Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-02

g ater served four years in the United
States senate. Rev. DR.. David 4. Wal
lace. of the class of 1916. was for 32
Iears college president, and was one
u the greatest administrators of col
eye affairs the west has ever known.
Rev. DR.. s. 5. Laws, of the class of 1s4S,
was president of the Missouri state uni
versity for 13 years. Alexander c. Nc
Clurg. at the head of the great publish
ing house of \. c. McClurg & Co. and
Senator James w. McDill, OF Iowa, were
members of the class of 1883. The pres
ent chancellor of the New York univer-
sity. Henry VI. McCracken. and the dis
tinguished DR.. John s. Billings. at one
time surgeon general Of the United
States. but now of New York. were
graduated in 1887. The late Senator
Brice. whose benefactions TO the uni
versity are well known, was a member
of the class of 1863.
An unusually large proportion of the
graduates Of Miami university have be-
come national characters. Many other
graduates may be mentioned whose
lives have been none the less influential.
but the above citations were made sole
ly for the purpose of showing that
Miami university has ever been faithful
to its trust, and no institution can point
TO greater accomplishments. Miami
has never been a large college. The
largest class ever graduated from this
institution numbered a., while he
average annual number of graduates
has been less than one-halt of that mum.
ber. The average attendance has never
exceeded 200. Ii is therefore subject to
the criticism of being small college,
but its achievements stand unequaaed
to-day in the history of American col
leges. There has always been thorough
training at Miami in the classics and the
students have protited greatly by their
intimate association with the renowned
professors that II has always been the
good fortune for Miami university TO
command. The college has always kept
in view the fact that the noblest work of
God is a manly man. and il has ever
been the aim of Miami university to
make manly men out of the youth in
trusted to its care, and TO ground them
thoroughly in the fundamental prin-
ciples of religion. morality, and knowI-
edge. the sacred charge of the ordi-
nance of 1897.
The faculty OF the university now
numbers fifteen. They are able and ac-
complished educators and their work is
most thorough. The president of the
university is Rev. DR. William o. Thomp-
son, who is justly famed as a sincere
Christian gentleman. earnest and indus
trious, who enjoys the highest conf
dence and esteem of the alumni and
friends of the institution.
The most complete arrangements
have been for the celebration OF
the sever 90 tn anniversary on
Wednesday, June IA. The colleges of
the United States have been requested
to send delegates to represent the insti.
tutons officially at these services. The
governors and their stats of the states
of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky have
been invited and are expected to be
present. Prominent alumni from al
parts of the United States have signified
their intention of being present. The
exercises and gathering will fitly cele'
brate the diamond annivfA AIRY OF ths
most famous college of the west.
a WALTER L ToREY.