Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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Thomas D. H' vvfl 0 ' A , 0 N '- O Westminster Qllullege FRANC L. MCCLUER, '16. HE HARDY PIONEERS of the stern frontier lands of our nation's I history looked to the churches among them to establish and care for the educational needs of their children. Nor has this later day left us Without the need of the church college, rather does the hurry and bustle of our complex life make it all the more necessary that the training of the heart keep pace With that of the mind. Westminster College Was founded as a small college and as a college only. lt was intended to be a thoroughly human institution in which personality should transcend machinery. The high hopes its founders had for it have not been in vain. The college Was founded in 1849 as Fulton College and chartered by the State of Missouri as Westminster Collegein 1853. The first annual cata- log, that of -1853-54, shows that the faculty then consisted of four men: Professor William VanDoren, Professor Samuel S. Laws, Professor expense for the Baird,and Pro- fessor James G. Smith, the first graduate of the college. O n e hundred a n d fourteen s t u- dents Were en- rolled thatyear. It is interest- ing to note the s t a tement 'of this c a t a lo g t h a t Board- ing, including Washing, fires, and lights, in F u l t o n , o r Within a rea- s 0 n a b l e dis- t a n c e , W a s 31.50 to 253.00 a Week. The 1 1 SAMUEL S. LAWS, A.M., D.D., LL.D. First President y e a r is esti- m a t e d a t some W h e r e b e t W e en one h u n d red and one hun d r e d and fifty dol- lars. Some- of the,-faculty rules ' of that early day give u s suggestive hints of the life of the t i m e. F o r example, No student is allowed to have or carry Weap- o n s , s W o rd canes, pistols, or any other t h a n p e n knives, and the f'U6 '-l as i -4 pf:-1 4 .