Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-17
MEETING IN AID OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE

An interesting meeting was held ON Sunday
evening" at the Church Of the Messiah, TO hear from
the Rev. Mr.. Dean the agent, an account OF the
condition and prospect Of Antioch College recent
y founded aud iiourishing educational institution.
Rev Mcssrs. OsgUud and Bellows, of New York,
and Farley and L,ngfclow. ofBrooklyn, participa-
ted, in the exercises. They were followed by MIR.
Dean. who gave the expected statement oi which
we furnish the substance
Antioch Cullcge-so called from the city in whi ch
the followers Of Jesus we've first called Christians
was established about three years since, by union
of several religious denominations who have as
sumed the collective name of Christians, with the
design of furnishing ut the West the most thorough
elementary and elias steal training to all who might
be dcsirous and worthy of obtaining it and with
out imposing upon The pupils any merely ;ectarian
obligations.
When the enterprise was started, it received a
generous encouragement The subscriptions soon
waricnicd the laying of the cornerstone on beau
tiful site, at yellow Springs. OhO-a central posi-
tion, about seycnty-lOur miles norh OF Cincinnati,
celebrated for salubriiy. beauty and fertility. u
charter was obtained from the state OF Ohio the
Hon. II Grace Mann tie most distinguished educa-
tor in the country, called TO the presidency, ana a
corps OF professors l tinted of whom two are Cnlta
rians ur only know rs Christians, ,une Baptist and
one Dutch Reformed; set Of college buildings
erected, Of economical yet attractive character and
the institution opened with about three hundred
in october last, being unable to receive hundred
more applicants, on account Of the yet unfinished
state of its accommodations.
10 accomplish this gratifying result the Chris.
tans, though a comparatively oorbudy have raised
among themselves Sl5OOO0, already paid into the
treasury. This has been collected under two forms
viz Sl00, 600 toward tie endowed fund.- and 500
900, toward the building and apparatus fund, The
Institution still requires TO support its professors
and to complete and pay for its buildings a'd ap
para,us SlO0,COO: ald lst $4,000, in the form Of
outand-out gifts ID $j0,o00 toward the endowment
To render it competent to the support of instruction
which it proposes 10 raise, as it has raised tl'
100000 already collected !or that purpose-by th'
sale of scholarships ut Sl00 piece; each scholar
ship, share, emitting the owner keep one pupi
: Mt the college lerrctunlly, free Of tuition.
These shares are alicldy at premium Of $50 IL
the state Of Ohio bit the college solicitous to co
lcct its pupils from wide area, will not sell an,
more in it5 ownncigh ghborhood, if it can he a o'dcd
5 The college has drawn heavily enough, also. on il
7 immediate constituents, and il now appeals to thu
liberal Christians in other parts Of tho country, Il
purchase tic remaining five hundred scholarship
S and contribute TO the building fund
Tho rest Of the proceedings Of the meeting passed
i OF in satisfactory manner ard several gcncrou
II subscriptions were taken On tie epot.-Nec IOr
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