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KALAMA.
AMAZOO
COLLEGE
FOXESID
MARCH.
1833

SAMUEL HASKELL, D. D..
Professor in Department of Bible Instruction.
The donation of this cut by THE STANDARD
is gratefully acknowledged.
HISTORY
OF

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE,
BY
REV. SAMUEL HASKELL, D.D,
PROFESSOR OF BIBLE
INSTRUCTION.
1897.

no
A. GAYLORD SLOCUM, A. M., LL. D.,
President.
Enactment, Amendments and Provisions
of the Charter.
By action of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Mich-
igan, approved April 22, 1833, Caleb Eldred, William Meek, Wil-
liam Duncan, H. H. Comstock, Nathaniel Millard, John Clark,
F. P. Browning, Anson Brown, John Booth, B. B. Kercheval,
Thomas W. Merritt, John S. Twiss, C. H. Swain, Robert Powell,
Stephen Goodınan and C. A. Lamb, and their successors, were
constituted "a body politic and corporate," by the name of "The
Michigan and Huron Institute."
The act required that they establish in said Territory, within
the space of four years from its passage, at such place as they
may judge best, "a literary institute on the manual labor or self-
supporting system to promote the knowledge of all those
branches of education usually taught in academic and collegiate
institutions."
Their power to acquire property, real and personal was lim-
ited to fifty thousand dollars. They and their successors were
made the trustees of the institute, vacancies to be filled and suc-
cessors to be elected by ballot. Their number should not exceed
thirty-six, and by amendment, March 15, 1887, it was provided
that not less than three-fourths of those chosen each year shall
be, when chosen, members in good standing in regular Baptist
churches."
They should, at their first meeting, divide themselves into
three classes, each being a third of the whole number, the term
of office of the first class terminating at the end of the first year,
the next at the end of the second year, and the last at the end of
the third year. Nine of their members should constitute a
quorum.
They should annually elect from their number a Chairman
having and exercising all the powers conferred by law on the
President of the Board of Trustees, and who (amendment of 1887)
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"shall be, when elected, a member in good standing in a regular
Baptist church." By amendment in 1837 he is empowered to “sell
and convey, by proper conveyance, real estate belonging to the
Institute, as the trustees, at a meeting regularly called, shall
direct and determine the terms and conditions." (A by-law of the
board associated the Treasurer with him in this.)
The Treasurer is to give bonds in such sum as the Board of
Trustees shall require. By amendment in 1877 the limit as to
amount of property was extended to five hundred thousand
dollars.
By act of 1837 the name of the institution was changed to
"The Kalamazoo Literary Institute.” And in 1855 a further
amendment fixed the name to be Kalamazoo College, and gave
"power to confer the honors and degrees usually granted by
collegiate institutions, provided that the primary degrees shall not
be conferred on any student who shall not have passed through a
course of studies equivalent to, and as thorough as, that pre-
scribed by the Regents of the University of Michigan.
"The President, or other chief executive of the faculty of said
institution, shall be, when elected by the trustees, a member in
good standing in a regular Baptist church."
"The professors and other instructors shall be elected by ballot,
a two-thirds vote of those present being necessary to a choice."
By-law. Chap. V., Sec. 2.
METHODS OF DONATING TO THE COLLEGE.
Bequests by will should be made to Kalamazoo College, lo-
cated in the City of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan.
Deeds are made as to a personal party, using the above desig-
nation instead of a person's name.
Lawyers have assured us that the best way for one to settle a
part of his estate may be to give this form of note: On or before
my decease I promise to pay to the Treasurer of Kalamazoo Col-
lege, for the permanent fund of the institution, $
(with
or without interest, as the donor feels able to specify.)
Kalamazoo College.
When, on the shore of benighted Asia, the Judsons and
Luther Rice turned for fellowship and support to the Bap-
tists, a refluent wave of interest in foreign missions came
over upon the denomination in America. A demand for
laborers for the new harvests seen to be ripe, was at once
felt. Hence the remarkable movement in planting Chris-
tian schools for advanced instruction. In the ten years
from 1816 to 1826 are the dates of origin of Waterville
College in Maine, Hamilton Institution in New York, Col-
umbian College in Washington, Georgetown College in
Kentucky, Newton Seminary in Massachusetts, and New
Hampton Institution in New Hampshire; the six being all
founded by Baptists, for the express purpose of preparing
young men for ministerial and missionary service.
Then as the tide of emigration westward arose, the next
ten years saw started, with the same spirit and purpose,
Granville College in Ohio, Kalamazoo College in Michigan,
Shurtleff College in Illinois, and Franklin College in Indi-
ana; while in the Southern States. Richmond College in
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Virginia, Wake Forest in North Carolina and Mercer in
Georgia, and in New England, Connecticut Literary Insti
tution and Worcester Academy were added in the same
decade.
Nearly all these institutions were started on the plan of
furnishing manual labor to the students as a means of
self-support. And though in form this plan afterwards
disappeared, yet the schools have continued to be distin-
guished for the privileges of labor and economy which aid
the student in paying his way.
Did the missionary spirit propel these fathers to plant
too many schools of this order? No. Each institution had
a field vast in extent, rapidly filling with an appreciative
population, and separated from the others by long dis-
tances difficult and expensive of travel. And each of them
has justified and richly rewarded the wisdom of its found-
ers by becoming a seat of consecrated learning, and gra-
cious revivals, whence useful and honored laborers have
gone into every station of life in home and foreign fields.
The history of these institutions for the three score or the
three score and ten years of their existence, with that of
their younger sisters, unquestionably discloses the largest
factor in all that the denomination has wrought.
In 1829, there were but five Baptist churches in Michi-
gan Territory, and probably less than two hundred mem-
bers. But being freshly from the eastern states, they were
of those who had received the baptism of the new mission-
ary interest. Among them, in May of that year, appeared
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the young licentiate, Thomas W. Merrill. He was to lead
in planting our one of the sisterhood of Christian schools.
