Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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demic department during time first year. Tile courses offered that year were Greek, Latin, English, German, and Nlatliematics. AI- though the college was presented with many trying and diiiicult situations, it managed to weather the storms and continued to progress with increasing enrollments, and a continued interest in its existence and purpose. However, on September 11, 1876, the institution suffered a serious loss in the resignation of President Nluiileniuerg, who accepted a professorship of Greek in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, a position' which he was called to fill because of his national reputation as a Greek scholar. As his successor, the Board of Trustees elected tire Reverend Benjamin Sadtler, D.D., who had been time principal of the Lutilerville Ladies Seminary,.and at the time of his election was a member of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I At the same meeting of the Nlinisterium, at which Dr. Sadtler was inaugurated, the Ministerium assumed entire control and re- for tile maintenance of the College. During the presi- of Dr. Sadtier very few changes occurred either in the or in management of the college. It was during this period that the class of 1885 published the first issue of tire Muhlenberg later to the Muhlenberg lvveeicly.

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collegiate buildings in Allentown for the use of the Lutheran Synod. To complete the task, a joint stoclc company was formed and a Board of Trustees elected by the cornpeny. Thus, the founda- tion for the new college was laid. The new Board of Trustees unanimously elected the Reverend Fredericlr A. Muhlenberg, D:D., as president of the new college, and at the suggestion of William H. Blumer, Esq., they named the institution Muhlenberg College, in honor of Henry Melcltoir Muhlenberg, the great pioneer of the Lutheran Church in America, a name honorable in Church and State. The property of the new college consisted of about five acres of land in the southeastern pert of the city of Allentown. It w s bounded by Walnut Street on the north, Fourth Street on the e , and Union Street on tlle soutlr, ancl was originally the property the Livingstones, relatives ofthe Allens, tl1e founclers of tlme which bears their name. The inauguration of the president and other members of faculty tool: place on Tuesday evening, September 5, 1867. rnoming after, recitations were loegun ancl Nlulllernlnerg was on its way to at successful continuance of There were one lrunclrecl ancl aca- I

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. During tlie winter of 1884, Dr. Sadtler sustained serious injuries as a result of a fall on tile ice. These injuries finally lecl to his retirement from an active life, ancl in 1885 tie resignecl the presidency of the College. His successor was the Reverend Theodore L. Seip, D.D., who had been a part of Mutileriberg College since the beginning of its existence, having been principal of tlrie Acaclemic Department, Professor of Latin, financial agent, ancl Professor of Greek. The vast experience gained by Professor Seip was of great value to tiim, ancl with the coming of a new aclrninistration, tliere began a periocl of greater prosperity than the College had lnittierto enjoyecl. In 1904, when Dr. Jolm A. W. Haas left liis New Yorlc pastorate to assume his position as head of time little college, still at Fourth and Walnut Streets, Muhlenberg had a campus of little more tlian one city lbloclc. lts single lauilcling liacl an allegecl Worth of 340.000, lout even more important, tlie College owned a 72- acre plot of ground on tlne western fringe of the city, lnigli on a riclge wliere it coulcl be seen by all. By January 1905, Muhlenberg had movecl to its present location, ancl tract become a nevv College consisting of an Admin- istration Builciing, Berlcs and Rtioads Halls, a chemical l ancl the Presidents house. The ff' f X S 52. s K, 3-