Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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.. 'S' ' . I V is - 1-'P F 'I 'I II, plant was built, the gymnasium equipped with new apparatus, and the library placed so as to be accessible to the students during all hours. The following year funds were secured for a dormitory. The most import- ant event of this year was the successful completion of negotiations between the two synods for co-operation in the ownership and support of the college- a form of co-operation that is in its nature permanent and which more than doubles the constituency of the college, both in numbers and in resources. I111903, President MacCracken resigned. Dr. I. J. Rice, vice-president of the college, was acting president during 1903-4. On October 22 and 23, 1903, the semi-centennial of the founding of Westminster College was celebrated. The first day was occupied by the alumni meeting. In the evening a recep- tion was held in the new dormitory-named Reunion Hall in commemoration of the union of the two synods in the management of Westminster. On the day following the semi-centennial exercises proper were held in the Presbyter- ian church. JOHN A. HOCKADAY, LL.D. 1837-1903 PRESIDENT WESTMINSTER BOARD ,OF TRUSTEES, 1894-1903 DISTINGUISHED'JURIST AND LEGISLATOR CHARTER MEMBER OF an PHILOLOGIC LITERARY SOCIETY . Tablet Erecfed bji Philologic Sofieiy, june 1906. Rev. Dr. David R. Kerr, for fifteen years president of Bellevue college, near Omaha, Nebraska, was elected to the- presidency in june, 1904. By july he was on the Held, and at work. Men were sent out over the state and Z1 systematic canvass for students made. The administrative methods of the in- stitution were thoroughly re-organized. During this year the publication of the News-Leifef' was begun. This has been been a great agency in arousing interest and in making new friends for the college. 352,000 was secured for the library, and that important department was thoroughly systematized and modernized. The laboratories were extensively increased, especially the bio- 22 l

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STER ff' W AE 0 CMArT!gi'lBD ' as . 'buosxeo logical. Athletics were placed on a systematic basis under the control of a special board, composed of student and faculty members. Dr. Kerr was formally inaugurated into oliice on October 31, 1905. Dur- ing this year a physical director was added to the faculty. Dr. Kerr had realized the need of 3300.000 additional endowment when he first came to XX,6Stll1ll1StGl'.' He now took steps toward securing it. The campaign for raising S100,000 in St. Louis began in April, 1906, and at this time of writing has practically been secured. Considerable progress has been made toward LIBRARY securing the additional 3200000 in Missouri. The new presidentis house, The Wasliiiigtoii VVest Mansion, is the first tangible evidence of the St. Louis effort. The faculty was increased in September, 1906, by the addition of another professor of science, Professor David MacLeod Davidson, his chair being chem- istry and biology. The curriculum has been remodelled C1907j. An advance has been made in scholastic requirements, and the college course based upon a four-year course in the academy, instead of three years as formerly. The 23