He was the son of Daniel Merrill, a distinguished clergy-
man in Maine, who, from being the Congregational pastor
of the largest church in the state, became a Baptist, and
was followed in this change by a large proportion of his
church. Thomas had graduated at Waterville, now Colby
University, where he had as a fellow student and teacher,
George Dana Boardman, soon to be the distinguished mis-
sionary in Burma. Mr. Merrill had also graduated from
Newton Theological Institution among its first students.
Self-appointed and self-sustaining, this pioneer came to
Michigan Territory with the purpose of missionary and
teaching work which should result in starting here a de-
nominational school. When at length a charter for the
Institute was secured, he said: "It is that upon which I
have had my eye since I came into this territory.”
In November, 1829, Mr. Merrill started a private prepar-
atory school in Ann Arbor. Having successfully conducted
this through one year, he prepared and circulated a peti-
tion, asking the territorial legislature to charter it under
the name of the "Michigan and Huron Institute," and
secure its control to the Baptist denomination by prescrib-
ing that three-fifths of its trustees should always be of
that faith. The denominational feature causing objec-
tions, the bill failed to pass. Meanwhile, under the influ-
ence of this opposition, an academy was incorporated and
started at Ann Arbor, of which Mr. Merrill was urged to
take charge. But feeling that his Christian and denomina-
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tional aims would thus be compromised, he declined. His
brother, Moses Merrill, father of the present financial
agent of Rochester Theological Seminary, was appointed
in his stead.
Concluding now that the eastern shore of the peninsula
was to prove uncongenial for the planting of his cherished
institution, Mr. Merrill resolved to try the western. Fol-
lowing the Indian trail to Kalamazoo, he found rising in
its forest but the smoke of one log cabin. Turning south-
ward, to the older settlement of Prairie Ronde, he joined
with its first settlers in building a house for school and
meeting purposes, and occupied it as teacher and preacher
through the winter of 1830 and '31. The questions now to
be settled were, how to secure land for the manual labor
design, and how to reappear before the legislature for a
charter?
Fortunately, the intelligent Christian citizenship, the
practical wisdom and the generous liberality of Caleb El-
dred, now allied themselves with the high aims and indom-
itable tenacity of Thomas W. Merrill. Judge Eldred and
his stalwart sons were surveying the wild lands, and build-
ing their new homes on the beautiful prairie, which
inspired them to name it Climax. They had come from
where the long shadow of the Hamilton, of Hascall and
Kendrick had swept over them, and were ready to engraft
a scion of it in Michigan.
In the autumn of 1831, Merrill and Eldred come into
view together, planning to raise means for the purchase of
land for their ideal school. An appeal to the benevolent
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Baptists of the East was agreed upon. Accordingly, Mr.
Merrill, taking in on his way the meeting of the Michigan
association at Pontiac in September, and securing its
recommendation, presented himself at the New York Bap-
tist Convention, and received the hearty approval of his
object, signed by Elon Galusha, John Peck, C. M. Fuller,
Archibald Maclay, Charles G. Somers, Jonathan Going, B.
T. Welch, B. M. Hill, Philander Gillette and others.
The result of this agency, prosecuted in the city of New
York and elsewhere, was the nest egg for all pecuniary
gifts which have been or shall be contributed for Baptist
education in Michigan. So far as appears the first sub-
scriptions, except what Mr. Merrill paid in defraying his
expenses, were seven ten-dollar ones from these long-
known and ever to be remembered men: Jonathan Going,
William Colgate, E. Withington, Nathan Caswell, James
Wilson, John H. Harris, Byron & Green. This money aided
in the purchase of the first property bought for the Insti-
tute in Bronson (now Kalamazoo). Dr. Going visited
through the West and bore a leading part in organizing
the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and in found-
ing all the western institutions above mentioned. From
1837 until his death in 1844, he was president at Gran-
ville, where his often-visited grave is the memento of a
great Christian educator, born into his mission in his con-
version while a freshman in Brown University.
Returning from his agency, Mr. Merrill, Judge Eldred
and others, renewed the petition for a charter. No denomi-
national control was now asked, but the names of the
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mich, man.
Lavor school
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Chartered
Apoll 29,1435.
petitioners and those suggested for trustees indicated that
Baptists were leading the movement. Objections again
were met, but the petitioners were strongly seconded by
Judge Randolph Manning, F. P. Browning, John Booth
and others. The bill of incorporation, after its passage,
lodged for some time in the hands of Governor Porter, but
was finally approved April 22, 1833; an earlier date, it is
believed, than that of any similar institution in the state.
The first president of the board of trustees was Judge
Eldred, who, with earnest devotion and rare capacity, filled
the office for twenty-five years, and was relieved of it only
after his repeated solicitations on account of advanced age.
The corporate name was "The Michigan and Huron Insti-
tute," probably as suggestive of its field, as comprising all
between the lakes.
As the charter did not locate the Institute, a tedious
work awaited the trustees in determining that important
matter. There were long journeys over primitive roads to
meetings in Clinton, Troy, Ann Arbor, Comstock, Whit
mansville and elsewhere; often resulting in a failure of
the necessary quorum, and sometimes issuing in nearly a
dead lock of rival contestants for the prize. But at length
in the autumn of 1835, providence gave the weary fledgling
a nest in Kalamazoo, through the subscription of $2,500,
by residents there, and the purchase of 115 acres of land
in what is now the south part of the city; which property
was afterwards converted into the building now occupied
on the west side of the city, where no complaint of ineligi-
bility has ever arisen, or can ever arise, to be among the
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embarrassments of the enterprise. Twenty years later the
adjoining site for the Female Department was secured
through the liberal and timely supply of $1,500 by Mrs. H.
