Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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7837 WESLEYAN It is the irony of the Liberal Arts College, that, preparing its students for peace, it is often forced to graduate them into a world of war. It was in 1825 that Captain Alden Partridge, a graduate of West Point, organized his American Lit- erary, Scientific, and Military Academy, including 300 cadets. When the school moved to Norwich, Vermont, in 1829, the Methodist Church had ahead; , l' I been looking for a suitable place to form a college. And so, in 1831, Wesleyan was founded, founded on ground which had already heard the sound of march- ing feet. The Civil War was the first major war through which Wesleyan passed. Some 133 students took part in that war, most of them fighting for the Union Army, and one of them serving as a Confederate general. The enrollment of the college dropped from 150 to 112 students, and the Chi Psi and Delta Upsilon fraterni- NX ties were forced to close their doors. In November, 1865, the Army and Navy Union was , formed, which promoted the raising of funds for the

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1943 OLLA PODRIDA WAS COMPILED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE SENIOR CLASS BY SCOTT M. HEATON. EDITOR AND CHARLES M. STONE, BUSINESS IMANAGER. OF THE JUNIOR CLASS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

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84115 mg K0111 7943 Memorial Chapel in memory of the 13 WTesleyan men killed in action. The Spanish-American War found the faculty granting leave of absence to those students who wished to enlist, and twelve volunteered. Louis A. Norris, $96, was the only one killed. F mm 1898 to 1914 Wesleyan continued a peaceful the World War was to prove a great challenge to the university. In December, 1916, the faculty approved the organization of a Reserve thcers9 Training Corps, which came into being March 28, 1917, with Prof. J Cady acting as commandant for the 267 trainees. On 'w 3X; gx' - K333: 47jy' , J1 J . , , J 4 J Aprll 17, 1917, the War Department offlcmlly recog- ,e' ' J7 .64 .3 - Z9714 nized the corps, and Lieutenant Arthur J. Hanlon, 106, e w$ 94 1.9 ., . K , e M ,9 who had transferred from Wesleyan to West Pomt, . ,3 ?gigytJ,x 3w 41sz76 '73:; was put in command. , aggiw 1 + 9221927: :32, Meanwhile, President Shanklin was given leave to 17,547K'W1$ w 3 .6; 9;, 9 visit France in the uniform of the Y.M.C.A., am ' of :1; ,ig': ;' 1;,7' Dutcher, vice-president, and Prof Nieolson, NV 1 J Jx14 e 1'1 3 33 1f x . E took charge of the college. Full credit for the yam, ? 13 41' .3... .5 f1 ,3 3 .. JWW1 xex N: X: Q f 3 , V .- 3 x 779-7 3 1... r v