Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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The college also reserved the right to declare off limits any show or public enter tainment it might consider undesirable. lt prohitited profanity, prevarication, 'funcleanness of person and conduct or language, and the use of intoxicating beverages. Students are never allowed to be on the streets, nor in the stores, about town except on business, which is to be promptly attended tog nor to be away from their own rooms, except at appropriate times for recreation in some inoffensive and honorable manner. That things did not always go exactly as the book would have them, however, is amply attested in the faculty minutes which reveal that scholarly group spending endless hours in the decades which followed dealing with rebellious offenders of all kinds. The 1854 catalogue boasted that Fulton was 'fa healthy andtplea- sant village . . . blessed with a religious, moral and cultivated society, so that parents may be assured that their sons will be exemp from many rui-nous temptations, and be surrounded by many sacred influences. We've come a long way from those days. I 1 Westminster stood at the zenith of prosperity in the fall of 1860. President Laws' fund-raising activities had been quite successful, and the college endowment exceeded S100,000 exclusive of buildings and land held in trust. The Civil War, which shortly broke upon the scene, dissipated all of this, however, and left the college a struggling, starving institution for the remainder of the century. President Laws and the Board parted company in the fall of 1861 over problems of internal management, but the trustees voted to hold classes in spite of wartime difficulties.