Hillsdale College - Winona Yearbook (Hillsdale, MI)

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to remain in the faculty of their alum 111c1lv1', several of whom have been called to more lucrative positions elsewhere. Rev. I. S. Copp. D. D.. '69, S. XY. Norton, A. M., '82, and Chas. H. Gurney, A. M., '73, have been successfully nominated hy the alumni and elected by the trustees alumni professor of helles-lettres in Hillsdale Col- lege. Manifestly the details of the history of the college are not called for here. lt regards its chief call to exist to he the need of offering facilities of a first-class liberal education, not only under Christian auspices, but on terms that should hring such an education within the means of every willing and industrious boy and girl. lts courses of instruction include worlc in the preparatory, academic, theolog- ical, musical, art, elocutionary and military departments. In the academic department classical, scientific, literary and pedagogical courses are offered. Investigation is encouraged, not only by sug- gesting its own rewards, but by offering prizes in literature, mathe- matics, and French. The college l1as only just begun to make its history. lt expects to he several hundred :years in completing it. ln all its departments the college aims at doing conscientious and efficient work. Teachers' training classes are a specialty. Young people wanting preparation for the practical worlc of life are cordially invited to Hillsdale, with eonhdence that they may get value received. 5 Qalehakal

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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

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TRGV. lREll'l5Ol11 ELITII1, E. E. ln attempting to sketch the life and influence of Dr. Dunn, we scarce know what to say, so far-reaching has been his influence and so marked has been the imprint of his personality upon the his- tory of the Free Baptist denomination. At the age of twelve years he embraced Christianity, and since that time his voice has been heard, exhorting men to a higher standard of Christian morality in all grades of society. The corn- mon people, as well as the richer and more highly cultured, have listened to his eloquence and have been moved to pursue pure and noble lives. Being a descendant of a race strong and robust, he inherited a clear and acute mindg an intense purpose Whichrknows no defeat. To these were early added those eternal truths that later developed into a Christian life and character, which, with all its richness and intense yearning for good toward mankind, has been freely given to the world. In View of these facts we wonder not at the place he has won in the hearts and estimation of all who know him. Pre-eminently he is a soldier of the cross. Yet Why do we eulogize? 'Why do we multiply words? To be first in the hearts of a christian people, is not this the grandest monument to one's christian life and character? However, it is not our province to speak of Dr. Dunn in his relation to the people alone, but also in his relation to the students. In 1852 Dr. Dunn became connected with Hillsdale, and since that time he has served as President of our college, pastor of the college church, and in 1863 he was elected to the Burr Professorship of Systematic Theology. ln 1888 he was transferred to the DeVVolf Professorship of Homoletics. His life among the students has ever been elevating, and no one has ever sat in his classes who has not caught some of the inspiration of this devoted life. His students instinctively feel that they are in the presence of a man who has the deepest interest in their success, and one who has given, and is still giving, his best energies, that they may in a just and noble manner profit thereby. Wfith him we find none of the stiff conventionality of the ordi- nary class room, and we come to him as to a father for advice and instruction. It is but a faint tribute of respect and gratitude that we pay Dr. Dunn here: for he has brought to this college a life frought with the rich experience of years, and from its students, numbered by hun- dreds, grateful and sincere thanks arise. 26