The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-18
SENIORS HAVING FUN
HAD CHARGE OF EXERCISES AT WA
BASH COLLEGE LAST NIGHT.
Indiana's University Turns from
Commencement to Pay Tribute to
the Late DIR. lakewood.
peclal 10 the Indianapolis journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. June IT,
The entertainment this evening was given
by the senior class of Wabash College
and consisted of fun, sarcasm and shots"
There are twenty-eight graduates in the
senior class this year. OF these seven will
be lawyers, three doctors. four ministers.
eight teachers, two say they will be
journalists" two merchants and the
others are not decided. The commence
ment number of the Wabash, the College
Magazine, is very complete and full of
valuable articles. The years editors have
done excellent work, and have record
that is credit TO the college.
Three new instructors have been select
ed for next year. w. O.. Emory, Phi. d.,
chosen for the Peck professorship in
chemistry, has been for two years men,
Der OF the faculty of Bonn, Germany. He
was born March 90, 1858, at Vernon. VT.
anO his wife is German woman. He
comes highly recommended in this line
of profession. DR.. Donaldson Bodine has
been appointed TO the new position of as
sistant professor OF geology and zoology.
he is graduate from Cornell class 81, and
received his instruction in geology under
PROF. n. 5. Williams, now of Yale. James
n: Foster Is the new instructor in Ger
man man ana Hni,I Latin; He is graduate of Ham
The annual report of President Bur-
roughs, of Wabash College, has been pre-
pared for presentation to the board OF
Tuesday. This report contains a great
deal OF interesting information. The lOi
admission this years came from ten differ
ent states. and represented ten different
denominations. The health of the college
only four students during the year having
been interfered with by illness Between
six and seven thousand gymnastic drills
thousand baths This does not make mem
ton Of the men who have been engaged
In outdoor athletics, such football and
baseball players and other field athletes
vi these there have been a hundred and
twenty-one. 1t Is understood that the pres
ldent takes conservatively progressive
position In regard TO athletics. believing in
ihtercoliegate sports wisely regulated.
that they should receive the sympathy of
faculty and trustees.
There have been but three cases of dis
IN examinations and one for dsorderly con-
uuct. survey OF what has been done in
the college work shows that there have
been twenty-seven students In philosophy
twenty eight in biblical literature, sixty
TOUR in history and sociology, fifty-two In
man, thirty in French, iso in English. fifty
TWO in mathematics, forty in physics and
astronomy forty-seven in chemistry, forty
college instruction, thirty-five; total number
Q, failures, forty-eight. The work in the
Eng fish department has been very thorough.
There have been 1850 essays written by
freshmen and 1858 by sophomores There are
one hundred students studying Greek IN
OF go, a larger percentage by far than any
other college in the Northwest can claim.
The library shows addition during the
year of eight hundred volumes.
This years catalogue shows an enrolment
of $50 for the year-twenty-e eight. seniors.
twenty-six juniors, thirty-four sophomores.
forty-one freshmen, sixteen special stu
dents. twelve post-graduates, and ninety
nine in the preparatory department. There
were twenty-five instructors connected with
President Burroughs and family will leave
next Friday for their summer cottage, on
the ocean beach, sixty miles from New
York. The cottage is forty feet from
high water mark, and is delightful place.
DR.. Burroughs will lecture in August at the
summer school. at Ocean Grove, on Newly
Discovered Manuscripts of the New Tesla
ment." He will also preach in the brick
Presbyterian Church, New York city.
Prof. j. NJ. Chapman, professor OF oratory,
year has been issued the first triennial cata-
logue of the college. This. contains the
names of all the college presidents, trustees,
graduates and over three thousand names
of students who have attended college, nom
graduates, since the commencement of the
two pages
Since 1889 the college trustees have con-
ferred honorary degrees. OF these twenty
nine were ID. D., nineteen Ii. D., fifty-one
who received IL. D. were the late w: =.
Gresham, in 1888; Gen. Lew Wallace, 1851;
Gen. Fl. B. Darlington, 1871; w. A. Woods,
1885,.