Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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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 }

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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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Horeworh As the sands of one century rim sinifthy past, and before we turn the hourglass, let ws pause for a glance backward tomard that dream nf srivure and virtue, “for such was the early and sincere dedira- tinn of this institution.” ep NE INS TE PGE RTT PS TS aT eR FCT TS EET YI ER Sem eSA! FEIN SLO) UT RR VOT Rep RUN DEBE re ot is HEL eR Se MS SL RE Nd OPS NO eg AT eT tumn of 1882, that any definite measures were taken to carry the de- | sign into effect. The first meeting upon the subject was held at the house of Rev. James Thomson, Nov. 21st, 1832. Present at this meeting were Rev. Messrs. James Thomson, James A. Carnahan, John S. Thomson, Ed- mund O. Hovey, John M. Ellis, and Messrs. John Gilliland, Hezekiah - Robinson, and John McConnel. A oy an a ‘ be et A IE TS ET ich eres he RR ar cee! eh? Oru ede Ratti iii ner) bps nada! EAN ls a a lan eg i Ne bate ti he,