Hanover College - Revonah Yearbook (Hanover, IN)

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' -' ' . ,, W .N,..-- -...,. -- -- . . .. , - ,. T 3,1 ..,.,,,, v., ., . -1 -- V u . , . FACULTY D W FISHER DD LLD Holliday Professor of Logic and Mental Philosophy and Ciowe Memorial Piofessoi of Biblical Instruction RPV JOSHUA I3 GARRITT A M PH D .F ,m,,,R,7,....-., ' I . I, 0 , n n, n 1, , 1 1 1 1 ' X v- I .J O I G , .0 U, I O, I U 1 ' . 1 1 1 I A King Professor of Greek Language and Liteiatuie, and Secretary of the Faculty ,FRANK LYFORD MORSE, A. M., PH. D., Silas C. Day Professor of Mathematics. A. HARVEY YOUNG, A. M., PH. D., Ayers Professor of Natural Sciences. REV. A. P. KEIL, A. M., PH. D., Mary Edward Hamilton Professor of Latin and Modern Language. R.v. P. H. K. MCCOMB, A. M., Ezra De Wolf and Jno. Charlton Clarke Professor of History and Political Science. 'GLENN CULBERTSON, A. M., ' Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Geology. JOHN L. Lowns, A. M., James A. and Sophronia R. McKee Professor of Ethics and Christian Evidencesg and Instructor in English. Miss DORA ISAACS, Teacher of Piano, Organ, Voice Culture, Violin, etc. 'G. C. LINDSAY, ' Tutor in Latin and Algebra. W. S. CROZIER, Director of Gymnasium. M I S S LEI LA GARRITT, Librarian. - I ll l A..-.. - 1...r...e:g-Aw rw--HAP f-' PH- H LP A '- ' ' ' ' A ' .-................. ,.1,-. A - Y A N - - . - -- -- ' ' ' ' - ff-Q: '-3-an-rgrngvk A . -, M . . ..,, W - H xr I

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DR. D W, FISHER DD.: LL.D

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Historical. Sketch of the College F the students of to day who throng the classic halls of old Hanover, could be carried back nearly three-quarters of 'a century to her small beginningjthe sight that would greet their H eyes would no doubt seem very strange and very rude. In the forest-encircled village We find, as early as 1827, an Academy estab- lished in a log cabin not twenty feet square. It was the pressing need of better educational facilities, especially for ministers, to supply the rapidly developing west, that led to the founding of this Academy. It was under the control of Salem Presbytery, which then embraced both Indiana and Illi- nois, and was con- A nected with the Synod of Kentucky. So, under the direc- tion of the Rev. John Finley CroWe,i'D.D., We find gathered for the Academy's first session, Ludents. MAIN BUILDING' The next year there were fourteen, and the next, twenty. Besides intellectual training, the students of this early day had means of physical culture, but of a kind quite dillerent from that which the student of to-day enjoys and which he would hardly relish: they had to Work with their hands, for the school was conducted on the manual labor system. When Indiana became a separate Synod, the Academy was for a time consigned to the care of Madison Presbytery. This body soon L12 I 2 I l l . 'P ti i .Ll l , N. at It l ti , r R M E l K ' t Q 3