The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-19
THE WABASH ALUMNI
HON. III. j. MILLIGAN SPOKE At THE
ANNUAL MEETING YESTERDAY.
Work of i. u. Board of Trustees and
Annual Dinner of the Alumni
Association at Bloomington.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, June 1s-
The semi-annual meeting of the board OF
trustees of Wabash College was held to-
day. In the vote for an alumni trustee A.
d. Thomas received 40 votes of the
alumni; and +. j. Dukes 80. Mr.. Thomas's
recommendation was ratified by the board
and the board retiring this year re-
elected, viz: W. p. Kane, Bloomington.
ILL.,; L. r. Paxton, Princeton; r. :. Tay-
lor, Fort Wayne; Simon Yandes, Indianap-
oils. and A. d. Thomas. city.
The treasurer's report was printed in
pamphlet form. The funds of the college
have been ably handled that all ex-
penses have been paid out of the receipts
from investments and other sources, and
the principal fund has not oeen drawn on
for cent. There is a larger cash bal
ance on hand than year ago.
The college trustees selected DR.. Kane as
president Of the board: j. l.. Campbell,
secretary; L. H. Ristine, treasurer; X. L.
Briant, auditor. The executive and build
ings and grounds committees are the same
as last year, and the committees on in
struction and degrees were abolished. The
board elected Profs. Emory, Bodine and
Foster to the faculty, but no one has been
selected to succeed j. NJ. Chapman pro-
fessor of oratory. Prof Horton. instructor
in physical culture. goes to the University
of Pennsylvania. Co-education does not
worry the trustees in the least, and the
board is almost unit against it. The col
lege will receive the full requests from the
Fayerweather estate, it makes no differ
ence what is the outcome of the suits with
the executors.
The annual alumni meeting and banuue,
was held this evening at Yandes Library
Building. The address before the Alumni
Association was delivered by Hon. H. J.
Mllllgan, OF indianapolis. He said i'm part:
The men who have made Wabash Col
iege, and their names are not few, for an
institution like this has many fathers as
Wen as sons. 1t is not of an age, but for
all time. There are but two members of
the present faculty who were here in
49,. The alumni need no introduction to
them. Their names are unalterably fixed
with that of the college. and their pres
ehce with us on these occasions is always
source or pleasure 10 those who prOfited
The dramatic story of the founding of
the conege, Is IL not familiar to us all? Are
inere any so old as TO forget or any so
young as not to have heard. how the stake
was driven in the snow on November day
sixty years ago. How courageous men, in
about il and prayed to God? Let us mo" not
Idly think of the founders and pioneers: the
men who came TO Indiana when it was a
liberal education. They must never be for
gotten. Let us pay tribute of praise
not only to the founders of Wabash but to
ALL those early settlers who were the friends
OF the college. To me the pioneers who
blazed the way in the wilderness, those even
who carved farm out Of the woods when,
as they said, there was not "a stick amisS,"
fought a hand-to-hand fight with nature.
are entitled to honorable mention. But how
much more TO be praised are those who did
this, and were also attuned to higher pur-
poses and in the stress of other struggles
found time TO help on the college. But we,
gentlemen of the alumni, must keep pure
the FOUNTAINS OF history; remote events be-
come obscured in legends SO that some have
repudiated all history as false and decep-
tive Within month. a distinguished min
lister from New York city. addressing three
thousand Presbyterians in the capital of
this State referred to Wabash College as a
splendid institution founded i'm the SHOWS of
winter by that grand old man. DIR. Tuttle.
That Is not the way the story was told I'm
1873 No authority was. given for his his
know not the sources of his information;
but we do know that DR.. futile has spent a
good deal of time about New York and has
been frequent contributor to the New York
press. If these historical errors; go unchal-
lenged the boys who graduate Tomorrow
may live TO hear the twentieth century ora
tor describe Wabash College as a noble
seat of learning founded by that grand old
man, DIR. Burroughs. Wabash College has
had self-sacrficng and generous friends
who have devoted their gifts to science and
virtue freely and without egotism. No am
bilious man of wealth has ravished the COL
lege of its name nor even sought to appro-
pirate to himself that which belongs to the
past as well as the present.
"A few years ago the bald proposition was
made to President Eliot offering si5:oce.ooo
for Harvard College. with all Its traditions,
associations and inspiration, and with the
name John Harvard erased and another
thereon. The man who made that offer
was no lunatic, strange as Ii may SEEM He
was a man of great ma tural force and pow
er:.. He regarded a college as he would
mill or mandatory, so much real and per-
sonal property, to be sold and conveyed by
written instruments. That the college had a
life and soul which might be destroyed. but
could not be transferred. was beyond his
conception. Wabash stands to-day four
square to all the winds that blow. honoring
her. friends and by her friends honored.
Learning and culture know no church.
creed nor sect. They are as broad and gen.
eral as the casing air. Whatever else may
be undetermined, ii is agreed by all who
sympathize with the principles of tyranny
lence. that the state must control the high
er education; that colleges like Wabash must
either come under State supervision, pro-
lection and support orsbe starved out The
individual will be taxed SO that he will not
have the ability to aid the college of his
choice and the money raised will be used
to build up State institutions at the sacrifice
of the Independent colleges. Writers in
leading magazines publicly advocate this
There is now too much uniformity i'm educa-
ton. The common and high schools have
destroyed the acauefnleS ana the SCHOOLS or
the State are all alike, devoid OF variety
or originality; they present one long level
of sameness and monotony. James Russell
Lowell said that the Americans were the
most common-schooled and the least cult-
waited people in the world With all the
colleges of the State managed by CEN
trail bureau with it's hard and fast rules of
pedagogy, its military system working like
machinery, what will become of true Gull
ture? 1t will not be found in such abodes.
When you pluck up liberty, you kill the
consummate flower of the ages. / believe
the state should leave higher education
alone. OF the many state colleges how few
have justified their existence. college re-
quires something more than large revenue.
and place. Individuals will provide the coll
leies as fast as they are needed. The
amount of money donated to colleges within
the last ten years is proof positive that the
college will get ample voluntary support
and has no enemies except those of its own
which threatens the life Of American col
leges. AS alumni we ii is duty to
our college 10 resist this destructive move
ment"
At the close Of Mr. Miligan's address fol-
lowed the toasts of the evening: 1.-The
Alumni and Wabash" by Charles W.
Moores. 80; the Year" President Bur-
dent futile: "Our Guests" Rev. George f.
Martin, of ST. Louis; 1.-The Alumni Trustee"
Judge A D. Thomas, '6i: "Obiter Dicta"
Charles B. Lands, So; Beside the Bonnie
Willow Bush" C. c. Travis 95 At the
close of the toasts the business meeting OF
the alumni was held.
4. L. Seniors ..ROast'' the Faculty.
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