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

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Page Eight REQUISITE to our course we present, through the buildings of the campus, a resume of the history of Macalester College from its origin in the two Baldwin academies in 187 4, ten years before the erection of the East Wing, down to the present year which is marked most notably by the completion of the library building. After meeting the faculty, both formally and informally, and the all-important administrative staff, we will be ready to proceed to the story of the students themselves. On this base of traditions. institutions, and personnel we shall build up our own record in word and picture of the things that make up the Macalester we all wish to remember. This, our 1942 MAC, with which we reverently pay our respects to Dean Richard Jones, is humbly dedicated to Miss Grace Whitridge.

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ACK in the days of Romanesque architecture and sweeping moustaches, Macalester College was one lonely building on a wide expanse of prairie. That was in 1885, the year the East Wing of Qld Main was formally dedicated. But that was not actually the beginning, for Macalester had already had a fair sized history, starting with the Baldwin Academies of St. Paul and Minneapolis, founded in 1853 and 1873 respectively. Their founder, the Rev. Edward Duffield N eill, then solicited aid from Mr. Charles Macalester of Philadelphia for converting his school into a college of the New England type. Mr. Macalester donated the elegant Winslow House, a summer hotel at St. Anthony Falls, which was sold to raise money for the East Wing. In 1884 the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Minnesota hired the Rev. Thomas Mc- Curdy as President of the college, and the next year Macalester welcomed all men students who would take the train out to the St. Anthony station and walk through the cornfields to the campus. CHAPEL I Page Nine