The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-10-18
Penn COLLEGE IS
THE BENEFICIARY
GETS REQUEST FROM LATE ELI.
AS NEWLlN OF iNDlANoLA.
OVER SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.
This, Added to Other Subscriptions,
Makes $4,000 as Result Of
Penn Day Celebration
Future of College.

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j Penn college of this city profits by
another bequest made by Elias New
lin, deceased, of Indianola. The off,
GERS and management of the college
have known of the bequest for sever
al days but the announcement is
made public for the first time today
through the Herald. The will of the
deceased benefactor has been filed
! but has not yet been probated
The estate includes a piece of real
estate and the total worth is six to
seven thousand dollars. The terms
of the will are practically as follows:
The deceased leaves a widow but no
children. 1t provides that the pro-
perry shall be in the possession Of
/, the widow during her life and at her
death shall pass to Penn college.
This good news coming directly
upon the completion of the subscrip-
ton necessary for the immediate
building of the $4,000 gymnasium.
and supplemented by the furthe:
good news that the fund for the girls
dormitory, which is to be SIS 900
building, is growing, will make Penn
Day celebration of 1906 memorable
occasion in the history of the college
A Living Penn.
The address by Rev. Ellyson Purdy
of the Friends church, in the Penn
Day program, is such a fine resume
of the college and its prospects that
it is here given in. part:
with all due respect to the Penn
Day" orators, past, present and fu-
ture, who have sounded the fame Of
the noted Quaker, l venture to say
that it is not of so much Importance
how long the Penn of the seventeenth
century has been dead as is the ques-
ton, How much alive is this Penn
of the twentieth century Not so
much what he stood for and what he
achieved as what we stand for and
what we are doing
William Penn lives today, not on
top of Philadelphia's city hall, not in
some quaint English Westinghouse,
nor in a building in Oskaloosa, nor
yet in musty book, or muster tradi-
ton. But he lives, and lives only, in
: the lives of those who have caught
his principles and something of his
spirit, and have them written, not in
tablets of stone, but in the tables
which are hearts of flesh
THE king of Sparta, when asked,
Where are Sparta's WALSH marshall
ed forth her stalwart sons. So must
Quakerism today, so must this institu-
ton, when asked, Where are the
monuments to Fox, and Penn, and
Barclay marshall her sons and
daughters, who shall stand like pol
ished shafts in the light of twenti-
eth century glory.
Il would speak, then, of the living
Penn. Those early NQuakers were
very much alive. We are apt to
think of them as posing for future
history; as sitting for portraits, sol
EMMY arrayed in straight collars, and
broad-brimmed hats, as sedately and
calmly furnishing useful material for
future memorials; bit review of
Al.NiL 4lfOo oIl"o lllCll W NC ihlNboNls
animate. Two or three thousand of
them were in Jail at one time. Why?
Not because the officers were anxious
!, to put some one in Jail and discovered
that these we're easy, were
aggressive they persisted in pressing
their principles to the front. These
were typical Englishmen and were
/ determined to contend for their rights
and knew how to do it. In them as
/, Englishmen was the blood that flowed
in the veins Of Washington, of Frank
!, lin, and of Jefferson. General Green,
John G. Whittier, Abraham Lincoln,
and Neal Dow were descendants of
these men. George Fox knew more
about English Common Law than halt
the courts before which he was tried.
These men made pulpits of their. jails
With copsummate skill they secured
| the reading of their documents and
the PRONUNCIATION of their doctrines in
! the very courts where they were
tried. They were artists in making
things uncomfortable for the bigot
and the oppressor. Any institution
which rightly bears the name Of these
men, whether 1t be church. or a
school, or mandatory of break.
fast food, cannot be dull, Indifferent,
or listless.
"The Penn of the seventeenth cen
fury was an idealist. The spirit Of
the Penn of the twentieth century
must be BEAUTIFULLY idealistic. He
who sees no future mission for this
Institution. let him drop out by the
wayside like Gideon's thinning hosts.
He who, tuning from some stately
university with impressive equipment,
sees here only one modest building,
must learn to see more clearly. Let
him learn to look again, until he sees
a gymnasium, dormitory, science
hall, a library and great endow-
ment; but let him look again; look
until he sees something that will
make for that future. and something
here that will make that future worth
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