Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-06-14

ing. OOIne OF lnlS duulellce uHuouDt-
edly remember time when the chapel
was in old South Hall. The basement
of that hall is no longer used as 1t was
in our time as a coal cellar.
In 1879 Marietta College held its first
Field Day Our track was around the
college buildings. Our football games
were Kicked on Camp Tupper, and the
practice games down here in front of
where this building now stands, while
,..e base ball games were played
wherever a field could be found,
Today the boys have athletic
grounds. There ds not yet
good gymnasium. In the last Ohio of
our class an editorial felieltaltei the
boys we left behind that work was
soon to begin on one, but alas for such
misplaced confidence The old boat
house, built in our time, is still here.
fear 1t is not used so much as 1t was
then. Alpha Kappa and Psi Gamma no
longer pursue what was to us the time
honored custom of apportioning the
members through choosing committees
There sessions are no longer held Sat
urday mornings as they had been since
the organization of the societies.
In the Commencement program
there is a remarkable change. There
is no longer the literary society con-
tests, the orations before P. B. X. or
the literary societies. Our Alumni
Day exercises are somewhat different,
and different order of things exists
ON Commencement Day. looked
over the last catalogue the other day.
That work gives evidence that things
are changing here. In some cases the
changes are the most important. The
roll of trustees is greatly altered
When we left, Douglas Putnam, John
Mills, A. T. Nye, VIM. R. Putnam,
Maxwell, Kingsbury, Sessions, Potwin,
Addy were still here. There are more
names of the faculty list, but there is
only one of member OF the college
faculty proper of those who were here
when 80 graduated--Professo Biscoe.
Think of the men whose names have
since disappeared from the catalouge-
Andrews, Kendrick, Rosseter, Beach.
Manatt and Mills were also on that lit
tie but select list, while Lrr.s was
member when we entered college.
Win our class graduated, Prof And
rews was the principal of the Academy
He is now a member of the college fac
ulty. OF the other names i'm the fac
ulty list all are new to very many of
us.
Twenty years ago there was no col
lege observatory. Then the college Ii
braries were said to contain 10000; to-
day they number 10000 We miss in
this last catalogue that time honOred
description OF the library, which in
formed us that each alcove was light
ed by it's own window" / noticed
paragraph devoted to Irwin Science
Hall. We used to call it the middle"
building. Then 1t contained the mus
cum, including the ever useful alligat-
or, which made regular trips ON fes-
tai occasions to the top of the flag pole
on the library building. There is
more in THE catalogue. 1t gives evil
dence of the broadening and improving
of the work. That is something which
gives us all pleasure. glance shows
that the standard of admission is high
er, especially in language require
ments; that the work seems to have
been systemized to a greater extent.
There is more liberty of choice to the
student in the work of the upper
classes; more courses are open and
provision is made for post graduate
studies.
There is one change that forces it
self upon our attention more than all
others, in the pages of the catalogue,
in chapel, on the campus, at the Com
mencement exercises, in every way. In
our freshman year our class supper
was held on Washlugton's birthday, in
a room in the city hall. 1t was one of
those all night affairs. Some time dur
ing the evening, to enliven things, we
held a debate The question was,
Resolved, That co-educajtion in Mari
etta College would be a misfortune,
and must never come to pass.
The affirmative won. But the girls
are with US, They are helping us cele-
brate this day May their good luck
in getting into dear old Marietta be as
advantageous to the college as it will
be to themselves!
No institution ever had grander
set of founders than those of Mari
eta College. For the most part they
were the sons and grandSons of the
Revolutionary soldiers who settled
the Western country, and had grown
up iu a society which was still fa-
miliar with the personal tales Of the
men who had marched under the ban
ners Of the Infant nation in the strug-
Gle for independence, and which was
still dominated by the patriotism Of
the founders of the Republic-a pat
riCtism earnest, full, single-minded,
rugged, intelligent; patriotism which
believed in the equality of all, which
held that governments should eyist
net only for the interests of, but by the
consent of the governed. which re-