Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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1 fecial lectures for 1891 -’92. % Prof. E. T. HOUSTON, A.M., “ Physical Geography.” Rev. J. F. OHL, A.M , 11 Sacred Music.” Rev. T. E. SCHMAUK, A.M., “ Ideals of Education.” H. H. HERBST, A.M., M.D., (’78.) “ Hygiene.”

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faculty of tl;e C°H e E e - Rev. THEODORE L. SEIP, D.D., PRESIDENT, PROFESSOR OF MORAL SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES, AND MOSSER-KECK PROFESSOR OF GREEK. DAVIS GARBER, A.M., Ph. D., PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY, AND LIBRARIAN. PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Rev. MATTHIAS H. RICHARDS, D.D., PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AND MENTAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. Rev. WILLIAM WACKERNAGEL, D.D., PROFESSOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, AND HISTORY. Rev. JOHN A. BAUMAN, A. M., ASA PACKER PROFESSOR OF THE NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Rev. GEORGE F. SPIEKER, D.D., PROFESSOR OF HEBREW. The duties of this department are discharged at present by the other Professors. 10

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history of utylenberg C° e S e ' T?T is a matter of no little difficulty to compress into the few pages, dkk allotted to this article, the history of an institution which has ex- isted for twenty-five years. This article can, in the nature of the case, be a mere outline of the history of our Alma Mater. Muhlenberg College was founded in the year 1867, and is the suc- cessor of Allentown Seminary, founded in 1848, and Allentown Col- legiate Academy and Military Institute, founded in 1864. Long before the Institution was established, the Lutheran Church in Eastern Penn- sylvania had felt the necessity of having an institution of a high grade on its extensive and ever-widening territory; but not until the year 1867 could it see its way clear to carry its long-cherished plans into effect. From the beginning of the existence of Allentown Seminary, many of the clerical and lay members of the Ministerium of Pennsyl- vania were its warmest friends and most hearty supporters. The at- tention of the Ministerium was frequently directed to the Institution, with a view of securing it for the Lutheran Church. The necessity for such an institution became all the more apparent after the estab- lishment of the Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1864. Early in the year 1867 a stock company was formed for the purchase of the valuable property of the Institute, with a view of reorganizing it into a college, and for the management of the new Institution by a Board of Trustees, one-third of whom were to be elected by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. The new Board of Trustees took charge of the College on April 4, 1867; but the old arrangement of studies con- tinued until the close of the scholastic year, when the Military Insti- tute ceased to exist.