E. Thompson, of New London, Conn. And the commodious
building which now graces it was entered and dedicated in
the autumn of 1859. The erection of this building was
accomplished by citizens of Kalamazoo, liberally aided by
Hon. Caleb Van Husan, of Detroit, and by the sale of lots
on the south triangle of the college site.
RISE OF KALAMAZOO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Within a year from the locating and starting of the
Institute at Kalamazoo, the "Baptist Convention of the
State of Michigan" was organized. (September 1, 1836.)
In constituting it, the Baptists of the territory took direct
action looking to full college work. The second article of
the constitution embraces "Education, especially that of
the rising ministry," among the objects to be promoted.
And a resolution was adopted recognizing the successful
effort in establishing the Institute, but urging the import-
ance of founding "a literary institution of higher charac-
ter, having all the corporate powers of a college." The
resolution was followed by the appointment of a committee
tɔ report at the next meeting on means and location. In
1837 the committee reported that they had learned that
the legislature would not charter such an institution. It
was therefore resolved, on motion of Rev. Robert Powell,
who had been one of the thirteen founders of Hamilton
Literary and Theological Institution, that "The trustees
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of the Michigan and Huron Institute having put it into
operation at Kalamazoo, and having resolved to establish
a theological department as soon as practicable, and hav-
ing in their hands property estimated at more than ten
thousand dollars, the convention will patronize and sus-
tail, by their influence and means, said Institute.'
In 1845, it having been found that a theological depart-
ment could not be connected with the Michigan and
Huron Institute, as its charter precluded its being in law
denominational, the convention instructed its board to
collect means and establish a Theological Seminary at
Kalamazoo. The next year it was reported that forty-one
acres of land had been purchased for a site, at the cost of
$750, and the plan of a building, 104x46 feet and four
stories high, had been adopted. This purchase embraced
the site now occupied by the college and the plan was that
of the present dormitory building. Kalamazoo being the
place where the Convention was then sitting, interesting
services of dedication were held on the spot which this
building occupies. The erection of the building was aided
by the Institute conveying to the Convention its land in
the village, in consideration of the right to occupy the
first story for its literary purposes, and a site for a separate
building, should it erect one.
In 1849, Rev. J. A. B. Stone, pastor of the church in
Kalamazoo, and previously assistant professor in Newton
Theological Institution, was appointed Professor of Bibli-
cal Theology, and commenced instruction at the Seminary;
the building being so far advanced that some rooms were
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occupied. Thus was begun, exclusively under the proprie-
torship and management of the Baptist Convention of the
State of Michigan, the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary.
The first students in theology were Edwin S. Dunham,
now of Lawton, S. H. D. Vaughan, T. R. Palmer and John
Fiske.
Meanwhile, through twelve years, the Michigan and
Huron Institute had been carrying on, in its temporary
buildings in the village, its literary instruction; and Thom-
as W. Merrill had been its unfaltering, self-supporting
agent and provider, while its Board of Trustees was a
distinct self-perpetuating body, exercising full control.
For a time in this period it was the policy of the State
University to maintain branch academies, and a contract
was made with the Institute to serve in that capacity at
Kalamazoo until the policy ceased.
Thus the Institute and Seminary went on upon legally
independent lines until the policy of maintaining a theolo
gical seminary was relinquished. They occupied in part
the same building. Some of the teachers had duties in
both, because some of the studies were common to both,
and the different boards arranged for interchange of teach-
ing service. But property interests and corporate author-
ity were held separate. In 1868 the policy of the Conven-
tion was practically changed to that of co-operation with
the seminary at Chicago, and those in eastern states, for
the theological training of students.
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TEACHERS OF THE INSTITUTE.
The names which appear first as teachers in the Insti-
tute are Mr. Marsh, Walter Clark, Nathaniel A. Balch, and
David Alden. Of these we have knowledge only of Mr.
Balch, whose long life as a well-known lawyer in Kalama-
zoo has but lately ended; and Mr. Alden, who, with his
affianced, came from Vermont, immediately upon their
completion of their courses in study, and with enthusiasm
entered upon their work as teachers in charge of the
Institute. They were soon married, and gained the loving
appreciation of the school and of the Baptist church, of
which they were members. But consumption fastened a
relentless hold upon the bride. She struggled to maintain
her work with pathetic intensity, but death claimed his
prey, and the heart-broken husband returned to the East.
The fifth principal teacher was William Dutton, ap-
pointed in 1840, the year of his graduation from Brown
University, and continuing three years; soon after which
he was arrested in his work by death. The Institution
not only, but the community at Kalamazoo also, is a vase
in which the fragrance of that flower still sensibly lingers.
The church and the Sunday school long held a precious
memory of him enshrined, and many families spoke his
name never without a blessing, while his pupils of the
Institute have always regarded him with loving admira-
tion. His name is commemorated by the street on the
Institute plat which bears it.
Rev. James A. B. Stone was settled as pastor of the
Baptist church, and appointed principal of the Institute
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in 1843. His service as principal continued until college
powers were added by charter in 1855, when he was elect-
ed president and continued such until November, 1863. In
1849 he was also appointed Professor of Theology in the
Seminary, which then opened. During a part of Prof.
Stone's principalship he had as his assistant Prof. Wm. L.
Eaton, who appears to have first come from New Hamp-
shire to teach in the school for females opened at School-
craft by Rev. Wm. Taylor. Prof. Eaton's early death in
1853 called forth from the convention board expressions of
ardent affection, which closed with the words: "We are
called to mourn the loss of one who felt a growing interest
in all our plans for promoting the cause of Christ, and who
was qualified by his piety, his experience as a teacher and
his ripe scholarship, to do much towards the accomplish-
ment of those plans."
