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KALAMAZQG COLLEGE. N the pioneer days of the early thirties,wheu the wolf and the stag were still familiar sights in our woods, when the smoke of a single log cabin coiled upward from the valley of the boiling pot, Thomas W. Merrill pushed westward from Ann Arbor, following the old Indian trail, in search of a favorable location for The Michigan and Huron Institute, for which he had obtained a charter. After a few transient settlements he transferred his school permanently to Kalamazoo, when in 1837, the name was changed to The Kalamazoo Literary Institute. A considerable piece of ground was purchased to the west of the village and a two story frame building erected as the school edifice. This early structure stood upon what is now known as Walnut Street. In the absence of other equivalent institutions in the state, provisions were made for an academic or preparatory department in connection with the Institute. The fact that there was at that time no other such school reveals the fact, now indisput- able that Kalamazoo was the first institution of classical instruction in our state, the university not excepted. The first period of marked prosperity enjoyed by the institute, began with the accession of Dr. J. A. B. Stone to the presidency. President Stone was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. L. H. Stone, who became principal of the Female Department. The classes of this department met in a small two storv frame structure, standing in a classic grove of burr-oaks upon Academy Square, now occupied by the Court House and the Jail. The accommodations 19
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