University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-04-28

Slanu out Clearly. His hair black
except where here and there. it is
touched with gray, and his clear
deep-set gray eyes make for him q
distinctive persOnality-One not too
frequently found in the president of
a girls boarding school.
And he is a man of business as
vel as a college president and stu
dent. He is president of the board
OF directors of the Mexico Brick and
Fire Clay Company. capitalized at
800 He is also a member of
the Mexico Commercial Club, presi-
dent of the Champ Clark Club of
Mexico and a deacon in the Baptist
Church. He is always taking ad-
vantage of every opportunity to help
build up his home town. He is a
emmber of the new Carnegie Libra
ry board of Mexico. He takes an ac-
tive interest in all questions re-
garding municipal government and
civic beauty.
About Hardin College.
Doctor Million is connected with
associations of national importance.
He is a member of the American
Economic Association; active menu
Der of the National Educational As
ISOLATION: second vice-president of
the State Historical Society of Mis-
souri,; member of the advisory coun-
Gil of the Worlds Best OratiOns.
And Hardin College. the school
that he has practically built in the
fifteen years that he has been in it's
president. is n of the foremost COL
leges of its kind in the state. 1t was
founded in 1873 by Charles H. Har-
din. who was governor of Missouri
from 1875 to 1877. 1t, confers two
degrees on its young women gradu-
ates. B. l.. and A. B.
When the school was first planned
by Governor Hardin he selected it's
site where an old seminary had been
only a few blocks south of the busi-
ness part of Mexico.
The corner stone of the first
building of the college site was laid
in 1874. The building was 40 feet
by SO and two stories in height.
With the building and the grounds
Governor Hardin left an endowment
that has grown to $4,000. Each
year 40 per cent of the endowment is
added to the principal and the fund
continues to grow. About so per
cent of the fund goes to the yearly
up-keep of the institution. This en-
dOwment made it possible for an east
addition to be made to the college in
1895. Plans are being maze for a
gymnasium and dormitOry to be ad-
ded to the COLLEGE building on the
campus. 1t is estimated that this
building will cost 100000.
GrOWth OF the School.
The campus of Hardin College is
beautiful in the early spring. There
are winding walks and driveways
and shade trees and a wide. grassy
lawn covering about eleven acres.
The school at present can accom-
mOdate about 1873 boarding students
and twenty-five teachers. The en-
rOllment, with resident students who
take work at the school, amounts, |
to 200 students. In the
list are many students from other
During the time that President |
Million has been at the head of the
it's standards have been
raised SO that the school now is rec
as up to the best educational
req irements for admission into
institutions. Only in a few
minor points is the teaching of the
not approved. The grad
nate of the institution al enter the
of Missouri or another in
,titution of like standing with junior
I'm the time that have been
president of Hardin College," said
President Million. II have tried to
make it a junior college. 1t is now
'ated as such by the University of
Missouri except in science.
Another change that has taken
,lace in the students that are COM
ng here is that almost all of them
re high school graduates. 1t was
lot that way a few years ago. That.
# itself, has a tendency to help raise
he standards of study of the insti-
I'VE are striving to make Hardin
the best college for young
in the West. To that end We
m ,.o ;c;nu Tho IF education