Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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dormitory, a chapel, a recreation- hall and a refectory. Its President, Dr. Carter, was also its sole faculty member. After graduation, its first three students went to Africa as missionaries. Vail Memorial Library: Contains reading rooms, collection of African Arts, exhibitions of recent painters, new wing in '53. The Library The Civil War found the school operating under great difficulties, financial and otherwise. In 1864, twenty-three students enrolled at the institution, while modest funds began to trickle in, bringing the institution through this period of experimentation into a field of broader usefulness. In 1866 the name, Ashmun Institute, was changed to The Lincoln University in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln University therefore represents the first institution to bear the name of The Great Emancipator. Science Hall Science Hall: Hero are Ihe lecture rooms and laboratories for the Departments of physics, biology, and chemistry. Through these halls pass the doctors, dentists and scientists of tomorrow.

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HORACE MANN BOND . . . President of the University Lincoln University was proposed in 1853: the class of 1953 graduates one hundred years after the great idea was projected into a world that was generally hostile to the notion that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. In 1854, and in successive years, the idea took material form in the institution that is now your Alma Mater. Great changes have taken place in the world during the past century; it is the glory of the idea that is Lincoln University, that its graduates have profoundly advanced the dissemination of the great idea, of the equal brotherhood of all men under God, everywhere in the world. May you, the Class of 1953, as notably promulgate, practice, defend, and extend this greatest idea in the intellectual and spiritual life of Mankind. 7i