George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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At the outbreak of the war between the states the colleg e was at the peak of prosperity but of the students the greater part soon left for military service, a majority under the Stars ami 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 W ilson, later to become Postmaster-General under Cleveland and President of W ashington and Lee, returned to his Alma Mater as an instructor U wearing the uniform of a Confederate cavalryman. Under the presidency of James C. Welling, at the time of his election a Pro- fessor in Princeton College, Columbian moved from its old home on College Hill into the heart of the city at Fifteenth 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 anti a year later co- education 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 tinder its old name and fulfilling its old function as a college of libera! ails. When the United States entered the World W ar 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 of over two hundred and a IS aval 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 he sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature in arts and sciences, ’ such as Washington had sought unsuccessfully by request to make pos- sible, now existed. Great men, lengthening shadows, a College and a University. Elmer Louis Kayser.

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WILLARD HAYES YEAGER Chairman, Executive Committee of Columbian College. A B. degree, Ohio State University, 1919 A, M. degree, Ohio State University. 1926. Professor of Public Speaking, George Washington University, since 1929, Associate Professor in Public Speaking, Univ. of Illinois, 1927-1929, Instructor in Public Speaking, Ohio State University, 1923-19 27. Acacia ; Delta Theta Phi ; Phi Gamma Delta; National Association of Teachers of Speech ■ HISTORY OF COLUMBIAN COLLEGE | uther Rice, Columbian College in the District of Columbia, Colum- bian University, The George Washington University : a man — his length- ening 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, conceiving the idea of college, pioneering up and down the states in his gig seeking friends and supporters, materializing 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 Congress, 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. On a lot of forty-seven acres, north of Florida Avenue, and between Four- teenth and Fifteenth 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 them- selves, the faculty was formally inaugurated, and three years later the first gradu- ating 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 harrassed from the beginning. In 1827 the pro- fessors in dismay had resigned in a body. Writing to President Chapin from Georgia in the year of his death Luther Rice had said; 1 request you will not men- tion in the District any expectation of my being there the first of June: merely be- cause, if it should be known, it will excite the creditors of the college 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 was going out, about half of them into the Christian ministry. Twenty-three

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MASTER’S DEGREES HERBERT EDMUND ANGEL Washington, D. C. Major : H i story Sigma Alpha Epsilon ; Pi Delta Epsilon ; Omicron Delta Kappa ; Pi Gamma Mu; Pyramid Honor So- ciety. Delta Tau Delta Activities Medal w 1930; A. B. degree , George Washington i ' niversity , with high distinction, 1930. £ 0 RUTH ST- CLAIR ELGIN Alexandria, Virginia Major : History A, B , Degree, George Washington l niversity, 1924: History Club. 0 Q ARTHUR E. BEACH Washington, D. C. Major: Economics Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Pht Epsilon President, 1931 ; Rifle Team, PAUL TEETER GARRETT A. Muxcte, Indiana Major : Latin B , d c g re e . Manch est e r 1928 . College, ® 0 ZATA VILEITA CARROLL Wash i ngton , Pen n a. Major : History History Club; A, B. degree . School of Education, 1928. MAXINE L, GIRTS Washington, 1). C. Major : History Pi Beta Phi ,■ L B. degree lAth distinction , George Washington University, 1923 . Wt FLORENCE CHANEY Sardinia, Ohio Major: Botany Delta Zeta ; Chi Sigma Gamma. ROWLAND LYON W ashing to x t D . C . Major : History Sigma Xu; Pi Delta Epsilon Ghost, Art Editor, 1927-1928; Cherry Tree, Business Manager , 1927- 1928; Hatchet , Art Editor, 1926 1927-1928. Tm