Other assistants of more temporary appointment were
employed until 1851, when Rev. Samuel Graves, pastor at
Ann Arbor, and previously assistant professor at Colgate
University, was appointed by the convention Professor of
the Greek Language and Literature, in which department
his instruction was open to students of the Institute
whether theological or other. Professor Graves filled this
position with rare and varied usefulness during eight
years, when he was called to re-enter the pastoral office at
Norwich, Conn. His
His ten years' ministry there, that of
fifteen years at Grand Rapids, and his remarkable work
as president, teacher and advocate in building up the At-
lanta Baptist Seminary in Georgia, completed a life-ser-
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vice eminently fruitful, and left a memory sacredly blessed.
In 1853, Edward Olney, superintendent of schools in
Perrysburg, Ohio, was elected Professor of Mathematics by
the Institute. In the ten years that he occupied this chair
he won great distinction as a teacher, and exerted a pow-
erful influence in Sunday school and all Christian work, in
the community and throughout the state. Called to the
same chair in Michigan University, his talents were shown
equally commanding in the class-room, in the authorship
of a full series of text books, and in his general usefulness
as a religious teacher and worker. To the end of his life
Kalamazoo College had a chief place in all his plans and
gifts and hopes.
羅
​In 1854, Daniel Putnam, a graduate of Dartmouth and
teacher at New Hampton and Fairfax, was called by the
Institute to the Latin Professorship. With an intermis-
sion, in which he was superintendent of Kalamazoo public
schools, he served in the College until 1868, and was for
one year its acting president. He then received appoint-
ment in the State Normal School, where his success as
professor, and repeatedly as acting principal, together
with his authorship of text books, and other public ser-
vices, have given him prominent rank.
In 1855, Professor Morris A. Page was added to the fac-
ulty, assigned to the department of Rhetoric and History.
His teaching was thorough and inspiring, but other calls
drew him to Kansas, where he has filled important civil
offices.
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COLLEGE INCORPORATION FOR BOTH SEXES.
When, in 1855, the fuller charter privileges were granted,
a female department was incorporated with the college.
As a private school it had previously existed for some ten
years, with Mrs. L. H. Stone as principal, and Misses Shel-
don, Willcox, Cornelius, Woodbury, Mrs. Graves, and
others as assistants.
The female department entered the new building, Kala-
mazoo hall, in 1859, and thenceforward the college board
assumed its support and control. The faculty, as then con-
stituted, was: J. A. B. Stone, D. D., president; Edward
Anderson, A. M., professor of Greek; T. R. Palmer, A.
M., professor of Latin; Edward Olney, A. M., pro-
fessor of Mathematics; Daniel Putnam, A. M., professor
in Natural Science; Liberty E. Holden, A. B., professor of
Rhetoric and principal of the Preparatory department,
with G. A. Graves and Chandler Richards, instructors.
Mrs. L. H. Stone was principal of the female department,
with Mrs. Martha L. Osborn, Miss Ella Fletcher, Miss
Jennie S. Finney and Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard as assistant
teachers.
The next year Allen J. Curtiss, A. M., was appointed in
the place of Professor Holden resigned, and Professor
Palmer accepted service in the army.
In 1862, Rev. James A. Clark, a graduate of Williams
College and Newton Institution, and who had served four
years as pastor at Adrian, was elected professor of Latin,
but with service in behalf of the treasury of the college
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temporarily assigned him. J. W. Hicks became instructor
in Mathematics, and in the female department Miss Letitia
A. Shaw was appointed teacher of Painting and Drawing.
Miss M. E. Bennett and Miss Beerstecher were other in-
structors.
ADVANCEMENT DURING DR. STONE'S PRESI-
DENCY.
In November, 1863, President Stone resigned his office,
and Professor Anderson was made acting president. Mrs.
Stone also retired, and Mrs. Osborn was charged with the
duties of principal of the female department.
Dr. Stone had been at the head of the school and college
twenty years. The demands upon his energy, versatility
of talent, and wisdom of policy, had been extreme. Much
had been accomplished under his leadership; the two edi-
fices had been erected; as the Institute, and as the College,
literary work had been successfully maintained, and in
theology a useful company had pursued their courses.
During most of the period no high school had been organ-
ized in Kalamazoo, so that both the Institute and the
private school of Mrs. Stone, had a good local patronage.
Both the president and his wife had been unsparing of
their labors and means in sustaining the work, and, with
the coming in of the other professors, a faculty exception-
ally able and devoted was constituted.
Efforts had been put forth for the raising of endowments
as well as for buildings. At the date of the enlargement
of charter powers, about twenty thousand dollars had been
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obtained, mostly in scholarship notes, securing free tuition
for a term of twenty-five years to each giver of one hun-
dred or more dollars. For the endowing of a theological
chair in the seminary, about twenty thousand dollars had
also been secured in notes. But as the paper of both of
these endowment funds was on long time, and changes
incident to the lapse of years, and to the war, impaired
their value, debts accrued to an embarrassing amount.
The religious interest in the college on the part of teach-
ers and students, was remarkable, especially from 1853 to
1863. Nearly every year a revival occurred. Almost two
hundred baptisms are recorded of those in the college and
school for females, while numbers beside made profession
elsewhere. Fifty of these were from the college in one
year, some of whom became ministers.
THE WAR RECORD.
The war record of the college comes in here. It is most
honorable. The seventeen students who met death while
in the army, and are commemorated by the tablet in the
chapel, were not the only ones whose patriotism cost them
their lives. Others who languished from wounds and dis-
eases brought out of the army, shared the martyr's crown
with their comrades earlier fallen. Many of the students
and graduates became commissioned officers in field and
chaplain service, while the many more in private rank,
welcoming the greater self-sacrifice, illustrated equal brav-
ery. More than it suitably remembers, our country owes
to its student soldiers. Most of them devoted Christians,
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with sacred aims of life, they went from rooms of prayer
at the call of duty alone, and carried with them to tent
and field a power unseen.
PRESIDENT GREGORY'S PERIOD.
