Wilmington College - Wilmingtonian Yearbook (Wilmington, OH)

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In Retrospect The history of Wilmington College dates from 1863 when Franklin College was founded at New Albany in Athens County, Ohio. The institution was moved to Wilmington in the fall of 1865 and the cornerstone of what is now College Hall of Wilmington College was laid on .luly 41, 1866. 'The post-Civil War depression was too much for the struggling young institution and it was closed in 1868. Re-opened in 1870 by the Society of Friends, Wilmington College graduated its first class in 1875 and thereupon received its charter. Although under the sponsorship of the Society of Friends through- out its history and although it endeavors to exemplify Quaker ideals today, members of other religious groups have from the first been predominant in the Wilmington student body. With foreign students enrolling from many of the other nations of the world, many of the World religious denominations are represented in the student body, and the faculty and Board of Trustees have representatives from many American denominations. Summer sessions were begun in 1914, during the time that teacher education was getting its start. Lebanon National Normal University, an outstanding teacher-training institution, was merged with Wilming- ton in 1917 and the records of that institution have been administered for the benefit of LNNU alumni since that date. This ls Wilmington College

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