Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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J I loi n outn College, N the third of September, 1850, Monmouth College was opened. It was at first started as an Academy but was taken under the care of Monmouth Presbytery the next year as a College with Rev. David A. Wallace as the president. For more than twenty-one years Dr. Wallace gave the most efficient and faithful service to the college. It is to Dr. Wallace and the early Faculty that Monmouth owes a debt which never can be paid. Dr. Wallace resigned his position in 1878. In the spring of the same year Rev. J. B. McMichael D. D., was elected to the position and began his work in the fall of the same year. Dr. McMicheal gave nineteen of the best years of his life to the college, and it made rapid progress under his wise administration. The endow- ment was greatly increased and the auditorium was built. Dr. McMichael resigned in ' 97. Rev. S. R. Lyons, D. D., was elected president in ' 9S and has been in control of aft ' airs for three years. The college has had great success in the past and it is the hope lliat it will continue and increase. With the business affairs under the present management there will be great progress, for without doubt Monmouth College never had such a good man in charge of her finances as she has at present. The curriculum is equal to that of any minor college of the State hav- ing good tsaohers in charge of every department. During the past year no department has been more popular than that of Modern Languages under the direction of Prof. Arnoldson, and the department of History under Miss Patterson. Hundreds of men and women have received their education in Mon- mouth College and are filling every kind of positions in the world of affairs.