In 1864, John M. Gregory, LL. D., graduate of Union
College, was elected president. Great enthusiasm greeted
his acceptance. For six years he had been the superin-
tendent of public instruction and editor of the Teachers'
Journal, and as an educator and public speaker he had
taken very high rank. The first policy which he voiced
was the payment at once of all indebtedness and import-
ant additions to the endowment, with the pledge that no
more debt should be allowed. The pastors and other
friends of the college enlisted with him, visiting all
churches and communities, while he as leader made speed
over the entire state, inspiring by his personal and public
labors such determined efforts that in about thirty days
there was gathered the $30,000 required to free the college
from debt, and provide for a year's expenses. The gifts
were from thousands of individual, church and Sunday
school contributors, and were mostly paid in at once. It
was the terrible battle summer on the Potomac, and the
soldier students' love of the college was illustrated by the
telegram from one, "In the trenches before Richmond, fifty
dollars." Another who had fallen had the same sum given
for him by his sister. The endowment of a Children's
Professorship was planned and prosecuted with considera-
ble success. A few men of larger means promised liberal
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additions to the endowment, one of which was to be a
permanent provision for the president's salary.
The faculty, as newly organized, was: Dr. Gregory, pres-
ident; Daniel Putnam, M. A., in natural science; Rev. Geo.
Willard, M. A., Latin; Rev. H. L. Wayland, M. A., Greek;
Charles D. Gregory, B. A., principal of the preparatory de-
partment; Mrs. M. L. Osborn, teacher of French and his-
tory; Miss L. J. Shaw, drawing and painting; Miss Leech,
instructor; Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, music. Professor Way-
land was appointed by the convention's board as a theolo-
gical teacher; but as for the time students for the ministry
were found only in literary classes, his work was in the
college. In June, 1866, he was elected professor in the
college, and Rev. Silas Bailey, D. D., ex-president of Deni-
son and of Franklin Colleges, was elected professor in
theology. Professor Clark was continued in his temporary
financial service, and Professor Putnam appointed to seek
means of paying the debt of some $2,500, on the theological
property. In 1866-7, the number of students rose to 218.
As instructors there were appointed R. H. Tripp, M. A.,
Austin George, I. W. Caldwell, J. S. Lane and J. P. Cad-
man. Preceptress, Miss Julia A. King.
In 1867, Dr. Gregory resigned to take the presidency of
the Illinois Industrial University. His departure was very
sorely felt, and, together with the failure of a subscription
of $15,000, which had been productive, and the loss of the
large bequest made by the devoted trustee, Judge P. M.
Smith, through a legal technicality, arrested the progress
which the college was most encouragingly making. The
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alternative now was to break up with al:rupt violence,
engagements with professors and the public, or go forward
at the cost of new indebtedness. The latter course was
chosen with the view that pledges to the contrary were
made, on grounds which had failed. Professor Putnam
was made acting president. Professor Clark was assigned
his duties in Latin; Horace Halbert, Ph. B., professor of
mathematics; M. M. Fish, principal of preparatory school;
Francis L. Walker, B. A., instructor in Greek; and Miss
Caroline H. Daniells in English grammar and history. The
number of students was not lessened. Rev. Samuel Cornel-
ius labored helpfully in behalf of college endowment; and
Rev. C. B. Post completed the subscription for freeing the
Theological Seminary from debt. But the receipts of the
year for current expenses were nearly $5,000 less than the
expenditures.
PRESIDENCY OF DR. BROOKS.
In 1868, Rev. Kendall Brooks, D.D., graduate of Brown
and Newton, was called from the editorship of the Nation-
al Baptist to the college presidency. The other members
of the faculty were: Professors Bailey, Wayland and
Clark. Instructor, Geo. A. Stearns; lady principal, Miss
Hannah P. Dodge; other teachers, Mrs. Osborn and Misses
Emma Wood and M. H. Blakeslee.
Dr. Brooks filled the office nineteen years. The work of
instruction was steadily and ably maintained. A good
college spirit and religious influence prevailed. Changes
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in the corps of professors and instructors during the period
were as follows:
Samuel Brooks, elected professor of Latin, December,
1869, still serving; Henry M. Fish, instructor and principal
of the preparatory department; Professor Wm. C. Morey;
instructors, Misses Catharine and Sarah Eldred, Mrs. L.
H. Trowbridge, C. W. Bardeen, W. W. Beman, A. R. Bret-
zel, Mrs. Estelle E. Davis and Miss Carrie H. Daniells;
professors, William T. Scott and Lewis Stuart; lady prin-
cipal, Miss Kate Brearley; instructors, Minnie Brearley,
Mrs. Bleazby, Ellen Price, J. M. Davis, Howard G. Colman,
Hutson B. Colman, E. J. W. McEwan, A. D'Armand, A. J.
Teed, C. J. Toof, Mrs. V. A. Cadman, and Misses Sarah
Howell, L. J. Newcome, Mary E. Clark; Dr. N. S. Burton,
professor; Ernest D. Burton and W. K. Miller, instructors;
professors, A. Hadlock and F. D. Haskell; instructors, C.
L. Dean, Thomas C. Green, F. M. Hodge, Jacob Poppen, Z.
S. Harrison, N. A. Anderson, Misses Alice M. Northrup,
Marian Chase, Helen M. Brooks, Mary A. Sawtelle, L. A.
Beerman, Mrs. S. C. Hascall; Professor J. Montgomery and
Instructor Ignatz Mueller.
The president was in Europe during 1884, and Theodore
Nelson, LL. D., was called to fill the office. The number of
students averaged about 190 a year, and of graduates
about six.
The death of Professor Clark, in 1869, took away a
strong and beautiful pillar from the temple of Christian
learning. In helping to lift the college from its indebted-
ness and provide for its necessities, he, became exhausted
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in work and exposures which he foresaw might cost his life,
and sank in typhoid fever, at the early age of forty-two.
