Hillsdale College - Winona Yearbook (Hillsdale, MI)

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now in the State University of Minnesota, designates as the period of 'fold methods, the transition period, and the period of new methodsf' By the old method, Writes Prof. Haynes, is meant that method by which each student was required to take the same course of study, and in which there were no electives permitted and no laboratory work required, or at least but very little-the course was a sort of Procrustean bedstead, and the teaching, however corn- mendable in many instances, gave little scope for the development ofthe individual student in the direction in which he might be most ff, . 5 1 . K ,A-liQ5',e,,f' . ' ' ' A A? f.erQ'S4 - ,. A . X f J.4lh5fll.5ifliif 'if - A f V ':f.g,.:.-125121 lla fl 2- ws: fv'...11f I A A -WMV ,,,,t:'L5fgi,gs afpqpg piggy' jc ff egg, aqz-' UIQ 37:51. 3 'g ::,1. ,512 In , lg'-, :Vi g 'A if +15 ' v:4:EL.y A 'A ,.fEV:V:fa. sfctl- -,-T-lie? V 94 2911 X: ' if. .J if? .5 :Vw ,Z 51. A1-,-41 VL, l'TX.:,i P1-EE N 4: -XR , Y -. x A ' -'- f ,T -' if, V- '. as'-. V- Vf,'-.L:te.-- 'Lil I ,a.S,- f tg -,J 'ag ,, ' ,' 7, f:L. .e f-,ff-' ,gafg-f'i'ifie A, Vm f- .fx--53Ri.f X- ' fy- ,' ,-fzL'-.,::- 341, A' ' 'A .M 'i' f Ak ,Y p f ,,VqV- V, ,Vg .41 ,, .. ts -- ,Vw , 1 .V 9 . -, A . 1-'s , ,, . -i-- f 'V 1 s W 1 ' ' ' 'L 43 .lf , T -, M. A,:x.,.. Q -',, 1,Aq:3'-V-1 -' ,., , V., 3, , ,g3.A- A, .,'-if I m5rff-'-A- '-- Vis' 'ww .l ff ,A . was , , iV,.,,'gf . .fs.,v.,..x. ., . s . M .V . .1 VV AR A fWV1'+, f g-' Fug 1- 3 If iff: f Vs in .,,, ,gi , .N i jt! ' ',A'- AV -V EP Viz 1423215 i .,,. 5 ziisce ' f i A- .., t - -'ei A - 1 .. fi ' A A ,ww- Q1 s-V -- ago.. M y 2 W t w .Vw aku: vw .4i'1f1V V' . V. V n..--. -V ,. A favs., ,-Ms.-i., 43 :g V., V+ 23-Z9 -,-.xjzg :P V Qs 3,134 fm-.i iw ':- , V,:, .E.V- r A V 4221-f A fa, Eiga Q ,:I.ts.,1 V -RQ COLLEGE CHURCH. ' successful. But the educators of those days did noble work in spite of these handicaps, and impressed upon their pupils their splendid personality in a degree hardly possible with the present methods. However, the progress of science and the demands of the times have revolutionized both our methods and means of instruction. This new or modern method may be aptly termed the laboratory method. It seeks to make every student an investigator, and sur- 23

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lowed by Dr. Graham, who held V ,tts-tffiissabx , . the presidency again until 1874. --M -irl 'MX .,. . ,. . ' X - Dr. D. VV. C. Durgin was then 9 5 -- , , , IQ., - 1 president until 1885. On his res- 5, xffsug 2 rw- ,g g 'd ,hx - G53 'xiii xiii 'fx ignation, Dr. Ransom Dunn be- li I A, fm ,. -V A .V V ? Z. I , 14, ,? came acting president, as he had Ai- already been once or twice be- Q ' .E ' fore, and the present incumbent' f ' Q2fgZgj, ,,,, entered the office in 1886. H E fp .,, ' , L 5, ,L .:.- 1 ,Q iff : ,-.. Dr. Dunn was actively en- , iz , , , , M. L, ,i p I 5 4, Y . gaged in originating and devel- : . 1 i 4: . a,.f ,gig W oping the college, and he has .I , been connected with it until the ,, present time. He has been es- JL h a f ' pecially active in collecting its -3 endowment. It was no easy . , FINE ARTS HALL. task in a new country suitably to endow a college. The most of its endowment has been gathered in small sums, and while the increase has not been rapid it has been constant. A report made to the Board of Trustees in 1895 shows that in the decade 1855-65 it had arisen from o to S4S,III.Q6Q in the next ten years the increase was S39,987.41g in the next ten the increase was 850,388.18 and in the last ten years, ending June 1, 1895, it was 391,669.89 Its present endowment fund is 3230,- 107.35, manifestly a small sum considering the large and varied work that the modern college must do. The greatest calamity that has ever befallen the college was the tire in March, 1874, which destroyed nearly all its plant. Previous to that time the buildings were practically under one roof, and the dormitory system prevailed for both boys and girls. In re-building, the group plan was determined upon, and its various halls or build- ings are now known as College Hall, Griffin, Knowlton, East and Fine Arts Halls. The gymnasium is also on the campus, but the college church is one block south of it. Educationally the college has always aimed to keep in line with true progress. In this respect its history divides itself into three periods, which Prof. Haynes, a former member of our faculty, but 22

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rounds him with every facility for encouraging him in the develop- ment of his individuality in lines by which it seems most probable he will succeed. lt recognizes individual tastes and heredityg it discountenances the idea of trying to use a single mold in shaping the human mind: it seeks to intelligently dirvrf rather than to load the student. The old method brought the student face to face with a man 3 the new brings him face to face with the Great Teacher-God. W'ere a time limit to be placed upon these periods in the col- lege, it would be approximately correct to say the first period ended with the last administration of Dr. Graham, the period of transition began with that of Dr. Durgin, and that the new method has been steadily growing under the presidency of Dr. Mosher, until it has become the prevailing method. ' The list of the college alumni includes the names of many able men and women in missionary service, in the ministry, in. literature. teaching, law, medicine and politics. XYill Carleton and Rose Hart- wick Thorpe are not unknown to fame. Congressman Hopkins, of lllionois, is a man of intluence in national affairs. -ludge Moore. of the Michigan Supreme Court, finds worthy colleagues in ,fudge .ll T. Hoke, of Yirginia, and -ludge M. B. Koon, of Minneapolis. ln teaching, says the secretary of the college in an article in the Morning Star, nearly fifty have occupied professorships in leada ing colleges and universities in more than a dozen states, and several have been presidents of such institutions. Joseph XY. Mauck, LL. D., '75, is now president of South Dakota University, and Rev. Ll. R. H. Latchaw, D. D., '81, was for years president of Findlay Col- lege, of Findlay. O. The lamented Hiram Collier, LL. D., '64, was professor in colleges at Hillsdale and Indiana. Pa.. and at his death in the state university at Lincoln, Neb. Bela P. Maclioon, A. Ma '64, was professor for years in Cornell University. Vliilliam XV. Payne, Ph. D., '63, is professor of mathematics and astronomy, and director of the Goodsell Observatory in Carleton College, at North- neld, Minn. -lohn F. Downey. A. M., C. E., i7O, is professor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Minnesota, and Arthur E. Haynes, M. Ph., 375, is assistant professor of mathematics in the same institution. Twelve have been invited from first to last 24