Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-11
mi-Centennial Will Be a Great
Week For the Methodist
Institution
HAS HAD REMARKABLE GROWTH
Some Statistics of Its Advancement
Since President King Has Had
Charge of the College = Kings Long
and Successful Career = Great Men
Graduated From CORNELL
Special to Times-Republ.can.

semi-centennial anniversary. and Their
VIII be many prominent personages o
national character in church and stat
and throngS of alumni and distinguish
ed visitors on the "old hill" before Thu
program closes. There are four bi.
days beginning with Monday and end
Ing Thursday, although Sunday is re.
sarded as one of the best in literar,
way from the fact that two bishops
Andrews and Mcdowell, will preach
morning and evening.
The nature OF the celebration ane
the large list of distinguished person
ages makes this the most memorable
educational anniversary ever held IL
the state. 1t rounds up the career OF
forty-one years as president of DR.
| William Il. King, and at this time he
viii have statements to make of en-
! dowments and contributions which will
show Cornell worth a million dollars in
property and endowments, all practi-
cally CLEANED in his career as president
| he leading the educational world to-
day, in point of time of service as
president of single college or univer-
sity.
| During these forty-one years of his
presidency the faculty has grown from
| eight to thirty eight members, in 1863
the college students numbered sixty,
| the senior class one; last year the
number OF students in college classes
was 372, and the senior class seventy
nine: then the total enrolment was
266. only four states being represented;
last year it was TAB drawn from eight
cen states and one foreign country;
then the alumni numbered twenty; at
the end OF last year they numbered L.
O24 and al close of the last school year
t11.151 different students had spent
terms ranging from one term to six or
seven years in the college and the acad-
envy. There has been like increase in
the material equipment OF the college
The catalog of 1864 estimates the en-
dowment at about 100000; there were
no laboratories. in the modern sense OF
the word the apparatus being extremely
meagre and of the most primitive sort,
While the library is spoken of as "a
small but gradually increasing insti-
of the institution was crowded into the
present science hall( minus the top
story and the main college building.
Today the campus is four times as
large, there are five buildings. well
equipped laboratories in the depart
ments of physc. chemistry, biology,
geology. and psychology: a working IL
brary OF 24.157 volumes. besides PAM
phlets-a total material equipment of
this sort valued at $275,000: while at
the same time the endowment at the
close of the last school year was report
ed as S466, 412.69, not all of which, how
ever, is at present productive. Recent
announcements have very greatly adj
ded to this amount and it is most earn
estly hoped that by the semi-centennial
the total assets of the institution may
reach the million dollar mark. 1t was n
survey of such facts as these which
justified the late Bishop Ninde in say
ing to former member of the faculty:
everything into consideration,
] am of the opinion that William +.
King is a peer of any college president
Methodism has ever had"
The devotion of the faculty has been
closely paralleled by many who have
served on the board of trustees. The
first group who gathered about DIR.
Bowman, and heroically stood by the
college in its poverty, set the ideal;
and there has not been wanting men of
similar spirit to take up their work as
they have fallen. There have been
seven trustees, whose aggregate ser
vice makes EOS years. an average OIL
nearly thirty years each. President w.
p. Johnson has been member of the
board thirty-three years and is presi
dent twenty years. Col. Harry III. Rood,
the present secretary, has been a mem
Der thirty-seven years and the secre
tary thirty-six years. The late Henry
A. Collins was thirty-two years the
treasurer Of the board and was twenty
six years regular member OF 1t as
we'll. The late Rev. DR.. A. j. Kynett
also rendered thirty three years of eff
cient service as member OF this body.
DR.. ]. b. Albrook and Capt. e. B. So
per- each with twenty-six years OF
faithful and painstaking service behind
them, are two others who have well
earned a place on the honor role of
Cornells trustees. The long service OF
these experienced councillors has
served to give the college safe and
policy, without in any way
so binding 1t to traditionalism as to
hinder its keeping abreast of the spirit |
of modern education, or to prevent the |
adoption of new methods. as they have |
been proved to be successful.
The college has not served the church |
alone. Her alumni may be found doing |
works in all of the various |
callings of life. They are making ann
pie returns to society for the social
capital invested in their alma mater
When the civil war broke out she sent |
at least IS of her students to the front
between April 20 and Oct /, 1861, and
later many more. How the war az
fected the school may be seen from the
record of attendance. In catalog of |
1861 the names of 407 students appear,
while in that of 1863 there are only 266
The gallaIry of the boys at the front
was Indicated by the fact that the Cor
nell contingent come out at the end o..
the war with % commissioned officers,
ranking from lieutenant of company to
quartermaster, and also number of I
nom commissioned officers. There Is
scarcely a branch of the worlds work
in which some of the alumni of the coli |
lege have not rendered emlnently sue
cessful service. Three college presi- |
dents, fifty-four college and normal |
school professors, fortysix physicians
1876 lawyers and judges, two governors,