Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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I hz IIemnI.eIIIIcQiuIwn1Ilk AI IIIEIJIIIQ I TRUSTEES AT LARGE. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. HANFORD CRAWFORD, B.A., PI-LD. ......... .... S t. Louis, Me. I I JAMES NORRIS GAMBLEI MIAII I I I I I I I I Icincinnati HERBERT WELCH, Ex-ofHcIo, Chalrman. ENOS C. HARLEY .................................. Payton WILLIAM RI WARNOCK BENJI FI FRESHWATER GEORGE WARREN BROWN ...................... St. Lows, Mo. HON. GEORGE WESLEY ATKINSON, MA., PI-I.D., LL.D. ..... DAVID S' GRAY GEORGE D- SEI-BY .............................'......Washington, D. C. WILLIAMHICIGOODE EIDWARDMISEMANS OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. ISAAC F. KING HORATIO S, BRADLEY DAVID S. GRAY, Columbus ............. , . . ........ Presidenl ZENAS LI WHITE OLIVER P EDWARDS HERBERT WELCI-I, Delaware .... .... V ice President ' WILLIAM G, HORMELL, Delaware, ....... Sccfelary CHARLES CARY I

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S IIIIIHLIRE f'RHMUfRUWllI ll K Coiporation REV. BISHOP JAMES WHITFORD BASHFORD, D.D., LL.D., Ex-President of the University and Trustee Emeritus. Peking, China. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. EX-OFFICIO. REV. HERBERT WELCH, D.D., LL.D. President of the University. OHIO CONFERENCE. HENRY BARNETT BROWNELL, B.A. ......... . REV. ISAAC FENTON KING, B.A., D.D.. . .. GEORGE DYAR SELBY ................. ZENAS LEONARD WHITE ...... DAVID SIMPSON GRAY, LL.D. ............. . NORTH OHIO CONFERENCE. REV. FREND IRWIN JOHNSON, M.A., S.T.D... REV. SILAS ELLSWORTH IDLEMAN, M.A., D.D ISAAC HURST C-OOD ..................... WARREN CALVIN WHITNEY, B.A.. . .. CHARLES Ross CARY, LL.B. ...... . Washington C. H. . . . . . . .Columbus . . . . .Portsmouth . . . .Columbus . . . .Columbus . . . . . .Cleveland . ...... Atlanta, Ga. . . . . . . .Ashland .... . .Norwalk . . . .Millersburg CINCINNATI CONFERENCE. HORATIO STRONG BRADLEY, B.A. ................... Springheld HON. WILLIAM ROBERT WARNOCK, M.A., LL.D. ........ Urbana EDMUND DANIEL LYON, M.A., PED.D. ............. Madisonville REV. BISHOP JOHN MORGAN WALDEN, D.D., LL.D. .... Cincinnati REV. JOHN ALFRED STORY, B.A., S.T.B., D.D. ........ Springfield CENTRAL OHIO CONFERENCE. OLIVER PEARLE EDWARDS ................. .... L eipsie REV. JOHN CHARLES SHAW, B.A., B.lD. .... ...Montpelier WILLIAM HENRY COLLIER GOODE ........ ..... S idney REV. ELIAS D. WHITLOCK, M.A., D.D. ..... .... T Oledo REV. JOHN BAYNE AsCHAM, M.A., PH.D. ...... .... T olede WEST VIRGINIA CONFERENCE. REV. ALBERT BURDSALL RIKER, M.A., D.D., Mounelsville, W. Va. ASSOCIATION OF ALUMNI. SCOTT BONHAM, M.A., LL.B. ...................... Cincinnati HON. CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS, M.A., LL.D., Indianapolis, Ind. HON. FRANK SYLVESTER MONNETT, B.A., LL.B. ....... Columbus BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FRESHWATER, M.A. ............. Delaware EDWARD MERRICK SEMANS, M.A., M.D.. .. .... Delaware Sv

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Ohio Wesleyan Seventy years ago, in a small frame building situated on' the hill in the southeast corner of the little village of Delaware, there was opened a college of Liberal Arts. The little building, three or four instructors, a few dozen students, and a purpose, these were all its possessions, visible and invisible. The purpose was the most valuable of its assets, for through its inspiring influence we have today Ohio Wesleyan University, with its beautiful buildings and campus, its large faculty, its many hundreds of stu- dents, its splendid history, and still the purpose. l-low interest- ing it would be to trace the development of such an institution! Such however, is not our aim: we would speak only a little about its spirit and what it stands for. There is all the difference in the world between instruction and education. We are instructed in the common and high schools. We are educated in the University. Instruction has to do with the communication of knowledge. Education compre- hends not only this, but the improvement of manners, the forma- tion of the mind, the regulation of the heart, and the establishment of the principles. Ohio Wesleyan purpose has been and is to of- fer to the youth of the land the right sort of education. That is its one and only reason for existenceg who shall say it is not a sufficient one? Many and various colors are necessary to the production of a picture: many and various influences converge in the making of an educated man or woman. These influences Ohio Wesley- an aims to hold out. They cannot be enumerated like the items of a bill-of-fare, for they are intangible, unseen forces, silently working to the desired end. A suggestion of some few of them however, is within the realm of possibility. ' A faculty, said a facetious student, more witty than wise, is a necessary evil. His aphorism will not hold in the case of our faculty, at least, for its members endeavor not only to give us proper instruction but also to exert by precept and exaniple a benelicent influence over the lives of all studentsg not in a spare- the-rod-and-spoil-the-child'' spirit, but as man to man. Then, too, there come to us from the big world without, people who are doing thingsg statesmen, ecclesiasts, scientists, musicians, who, by their invigorating power instill in us a sense of gratitude that we are citizens of the world and inspire us to assume the responsibility which such citizenship brings with it. But after all, the greatest test of a man's worth is his ability to do thingsg and this ability can come only from experience. So we have at Wesleyan a little state, with all the institutions, politi- cal, social, religious, of a large state. The most casual perusal of this book will show their manifold nature, how they are com posed and managed by students alone. No young person can be thrown into such an environment without gaining training and power. Above all, Ohio Wesleyan desires to breed in the youth who seek her halls a spirit of democracy, of sympathy, of brother- hood. We like to think of our college as a place where the rich and the poor, the high and the low, can meet and mingle together on a common level. Conditions are not ideal in this respect at present, they can never be idealg but the endeavor of every true son and daughter of Ohio Wesleyan is to reach the goal of true democracy, when sense and worth, o'er a the earth, may bear the prize, and a' that.