Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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QQ ,r Wh D iblff-Mlm Lest me become unminrlful of that glorious heritage rvhieh is ours, rve pause for a moments reflection, after a day full alike of success and adversity, and as me vierv the campus, the buildings, it seems, lalve on a stately, rever- ential, almost hallorved appearanc-e-memorials to those men. rvho have founded and so rvisely guided the destinies of ll'ashburn. Ac-knorvledging then our debt to these builders of the ately dedicate this lchabod Washburn, his name and so gener- this college at a time folloming him mho the campus today, are sacrifice, and ideals. past, paltry though our efforts may seem, me affection- boolc to the memory of rvlio so graciously lent ously contributed to of need, and to those names, perpetuated on byrvords of vision, From the moment lchabod laid eyes upon these regions of delight, his only study was how to gain the affections of the peerless daughter of Van Tassel.

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yn gi u'lJx5lr...l x, MJ ff- ' ----'nf-sem: . -fe:-my ........,g, U...-.1--........-::,,,. 1 . In N01 Nl' lllhle 1: 'KA I dfillg N. K bij. or 'i x' n bfyvxg 'S QQ , ' 'fleii-' , f ' 5, ' M51 1 :LA 1, '. uv f ' . '-X , vsgihgf, I!! t . I 'V I' ,fl lilly,-f' Ichabod Washburn rvas born in Kingston, August 11, 1?98, a direct descendant of the governor of Plymouth colony, Pl illiam Bradford. In 1831 he began rvhat rvas to be his life rvorlc and the great prize of Wor- cester, for at this time he first essayed the drarving of mire. It rvas he lvho in- troduced the draiving block, a device rohich has not been improved upon during all the intervening years. In his ivorlcs, for more than half a century, rvere made nearly all this country. Ichabod Washburn public spirit, very re- the old fashioned Con- and sharp in making erous rvith the fortune In December, 1868, he died in Wvorcester. l7Q8-I868 the piano roire used in rvas a man of great ligious, a believer in gregational creed, hard his bargains, but gen- acquired that may. stricken by paralysis,