Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-29

ers of Fifty Years Service.
Madison, Sept. 27.-The bell was ring
| ing for afternoon prayer at Beloit col
| iege. The day was clear; the campus
was peaceful-for it is apart from the
| activities of men-and the harvest was
in the air.
The chapel is beautiful and artistic
pile of white granite. The 400 students
Of college and preparatory school
among them seventy young women
are obliged to go to this one service
daily, but they go gladly. REGULATIONS
are over for the day. They flock into
the buildings-the "preps" go upstairs.
The girls sit on one side. Seniors in
front; then juniors; back of them the
sophomists The freshmen have the
least desirable seats in the rear under
the gallery. The young men sit in like
order. The pulpit is reading desk
and at it stood President Eaton. He is
perhaps as years old, but he looks
younger. He is tall and athletic and
manly. There isn't much fun in him
probably, but deal of dignity and
earnestness. He looked to me as If he
had been brought up on farm. AS a
matter of fact, his father was an early
home missionary and preached to the
same people in Lancaster for forty
years. The son graduated at Beloit in
1872. He took his divinity at Yale and
Andover; and polished off in Germany.
hn fl,
he became president of Beloit. These
products of the middle-west birth, with
eastern and foreign trimmings, made
the finest manhood in the nation. He is
such a man as one would choose to put
his son under.
Worthy Models for Youth.
Back of him in a row of chairs were
q dozen men of the faculty. They looked
earnest and good and wise. Bushnell
and Chaplin and Blossdell have gone
Emerson, after forty-tive years ser
vice, Is broken; but Porter was there on
his fortysiXth year of service. He is
little man. modest, retiring, but he is
sanity and erudite and has opinions
1t was notable stock these men came
from and blood tells" One of Professor
Porter's sons is the growing star of the
Yale divinity faculty, and another is u
high rank medical expert in Hartford
Conn. Professor H. NJ Whitney was
there, as he has been since 1871; and
Burr, of whom it is said that IL every
boy under him does not become IA
valiant champion of the great Nazarene
it is not because the matter is not per-
sonally and forcibly presented to him.
in the east, usually at Yale. In fact
Beloit Is called the young Yale OF the
west. The three founders We're Yale
men, The expression is more popular
in New Haven than in Beloit. They
were Purtans and men Of God. When
the start was made in 1887 they had no
money. The founders looked in each
others faces until one said:
We'll, brothers, what shall we do?"
And one of them said: Let us pray"
Since then there has been a good deal
Of praying at the college and character
Is the chief output
Most Spirited Music In the State.
President Eaton conducted the SER
vice. He read some verses that made it
clear that to be good in spots Is not
enough; and he offered a prayer in which
he asked God to make that company of
youth doors as well as hearers. Then
followed the most vigorous singing |
have heard in Wisconsin. There is
superb organ and the master who plays
it was formerly the moving spirit of the
Worcester, Mass, musical festivals
which are an event in American musical
annals. 1t was n martial song. 1t
savored of victory In the fight for
Righteousness who follows in His
train" Four hundred young voices
Joined in. There was an inspiration in
1t. From the pulpit looked down faces
of men who knew too much, who were
too broad-shouldered, who had too much
manhood to be cast aside as weak and
sentimental, Those boys knew better.
The trees outside under which thou
sands of men had once walked as stu
dents who now are reaping laurels for
their alma mater in the world of action
We're taking on tnges of gold and
purple. On a bronze slab in the library
near by were the names of forty-siX
sons of Beloit who had died for their
country amid the smoke of battle The
very atmosphere seemed charged with
memories of the living and the dead; and
Voices lIOlil oul but past SttlIltu To
speak to that splendid body of youth
as the great organ thrilled and reverber-
ated.
THE God of Right goes forth to war;
Who follows in His train?"
A Fight in Which Many Fall.
l don't wonder 1t is next to impossible
for a boy to go through Beloit without
getting converted" But oh, the strain
on dreams and visions this selfish.
crowding world puts on the choicest
youth when those sanity faces of old
men. and the moonlight on the campus
and the organs trumpet call to the
highest manhood grow fainter and re-
cede in the Past!
Beloit has graduated about 600 men
since II began character building There
have been 1000 students in all Its roll
showers fewer mountain paks of emil
hence than some largerinstitutions. But
the general altitude is high. Horace
White. financial editor Of the New York
Evening Post is a graduate and has Civ
en- his college a total Of $4,000. Mayor
Bundy, who was editor Of The Mail and
Express and died in Paris, was another
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