His thorough scholarship, clear and effective teaching, and
energetic financial service were heated and irradiated by a
prayerfulness and spirituality and command of Bible truth
that made his death widely felt to be the removal of a
burning and a shining light.
The Ladies' Hall enterprise was matured and greatly
aided in its prosecution by Miss Chase, a most devoted
co-worker, whose lamented death occurred not long after
the completion and furnishing of the building. Mrs. C. E.
Conley, Mrs. H. G. Colman, Mrs. O. H. McConnell, and
many others bore leading parts with untiring patience.
The children were enlisted by Mrs. Kate B. Ford; and
altogether about eight thousand dollars was raised by the
women, which with a balance paid out of the college
treasury, left the hall free of debt, and it was made over
as college property.
SECOND PAYMENT OF DEBT AND NEW ENDOW-
MENT RAISED.
From the time of President Gregory's resignation the
financial history of the college had been one of continued
embarrassment. The entrance of Dr. Brooks upon the
presidency was accompanied by an effort to add fifty thou-
sand dollars to the endowment. In this and in all the
financial management at the time, Rev. L. H. Trowbridge,
as the agent of the college, added to the devotion of a
loving graduate a wise and safe conduct of affairs in his
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hands, and a kindly spirit in his arduous labors through-
out the state, which made his service of four years an
upholding of the educational interest that could not have
been spared. His work and that of Professor Clark in the
same trying period, deserve special remembrance. A State
Educational Society was formed, and wrought helpfully,
and the Torchlight of the agent guided in the darkness
until it was transformed into the ever-helpful Herald. The
$50,000 was raised. But being in time-notes, and a finan-
cial revulsion coming on, there was much loss both of
income and principal. The trustees found no way of con-
tinuing the college but by borrowing from permanent
funds; while greater financial disaster was inevitable
should the college be closed.
A detailed and itemized examination of the treasurer's
accounts from 1864 to 1886, made with great labor by
Mr. Schuyler Grant, and reported by the finance commit-
tee, exhibits the deficiencies and the additions in all funds
year by year. The deficiencies amounted to $37,485. And
yet the report states: "Notwithstanding the fact that so
large a portion of subscriptions proved worthless, and
that on account of the lack of support it became necessary
to borrow from the invested funds of the endowment to
meet current expenses, still the result shows an average
annual addition of more than $2,000 to the permanent
funds, and a total increase of assets from about $7,000 to
$64,551." Nothing could better show the steadfastness of
the real friends of the college.
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After replacing from these new additions what had been
borrowed from the endowment fund, there remained an
indebtedness given as $18,000; and with such an accumu-
lation, and annual deficiencies so threatening, the board,
in a special and largely attended meeting, at Jackson,
April 24, 1885, took action as follows:
"Whereas, the condition of the treasury, both present
and prospective, is such as to prohibit further expenditure
until all existing debts are paid and broader endowments
have been secured, Resolved, that on the 30th day of June
next the present engagements with the financial agent,
and with all members of the board of instruction termin-
ate, and the college then be closed until our financial con-
dition shall justify a re-opening." This action was long
under serious deliberation, and was accompanied by reso-
lutions of confidence, and high appreciation of their self-
sacrificing and earnest faithfulness, addressed to the pres-
ident and professors, and the financial agent, Rev. J. S.
Boyden.
Again the situation proved the deeply rooted vital in-
terest in the maintenance of the college. The board organ-
ized its relief-corps to cover the state, apportioning the
debt upon each of the associations for their voluntary
raising, and assigning leaders to inspire and guide the
effort. The citizens of Kalamazoo moved into action and
subscribed $20,000 for the endowment of a professorship
to bear the name of the city; and, to the honor of Dr.
Kendall Brooks, who had resigned the presidency, the sub-
scribers to this endowment petitioned that he might be
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chosen as the professor. The trustees elected him, but he
thought it duty to decline.
On the 30th of July, to which date the limit had been
extended, the debt was reported raised, and $50,000 of
new endowment secured, made up as follows:
Alumni Association
Kalamazoo Professorship
C. C. Bowen...
Estate of Caleb Van Husan.
Estate of E. G. Huntington.
Estate of H. C. Lewis.
§. . .
John Calkins
•
•
J. K. Johnstone.
Sundry donors
•
·
•
酪
​$ 5,259 74
•
20,067 71
T. W. MERRILL'S GIFTS.
5,000 00
5,000 00
2,000 00
2,000 00
1,000 00
500 00
10,375 97
$51,203 42
The college, therefore, could open at the usual time, and
with brighter auspices than ever before. As the faculty
was to be reorganized those who had been in service were
re-engaged for one year, Dr. Brooks being entrusted with
the duties of president.
The Merrill donations and bequests during this period
were the most liberal which the college had ever received.
His note for a thousand dollar-scholarship paid its interest
many years into the beneficiary fund, and in 1874 was
embodied in a provision of his will bequeathing ten thou-
sand to the same fund. The estate, however, did not enable
the executors to carry out all that he devised. The same
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year he gave secured notes to the Baptist Convention of
ten thousand dollars for the endowment of the Merrill
Professorship of Practical Theology in the college. These
notes were paid in full into the convention treasury in
1883; interest at ten per cent having been paid annually
before, and indeed on most of the amount years before the
notes were given. The convention was made the trustee
of this endowment, because the college was not then in
law a Baptist corporation, and because the design of the
donor that the professor's special charge should be in aid
of the spiritual interests of the students, led him to prefer
such a trusteeship. It involved the duty of appointing the
professor by the Convention, while his work as an instruc-
tor was to be harmoniously arranged in the college faculty,
like that of other members.
DR. WILLCOX'S ADMINISTRATION.
After several disappointments and a year's delay the lot
fell upon Monson A. Willcox, D.D., of Oswego, N. Y., to
become the next president. He was graduated at Colgate,
and studied theology at Newton and Union Seminaries.
