Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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■ ' ■■ - ' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ' -. ■ ■ .».. rppHng. .-.« ' . r. ' vvvvv-.vwv- ' v-. ' vvn. ' w. ' v ITH this volume the Annual appears under a new name, a new form, and an entirel} new management. It has seem ' ed best to its friends to discontinue it as the organ of the Senior Class, and place it in the hands of the Fraternities, believing thus to gain for it a more heart} support, as well as to better insure its permanency and future improvement. It has been the purpose to exclude no one, but rather to give to it the support of the entire University in place of that of one of its smallest classes. Whatever improvements upon the last there may be in this volume, the reader will readily perceive. Wherein improvements can still be made, note and suggest to the next board. Our aim has been to make the volume commend itself by its worth to the student community and to the Alumni as a book of reference, while we have attempted to add such features as, we hope, will make the work attractive to the casual observer as a Colleo e Annual. i i f

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I isfoFgofl lip InsHfuHon. pr IS difficult for the present generation of students to imagine that the Northwestern University was not always such as it ' is now, with its numerous depart- ments, its able corps of professors, its just pride in its past, its active, aggressive present, its well grounded con- fidence in its future. It ir, difficult to tliink of it at a time when it had no past, only a struggling present, and a future which was doubtful, — almost visionary. Yet it is but thirty-five years ago, on the 31st of May, that its founders met to establish an insti- tution which was to be devoted to the ' ' interests of Christian learn- ing. A charter was obtained at the beginning of the next 3 ear, and two years later, its first president, Dr. Clark T. Hinman, was elected. Many were the localities proposed as the site of the new University, but upon the discovery of its present position, it was unanimously agreed to be admirably adapted to the purpose in view. Situated as it was conveniently near the busy metropolis beyond, upon the shores of the beautiful Lake Michigan, skirted with a magnificent grove of primeval oaks, in all its unadorned natural beauty, it presented a scene which no art could rival. Its manifold advantages could not but commend it to the judgment of the trustees, and accordingly 379 acres were purchased, for which was