The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-27

at Germantown this feature was engraiDeu On On @ sne
vpil and pas anon abandoned. In 1888 more
eligible site was procured on tne nOoie ~ Os
hills to the north of the borougn' hhu on tne
Attn of Iulv of that year the cornerstone oil the
main coIlepe building was laid All business in
town was suspended; there was an imposing
military and civil display; an address upon the
hill nv Rev Dr. b. g. Wolf, aud an Grafton in
the German Reformed Church by Hon. Joseph
r. IpgersoIl. The exercises were presided over
by the late Judge ], VI, Porter, for many wears
President of the Board, and one of the earliest
as well as most earnest friends of the institution
Among the professors at this early stage was
Samuel Gross. NJ. D., now Professor Of Surgery
IN Jefferson Medical College in this CITY, and the
classes contained many men who have since
risen to eminence in the busy worll among
them the orator before the societies for the pre1
sent year, the Hon. James Morrison Harris of
baltimore and his no less distinguished fellow
toWnsman, John W. Garrett, Esq, President OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, The Hon. N.
b. Smithers, of Delaware, was in the first class
that graduated, and among his fellow-students
was Ex-Governor Ramsay, Of Minnesota, now
United States Senator from that State
At the time the College went into operation
there was in Pennsylvania, east of the noun
talns, but one chartered college (the University
in this city, in existence, Dickinson College,
at Carlisle, having been closed, by reason of
hnancial embarrassment in 1881. The new
college, however, was obliged to struggle long
and painfully before 1t became known and ap,
preCated, and had il not been for the untiring
eXertion and self-sacrfce OF DR.. Junkin and
Judge Porter the enterprise would have been
given up.
In 1s4l DR.. Junkin accepted the Presidency of
Miami University, but returned In 1874 to
resume the Presidency OF Lafayette, which posi-
tior he again resigned in ls48, having accepted
the Presidency OF Washington College, Va. 1t
was while residing at Lexington that one Of his
daughters married plain, unpretendlng Vir-
ginla gentleman, who afterwards became the
famous Stonewall jackson. Dr. Junkin's patri-
otto resistance to the Rebellion is well known
e. Al r-I,-
cident is in such noble contrast with the
spirit exhibited by so many Northern men who
happened to be South when the Rebellion broke
out that it deserves special menton:--
On the 18th OF April, 1861, the students sur
mounted the statue of Washington with a
disunion flag. The Doctor Immediately
ordered 1t down; but finding it still there
when the Seniors came in to recite, he promptly
dismissed the class with the remark:-"Wel
then, gentlemen, as you have pat it there in
express opposition TO my order, | am under the
necessity OF telling You that have never been
ridden over rough-shod in that style, and never
lecture under Rebel fGg." In the evening of
the same day, the Faculty having voted to allow
the Rebel flag to remain, he resigned the Presi-
denCy of the College. Thus" says he, in the
published account of this transaction, ''within
twenty-four hours from the time was informed
that my colleagues mad determined to
permit the secession flag to wave over
the head Of Washington, my connection with the
College he had so noblV endowed ceased forever
l saw plainly that if remained, absolute silence
or voice in favor OF secession must be the
price OF my personal safety. This price was too
great Tor me TO pay. 1t would bankrupt my
selt-respect and pollute my conscience. The
only alternative was fighC;' and the brave old
mans course throughout the whole Rebellion
was as uncompromising as at the start The
Presidency of Washington College is now occu-
pied, as our readers are aware, by that
distinguished Rebel chief General Robert Z.
Lee, while DIR. Junkin has returned to Latavette
ND fOr rIyhi fho foil a,,1
strength of HE earlier years were spent. He is
now Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy,
and we doubt not that the students, under his
able instructions, will ever reject and abhor the
perncious Southern doctrine of ultra State
Rights.
The second President of Lafayette College,
from lS4l to 1914 during DR.. Junkin's absepCe),
was Rev. John w. Ieomans, d. D. He was
ripe scholar and man OF rare abilihes espe-
Cially in his tavOrite department of metaphysics.
lie had the honor OF being elected Moderator OF
the o. s. General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, which met in Rochester in 1860. After
his resignation of the Presidency, in 1874, he
became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
in DanVille, where he died in 1868.
Upon the second resignation OF DIR. Junkin in
| lS4S, the Presidency was offered to Rev. DR..
| Nassau, the Vice-President of the College and
Professor of Ancient Languages, but to the great
regret OF all the friends OF the College, he was
never inauguIated, and soon after resigned from
the Faculty.
1t was at this juncture that the Presbyterian
| Synod of Philadelphia formally adopted the
| College 1t was still 70 remain open to students
! OF all religious denominatlons but the charter
| was amended so as to allow the Synod to nom-
| nate all the Trustees and Professors, and
through annual committees to exercise gene
| raj supervision over the affairs OF the College,
| This was felt to be necessary 10 give efficiency
| to the institution, and the Presbyterians more
readily united in the project, as all the other
| leading denominations had established colleges
i'll this secuon OF the State, while there were
none under the control of any branch of the
Presbyterian Church. Rev. d. v Mclean, D. D.,
was elected by the Synod President of the Col
| lege, and vigorous effort was made to raise
permanent endowment of 100000, principally
! by the sale of scholarships.
DIR. Mclean was succeeded IN 1857 by Rev.
| George W. McPhal, ID. ID. II was during mis-
administration that the Southern Rebellion was
| commenced, the influence OF which was felt so
| severely by many OF the Northern colleges, as
| seen in the very large reduction of the number
OF students In them ALL So many OF the students
at Lafaye cite enlisted IN the army, and the pres
| sure OF the times SO much diminished the num-
Der of new students, that it seemed at one time
| that the classes OF the College would be dis
| continued. Dr. McPhall resigned in 1863 aud
| a meeting OF the Board of Trustees, in Sep
| tenber of that year, was called ito consider
| the pTopriety OF suspeuding operations under
| increasing embanassments," as the entire reve-
nue. of the Coleee, from all sources, amounted to
| but little over $4,000. The members OF the Synod,
| and other friends OF the College, would not,
| however, consent to this; and in October the
Rev. W. q. Cattell, ID. d., then pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church at Harrisburg
| but formerly Professor of Latin and Greek In the
| College, was elected President, and new effort
| was inaugurated to complete The endowment;
the Synod, at the same time, by unanimous
'vote, pledeing itself ito pray and labor tor the
final and successful establishment OF the Col
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