Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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Cs W THE ARGO ei -s Q. I I Vi 63 I 9 G3 Ffa Q5 . . X t L-Q D Q 5' t 6 .lt pu ea N fi L 4 D, r , i, gf Tl B' 11 f 1 ' ' ue tograp y o an nstttuuon 2 . BY Wtuaun H. BALDINGER. '20 GD Westminster was born amid much confusion and not without travail. The period was one . .fl of reaction and expansion, -national and educational. Gi Covered wagons fumbled in an endless line across the mid-western plains: newspapers kg- sprouted in profusion: hordes fled from the political unrest of Europe and swept into the -3 adolescent country: the irnell'ectuaI Fillmore was president: Uncle Toni: Cabin was the best X seller: sectional discord culminated in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. ' The school began its struggle fur existence under the maternal eye ot' the Associate D 7 church. Duncan Forbes, a rugged Scotsman, conceived the idea in ISH9. Two years later, in f' presbyterial conference, Edward McElrec moved for the establishment of a college. The minutes of the conference record that the conference was convulsed with laughter. 3' llaving had their fun, however, the committeemen voted unanimously to inaugurate the Westminster Collegiate Institute for the mental and moral training of the youth ot' both gf sexes, affording instruction in the arts and sciences, and the promotion of the pure principles 4 oi Protestant Christianity. Q Among colleges in the United States. Westminster was third to admit women students in S 9' at collegiate equality with men. Oberlin made the innovation in IS33, Lombard University L following in lSil. QA New Bedford, Slippery Rock and New Wilmington contested lor the site ot' the college, Q New Wilmington getting the decision. Since lS52 the history of New Wilmington has been ' that ol' Westminster. '5 31 V A Y 664' 'F ' f - a O Doom 1892 1927 1 oefffm ,f of t Twenty-three