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F0 REWO RD OT with any self congratulatory feel- ; ing, but with full realization of our limitations do we, the Class of nine- teen hundred sixteen, lay this, our little garland, upon the fair and ancient altar of the Love Of Alma Mater. In this volume many things are not as we would have wished them; there are many things that we have desired to do which we have not done at all because of difhculties beyond our power to overcome, yet such as it is, it is the product of our most earnest effort. If it has created some semblance of an image of our life within the college year, if it has added something, however small the part may be, to the lore of OLD MIAMI and the love for her that lives in the hearts of all who have known the magic of her campus and returning have strained their eyes frOm afar off to catch the outline of ' her red, towers against the sky, our work has not been entirely to no avail. By The Editor and Staff, Oxford, Ohio March,' Twelfth, Anno Domini One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen and of The University, the One Hundred and Sixth Year.
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Historical N ote N 1809 the Legislature of Ohio established, according to the terms of the Symmes Purchase which had provided for a township of land to be reserved for educational purposes, Miami University, destined to become within the passage of but a few decades the greatest educational factor west of the Alleghanies. In. 1894 the college was formally opened under the presidency of the Reverend Robert Hamilton Bishop. F rom that day its growth in size and influence was uninterrupted until the whole educational system of the country r was disorganized by the outbreak of the Civil War. Miami was soon the greatest College of the West. At Miami the new fraternity idea found its home in the newer section of the country and in the fertile soil of her splendid undergraduate life, so Iiourished that in the course of time the Yale 0f the West became the rival of Union as mother of the Greeks. Always Miami was more than a heap of bricks and an educational foundry; always she represented an ideal and the far famed IVIiami spirit is no younger than the foundations of her most vener- able pile. Always Miami lead the colleges of the West in their march toward the heights of broad learning and perfect and painstaking scholarship. ' More great names appear upon the roll of her students between the day of opening in 1824 to the tragic closing of the doors of the Old Miami in 1873 when aftermath of the war had made impossible the maintainance 0f the University upon the revenues accruing from the land rents 0f the township eked out by the small sums received from tuitions, than any other American College can boast of within the same number of years. During the twelve years following Messrs. Trufont and Marsh conducted a preparatory school known as the Miami Classical Institute in the University property. In 1885 the accumulated land income was sufficient to justify the reopening of the College. Robert White McFarland, a veteran of the 01d order, was chosen as the first president of the revivified Miami. In the first days Of the new regime the efforts and financial assistance of Senator Calvin Brice and other faithful alumni constituted the saving force of the great project. After an heroic struggle the inertia of the twelve years of inactivity was overcome and Old Miami entered upon a new era of prosperity and influence in Which she is destined to rival even her own prestige of the golden ante bellum time. In later years a considerable though still inadequate subsidy from the State has made possible many important improvements. Since 1902 the buildings of the Ohio State N ormal College have been located upon hIiami campus, and the administration of that important link of the States system for Normal Education has been placed under the authority of the executive officers of the University. In this our own generation the Old Miami moves forward to that goal of eminence toward which her progress was temporarily interrupted by the great tragedy of 1873.
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