Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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COPYRIGHT 1932 by JOHN M. PLUMMER, Editor and REILY G. ADAMS, Business Manager Page Two ORIGIN An acorn planted on the banks of the Connecticut, before the era of civilization on this continent, grew to be a stately oak, and not only sheltered the charter which willing hands of kings would have wrested from the sons of freedom, but it lived to witness the triumph of free- dom, and the dispersion of her sons to freedom’s farthest mountains. A college is said to be “a tree of centuries,” and although in an in- hae |) SE SR

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oo t] Che Wabash Waa FR OR EOE tanee In this space on succeeding pages is reprinted the “History of Wabash Col- lege,’ by Professor Edmond O. Hovey, as it appeared in Volume I, Number 7, of The Wabash Magazine, in July, 1857. This chronicle, written about a “tree of centuries,’ is now presented on the eve of the centennial anniversary of our college, to preserve its words as they were set down by a revered member of the faculty, to recall an earlier day in anticipation of the forthcoming complete record by two other Wabash professors, and to commemorate the founding of The Wabash, seventy-five years ago.

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