Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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Union National Bank HENRY TEIGELER, President Fremont State Bank DAN V. STEPHENS, President Fremont National Bank CHAS. F. DODGE, President

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 Fremont’s Style Center” 17’ O A O 1) AO Exclusively Women’s and Misses’ ! K KAjIND Ready-to-Wear J l l J We Feature Quality Merchandise Only, at Most Moderate Prices j 141-143 EAST SIXTH FREMONT, NEBR. soul Invest; therefore, we. the representatives of the Illinois, Iowa. Kansas and Ne- braska synods, in a.eeord nee with tin instruet ions given us. memoralize this l od for the creation of a General Synod Board of Education. On motion, this petition was referred to a committee. It consisted of the chair- man of delegations from the afore-mentioned synods, whose report is here in part reproduced: That this Board secure for the General Synod any lands which may he donated for educational purposes, provided that conditions shall not he accepted so as to compel injudicious location. In the event of offers for the establishment of an institution, the consideration of the same shall he referred to said Board for decision. Rev. Mosheim Rhodes. I). I)., of St. Louis, one of the men appointed on this Board of Education, was elected as first executive. He. later served the college in j NEW FIDELITY QUALITY7 s LAUNDRY i SMITH BROTHERS. PROPRIETORS J 2.V WEST 6th STREET IMIONE 208 | Work Called (or and l)cli crcd its first two years as president, pro icm.. and lecturer on Ethics. Further developments accrued at «he thirlv-lhird convention of die General Synod assembled in the old Kountze Memorial Church, then situated on the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Farnam streets, in Omaha, Nebraska. June I to 13, 1887. This location is a landmark in the histon of Midland College. Here, the General Synod decided to establish a college in the west. At this time, also, the same both assigned to the Board of Education its first specific duty, namely, the founding and sustaining of the future western college. Propositions to the board for the location of a college had been presented by nine different cities and towns in Kansas and Nebraska. Two of them were regarded especially worthy of note, namely. Atchison, Kansas, and Beatrice Nebraska. The 1 Fremont Gandy Kitchen i ! JOHN PETROW, Proprietor | Refreshments and Light Lunches Served at All Hours. Candies | Forwarded Anywhere in the World. ]

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I I I ■ j Hammond Stephens Co. j i Educational Publishers i ! FREMONT, NEBRASKA J i i i i i i ; high School and College Diplomas ; ; TEACHER’S CLASS RECORDS ; ! TEACHER’S PLAN BOOKS ! : Review Outlines Based on : ■ Nebraska Courses of Study | i i i i i i I WE FURNISH MIDLAND S DIPLOMAS ! I I l l former was the city chosen as the location of the new college. The name selected for the institution was that which it now hears. Midland College. The school opened in the fall of 1887 with seventeen students enrolled in the collegiate department, the first building to be occupied was the Atchison Institute building, owned and formerly used by Harriet Karbari Monroe, an ardent Lutheran, who had up to that time conducted an academy. A faculty of nine members was selected. Rev. Moshcim Rhodes, I). I)., who contributed delinite policies to the college, was president pro tern. Prof. W . H. Wynn. Ph. I)., from whom the Wynn Literary Society gets its name, and who suggested the name “Kalophronean for the other literary society, was dean and professor of Ancient and Modern Languages. Rev. W. B. Glanding. A. ML. was professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Other instructors were Franz A. Lem me. German and French; Gertrude DuBois Wynn. Art; Phoebe Clark and Fid ward S. Karhart. A. VI., instructors of preparatory classes; Rev. J. S. Detweilcr and Harriet Karhart Monroe. Rev. Dr. Wynn for a time, also, acted as president of the college. The first president of Midland College, Rev. Jacob A. Clutz. I). I)., was inaugu- rated in 1889. He furthered the eminently successful policies, already shaped by l)r. Rhodes, in expanding the college. The personal it of Dr. ('.lutz permeated the entire college and constituency, and was a great contributing factor in firmly estab- lishing tin institution. He had a well-stored mind of unusual penetration and was a teacher of superior ability. The president possessed a splendid executive ability and could express himself in a plain manner without giving offense, and had the