His inauguration, at the meeting of the Baptist conven-
tion in Kalamazoo, October, 1887, was amid inspiring en-
couragements. The college was freed from debt harrass-
ings. The estimated income was sufficient for the author-
ized expenditures. And in addition a most helpful provi-
sion was consummated on this occasion. Led by the liberal-
ity and fervid zeal of Alumnus S. G. Cook, of Minneapolis,
whose generous gifts and inspiring cheer had lighted for
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the trustees many a dark hour, $25,000 was pledged as
below, to be used, $5,000 a year, in enlarging the scope and
increasing the facilities of the college work; this in the
belief that another $100,000 of endowment would take its
place by the end of that period. Those enlisting were: S.
G. Cook, $4,000; Senator Stockbridge, $4,000; Woodward
Avenue Church, Detroit, $5,000; W. L. Eaton, $2,-
$500; Wells Burt, $2,500; D. D. Merrill, $1,250; W.
W. Huntington, $1,250; George A. Pillsbury, $500;
D. A. Waterman, $625; Kalamazoo Baptist Church,
$500; L. S. Monroe, $500; H. G. Colman, with
others, $500; J. K. Johnstone, $400; C. E. Webb, $250;
Jackson Baptist Church, $125; John Donnelly, S. Haskell,
John McLean, D. W. Cronkhite, W. S. Wilkinson, R. E.
Manning, Z. Grenell, E. H. Jameson, E. A. Hough, each
$125; and S. L. Boyce, $50; making $25,075. While this
wise provision did not secure the enlargement for which it
was made, it was the salvation of the college from a fatal
relapse into debt. At this inauguration service also
pledges of over a thousand dollars were added to the fund
for the Olney Memorial Professorship. And the Ladies'
Boarding Hall, complete for occupancy, was made over to
the trustees.
The faculty as organized was: M. A. Willcox, president;
professors, S. Brooks, A. Hadlock, J. Montgomery, G. W.
Bottsford; instructors, I. Mueller, J. A. Barrett, and Misses
Sawtelle, Brooks and Richards. Subsequently Charles J.
Galpin, L. H. Stewart, E. S. Ferry, and S. J. Axtell were
appointed professors, and P. F. Trowbridge and Miss C. S.
Bigelow, instructors.
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THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR MOVEMENT.
But close upon these bright openings came another and
perhaps the most threatening clouded day. As the year
1889-90 commenced the special provision for current ex-
penses was seen to be disappearing, with no enlargement
drawing better patronage, but rather a decrease in re-
ceipts. On our west every exertion was being used to meet
Mr. Rockefeller's proposition and secure the establishment
of a university at Chicago. Liberal gifts in Detroit and
elsewhere in our state, were made in that interest. Not a
few of our best supporters were wavering as to the policy
of maintaining a college in Michigan. Their apprehension
that the universities at Chicago and Ann Arbor would
leave us without students for respectable college work in-
clined them to the policy of relinquishing the attempt to
maintain anything higher than an academy. Indeed it
appeared that the leaders in the Chicago movement had
assumed that our institution would retire from the rank
of colleges.
Under these circumstances an informal meeting of trus-
tees and other friends was held in Detroit. A paper was
presented by S. Haskell on "Our College Field." It showed
the extent of population and of Baptist constituency, pres-
ent and prospective, dependent upon the college; the pros-
pect that no other college of our denomination would ever
be nearer to the edges of our field than one hundred miles,
or to its center than two hundred; that no institution thus
distant could adequately cultivate our field, but we must
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have our homestead or be infertile in college students; that
all our educational collections and investments had been
designated and dedicated to work embracing the college
so that trusts would be violated and property revert if col-
lege work were abandoned; and that upon us in Michigan
alone rests the responsibility of determining and maintain-
ing our policy. The deliberation was long and prayerful.
If the college was sustained the possibility of adding fifty
thousand dollars to its endowment was doubtingly dis-
cussed. Finally, Brother Schuyler Grant arose and in a
brief conclusive argument affirmed the duty of sustaining
the college, and of raising one hundred thousand dollars,
the income of which should take the place of the five
thousand a year about to be exhausted. He declared his
belief that he could raise one-third of it in the Woodward
Avenue church. President Bowen eagerly congratulated
his brother for his bravery, and said, if that could be the
scheme he would start it with fifteen thousand dollars.
The other brethren caught the spirit, wrote their names
on the paper which had been read, saying "We wish to be
known as heartily concurring in the views it expresses;"
and the next morning they met at Mr. Bowen's office and
made good the prophecy of Mr. Grant.
This was the genesis of the Hundred Thousand Dollar
movement. It secured the proffer of the National Educa-
tion Society; and though circumstances delayed its con-
summation for two years, it proved to be an inspiration
that would not expire. On that memorable evening Kala-
mazoo College passed the shoals into a sure and perpetual
career.
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President Willcox closed his service June, 1891. The
$25,000 had been nearly used up, and a discouraged feeling
had again spread over the state. Increased incomes must
be obtained or disastrous debts would accumulate as be-
fore. And again the tried friends did not fail the college.
DR. NELSON'S PRESIDENCY.
Rev. Theodore Nelson, LL. D., was with hearty unanimi-
ty called to the presidency. He was in impaired health
but his medical advisers encouraged him that he might
expect recovery sufficient for protracted service. He
therefore fondly accepted the office in the hope that it
offered him what should happily crown his work in his
loved native state. He had served with rising honor
through the war; had graduated at Kalamazoo, mingling
study at the university; had been a most highly esteemed
pastor at the Saginaws, and a professor in the State Nor-
mal School and in Alma College; and in the state office of
superintendent of public schools, and as acting president
of our college he had gained special favor. His acceptance
inspired new hopes.
