Lebanon University - Link Yearbook (Lebanon, OR)

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A right hand guided by an earnest soul, W ith a true instinct, takes the golden prize From out a thousand blanks. One age moves onward, and the next builds up Cities and gorgeous palaces, where stood The rude log huts of those who tamed the wild, Rearing from out the forest that they felled The goodly framework of a fairer state; The builder's trowel and the settlefs axe Are seldom wielded by the seIf-same hand; Ours is the harder task, yet not the less Shall we receive the blessing for our toil From the choice spirits of the aftertime. IPage Eighty-n'inel

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DENTAL COLLEGE BUILDING Corner Seventh and Mound Streets Cincinnati, Ohio IZPage Eighty-eight1

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HISTORICAL SKETCH By R. J. SOUTHARD HOUGH, as Whitelaw Reid says in his Ohio in the War, uthe Village of Lebanon has been singularly prolific in distinguished men, no one of the noted personages given to the world by this section of the state has been accorded such an exalted position in the hearts of the people of Warren County as has been reserved for the noted found- er of Lebanon University. Every citizen is proud of the fact that Lebanon was the home of the institution which hrst offered to the poor boys and girls of the country the opportunity of securing a college education such as had formerly been open only to these who were more fortunate in the possession of money and property. The story of Alfred Holbrookk; persevering work in the interests of his students; the sacrifices he made in his continued devotion to their welfare; the undenyingr love with which he performed these as his life,s work, thrills them all with admiration and respect for the wonderful man who spent so many years of his life in their midst. So it was with a sense of a duty heartily welcomed that they offered their co-operation to the former pu- pils of the noted educator on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday anni- versary and have arranged to devote the entire week of J une the twenty-flfth to the entertainment of the guests who will come from all parts of the country and to the appropriate observance of an event which marks the end of a mem- orable century. By the more than eighty thousand students of the school which is now known as the Lebanon University, the name of Alfred Holbrook is spoken with reverence. From the time that he opened the first class in the old academy building, Holbrook was the friend of the poor, the unfortunate and the help- less. He took no notice of what iniiuential social or financial connections his students might have, but bent his every effort towards providing a means of education for those who would otherwise never have had an opportunity of securing college or university training. His methods were unique in that they brought him into direct personal contact with his pupils at all hours of the day and night and exercised an influence for the better upon every phase of their lives. The success of the institution which during many years of his life en- joyed an annual enrollment of more than two thousand students from every sec- tion of the nation, was due entirely to the original methods of the principal and the personal supervision which he gave every department and feature of the work. Just as his father had been the founder of the idea of teachers, insti- tutes and the lecture system of popular instruction, so was he a pioneer in his chosen field, and the many schools of the middle west which have been pat- terned after the National Normal attest to the popularity and success of his methods. . l PERSONAL WORK A FEATURE The personal note was always predominate throughout the institution, the principal and his associates in every department placing themselves on an equal social footing with their students. He held that the chief reason for the popular feeling in colleges and universities being in favor of the violation of rules and IPage Ninetyl