Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Hrdiration Cn those sometines eccentric, hut almays learned gentlemen, who haue been members of the Farulty of Wabash College ........ Page Four faction of mind, may serve as a means of widening, increasing, and perpetuating the interest which all good citizens should take in enter- prises of this kind. The design of establishing a permanent institution of learning in the Wabash Valley was first formed by those who traversed its ear- liest settlements as missionaries; and the wisdom of this design was rendered obvious by the unparalleled rapidity of its settlement, in connection with the vastness of its prospective resources.

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Che Wabash be Published by KCOICNI . Q : = 3 Che Senior Class nf Wahash College PS aE ea a cit ct Darah mmectnhcstont-hatcdepha Ini nt POTS TE NTE RP TE, PTT TT PC ADARD Beer sae 7 rrr width CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA E HA tf | rtp Paye Three i Ste stitution as young as this, there cannot be much of incident peculiar, or of such striking interest, as to demand special commemoration from the pen of the historian; yet the origin and early history of our. public imstitutions of learning should be faithfully traced and preserved, as constituting an interesting and valuable portion of the country’s his- tory. Besides, the spreading before the public mind of the difficulties and struggles, as well as the success of these early efforts for the bene-

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And who have brought honor to her name, from the day of Caleb Mills to that of Professor Capy and Bortor Mackintosh, this book is Dedicated with reverence and af- fertion Paye Five One earliest to agitate this subject was the Rev. James Thomson, who settled at Crawfordsville in November, 1827. He, and others con- nected with the Crawfordsville Presbytery, then embracing most of the upper Wabash country, often spoke to each other of the importance of a timely effort to plant an institution of learning, under good re- ligious influence, and after the model of those planted by the fathers, in the older portions of our country. It was not, however, till the au- FLINT OO a ak clin Deh a sn Ph ne en af leet Ue DA yO ED Nig ai fo ak Me sing, brine gh + : A re | eee ree pean iistt eortot?. alg | ik ut Sen eer eee }