McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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Recitation Hall. McKENDREE COll.bi.h, FOIINDED Iti Science Hall. Chapel. Andrew Eisenmayer Gymnasium.

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INTRODUCTION. After many I ' .ays and weeks nf work ami woi ' ry. we are at last able to sulmiit to yoii the result nf mir labors. In presenting: to you this first volume of the ' ' Pig Skiri, we well realize that our work is not with- out faults. ( )n the contrary it undouhtedlv contains many defects and imperfections which that inevitable t)eing — the critic — can easilv search out and expose to the public . aze. P.ut while we realize all this, know- ing that we have not attained the highest success, we nevertheless feel that in all uf our labors we have ever striven to do our best, and that it has been our nio.st sincere wish and ijuidins; ])urpose to make this book trullv representative of our beloved university. Our ideals have always been high, ami we have earnestly striven to embodv tlieni in this volume: so if loft ' ideals, and honest and earnest efTort count fcir anything, these pages shoidd be examined in a kimlly spirit. ■ , ' ;, , Dear readers, with these few words of ex])lanatii n we lea e ti ciu and yoiu- kindness this, our •Annual. Wherever your wanderings in the years to come, and whatever your lot in life ' s great str iggie, mav this Iwiok never cease to speak to you of our dear old college days; may it always bring back to your memory plea.sant thoughts of many ha])py hours s|jent within .McKendree ' s classic IklIIs; may it ciuse to live anew within you the spirit of love and devotion for our alma mater. I ' lorrous.

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HISTORY OF McKENDREE COLLEGE. BY M. H. CHAA BERLAIN, L. L. D., PRESIDENT. McKendree College is the oldest institution, for hisjher education, in the State of Illinois. The original articles of organization, fonnulated in 1828. were signed hv 104 persons, — three of the number being women. — who contributed $1,385 for the erection of a building for college purposes. Among the articles was one specially providing that Greek and Latin as well as the Higher Mathematics and the Philosophies should be taught. in addition to the preparatorv branches. The first building was com- menced in the fall of 1828. and completed the succeeding year. In the meantime the two houses of the vil- lage were rented and. on Xoveinber 24. 1828. the institution, — then known as Lebanon Seminary — was opened for students, with .Mr. E. R. Ames as Frincipal, and Miss McMnrphy as his assistant. The academic year was divided into two sessions of five months each, the Principal being paid $25 and the assist- ant 33 P r month. The tuition charged for the common branches was $5.00 per session. The enroll- ment for the first year numbered 72 students, five of whom were women. The revenues for the first session amounted to S460. of which amount the Principal received $115, and the assistant $83.33. As a nouble fact it may be named that the records of the Board of Trustees show that the excellence of Miss McMurphy as a teacher is twice named in resolutions passed by that body. Mr. Ames, who was licensed to preach while teaching at Lebanon, antl who subsequently became Bishop of the M. E. Church, and Miss McMurphy were re-employed for a second term, on equal salaries, $25 per month. In 1830 the name of the institution was changed to McKendree College, in pursuance of a generous fkmatifrti of 480 acres of land made by Bishop McKendree in its support and with his expressed wish that it might cf. mmand the support of the Illinois and Missouri Conferences- a territory, at that lime, pnLCticalK embracing the entire western country. In Januar -. 1835. it was incorporated under the title of the .McKendrean College, ,n,d t v. Peter Alcers. on recommendation of Bishop McKendree, was chosen the first President. Rev. Jolni Dew sue-