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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