Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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THE FORlj.S'7'ER. 7 Presibenf Tjolyn UNI. Coulter. OHN IVIIQRLE COULTER was born in Ningpo, China, November 20, ISSI. His father, Moses Stanley Coulter, and his mother, mi' Caro- line Crowe, were Presbyterian missionaries who had already been at Ningpo only a year. During the following year his brother Stanley was born, and a few months afterwards his father died, then about twenty-nine years old. Shortly afterwards the family of three returned to America and lived among relatives at Hanover, Indiana-the seat of his alma mater. He graduated from Hanover College in the class of '70, and during the following year taught in the Presbyterian Academy at Logansport. Through the inHuence of Prof. Frank Bradley he became connected with the Hayden government survey, and spent the summers of '72-'73 in exploration of the Yellowstone Region and the Colorado Mountains. It was not until this period that he gave any serious attention tothe study of botany. In 1874 he became Professor of Natural Science in Hanover College. In the summers of '79-'80 he was Dr. Goodale's assistant in the Harvard Summer School of Botany. In tl1e fall of 1879 he went to Wabash College as Professor of Biology. The twelve years which he spent in this position were those of his greatest activity as a botanist. Most of his important writings date from here, and it was during this period that his botanical reputation was established. During his service at Wlabash College he had become very prominent in the educational circles of the State, and in 1884 was considered for the presidency of the University of Indiana, but declared himself in favor of Dr. Jordan, then a professor at Indiana Uni- versity, with whom he had been closely associated in much educational work. In 1891, when President jordan was called to Leland Stanford, he was again strongly urged to take the position, and Hnally accepted it. During his presidency at Indiana University, he wrote many papers on educational topics which commanded wide-spread attention, and when he was called to Lake Forest in 1893, he was already recognized as one of the foremost edu- cators of the country, as well as enjoying an enviable botanical reputation which has become fairly world-wide.

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Y 'IIE FOA'l:'.S' TEH. 9 history of the Universiig. HE plan for an institution of higher education in or near Chicago under the control of the A' New School Presbyterians originated about 1854. The Presbyterians and Congregationalists were then working in union under a plan by which the tivo denominations had a single congregation and pastor in many places, and supported a common educational system. Dr. R. VV. Patterson was then pastor at the Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, and Dr. Harvey Curtis was in the First Church. Determining to have a Col- lege of their own, these men applied to the business men of Chicago, and in 1856 a land company was formed to buy grounds for the site and for an endowment. The land company bought 1,300 acres, now covered by Lake Forest, and set off, forever, the present College, Seminary and Institute parks. The remaining acres were divided half and half, between the 'University and the land company. The town was platted and laid out by a landscape gardener that summer, and in October the Synod of the New School Presbyterian Church came out to Lake Forest, and sitting Hunder the shade of a wide- spreading oak, adopted the infant yet unborn. In '57 the Old Hotel was built. In February, i57, the Legislature chartered the Institution as Lind University, for Mr. Sylvester Lind had promised a land endowment to the value of SIO0,000, in Chicago lots. The panic of 1857 for a time blocked all progress. Mr. Lind could not make good his endowment, and the friends who had expected to raise a money endowment of SIO0,000 were penniless. But in 1858 Dr. Quinlan started a subscription paper and raised 54,000 With this, in the winter of '58 and '59, an Academy building was erected where the Art Institute build- ing now stands, and the school opened January gd, with one teacher, Samuel F. Miller, and three students. The Academy began its third year in the fall of 1860, with forty-nine students, and three teachers, Rev. W. C. Dickinson having come the previous year to teach the classics, and lVIr. C. E. Dickinson in December, 1860, to teach the sciences. A Medical Department was organized in 1859 and began work in Sep- tember in the Lind Block in Chicago fstill standing by Randolph Street