Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Bishop Simpson's condemnation of the Con- federacy lived in Frances XVillard's memory, as an occasion when the very air seemed surcharged with the thunder and lightning of God's wrath against secession and slavery. The exciting novelty of the war disappeared as the casualty returns came in and the Evanston Company of the Eighth Cavalry charged at Gettysburg. Alphonso Linn, a tutor of Latin, raised a platoon of University Guards and marched away to die of typhoid fever at Cairo. Professor Blaney resigned his professorship to enter the army. Then the firing ceased in 1865 and the University counted the cost. Seventy-seven North- Westerners, colonels, majors, captains, chap- lains, doctors, sergeants and privates, had gone to the war and seven were dead. Despite the decline 'in the student body caused by the call to the colors, the revenue of the University increased rapidly from the war appreciation of its property. The in- debtedness of the 1850's was liquidated by 1868 and more land was purchased on the North Shore, including the Snyder Farm south of Dempster Street in Evanston. Nor FIRST CAMPUS EXTRA CURRICULAR activity was Hinman Literary Society founded in 1855 for mutual improvement in mind, manners, and fra- ternal regardsf' Group met in later years in Univers- ity Hall, among appropriate decorations and furniture. f , OLD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, pride of the University in the l86O's, filled with fossils, skeletons and students. was the expansion of the University itself neglected. :X gesture toward the beginning of graduate work was made when degrees of Master off-Xrts and Master of Philosophy were First awarded in 1863. Scholarships were instituted for Chicago high school graduates, and the Preparatory School was given a per- manent status. The Museum was expanded and enlarged by Dr. Oliver Marcy, Dr. Blaney's successor as professor of natural science. Dr. Marcy was one of the most distinguished naturalists in the country, being an authority on the geology of the Northwest and having served as naturalist on the federal governments road survey through Idaho and Montana in 1865. For thirty-seven years this beloved teacher served as professor of natural history and physics and at various times added to his duties those of teacher of Zoology, moral science, philosophy, natural theology, mathe- matics, geology, mineralogy, botany, chem- istry, physiology, logic and Greek, in addition 25

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l856fFlRST UNIVERSITY LIBRARY was started on a 53,000 fund voted by the Board of Trustees. Space was provided in University Hall after 1869 for study and storage of books. Cast iron stove provided localized heat. expert swimmer, rescued seventeen survivors from the pounding surf and Northwestern acquired its first hero. lt almost acquired a life-saving station as well, for public opinion demanded the construction of a station, but the XYar between the States prevented im- mediate action, and eleven years passed by before the demand was answered. That autumn there were many important things to think about. The Hinman Society and the newly-formed Adelphic Society de- bated the significance of Harper's Ferry, and Mr. Lincoln, fresh from Cooper Union, visited his friend Julius White of Evanston, and was serenaded by the students. South Carolina seceded and the new President of the United States expressed the hope in his First In- augural that: The mystic chords of memory . . . will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as they surely will be, by the better angels of our nature. Soon he was making another appeal, for twenty-live thousand volunteers, because Fort 24 Sumter had fallen and war had begun. Allen YV. Gray of the University class of '63 marched away to Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Kenesaw Mountain Ccoming back for his degree in 1912j, and William H. Raleigh of Maryland took the long Southern road that led to Appomattox. A rush ofvolunteers to the colors was temporarily delayed by the Sunday closing of the Chicago recruiting oH'ice, but soon John A. Page was on his way to Cairo and Drilll drill! drill! . . . Articles of war or regulations were a myth to us. We were obedient, and performed our allotted tasks because we had been brought up to do so. We did not have any reverence for rank, nor did we appreciate the difference between a general, colonel or captain. On the home front, the girls of the Female College prepared hospital supplies and mended an old Hag, to fly at the masthead for the inspiration of the whole town. The more belligerent men organized the Union League to defeat Copperhead machinations, and ,,

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David Hilton VVheeler Acting President 1867 - 1869 Erastus Otis Haven President 1869 - 1872 Charles Henry Fowler President 1872 - 1876 to being twice acting president of the Uni- versity. E.x1Dfz71sz'07z and A Zz'atz'01z, I 86 9-I 881 The new prosperity of the University was reflected in the opening, in 1869, of the First permanent building, University Hall. The successful completion of this elegant and commodious structure owed much to the architectural talents of Professor Bonbright and even more to the financial ability of Professor Noyes. lVith its chemical laboratory, library, chapel, dormitories and museum, the University now felt better equipped for its task. Heck Hall, a dormitory building for the theological students donated by the Methodist women's organizations, had just been com- pleted on the present site of Deering Library. The hnal campus plan was made as a result of these new additions and Dempster Hall, the former quarters of the Biblical Institute, was acquired as a men's dormitory for the Uni- versity. The year 1869 also saw the addition of a medical school to the University. In 1857 Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, having failed to per- suade his colleagues at Rush Medical College to institute certain improvements in the curriculum, with Drs. H. A. Johnson and Edmund Andrews, transferred his ideas and leadership to the newly-chartered Lind Uni- versity in Chicago. His stated purpose was to put into practical operation a system of medical college instruction more in accordance with sound educational principles and better adapted to the present state of the science or art of medicine, than that which has been so long adhered to by the medical schools of the country. Four floors of the Lind block and the clinical facilities of Mercy Hospital were secured anda medical museum and free dispensary were established. In 1863 the school had become independent as Chicago Medical College when 187-1-XORTHWFSTERN CAMPUS from Evanston Municipal Pier. Lake steamers unloaded passengers and cargo hei e until railroad era developed. Panoramic sweep discloses University Hall, Old College, Heck Hall, and light house.