Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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PROF. WILSON. With the expiration of the present year, Prof .T. H. Wilson completes forty years of connection with the college: first, in the chair of Mathe- matics, and later in that of Greek. At the mid-winter meeting of the Senate he presented his resignation to take effect at Commencement. Prof. Wilson is the last remaining member who connects the present with the early Faculty — the heroic men and wjmen who made the sacrifices and bore the hardships incident to the founding of the college on these western prairies. The attainments of the present are very largely due to the unselfish devotion of these Dioneers of Christian education, ' and no one of them is deserving of more honor .than Prof. Wilson. During all these years he has been a faithful, earnest teacher, patient and skillful in imparting knowledge, a strict, but kind and just disciplinarian, a wise and discerning counseller. Not only his ability as an instructor, but the worth of his character has made him a power in the institution. Modest and unassuming, but firm in the performance of every duty, true as steel to what he considered right, he will stand in the mind ' s of the students, as a type of noble Christian manhood. As soon as, college closes Prof. Wilson goes to Colorado to reside. The Annual wishes for him many years of peace and happiness, and assures him that he will carry with liim the love and esteem of the many hundreds of students who have been under his instruction.

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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.

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THE ANNALS of 1901 record no more important event in the history of Monmouth College than the withdrawal from the faculty of one of the best loved teachers who have ever served in the cause of Christian education in Monmouth College, or in the U. P. church. Mrs. Jennie Logue Campbell retires from the chair of English Literature, after a faith- ful service in the institution of nearly a score of years. During this period she has ever been a devoted, loyal supporter of the best interests of the college, and a warm personal friend, as well as faithful instructor of every student who came under her tuition. Her life has nobly e.xempli- fied the vigor of intellect, the oroad Christian charity and the tenderness of heart which should unite in the ideal woman; and her efforts and her influence among the students have ever been directed toward the best and truest development of heart as well as mind. Her gentle sympathy, her kindly encouragement, and selE-saorificing service have endeared her to the hearts of hundreds of men and women scattered over our country, who, in their various lines of labor, will learn with regret of the severance of her connection with the college. Through the pages of The Ravellings do we gladly bring our tribute of affection and express our gratitude for the strength of her noble life, and for her true inspiring womanhood. And we wish her many years of happiness in the home life to which she will now devote herself. We are pleased to know that her retirement from service in the class-room does not mean the absence of her interest or her presence in college circles, and we hope to greet her in the future as a frequent visitor and loyal pa- tron of our college.