The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18
Asbury Trustees Complete the Work
of Changing the Schools Name.
Remarks of President Martin at the Jubilee
Last Night-1nterestin Attachment
Suit at Misunderstanding
INDIANA.
Completion of the Work of Changing the
Name of AsbuIy University.
| Snecial tn the JonrnaI


Many and important questions called for consid-
Grafton and adjustment and more than once the
skies looked little dark and threatning. 1t
was not until late on Thursday that the local
committee of Greencastle and the corresponding
committee of the board were able to come to
satisfactory understanding Early in the session
a report was made from DR.. Geo. Manners, for
mally relinquishing on his own part and on part
of his wife, all claim for the annuity allowed
them the $4,000 contributed by them early
in the enterprise Resolutions highly apprecia-
tive of this most generous act were passed
by a rising vote of the board and ordered
to be conveyed to DR.. Manners This is
the more noble ON his part as only short
before he had given $4,000. 1t was ordered
that the chair of Latin hereafter be known
the George Manners professorship of Latin
language and literature"
An important communication was also received
through Rev. DR.. Holiday from Robert Nc
Kim, of Madison, expressing his purpose
and renewing his pledge to build and equip an
astronomical observatory In this case the fol
lowing action was had
Resolved frst-Tbat the thanks of the board is due
and hereby rendered to Robert Mckin, for his
generous offer to erect and equip astronomical OBJ
servatory in connection with the university.
Second-That we invite Brother McKim to go for
ward with the work at as early day may be
venieut for him. and that the structure be known
the McKim Observatory"
Thrd-That copy of this action, duly certified be
sent to Brother McKim, at Madison.
The leading features of the final compact be-
tween Hon. w. c. DePauw, the board and the
citizens of Greencastle win, no doubt, be pub
lshcd in full and officially, before long. It is
enough to say that the fullest satisfaction is felt
and expressed by all parties in interest The
hope and belief of a grand future for DePauw
University is universal
a This evening the change in name from As
barry to DePauw was celebrated in grand style.
Meharry Hall was filed to oFerfowing and the
enthusiasm Of the audience knew no bounds.
The programme, as it appeared in todays Journal,
was carried out in detail, after which the board
of trustees and visitors were rendered a most
elegant reception in the literary halls below.
The following remarks by President Martin
were made at the beginning, and may be re-
garded as the keynote to the whole proceeding:
''The present session of the joint board of trus-
tees and visitors is one ever to be remembered
The good work that has been and is being done
by the university, and the issue of the great en-
terprise for its further enlargement, this day so
happily consInmated, call for special acknowl-
edgmenU. 1t has, therefore, been deemed appro-
pirate by the faculty, by the citizens, and by the
students that this reception be rendered to the
board and to its honored president, our friend
and patron, Washington c. DePauw. For the
last few years the increase of the endowment
and the elevation of the institution from a uni
versity in name to a university in fact, in which,
besides the college of liberal arts, the several de
partments of theology law, medicine, the fine
arts pedagogy, shall be properly pro
vided, has been lying with special weight
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hands of all its friends. Founded in the faith
and love- and nurtured by the prayers, contribu-
tions, and sacrifices of the fathers-to whom,
under God, let all honor be reverently paid-the
university has passed through and accomplished
a noble work during the period of its infancy
and youth. 1t has steadily developed in all the
elements of power and promise of greater use
fulness In its liberal provision for instruction
and study in its unsurpassed order of discipline;
in its eminently catholic spirit; in its special
adaptation to the wants of our peoples in its pro
gresSiye, character, and in the high
standard Of moral culture which has so
largely characterized its students it has
attained and maintained an enviable reputation
And with past record of almost unexampled
prosperity, now that it is entering upon this new
era of still grander work. have we not reason
to rejoice and be glade
1--WE are living we are dwelling
In great and wordrous time;
In an age on ages telling
To be living is sublime.
Surely of us may it be said, as it was said by
the Great Teacher to his immediate followers
Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your
ears for they hear. For verify | say unto you
many prophets and righteous men desired to see
those things that we see and have not seen them,
and to hear those things that ye hear and have
not heard them What others saw and hoped
for in the far distant future was theirs
to witness in its accomplished reality.
AS He taught the ignorant, healed the sick, and
rescued the law from the vain traditions which
made its sublime delverance of none effect, it
was their blessed privilege to see, to hear, and
to be ON terms of blessed intimacy and most
loving friendship with the Lords Amounted; and
in the spirit of His grace, and in the institutions
of His house. and in the line Of his followers
does lie not still most literally manifest His
presence2 and accomplish the good pleasure of
His villa For what other purpose has this uni
versity been created VIII not the work of in
struction be carried here in the depart
ment of letters and in the other departments?
hghtened and benihcent forms be supplied from
the college of medicine! VIII not the very best
attention be given to both the letter and the
spirit of the law in the department organized for
that endl And will not He, who employed the
lilies of the field and the winds and waves TO il
lustrate His wisdom, love, and power, be pleased
to see, in substance the same work still prose
cuted with the aid of telescope in the vast, and
the microscope in the minute, and all the apph-
ances which art and science furnish in
our day. You see. my friends, how
the subject naturally and easily opens
out before us and you may, perhaps, imagine
the strong temptation which your speaker feels
to enter on it: but time is short, and duty to
those who are to follow compels me to subside."
President Martin closed by expressing, on be-
half of his colleagues in the faculty of instruc
ton, their deepest and most sincere acknowl
edgements to the noble minded and liberal
hearted men, who, from many places, far and
near have contributed and co-operated in the
good work, and especially to him to whose mu-
nificent gifts and financial foresight they are
mainly indebted for the pleasure of the occasion,
and whose name and generous deeds it will
henceforth worthily commemorate.
The trustees are now engaged in inspecting
land suitable for the erection of dormitories, an
observatory, and the other buildings required for
the needs of the DePauw University.