3 L:11' Moore and Win. L. ' el - Q .. , t 1, , . e Q . A We WN. . ' ,,,,.x3g,,5.-- :mga--'..1,' ff,-, Morgan. Various col- - f . 1. -f 1 , , 1. ' .. .-- .-,- 1 - , A-N, '- . L W T -- swf' Wi is - f ffi' Hswe '1f'1 'i if ..fi.4fif'12:f+31HL's'9 i5f an:-'?. f 'tml leo-Q interests w er e ,g ..-is -. , 3 img ' ,4f1:f ,:5gfT21-'ff 1 1' - ff,Vr.F,f' .iiisgaz 6 ' Y in . ,V W, I ' J.-1 , 55' Im. . 45:1 .5 -3.1. ,W-J3,u1 , - - -lv -2 . 5f1'fzg,'Q:-47.12 -:j,g'j3-1:1 -.,.,,, .i,4..,55,ivi.,:E2 :77-1'gif',-A , 5 X Lsvffy -. t . . At 1 a. :fi.!.i h-? '.3T5' - ' '11 .ili'.3:'f'i1:'-5173 ---mains 110111 151111151 - fl C 011'

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The History of the Colle e N this, her centennial year, Richmond is proud to call herself the Quaker City. Becoming early the metrop- olis of that part of the Society of Friends who in so great a measure settled eastern lndiana, it has been ever since l82l the place of the annual session of the lndiana Yearly Meeting, and now as a thriving city welcomes the Friends each year with new gladness. And so it was at Richmond that, when the time came, the crowning unit of Quaker schools was to be placed. The Friends have always been be- lievers in education. Even while carving out homes in the wilderness, they had established schools and academies that spoke well for their vigor of mind and heart. And yet they were not satisfied. ln lS32 a movement was inaugurated toward the founding of a boarding school of high grade which should stand at the head of this system of denominational schools. liut this project, worthy as it was, seemed almost beyond their reach. Year after year, led by a few brave souls, the discussions at Yearly Meeting battled over the question. For years funds came with a wc.,.m4,.- ' F' t ' most discouraging slowness. but in 1837. with a fund ol not more than 25215, nearly SILOOO in debt for farnt lands the present college site-contracts for brick and ltnnbti were let to the amount of S-HJOO. and a building eonnni appointed. Slowly, slowly the work went on. Year alttt year, debts piled up and hope went down. ln lS4H and t few succeeding years it seemed that all work would bam to ' be indefinitely postponed, but persex't-ranee won the dit 'tnd we have the simple record tb'tt on Qt . . , . . 'e-'nd-dat tbt I

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stantly growing library of nearly 1,000 volumesg a good start to- ward a museum or cabinetg the building of the Observatory to serve for the large telescope and other astronomical appa- ratus, a strong and earnest stu- dent body of 112 young peopleg and Ionian and Phoenix were thriving literary societies even at that primitive period. But ah! the customs of those early days !-we modems are apt to indulge in a little superior- ity of tone when we hear of the plain dresses, the stern decorum, the strict segregation of boys and girls, the prohibition of sing- ing and instrumental music. And yet in the Old Days Earlham turned out sterling men and women, whose physical, mental and moral equipment for life most of us will do well to equal. VVe have gained in social freedom and emotional enjoyment, but per- haps in ways we don't like to admit we have lost some- thing as well. Again, we are apt to call men and women who could formulate and uphold those necessary restraints unpro- gressive-or by the more modern term, slow. And yet, in Boarding School days. with debts pressing and amid the rigors of early settlement. these same nien and women voted to set aside two-thirds of a gift uf E500 sterling from English Friends, to purchase seientitie apparatus and start a library!