The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-31
IT TURNS OUT men
A Western College Makes This the
Test OF Service.
AN UNUSUAL ALUMNI ROLL

AN UNUSUAL ALUMNI ROLL
Indicates That DePauw University
Has Given a Mysterious Something
to Its Students That Is Net Found
Between the Covers of Books-Sonre
Interesting Facts About Typ'ca
Western institution Of Higher Learn
Ing.
r Especial Cores pondence)
Greencastle, Ind.-June lit wo"ld
be hard to make to order better envtr'
onment than circumstances have pro-
vided in this typical college town for the
institution Of higher learning which Is
Just now preparing to close an unusu'
ally successful year In the full glory or
the annual commencement season
"Greencastle" is we'll named-the little
city crowns the summit of highlands
which overlook vast sweep OF sur
rounding country. and from the 1ar-or
hills which now encjrcle it in vast
amphitheater of green the spires and
towers of DePauw University rise
above the empowering trees like the
turrets of some medlaeval stronghold
The city itself Is one of comfortable
homes set 10 broad expanses OF green,
sward and woodland threaded with
quiet streets arched over by the trees.
! With nothing of the tumble down and
! no sign of Industrial decay about IT,
! GreencaStle is pre-eminenuy city OF
| quiet home life, its interests largely
centered about the university which
attracts here every year hundreds Of
the brightest and the best young men
and women of the West, and the pres.
ence here through nearly three-quar,
tiers of century Of such an institution
has fixed indelibly upon this cOmmu-
| nifty the unmistakab BILE impress Of Its
influence. DR.. DeMOtte. formerly pro
| fessOr of physics at DePauw, the most
popular lecturer now Oh the American
platform. who has visited in the course
of his travels during the past fifteen
years almost every community of i'm
portance In the United States and Can
ada, says of Greencastle that 1t is char
acterzed by the most healthful and
Who'll 2sOme moral atmosphere he has
ever encountered in a city of similar
size.
Still in Its Youth.
DePauw University will not celebrate
her centennial for thirty years, so thai
in the sense in which Harvard an(
tiOns are considered venerable the col
lege is still in its youth. The frs
graduate Of the institution, DR.. Thomas
A. Goodwin, still lives at indianapolis
and takes an active interest in hi:
alma mater, and yet DePauw. founded
like the older Eastern colleges ant
universities amid conditions the mos
primitive, has seen in her sevent.
years of history quite as much OF
transformation within the sphere o
her influence as has been accOmplishe'
: in New England since the middle O
the seventeenth century. 10 tn
development of Indiana and tn
middle West this pioneer institution
has played a large and importan
part. and with her sons and daugt
tiers occupying spheres Of usefulness
in every portion Of the country, De
PAW may we'll point with pride to tn
record OF things done in a compare
lively brief career
The Man Is the Test.
"The test Of an institution is th
man it prOduceS' ia an expression VI
on which those having in hand tn
n destiny of this institution lay gres
Pauw ranks high among the college
and universities of the middle Yves
: 1t is a demonstrated fact that th
smaller college is a more effectiv
training ground for individual chara
, ter and ability than the larger instit
3 ton, where the personality Of the st
4 dent is lost in the press of number
And among the smaller institutions
DePauw has had an attendance ave
aging about 7G0 for the past thirt
years-this university has been IN
sually successful in turning out me
who have achieved distinction Mo
DIS vi 'hoSe luell, 100, nave won tnelT VIZ
N, through the institution by their CIV
res exertions The young man or woms
g with courage and character enough
do this has always been at premju
IN Greencastle. socially as we'll as fro
= the standpoint of the student. Senat
= Harlan Of Iowa earned his first wear
III board and tuition here by serving
5antor OF one Of the college building
and graduated with honor in cali
dressing gown. Senator Voorhees, h;
similar struggles with adversity d,