Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-24
Will Consider President Sum
merbell's Resignation and
Future College Plans
SENTIMENT AGAINST REMOVAL
People Of LeGrand Unanimous in Stand
Against Any Effort to Take the
Christian School From Town That
Has Fostered 1t for So Many Years
Claims Of the LeGrand Supporters.

tees will hold called meeting to con-
slider the resignation of President
Carlyle ,Summerbell and to consider the
future plans for the college President
Summerbell placed his resignation with
the board few weeks ago, to become
effective June 1, or at the close of the
present school year. He has been the
leader in the movement to move the
college to some other larger place, con-
sidering that the school would better
thrive under conditions that are not
afforded at LeGrand
The sentiment at LeGrand is unani-
mously in favor of retaining the school
for LeGrand at all cost. The will of
the late Francis Asbury Palmer, in be-
questing 100000 to Palmer Christian
College, situated at LeGrand. in the
state of Iowa." is made as one of the
reasons why the college should be
maintained here, for the sake of the
endowment, which Mr.. Palmer decreed
should go to the school as then con-
Quoted at LeGrand. The supporters of
the college for LeGrand make promin
ent in their claims that for well-niSh
half century LeGrand as a commune
ity Of people has stood for, and been
recognized as standing for Christian
education. "A generation has lived and
died championing the cause of moral
ity, sobriety and the higher life. Its
people have ever given literally to all
worthy objects, especially in the mat
ter of education, and have struggled
and sacrificed in order that the;r
schools might be maintained. The con-
slant aim of the people has been that
the moral and religious life Of the
community might be wholesome
safe place in which to rear and edu-
cate children.
LeGrand is in almost the geographic
cal center of the best state in the I'M
ion. 1t is in a section of the state
whose soil is of surprising richness,
evidenced in the way the price per
acre Of her land scars upward from
year to year. In this connection
statement is recalled of George A.
Gates, ex-president of Iowa College,
when he wished to call attention to the
very desirable location of his school at
Grinnell. The United States is to be
is a world power. The heart of the
republic is the great Mississippi valley
midway between the east and the
west. Iowa, bounded on the east by
the Mississippi river, and on the west
by the Missouri, is the very core of
the Mississippi valley. The nation will
in future draw heavily on Iowa for her
leading men, and we, located in the
center of the state, are to have a
hand in molding their careers" What
is true of Grinnell, the LeGrand sup
porters claim, does not detract from
advantages.
About sixteen miles east Of Cedar
Rapids is located the well-known
Methodist institution, Cornell College.
N the town of Mt Vernon. The
founders of the college and town, for
he town has been built up about the
college, chose slightly location for the
school and went to work They be-
noaned the fact that their depot was
10 far away and so inconveniently sit
lated but the day has come when no
,ne now thinks of that. The town has
,een built to the depot, streets we'll
lighted and macadamized, cement
sidewalks laid, and to crown it all the
he railroad company have seen fit to
,uild for them a beautiful $4,000 COL
eye depot, all of which but shows
what can be accomplished when all
work in harmony toward the desired
md. They had state university at
heir elbow to compete with, as we'll
. C0Jlnoo of l,,,t
sixteen miles away.
Some seventy-f1ve miles west of Mt. |
Vernon on the same line of railway, is
4eGrand and Palmer College The
anne trains stop at LeGrard that stops
It Mt. Vernon. The depot is farther |
way If anything from the college |
aanpus than Is the case ait LeGrand, |
nd her streets were formerly more |
,boaninable in muddy weather than is |
he case at LeGrand, yet an individual |
would be hooted at who would sanely |
lrge these items as uniting Mt YER
ION as desirable place in which to |
maintain a college. LeGrand is beau |
fully situated-as between Mt. Ver- |
ION and LeGrand the difference is in |
he latter's favor. The streets are be-
ng macadamized cement walks Laid |
treets lighted and the superintendent
f the Northwestern railway says
hat at commencement and similar oc-
asions the limited trains will be al
owed to stop for the accommodation
f those visiting LeGrand. With the
dvent of an interurbhn the college
ill enjoy the advantages Of a large
own without it's disadvantages.
1t is not generally known, but 1t is
fact nevertheless, that LeGrand has
name in the scientific world by reas-
n Of the discovery of the nearby
uarries of several new varieties Of
ossil crinoids. Two. in particular, are
nown to science only at LeGrand, anG
/ her honor they bear the names
.ammondii and McCabei-names quite
lmiliar to LeGrand people. Anothe
latter of interest to students is thf
.cord left by the glacial period or
le rocky lodges over which the dr'f
as borne. The rocks are often scratch
l in closely crowded parallel lines, an
aned off and polished besides. The
acial markings at LeGrand, it is gen
ally conceded, were first discovered
, ]. c. Hisey. former superintendent
Marshall county schools, and late
ty superintendent of the Council
tufts and Kansas City schools, whilf
student at LeGrand. These and 9th
objects Of interest about these ex
nsive quarries, make them a favorite |