Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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F IFTEEN MEN ROBERT H. BISHOP A grand old Scotchman reared in poverty, educated partly by charity at the Edinburg University, who came to the sparsely populated southern Ohio to establish Miami University as an educational institution of highest ideals and reputation. THE UNIVERSITY, PAGE 2I GEORGE JUNKIN I A The reputation of this orthodox Presbyterian minister as a skillful and firm disciplinarian brought him to Miami to outline the laws and rules of the university. G ADMINISTRATION, PAGE 24 ERASMUS D. NIACNIASTER G I Also of Scotch aes-teeafgiiia a Presbylteriane minister, fp philosophical mind extended and raised the curriculum to the advancement of religion, morality, and to the elevation of American citizenshipg A I I STUDENT-FACULTY GOVERNMENT, PAGE Izz XVILLIAAI D. ANDERSON This popular man of earnest and powerful oratory brought the highest point of prosperity and success yet attained by the institution. The class of 1852 gave to the country a Speaker of the House of Representatives-and a President of the United States. I A ' FRATERNITIES, PAGE 279 JOHN HALL I 4 U 4 President Hall brought several innovations: agsingle step fwas taken tofwards the elective system fwith French and German being accepted in place of Greek, athletic training faith a gymnastic exhibition in the autumn and a course in practical engineering to connect with the 'work in mathe matics LANGUAGES PAGE 144 W, if I X 1 Fab fm K I I' l , , I Jil 'Y 44? xy pw' Ii ' f , 7 X f f l I - 1 ,li flhfh 1 1f4f 1 Xxx fx- 'WISD- Q ' R, are it F k 0' rpg FX M ,ws-R rl 1 swf, I A WI: f tif W A64 in 5 4, A -'IH 1,1151 W, ' I l X it ,Ts , N 'Mi . T s Ox' X 'IN , T

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FIFTEE N AN M AM ROBERT L. STANTUN ' As President, Dr. Stanton opened the doors to the nren returning front the war and encouraged allthe debates and oratorical contests between the two literary societies, Erodel- phians and the Mianii Union. e V PUBLIcAT1oNs, PAGE 13o ANDREW D. IMIEPBURNV Fornierly a professor of English Literature, he carne into the presidency in his quiet, nlodest nianner and then, un- fortunately, it was his duty to announce that the university would have to close owing to financial ernbarrassrnent. ROBERT VV. NIACFARIQAND X By giving thought to the student first, President McFarland acconrplished his tasle of reviving the university to niake one whose career would be comparable to the old. Worrieri were adnzittedas students for the first tinie. i f VVoMr:N's GOVERNMENT, PAGE I24 IQTHELBERT D. XVAR1f11cLn s ' e Wlaen President Warfield arrived, he intniediately took advantage of the fact that western institutions were able to have rnore liberal educational curriculunis. Frorn his efforts, the university was placed on the high standard for which it has been noted ever since. g , i Courier: OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, PAGE 29 XVILLIANI O. FIQHONIPSON s t Mian1i's athletics were placed upon an aniateur and a Board of Athletic Control was organized. building a gy71l77l1Sl1l7ll and acquiring an football tearn was furnished with canvas to play the rascally U. C. teanr. K n X663 pg? sv 4 X X ,ft -1132! QR, D s l X if 2 Q J' ,ff 1, f' f',v I , 'fkANX f 5 , , 1 ,I g .LQ4 I I I X h 1 f , l M at , M' Wi? f Y? f 'F W 4, If ,I,uA4,f Xi ff ff H , N f nhl I .M J- fini jllf' HW ll f f f ,H J- N1 fam , uf X Q Q ffl!! X so Q 'yr f X ft , g ff'-x f lf XX V, Ml, it ib'1'fv,, ,af 3 E XX N, . W f k Z' o X 0 I l 1 xl! x JI 'f '1'V if j if . f f to ff, -N, ,iflhx s ss nb 4, Xeno ui 1 I ffl ' f 'X 4 fy 7 f Z .,l'f f