Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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1928 COPYRIGHT BY J. CLAIR MEAD EDITOR MARION HUFF BUSINESS MANAGER REV. W. R. ERSKINE and J. R. BROWN W. R. Erskine, together with the two former men. made a committee to investigate ways and means for the project; an arduous task, and not a famous one, hut necessary if the foundations were to rest on solid rock. By November of 1853, so indefatigable was the labor and the hope of these men, the drcamed-of Academy was ready to enroll its first students. The Rev. James R. Brown guided the welfare of the institution. To a ' a ' iikcn hii t fy tluniyhts in the minds of luir Alumni. —

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EX LIBRIS REV. R. C. PORTER and R. ROSS ■■ ' I ' lic Inuiiilatiiiii i)f t i r staU- is tin- cilucation nf its youtli. TIk ' su iiK-M. pastors iti W ' arrin and Hi-mlcrson coun- ties, met ill Octolier of 1X3J to iiinke tin- initial iilans for a school to serve tlie great need I ' elt liy tlie pioneers of tile mid-west. Realizing: tlie ina(lei|uaev of transportation to tlie col- leges further east, and tile comparative poverty which those who first make their way through wildernesses must en- counter, they resolved to Iniild liere a small altar, if you will, hut a sincere one. for Wisdom ' s sake. To give a resume of tlic dcvcliTp- iiuiil I ' f mir liisliliilii ' ii, —

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THE RAVELINGS OF 1929 REV. D. A WALLACE and M. MORRISON By 1855 the prestige of the school at Monmoutli had so established itself that her standing was raised to that of a college proper. The present faculty are. in some sense, the descendants of that first small group of men who guided and taught with an high courage which saw beyond the commonplace difficulties of the classroom a greater church, a more con- secrated state. The faculty of 1855 : David A. Wallace, President; Marion Morrison. Professor of Mathematics; James R. Brown, Professor of . ncient Languages. To I ' orlray viTidly the student in all of his octiTitics, —