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I I e3i.a'ifie4f:f J' mf . . , , A 1 Qi --s 1 '11vV 1 I lm iii' 2 fig' 1 -7 ,, v if 4 lf 5 filfg: 'Zi 7 I I -' r f C- -QQ f -2 if - . - -. YW!-?2'Q45?1 s 'ff f 1 .m:-.4i. Px- w S . -ff - 'lgv,5L?Q 9Z2' 'isa 1 an 'F X 3ii!'ja,gQ 1? , i.g!A,'A rig. 1 f J +X v :f!a5'154'M fi 3:1 fir' :S N if -141:72 1 gin - fl 'ff 1' a 1 , fslli ffsll' V f Avy ,lil .-im- 73 -' A J 'i Q4 5 The first few Lake Forest students are called away to the Civil War. By February 13, 1857, the university was approved by legislature under the title of Lind University with its purposes outlined as follows: To promote the general interest of education, to qualify students to engage in learned professions, and to discharge honorably and usefully the various duties of life. Lake Forest's natural beauty was early used as a drawing card as shown by this early description which was circulated to draw people to the newly-founded town- Lake Forest is finely located on the bluffs of Lake Michigan, twenty-seven miles north of Chicago. Its sylvan features, system of ravines and lake front give it real natural beauty which has been so far developed by landscape gardening as to make the place one of the most charming suburban towns of the north- west. It is a town of beautiful estates and Christian homes. Quietude and culture are eminently its char- acteristics, afifording advantages and lending those finer influences desirable. Instruction was begun in 1859 in an academy building, but the university led a crippled existence until about 1868 when the financial panics had passed. An act of legislature changed the name from Lind University to Lake Forest University in 1865. The college had a temporary start in 1861 with a class of four under Cornelius E. Dickinson, but the Civil VVar called away most of the likely candidates for college. A medical department was begun in Chicago which for a time was included as a part of Lake Forest University. Reverend VVilliam A. Ferry bequeathed funds in 1868 for the establishment of a seminary for young ladies. A building was erected and land sold to cover costs. In the catalogue of 1872 the problem of food in the dormitory is revealed and the solution which had evidently been reached for it- Along with suitable exercise, a well-furnished table is as necessary to the vigorous health of young ladies in school as at home. With a proper regard to this matter, we feel sure that sensible mothers will see good reasons for not sending articles of food to their daughters while here. The first Stentor was issued in 1857. It consisted of thirty-two pages containing news of the college, Ferry I-Iall, Academy, and Chicago professional schools. The Stenlor continued down through the ages and its existence was only threatened once in 1892 when intense rivalry between the college's two literary societies resulted in the production of another paper-The Rea' and Black. At this time enrollment was actually too small for even one paper and competition reached its highest peak. One writer for The Red and Black pawned his overcoat to meet the week's expenses. Finally the two papers reached an agreement and emerged again into one as the Stentor which is still in existence today. In approximately 1871 a hotel was erected which was donated to Lake Forest University after five years. With this building, Mrs. C. D. Farwell founded a co- educational school in 1876 which matriculated eight men and four women-a ratio of two to one which has been deliberately preserved down to this day. It was through her efforts that the college came to be a coeducational institution. In 1877 the college building was destroyed but classes continued in the old hotel. With improved financial conditions a new building was erected in 1878 consisting of 10
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