Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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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!

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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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No, the college was tri grow, not to run wild. -Xnd grow it did. The hard years of the war saw a steady increase in numbers and in efficiency. The first of the long line of classes that stretch across the forty years and more was graduated in 1862-two members. '63 showed a class of only one: but this was just the beginning. Year by year the classes have grown in size until today the degrees awarded each .lime number near half-a-hundred. ln 1866 llarnabas C. Hobbs was elected Earlham's first president. XYe find, too, that about that time, The quantity nf rich food sent to some students by their parents i nf' . and friends having produced much inconveni- ence, particularly in a sanitary way, that practice will in future be objected to-.U Another ideal shattered-those young people were considerably like boys and girls nowadays! But alas, we of today have no guardians to keep us from too many sweets. In 1873 we find a long-felt want supplied in the obtaining of a fifty-thousand-dollar and con- stantly increasing endowment fund. Many rea- sons had made such a fund almost imperative and the energetic administration of President lX1'oore,who had succeeded President Hobbs in 1868, found means for this excellent beginning of it.