Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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fcfrttnrial. T this season, as we are about to go to press, we can only murmur our thanks, as a parting word to those who have so graciously and loyally assisted in making this book a reality. Much as “10” abounds in enthusiasm and ideas there has been no such a spontaneity of funds, for truly the poverty of the Senior Class is exceeded only by that of her individual members. Great credit and honor are certainly due our class for publishing this, the first class book ever put out by the students of the O. N. U. Yet we cannot except this credit without acknowledging the aid of persons outside our class. To the faculty especially do we extend our thanks for their considerate advise and unstinted good will. We also send abroad to our Alumni who have granted our requests for “matter” and “cuts” with alacrity, our best wishes and warmest regards. To our literary sacieties, our sororities and fraternities we must acknowledge our gratefulness for their interest in our work, and their appreciated contributions. Last, whether least or not, we wish to thank Q ur friends the Juniors, for their aid and good will in spite of all extenuating circumstances. Let us not be too hasty in our conclusions; these folks may come out all right after all. Our work on the whole has been pleasant and everyone has labored with a spirit and vim. If there has been heard the jar of dissension, it was only the ripple on the surface, while the great depths of our class spirit will flow on unbroken forever. If you appreciate our book. Dear Reader, if you are interested in our composition, if you can laugh at our jokes, and above all if you have a warmer feeling and a higher regard for our Alma Mater, the old O. N. U. — then are we content, we die happy. — The Editor.

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Xi ' lrr JtfettuirtaL BOUT the time that Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) laid the foundations of his fame in “Innocense Abroad” and Wm. Dean Howells of Ohio was appealing to the emotional and imaginative through poetic strains, a young man of eagle eye, unclouded vision, and towering scholarly ambitions and attainments entered a little differentbut equally useful realm, that of an educator, in what was then Johnstown, now Ada, Hardin County, Ohio. This spare but all the more active young man was Henry Solomon Lehr, founder and President Emeritus of what is now the Ohio Northern University at Ada. It does not require much of a draught upon your imagination to see this suunny far seeing pedagogue standing near the old depot, like the prophet cf Horeb lifting up his eyes and looking Eastward and Westward, saw no school of great learning on this newly established trunk line between Chicago and Alliance. Looking Northward and Southward he could discover on a bee line but one college or University between the capitals of the Wolverine and Buckeye states. Said he to his friends. Geographically, this is a strategic point for an Institution cf learning. He further saw that although the country was flat and adjoined the marsh lands, the head waters of two noble rivers, the altitude was necessarily high, the water pure and through future drainage, this would become a rich agricultural district. Argument number two for a College location. The almost phenominal results have justified the wisdom of one of our country’s great and good men. For more than a third cf a century, like a perennial spring, his tact, latent and fatherly dilligence, titanic ideals, unselfish Christain manhood, flowed into the lives of more than 32,000 struggling young men and women who had both cisatlantic and transatlantic homes. As graduates and ex-students, they now constitute a very vital part of the enduring fiber of our varied civilization. It was only natural that some tangible response to Dr. Lehr’s great love for his “boys and girls” should be suggested by them. Fortunate was it that Dr. A. E. Smith’s unselfish devotion and far seeing insight, began the crystallization of these nebulous yet precious ideals, into a Lehr Memorial Building, 180x160, three stories high, to be built of buff brick trimmed with stone and used for college purposes. The services of Rev. A. A. Thomas, a graduate of the Institution, was secured to gather funds, and the progress has been so commendable that more than one third of the approximate cost, $100,000.00, has been secured. The subscriptions are born of an unquenchable love and loyalty to certain fundamental elements of the old regime together with the abundance and assurance of continued and increased prosperity under the present administration.

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OFFICERS CLASS OF 1910 President, W. E. DAVIDSON Vice-P sident, EDWARD GRUETZNER Secretary, H. B. BUNSTON Treasurer, DALE ERNSBERGER Historian, HELEN POND Valedictorian, WILLIAM FLEMING Prophet, A. A. STAMBAUGH Orator, W. O. DOW Poet, MABEL COYNER MOTTO: He Can Who Thinks He Can COLORS: Silver Gray and Cardinal Red