Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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western Ohio. It also shows that there was established a Literary department and its course required four years for completion. There was established a College of Music in connection with the schooland a College of Commerce. The School was then known as the North Western Ohio Normal School. In the year 1880 there was added a department in the Fine Arts. The first teacher was Miss Gertrude Fryett. That year there was also estab¬ lished a department of Stenography. The first teacher of that department was D. F. Pettey. The same year there was added a department of special elocution, and military tactics. The first teachers of special elocution were J. W. Rush and Mrs. Lola Rush. Prior to that time the managers of the school would employ teachers of elocution to visit the school and give a course of instruction in elocution. The teachers previously employed to give instruction in elocution were Prof. Hamlin and Prof. Kidd. Prof. Rush also took charge of Military Tactics. At that time the Government had not yet sent an officer to take charge of the department. The same year the management also employed a teacher to give instruction in orchestral instruments. In 1881 was established a school in Telegraphy. The first principal of that department was P. W. Ream. In 1883was established a department of Architecture. The first teacher was J. C. Holland. In 1881 there was also established a College of Engineering. In 1882 J. M. DeFord was the first graduate in Civil Engineering. In 1884-85 the U. S. Government detailed Second Lieutenant H. L. Roberts cf the 19th Cavalry of the U. S. Army to take charge of the military department of the school. That year there was also established a College of Law. The first teacher was J. Ross Lee, A. B., L.L. B. Prof. Lee received the degree of L.L. B. from the University of Michigan. That year there was also established a Medical department. In 1885 the school was chartered by the state of Ohio as Ohio Normal University with full power to confer all degrees. In the school year 1885-86 there was established a College of Pharmacy. The first teacher was Prof. Ash- brook. - In the Fall of 1875 the North-western Normal then located at Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio, under the management of Prof. J. Frise Richard, was bought and removed to Ada, as much so as a school can be bought and moved. In 1878-79the building now known as the Administration building was erected. j n 1883 the frame building with four rooms now used as a Fraternity Hall was erected by the school. In 1895 the building known as the Pharmacy building was erected. The largest annual enrollment was in 1900,3349. In August, 1899, the school was transferred by deed to the Trustees of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— H. S. L.

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SENIOR CLASS, 1910