The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02

Friends, either in England or America,
has handled enterprises so extensive or
achieved results so great" He is
described as having been in his day
the most valuable man of Colorado"
The college and the city he founded re-
fleet the character of the man. 1t is
safe to say this much in reference TO
Friends contribution to higher educa-
ton. that since they began to take an
interest in such work. no religious Or
ganization with equal numbers and
means. has done so much.
Friends were attracted earlier to the
fields of elementary and secondary ed
ucation, than to that OF the higher edu-
cation. Within these spheres Friends
were pioneer educators wherever they
went. This has been illustrated in
our own city. which may be cited as
typical case Four schools under care
of Friends We're maintained here in the
early days They were Green Mount
Boarding School NOW Wernle Home).
Hadley's Academy. Friends Academy
and the Friends Boarding School. (now
Earlham College, At one time there
was a large committee of citizens Or
ganized to maintain an interest in the
public schools, the idea having origi-
mated in the Monthly Meeting which
holds it's session in this building.
Established Library.
AS is we'll known, Robert Morrison
was so deeply concerned for the edu-
cational welfare of the whole commu-
nifty that he established a MORRISON
Library, and there has always been
Friendly influence in the management
of this excellent educational institu-
ton The Reference Library is due
to the interest in education Of another
member, Caroline NJ. Reeves. while w
d. Foulke has also had much to do in
making it effective. From 1872 to
1895 a kindergarten was maintained
in this Meeting House and the joint
care of the meeting and Mrs. VIM. D..
Foulk and continued elsewhere under
the care of Mrs Foulke until the work
became part of the public school sys-
tenn, an end for which she faithfully
strove. Results similar to these.
along educational lines. have been at
tanned wherever Friends have gone.
/ The first half of the 10th century has
been properly called the Boarding
School Era in Friends education.
Many such institutions were founded
either under the name OF Boarding
School, Academy or Seminary, and the
type of character developed by sucn
schools. we'll justified their existence
Most of the men and women OF our So
ciety who are engaged in Friends edu-
cational work during the present gen
Grafton. were reared in these institu-
tions. Some of these schools ha!e
been superseded by public schools. but
many Of them are still operative and
few are enjoying the greatest prosper
ity because doing the best work in
their history. In the Mississippi Val
lev and further west, these schools arr
struggling because of lack of endow'
ment. but in the East they rank vel
up among secondary schools. A lead
ing city superintendent recently toi-
me that the work he saw done in one
of these schools. was the pest OF 1ts
kind. that he had ever seen in his ex
perience as an inspector of schools II
is to be said to the honor of one o
these schools that it produced th'
famous grammarians. Lindley. Murra.
and Brown It is a matter OF interes
that a son of President Roosevelt at
tended another one Of these schools
while the family occupied the Whit
House. Augustine Jones says tina
the Moses Brown School was norma
school to r. I. before they had an,
other, and the Moses Brown Schoo
was by no means unique in the work o
training teachers. The total numbe
of Friends schools in operation now i
50. and there are not included in thi
statement, the schools for the educa
ton of the negroes. the Indianas ant
other special classes in which field
Friends have taken an active interest