Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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X I 9 The President of Rockford College N October 18, 1902, Dr. Julia H. Culliver was installed as President of Rockford College. The exercises were held in the chapel of the College at three o'clock in the afternoon, and were opened and closed with singing by the Clee Club. Addresses were made by the Rev. William DeWitt Hyde, D. D., LL. D., President of Bowdoin College, Miss jane Addams of Hull House, Mr. john H. Sherratt, President of the Board of Trustees, and Miss Gulliver. Distinguished repre- sentatives of other colleges and many alumna and friends of the College were present. Thus bringing together men and women interested in education and in Rockford College, the occasion aroused inspiring memories of the past and stimulated hopes and plans for the future which are already beginning to be realized in the growth and development of the College. Since 1890, with the exception of one year spent in study, Miss Gulliver had been Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in the Seminary and in the College, and during the prolonged illness of Miss Emily K. Reynolds, she had been Acting President. Miss Crulliver is the daughter of the Rev. john Putnam Culliver, D. D., LL. D., President of Knox College from 1868 to 1872, and Stone Professor of the Relations of Christianity and Science in Andover Theological Seminary from 1879 until his death in 1894. Dr. Gulliver was perhaps best known as a reformer, a close personal friend of Governor Buckingham, the war governor of Connecticut. Before the founding of any of the prominent Colleges for women, he was an earnest advocate of the higher education of Women. The devotion of Dr. Gulliver to the cause of education has been continued in the work of his daughter. Miss Gulliver received her first degree as a member of the first class of Smith College, 1879. ,After some years spent in study, largely under the direction of her father, she received from Smith College in 1888 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prom 1890 to 1892 she held the position of Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in Rockford Semi- nary. The following year she spent in Germany doing advanced work in philosophy at the University of Leipsic under the direction of Professor Wilhelm Wundt. From that time Miss Gulliver has been Head of the Department of Philosophy and Biblical Literature in Rockford College, and, much to the satisfaction of all, continues her Work in ethics and Bible. The first work published by Miss Gulliver was Dreams, a thesis presented to Smith College and published in the jezerezezf of Speezeleriwe Plziferephv in 1879. This was followed in 1884 by The Substitute for Christianity Proposed by Comte and Spencer, which appeared in The New Eezgfemeier and Tefe Review. f' Tito Melema was published in The New World in 1895, and in 1897 The Value of Goethe's Thought of God to Us. Also in 1897 appeared Miss Gulliver's translation of Wundt's Facts of the Moral Life, in which she was aided by Professor E. B. Titchener of Cornell University. ln New York, 1900, appeared her Temptation of Mr. Bulstrode: A Study of the Sub-Conscious Self. During these years as a member of the faculty, and now as the President, Miss Gulliver has been thoroughly identified with the interests of the College. lt was with hearty good will and enthusiastic faith that she was welcomed by trustees, faculty and students as President of Rockford College. 7

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