Randolph Macon College - Helianthus Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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1894. September I2, November 29, November 30, December 19, 1895. january.. I, january.. 29, january... 30, january.. 31, March... 27, April .... 2, May ..... 29, May ..... 31, June ..... 5, June ..... 7, June .... . 9, june ..... IO, june ..... II, june .... .. I2, September II, Qlialenhms. semen WEDNESDAY .... FIRST HALF YEAR BEGINS. THURSDAY' Thanksgiving Recess. FRIDAY .... I WEDNESDAY .... . Christmas Recess Begins. TUESDAY ..... Christmas Recess ends. TUESDAY ...... First Half Year ends. WEDNESDAY .... SECOND HALF YEAR BEGINS. THURSDAY ..... Day of Prayer for Colleges. WEDNESDAY . . . Spring Recess Begins. TUESDAY .... .. . Spuing Recess ends. WEDNESDAY. .. Prize Orations. H Address Before- the Literary So- FRIDAY .... cieties. VVEDNESDAY. . . ' First Graduate Musical Recital. FRIDAY .... Prize Declamations. 3:30 P. M., Baccalaureate Sermon. SUNDAY .... 8 P. M., Address Before the Relig- ious Societies. , 8 P. M., Graduating Exercises of MONDAY ' ' ' Academy. f9 A. M., Examinations for Admis- sion. I - 1. ., A l ' - - TUESDAY. i v 3 I M nnua Meeting of Trust ees. I 8 P. M., Second-Graduate Musical L Recital. f'IO:30 A. M., Commencement Exer- I cises. VVEDNESDAY' ' 3 P. M., Meeting of the Alumni. 8 P. M., PI'esident's Reception, WEDNESDAY. .. FIRST HALF YEAR BEGINS. 'IO

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meet the growing demand for enlarged facilities, yet she has marched steadily forward and upward from yearvto year. In this age and especially in this new West, and in the incipient stage of a new college, the material part of it, the business end, the uprearing of brick, stone and mortar, the meeting of obligations, the paying of bills, the securing and investment of funds, must necessarily occupy a con- spicuous place. This has been true of Washburn. But while all this has been going on, the inner and scholastic life of the institution has devel- oped, and to this the president has given great care and thought. Wash- burn from the first has stood for thoroughness. A high standard has been rigidly adhered to, although the temptation to superficiality has at times been strong. President McViear, by a process of natural selection and survival of the Httest, has drawn around him a choice body of in- structors, to whose hearty and self denying co-operation the highest credit is due. As a result the higher, or college department of the institution has been rapidly enlarging, the proportion of advanced students is increasingg and the graduating classes, for many years small, are, in num- bers, as in ability and promise, very gratifying to the friends of the College. The alumni, too,who have gone forth during the present administration and are now dispersed over the country, and in foreign lands, are a body of men and women of whom the College and its leader may well be proud. Many of them are making their mark in the various professions which they have entered, and so the institution is becoming increasingly blest in her children. This is designed to be a sketch, not of Washburn College, but of President McViear, But the life of the latter is so intimately interwoven with the growth and prosperity of the former, that it seems impossible to separate them. We can neither speak or think of one without including the other. What Washburn College is to-day is largely due to the wisdom, vigi- lance and self sacrificing devotion of our honored president during these continuous years. Sir Christopher Wren's inscription over an inner door at St. Paul's Cathedral, might well be copied upon the walls of Washburn, and applied to its faithful president, even while as yet his vr' 'k upon its not ended: Si monumwzizmz reguiris circunz.vpz'cc. 9

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615132 'youth uf firueteem. QGQGQ flfur Germ Linhing llume, 1895. REV. PETER MCWICAR, D. D., ,....... ............... . REV. RICIIARD CORDLEY, D. D. ,... N .. .... REV. JAMES G. DOUGIIERTY, D. D.,. .. .... JUDGE DAVID J. BREWER, L. L. D.,. .. .. AI.IsE B. WRITING, ESQ. ,.... .... .... . J. G. BRINRIIIAN, ESQ., ....... ..... . . ..... Sfmt 6213111 Climbing ilzme, 1896, C. C. ScHoVII.I.E, ESQ., .......... .. .... REV. LINUS BI.AI4ESI.Ev, D. D.,. .. . . .. HoN. GEORGE A. EDDY, e ...... .... HARVEY D. RICE, ESQ, .... .... . Sterling. D. J. FAIR, ESQ... .... ...... .... .... . . . frfuv Qlerm Qinhing Ilmua, 1897. I-ION. SOLON O. THAcI-IER, L. L. D. ..... . .. AR'l'llU1i' J. BIICCABE, ESQ., .......... . JOIIN R. MULVANE, ESQ., .......... .. . .. REV. L. PAVSON BRQAIJ ,.... ..... S. H. FAIRFIELD, ESQ.,.. . A. C. STICII, ESQ., ..... .... 'DecenseII. I I ' Topeka. Lawrence. Kansas City, Kas Washington, D. C Topeka. Great Bend. Seneca. Topeka. Leavenworth. Topeka. Lawrence. Topeka. Topeka. Topeka. Alma. Independence.