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From off the hill top sweeping down, Where bends the road to Oxford town, Three shafts the distant hill-side crown, And graven on the stone aged brown- Vale mi frater From here the traveler may espy, hFarewell my brother,, that is all! Outlined against the distant sky, Yet sculptured verse on marble pall, The red roofs and the towers high N or eulogizing bust nor scroll, Which was to them, e,er they did die Could boyish virtues more extol Their Alma Mater Than, Vale mi fra ter Weathered by all the winds that blow Almost a century, long and slow, Theytve stood, a monument to show The spirit that was long ago ' Within our Alma Mater.
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Page 24 text:
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Miamfs History with such initiative and spirit was not satisfied. He has been born a pioneer and was to remain .a pioneer. He had come to the country of the Miamis. Marietta on the Ohio had long been settled, and trading posts were established in the tributary streams following the invasions of Generals St. Claire, and Anthony Wayne. The old territorial government of the Ordinance of Northwest Territory of 1787 was no longer possible, and Ohio became a state in 1803. Those rough frontiersmen, with a hard, winding trail to their backs, and the savage, hostile, redskin before them, were well aware that education was to take a great part in making successful what they had begun. The Indian wig-wam then gave way to the frontiersmanis log hut, and stretches of Virgin forest were cleared in industrial and agricultural pursuits. , This territory was a part of the Symmes, Purchase, and the Ordinance of 1787 provided that a township be reserved for academic purposes. Under those conditions sites were chosen for investigation at Cincinnati, Hamilton, Yellow Springs, Dayton, and Lebanon, but after much deliberation and dispute the State Legislature of 1809 provided for the establishment of Miami University in the Village to be called Oxford, west of the Great Miami River. Among the hrst buildings on the Miami Campus, for those eager for science and learning, were some log structures, one of which is now marked by the stone near the east end of Brice Hall. The hrst construction work of the present Main Building was begun in 1820. THE Independence of the Thirteen Colonies had been won, but the man It was announced in a newspaper of 1824 that: 2Miami University will be opened on the first day of November, next; tuition $10.00; board $1.00 to $1.25 a week; estimate of total expenses for the year $93.00? That small but enthusiastic and aggressive group of back-woodsmen little dreamed that soon they were to be joined by sons of many states, and that the campus they trod upon was to become the campus of one of the greatest institutions of learning of the West. President Bishop lead the institution onward during those strenuous days, and soon more construction was begun, including the present N orth and South Dormitories. It was at this time that Old Miami had within her halls William H. McGuffey, who came as an under-graduate from Washington College, Penn., and was elected to the faculty as professor of languages and philosophy in 1826. At this time he published his famous readers and spellers, and made his studies of children. Student life at Miami at that time must have been indeed a hard path, for after the tiring journey on foot or stage-coach thru the traditional mud-holes about Oxford, they entered a daily routine of study, recitation, and prayer hours, and some were even compelled to prepare their own food. Then, we read of numerous accounts of dismissals by the faculty for mis-conduct and hghting in the village taverns, intoxication, or even pouring water on the girls as they
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