The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-06-06
COMMEMORATE 18TH
YEAR OF EARLHAM
AT COLLEGE CAMPUS

Commemoration of the 75 years OF
Earlham was the order of the morn.
ing program at the college grounds.
Headed by Chalmers Hadley, 90
the procession formed at the east side
of the campus and marched to Chase
stage. where services were held.
Walter C.. Woodward, as president
Of the board of trustees Of the col.
lege, presided and introduced the
speakers. For the city, Mayor Law.
renee A. Handley declared that the
presence Of the college had made Rich.
mond civic life higher than 1t would
otherwise have been,
The college teaches a belief and a
reverence for the constitution and the
laws of the land" he said, land In
this connection it is we'll to say that
the 18th amendment is as much a
part of the constitution as the part
prohibiting slavery"
Greetings to Eariham college were
presented by Stephen A. Hadley, Of
Penn college, representing the differ
ent Friends colleges. He read tele-
grams and letters from the various in
stitutions congratulating Earlham on
achieving her 18th year
Jealousy Is Gone
For the universities of Indiana, DR..
Stanley NJ Coulter, of Purdue univers-
lty, brought the greetings, while for
the colleges of the state President
Robert j. Alley of Butler college spoke.
There is no longer any jealousy be-
tween the various churches and the
colleges, that there used to be. The
churches have decided that there are
sinners enough for all of them, while
the colleges hay e found that every
graduate increased the desire of others
to go to college, and that the more
the colleges grow, the greater will be
the attendance at all of them," DR..
Alley said
From the East, Dr. Douglas Nc
kenzie, head 'of the Hartford Theolog-
ical seminary brought greetings to the
celebration. Pointing out the need of
research in Theological work, DR. Nc
kenzie, declared that it was the effort
OF the Hart ord Theological school to
furnish just such training.
The folio wing individuals wire then
presented to the audience Edna
Johnson, INDIANA university; John w
Oliver, Wisconsin; Robert L. Sachett,
State College of Pennsylvania; T. c.
Truebloqd. University of Michigan;
Dean Hlgar Ewing Brandon, Miami
universt y; John ]. Heineman Notre
Game; Anna Bradbury, Swarthmore;
Clifford Crump, Ohio Wesleyan:
Preside Mt Harry Churchill King, Ober-
lin; san Breitwiser, State Normal;
DIR. GGod, Indiana Central college.
Letters of Regret
lie ters of regret al not being pres
ent were from DR.. A. Gerber, and
Ro'Oert U. Johnson
Mrs. Hanna Amelia White, a student
III the days when Earlham was a
boarding school, was also introduced
Inovation was made by Rev. Henry
Scott Miller, Is. while Timothy Mich
olson gave the benediction.
In the principal address of the
morning, Elwood c. Perisho, of Gull
ford college, North Carolina, told of the
early days when he was a student at
Earlham. 1t is the pleasant things.
and not the unpleasant things that we
remember, he said, when we come
back to college days with our memoir
les
Telling of the days when the girls
and the boys first entertained eacn
ether, of the mixed parties at the halls
OF the strolls, into what he called
their first "No-Man's Land" of the es.
capades of the students, he set his aud
fence to ohuckling.
Earlham's Great
Speaking of three of Earlham's
great, he sketched briefly tn lives of
Barnabas Coffin Hobbs, Joseph Moore
and joseph John Mills.
Telling of the mission made by
Hobbs to Europe when he petitioned
the German Emperor to use arbitra-
tion as a method of settling interna-
tional disputes, he said, How differ
ent the world would be today had the
emperor and his country accepted this
memorial in good faith"
Paying a high tribute to Joseph
Moore he told of the pilgrimage into
the Carolinas made just after the war
10 help in the rebuilding of the educa-
tlonal institutions OF the country. He
founded the teachers normals there.
and then came back to the presidency
of Earlham
He was never afraid to face a fact"
he said, and never let any of the
teaching of science alarm him. He
taught the new doctrine of evolution.
but not a one of his students ever
went out from his halls a skeptic.
In the closing of his speech he paid
a tribute to former President Robert
L, Kelly and TO President David NJ
Edwards.
large number of Richmond and
out-of-town persons attended the din
ner held for Mr. Hoover on an upuer
floor of one of the old college build
ings. Among those present were
President and Mrs David M. Ed
wards; Mr.. and Mrs. Z. P Trueblood;
Thomas c. Trueblood, of the Univer-
sity OF Michigan: Mr. and Mrs Walter
c. Woodward. Miss Martha Doan. Mr.
and Mrs. R. l.. Sackett, Julia Clarke,
cf Indianapolis; Joseph A. Goddard
Mr.. and Mrs. Gurney Hill, Mr. and
Mrs. Ebert Russell: Stephen NJ. Had
ley. of Penn College, Oskaloosa. Iowa:
DIR. Stanley NJ. Coulter, of Purdue:
MI. and Mrs. Elwood C. Perisho. OF
Guilford college. and Timothy Mich
olson
Inspiring in its grandeur, grand in
its conception, and faithful in its pre-
sentation, a pageant of the history of
Earlham was presented at the Chase
stage at the college Monday night
The story told was that of the NOV
ing of a young Friend. Hoover by
name, from the Carolinas to the new
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