Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-08
Report of the Trustees of Cane Hill
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' 4Ho"eFotor ana 1Hena6erS Of Arkdn-
 sas Synod of Me CumJerland PresJyterian
 Church:
 The undersigned, appointed in behalf oi ,he board of trusteee of "Cane Hill Col iege' would respectfully represent to your reverend body, the following as their annu- al report of said board of trustees.
 0ihce our last report Gin Oct. 1S5S) your college has been moving on steadily towards that position, which it ought to oe your aim, for it to occupy. During the lHo' coiieSate year we have had in atten- uah;e' as you may see from our published ca'a' ogue' e'ghty-eight (SS ) students s-elevn oi whom were candidates for the ministry Ill the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, ana one Tn the Methodist Episcopal Church. Tn June last we graduated t,ro, both of whom are candidates for the ministry and one of whom IS now in the Theological ocool at Lebanon, and expects to labor as q missionary m some foreign and Thus may your reverend body see that your col iege IS oeg'nsng to make itself felt in prepar- Ing the young men of the church, by close ana thorough training, to occupy respecta- oie positions Tn our own and in other lands During the first session of last year the en- tire labor of the school devolved on the professors, Lowery and Buchanan. Just alter the opening of the second session we were fortunate in secpring, through the ef- forts of our efficient agent, the services of the Rev. F. R. Easle, as president, who comes to us we'll recommended, was inaugu rated on the 23d of June last, and, is now Tn his place laboring for the college and the church. At the opening of the present year $. H. Buchanan, A. B., one of our graduates of last session, was engaged as tutor; We are happy in saying that he nilS the position assigned him admirable. 30 that now your college has a faculty con- slstng ot president, two professors, and tutor. This we consider quite an advance on last year. But we would respectfully suggest that H be Me fired purpose of eyerv meen'ber cf your body, to do epery utinq possi- Ote, and SO Co combine and erert vour inRu- ence Mat ace aoiU be enabled, 6ythe increased p0trondge of our endownaent of he college, to secure rery soon, @ leaa two new professor shtps. In addition to the present faculty, thetr ought to be, to make the college efficient and equal to the demands of the age. a chair of |" Rhetoric and Belles Letters and one of '' the Natural Sciences"
 The board of trustees would soon feel authorized to organize these two professor shlps and also another branch in the pre- paratory department, if every minister and elder Tn the Synod would feel like ard labor like the college belonged to his church. ms addition to the corps of teacheres can easily be made, with the proper effort on the part of all who ought to feel interested Tn making your college the first institution of learning in the State. Since our last re- port the department of civil engineering has been organized in which your sons may become both theoretical and practical engi- neers. This department is under the su- pervision of the president and professor Buchanan. Within the last year your col lege has received from the department of the interior at Washington, through Sena- tor Sebastian, one very valuable lot of books, 42 vols. |" the Annals of Congress" from the list session in the year 7S9 to the 18th session in 1894, and has been inform ed that second box containing about 50 vols. has been forwarded, which we have not received. From Senator Sebastian we have also received beautiful copy of the Bible for the college chapel.
 From sundry citizens of Van Buren and New Orleans we have received as a present flne large bell, weighing 4l9 pounds, and rom Nm. Quesenberry, esq.,, of Fayette- vile, llfe-llke and life-size portrait of Rev. A. Buchanan, one of the pioneer minis ters of Arkansas and one of the founders and last friend of your college, who, by his last will and testament, has left his fame to the college
 Ought not the lifelong labor and dying act of that good man, and the examples of interest and liberality in him and others to- wards your college stimulate erery member of your body to contribute your mites for such an enterprise. Loboremus pro fu- tura, tus labor for Me future, is the mot to adopted by your trustees Let us aH Hye for such an object! Cannot all of us do something, however little, still something that will tell Tn the advancement and growth ot the college In some of its departments? A rare or valuable or standard book, a specimen in geology, or mineralogv, a fos- sll curiosity or some specimen of Indian antiquities; something for the increase of the apparatus, choice maps, old manuscripts connected with the early history of our State or our country, or our church All such things would be thankfully received and would be valuable acquisitions. Can not the circuit-riders of your body do lit tle--a great deoi for US in collecting such things for our library or cabinet or apara- tus? Cannot each one of you, through your influence, send us a new student every session? It is only by union of effort that constant and healthy growth can be secured. Our library is only beginning It ought to be increased ereyy ycar Oul supply of maps is limited We have nc map even of our own State. Our appara- tus needs constant additions. And it is by long continued effort, little here and a little there, that those vast and priceless collections of geological, mineralogical and fossil specimens, that adorn the older in. stitutlons of our land have been secured = We earnestly ask the assistance of ever, member of your revered body in these mat ters.
 Since our last report there have been nc changes in the buildings of the college.- We would request the appointment of Joh1 lllley Tn the place of 5. Doak Lowry, who hereby sends in his resignation as trustee As reported to you year ago, the endow. ment fund then amounted to the sum ot So, l62 30. Since that time our agent Rev. w. G. L. Quait has been laboring 1T his agency for about seven months, and nc official report having yet been made by hin to the board, we would respectfully refe your body to him for information in refer renee to his success and the character you college sustains outside of your synodica bounds.
 We have in attendance now seventy stu dents; of these, five are candidates for tn, ministry. All ofwhich is respectfully sub mitted.
 F. R. EARLE,
 $. DOAK LOWRY, Com.
 P. w. BUCHANAN
 r. S.-We would suggest that it is tn, duty of Synod according to the colleg, charter to appoint board of visitors to at tend the annual examination of the colleg, lpl onHr