Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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2:6 as G. D. DAYTON. . R. C. JEFFERSON B. H. SCI-IRIBER. E. B. KIRK ..... C. H. BIGELOW. F. R BIGELONV. J. E. BUSHNELL. B. O. CHAPMAN. W. P. DAVIDSON . . . G. D DAYTON. . . C. L. HILTON ,,.. P. L. HOWE ..., . . T. B JANNEY ....... R. C. JEFFERSON .... E. B. KIRK ........ W. P. KIRKWOOIJ. . . W. MCCABE ..... J. S. MCLAIN ...... ANGUS MCLEOD ..... MURDOCII MCLEOD. . J. R. MITCHELL ..... B. H. J. B. C. V. SMITH .... ..Vi H. C. SNVEARINGEN.. L. H. WILLIAMS ..... C. W. WISHARD .... SCHRIBER. . ..... . . .... . . .... .... ............ . . SCHERMERHORN .......................... . . . . . Board of Trustees OFFICERS OF THE BOARD .......President . .... Vice President . . . . . . .Secretary .....Trcasurer TRUSTEES .. . . . . . . . .PreS. Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk 81 Co., St. Paul . . . .Pres. St. Paul Fire 81 Marine Insurance Co., St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastor, Westminster Church, Minneapolis . . . ............ Merrill, Greer 81 Chapman, St. Paul . . .I rcs. Oregon 81 Western Colonization Co., St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Dayton Company, Minneapolis . . . .Attorney General, State of Minnesota, St. Paul . . . . . .Pres. Imperial Elevator Co., Minneapolis . . .Janney, Semple, Hill 81 Co., Minneapolis . . .Pres. JelIerSon-Heard Land Co., St. Paul . . . . . . .Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk SL Co., St. Paul . ..... Professor of Journalism, U. of M., St. Paul . . . . .. . . Pres. McCabe Elevator Co., Duluth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Journalist, Minneapolis . . . . . . . .PreSident, The Emporium, St. Paul .. ....... Pastor, Grace Pres. Church, Minneapolis .. . .Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D. C. Attorney, St. Paul Capitalist, Minneapolis ce Pres., The Minnesota Loan and Trust Co., Minneapolis .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastor, House of Hope Church, St. Paul . . . . .Williams Hardware Co., Minneapolis . . . .Loans and Investments, Minneapolis get H 27 H 9?

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Q6 DE Macalester College - A Sketch DR. H. D. FUNK ACALESTER College is now completing the thirty-seventh year of un- interrupted scholastic work. It was founded by Rev. Edward D. Neill, who came to Minnesota as a pioneer missionary in 1849 and established a pre- paratory school in 1853. This Baldwin School, named after Mr. M. W. Baldwin of Philadelphia, he hoped to develop into a university. But the death of his patron and the Civil War interfered with these plans. Returning from the war, and from a consular post in Dublin, in 1873, Dr. Neill renewed his efforts to establish a college of the New England type in Minnesota, and won the support of Mr. Charles Macalester of Philadelphia. This new patron bequeathed the famous Winslow House of Minneapolis for the new college, which Dr. Neill named in honor of the donor. His efforts to secure its endowment as an un- denominational institution having failed, the Trustees and Dr. Neill, in 1880, made overtures to the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Minnesota to adopt Macalester. In 1883 this synod took the college under its care, and in 1884 the present east wing of the Main building was erected. In September, 1885, the college opened with five professors and six freshmen, and with fifty-two 'fpreps in the Baldwin School. From 1895 to IQOO Macalester had a struggling existence. Donations and bequests, which had been expected to supplement an endowment of about 325,000.00, were not forthcoming, and so annually increasing deficits resulted, which amounted to 8131,ooo.oo in 1891. Heroic efforts were made to wipe out this debt in 1892, and enough pledges had been secured to liquidate all obliga- tions, when the panic of 1893 occurred. Subscriptions became uncollectable, me ar