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Donaldson took over the work of Co- lumbian College this year during Dean HilPs absence and he has stepped into the deanship naturally. The careful consideration and personal interest which Dr. Donaldson displays in the students under his jurisdic- tion has been a fine example of the man ' s character. W B wondered for awhile just what was w T rong around school and decided it was Dean HilPs absence. The students in his classes have felt even this brief de- parture keenly and all of us have missed his kindly un- derstanding and wisdom even though we know he will return in the fall all the richer for his year of study. T ' Xean Doyle is still man- D ' aging his various in- terests in his ever-brilliant manner and he seems to be able efficiently to take on extra responsibilities from time to time. The heights have been predicted for this capable man. Despite his active life he is always readv with a pleasant smile to as- sist all. HISTORY OF COLUMBIAN COLLEGE T uther Rice-Columbian College in the District of Columbia,, Columbian University, The George Washington University: a man — his lengthening shadow, an institution. While still a student at Williams dedicating himself to the service of God and his fellows, becoming a missionary to Burma, then a missionary to his own countrymen, conniving the idea of a college, pioneering up and down the states in his gig seeking friends and supporters, material- izing his idea, and struggling for its maintenance until death overtook him — such was the career of the college’s founder. First there was failure when a charter was sought from Con- gress, and then stopping in the midst of the debate on the Missouri Compromise that same Sixteenth Congress sent forth the charter which guaranteed to teachers and students freedom from all interference on matters of religion. 21 p
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On a lot of forty-seven acres, north of Florida Avenue and between 14th and 15th Streets, overlooking the young capital city the college plant was built, and to the streets which were laid out around it were given from time to time the names of college notables; but one, that of the second President, Chapin, still remaining On January 15, 1822, thirty-nine students having presented themselves, the faculty was formally inaugurated, and three years later the first graduating class, with three members, was sent forth into the world, while Lafayette, President Monroe, John Quincy Adams, John C Calhoun and Henry Clay looked on. In 1836 died Luther Rice, founder of the College, Those first fifteen years had been arduous ones for the Presidents and for Rice, during most of his time the financial agent. Difficulties had harassed from the beginning In 1827 the professors in dismay had resigned in a body Writing to President Chapin from Georgia in the year of his death Luther Rice had said; I request you will not mention in the District any expectation of my being there the first of June: merely because, if it should be known, it will excite the creditors of the col- lege to bestir themselves ” An increasing number of students was about the only source of encouragement, but after 1836 the fortunes of the College seemed to take a turn for the better. Each year a graduating class of around ten w T as going out, about half of them into the Christian ministry. At the outbreak of the war between the states the college was at the peak of its prosperity but of the students the greater part soon left for military service, a majority under the Stars and Bars. The College buildings were turned over to the Federal Government, but in spite of all, instruction was still offered for those who remained. After Appomattox the sections found speedy reunion in the College. One graduate, William L. Wilson, later to become Postmaster-Genera! under Cleveland and President of Washington and Lee, returned to his Alma Mater as an instructor still wearing the uniform of a Confederate cavalryman. Under the presidency of James C Welling, at the time of his election a Professor in Princeton College, Columbian moved from its old home on College Hill into the heart of the city at Dth and H Streets and changed its name to Columbian University, adding somewhat later to the old College and professional schools, the Corcoran Scientific School for part-time students. In 1888, hesitatingly and begrudgingly, the first woman was admitted to the College and a year later coeducation was adopted In the early years of the present century the University changed to its present name and for a period of a few years the College lost its name and identity when merged with other Schools into the Department of Arts and Sciences, only to reappear some twenty years ago under its old name and fulfilling its old function as a college of liberal arts. When the United States entered the World War eight hundred students were on the rolls of the College, and then came a speedy transformation. In the sudden movement toward Washington, regular enrollment increased fifty per cent and a Student Army Training Corps Unit or over two hundred and a Naval Unit of forty were formed. Barracks and mess halls were provided. Liberty Loan campaigns staged and Red Cross units organized. Then came peace, new growth in numbers, in physical equipment, in teaching strength, new determination to follow old ideals, new challenges to larger ideals A University to which the youth of fortune and talents might be sent for the comple- tion of their education in all the branches of polite literature in arts and sciences,” such as Washington had sought unsuccessfully by bequest to make possible, now existed. Great men. lengthening shadows, a College and a University Elmer Louis Kayser
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