The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-28
FRANKLIN COLLEGE.


Arrive.
We referred a day or two since to the
,:.o.o., oo,,ost al FRANKLIN College,
h'o'sy N ;,o,;,r,;or die.
last thursday nIgnt' d" 4N''''u ~
tant about 20 miles from thlS cUy'
facross the country at New Athens,
Io.ri.,n county Ohio. New Athens il
La nov" -, I,.;,,o;,. /, ain.
aDous hall wa! oes"eo' OF r -.
e ton about 10 miles west oil bFlusePoI'' ou
tho Tuscarawas Valley road, aud Cadiz,
A., ,a,,,i,rs NJ the Cadiz branch OF the
tne !eluN S ~ & G. Toris road
Pittsburgh, Olnclu"aH y" AIV''
LISA small villsge, albeit II mas oeen sea'
of Learning for So years. Franklin Col
- ',,,., ,L, ,,orad swav hsck in 1925. and
,oso ""' o1s' III ,.,,;,r,;o,o haa had
ike many OF our LOCAL 4"S'l'u.to"' ,i"'
q variety Of experiences IN the shape Vi
uood and bad fortune. At times Its star
-. 5;.sn,oorad heIow the horizon.
has a'u4oS' pFV".sN - ii. .an.;Jor.t,Ia
and again " mas bilone WIZ So"''ee-"I
efIulgence in the literary armament. 4ts
nresent condition Is promi0ing. II hasabout
coa,ndort, ore.,bird nj whom are Young
eo s'"uen'', wv ' = ~,
ladies'. " prices ltseli oll Dei"s o'A' % W"
con lightfOr the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS after an
education, and fatters itself that 1t can give
young people OF both sexes as good an
education for the money as any instltu-
ton 10 the land. 1t Ii situated IN the
heart Of an excellent agricultural county
one OF the very best IN the United
States-s country settled by Gluakers ana.
Scotch.Irish Presbylerians. Forty, years
ago New Athens was tho cantre OF Eastern
Ohio Abolitionism, and Its college was
literally "a school OF the propaganda" and
at leugih was all torn up In consequence OF
it-liEerally split 10 pieces. It's President
was sort OF John Knox, not only In re-
apeCt 70 his Presbyterlanisn, but also MS
unrelentiDR warfare on the great national
sin. There were men over there in those
days who would not eat or wear anything
raised by slave labor. The venerable W.
rus McNeeley, at Hopedale, was one oil
those who took ne sugar in their coffee.
These men were willing 10 suffer in repu:-
tatI0n and pocket for their principles, and
strange as it may seem now, it Is neVerthe'
less true that forty years ago the active
and prominent Abolitlonists suffered So
cial odium and ostracism in Eastern Ohio
to an extent closely resembling that ex-
perieaCed by active and prominent Re
publCaus in the South to-day.
The late President Of franklin College
Prof. A. +. Ross-who graduated IN
1887, and WA afterwards appointed y pro-
lessor in the institution, WAS one OF the
conservatives who resigned along about
1910 Al ard sought more congenial home
ut Bethany in this State, where he was for
dozen years professor in the college.
Prof. Mason, who also came to Bethany,
was another. These men we're old Line
Wings, aud regarded Rbolitiontsm as pes.
tilential heresy. The logic OF events, how
ever, converted Prof. Ross, and when the
war broke out be was one oil the men in
West Virginia who embraced the Union
cause with hia whole soul, and returning
at length to his alma mater in 1873 as its
President, he found, contrary to all the
ken OF those who were esteemed wise in
their day, that the little stone that the
head OF the corner.
People sometimes say that we have too
many small fry colleges. They used to
saw, what is the use OF one at New Athens,
another at Bethany, aud another at Can
ponsburg, and still another at Washing.
ton? They are too numerous 10 flourish.
Becker nuVG KIGuLbE huu pLp6'
porous institutions. The same hing was
also said in regard to the female semina.
r;es at Steubenyille, Wheeling, Washing.
ton, Canonsourg, Pleasant Hill aud Nor
gantoyn. They, too, were too numerous.
This was an error OF judgment then, and
II ia an error to-day. We need these local
Institutions. They minister to the wants
OF localities that would otherwise be
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tional advantages which they afford.
Only tho children Of the rich can be sent
away to the old and expensive institutions
of the land. The expense OF travel to and
from such institutions orce year is
very large onsideratlon-quite sufficient
to deter thousands from patrOnizing them.
The children Of the poor and moderately
well to do classes find a congenial home at
these local institutions. 1t is no Ieproachl
for their students to club together and
board themselves for couple OF dollars
per week. They are not looked down
upon. In fact they are the predominant
class and give the zone to the academic
corps. Tnis is a great advantage, as It
preserves that sense OF self'respect which
is invaluable in student life. And
while theGe local colleges DO
not COmpete Will Tue iaHous lu'1t
titutions ofthe land, yet they give as good
an education as said institutions gave to
tho famous men who graduated from
them generation or two ago. A student
con get as good an education, and as cheap
q one, as Daniel Webster or Rufus Choate
or Salmon P. Chase got at Dartmouth In
their day or As John Quincy Adams got at
Harvard, or as John @. Calhoun got at Yale,
or as Jefferson got at William and Mary.
They make up in thoroughness what they
lack in range, and land boy Of brains on
plane where he can help himself to the
ali.important selfeducatIon that follows
his college coune.
The writer was curious to know how
the co.education Of the sexes worked at
Franklin, and was told that II worked
we'll, II ia not 90 risky ns it looks, for the