The National Education Society had already offered to
contribute $15,000 towards an addition of $100,000 to the
endowment. Mr. Bowen had offered $15,000 and the
Woodward Avenue church were ready to increase his offer
to more than $30,000. Some $12,000 had been raised on
the Olney Professorship which could be counted into the
hundred. It was fully resolved that the whole should be
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raised within the time prescribed. Rev. R. E. Manning,
an alumnus, was appointed, and generously encouraged by
the North church, of Detroit, of which he was pastor, to
take leave of absence and lead the effort. Volunteers
again fell in, and on the day fixed a little over $100,000
was declared raised in reliable assets, making the amount
of productive endowment about $225,000.
At the September opening, 1891, Dr. Nelson entered
upon his work as president and professor. The other mem-
bers of the faculty were: S. Brooks, S. J. Axtell, R. W.
Putnam, S. G. Jenks and S. Haskell as professors; Misses
Bertha Joslyn, Lelia A. Stevens, and Helen Church, in-
structors. But the hopes of prolonged and vigorous life in
the president's case were not to be realized. He performed
his duties the first term, not without serious difficulty.
The second term he was obliged to withdraw to the sick
room, and on the 1st of May, in calm relinquishment of the
work to which till then he had clung, he departed to be
with Christ. His classes were committed during the latter
part of the year to Rev. W. A. Waterman, and the presi
dential duties were performed by Professor Axtell.
PRESIDENCY OF DR. SLOCUM.
Arthur Gaylord Slocum, LL. D., graduate of Rochester
University, and for sixteen years superintendent of schools.
in Corning, N. Y., was the unanimous choice for the next
president, entering upon duty with the college year, 1892.
With him have been associated Professors Brooks, Axtell,
Putnam, Jenks, Haskell, Lankheet, and Instructors Karl
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Graf, and Misses Ella M. Hays, Emma Shafer, L. A. Ste-
vens and Mrs. Mary Jenks. Later have followed tempor-
arily, Professors R. H. Tripp, W. N. Wilson and P. F. Trow-
bridge; permanent Professor C. B. Williams, and Instruc-
tors Misses Maud Wilkinson, Mary Relihan, Lucy Johnson
and Caroline H. Swartout. With the year opening 1895,
Clark Mills Brink, Ph. D., instructor in Brown University,
became professor in our college, and G. K. Grant, A. M., G.
H. Fairclough, F. F. Churchill and Miss Helen E. Keep
instructors in the Literary, Musical and Art departments.
Eugene F. Lohr, A. M., graduate from Michigan
University, was appointed instructor in 1896.
There is an interesting increase of attendance, especially
of students in the college classes, sixty-eight being enrolled
in 1895 and 104 in 1896. The public high schools are
contributing more of their graduates to this attendance.
Except for the stringency of the times which has retard-
ed collections, the income would have met the expenses
since the last addition to the endowment. The deficiencies
which have accrued from these delayed collections have
just been amply covered by a gift of five thousand dollars
for the purpose, made by the ever fruitful generosity of
the President of the Board of Trustees; placing the college
entirely out of debt. But increased expenditure is
demanded for the department of instruction, and
new buildings are urgently called for. Plans and
promises for a science hall of superior value, together with
further endowment, are being made. Expenses have been
kept very low. The tuition, amounting to but $25.50 a
year, is less than the fees required at state institutions
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where tuition is nominally free, while it is but a fraction
of the amount charged at the universities or the older
colleges which have not state support. To some extent
provision is made for aiding students who need assistance.
The fund bequeathed by the young brother of trustee Taft,
who died after a short period of study at the college, the
Caleb Van Husan Scholarship fund, the Axtell fund, the
prize funds, Ladies' Loan fund, Haskell fund, and contribu-
tions from the Convention and churches and unnamed
friends, are devoted to this beneficiary use. Teachers share
with their pupils in receiving but economical livings.
LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The Greek Letter and secret societies have never been
introduced at Kalamazoo, and the social customs and
chapter-houses of such societies have here no existence.
But societies for literary improvement have been main-
tained with much interest, from the days of the Institute.
Writing, speaking, debate and parliamentary practice have
been cultivated with a perennial zeal, and the social enjoy-
ments consistent with student life have been allowed their
place.
The Sherwood Rhetorical Society dates from 1851, tak
ing its name from Adiel Sherwood, D. D., president of
Shurtleff and other colleges, who gave to Kalamazoo $250,
the interest of which was to be used in prizes for rhetorical
excellence.
The Philolexian Society is of but few years later date,
and is equally prosperous.
Both have added ex-
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pensively to the attractiveness of their rooms and their
useful libraries. The Eurodelphian Society of the young
ladies, with a well-furnished room in Kalamazoo Hall, sus-
tains also a high character.
The college Young Men's Christian Association, occupy-
ing what was the chapel in the building on the hill, is a
center of social, religious activity. Meetings of one hour
are held every Monday evening, when a present attendance
of nearly one hundred forms a scene of inspiring interest.
Special occasions are improved by other meetings and
spiritual quickening to new or to higher life is often
experienced. There is also a Young Women's Christian
Association with similar meetings in the Eurodelphian
room. An athletic association is maintained for field exer-
cise, and with the hope of procuring a gymnasium. In the
Baptist and other churches of the city the students find
welcoming homes and fields of Sunday school, city mission,
and other Christian activities.
TRANSFER OF THE COLLEGE PROPERTY TO THE
COLLEGE.
At the jubilee meeting of the Baptist Convention in
Detroit in 1886, the educational property held by the con-
vention was conveyed to the college by action as follows:
"Whereas, the work of Christian and ministerial educa-
tion, for which this Convention has received gifts and
donations, has been practically turned over to Kalamazoo
College for some years, and has been taken up and carried
on by the trustees of the college, the convention having
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given the use of the property at Kalamazoo standing in
its name to the college for this purpose, and whereas it is
believed that the work could be greatly advanced, and the
wishes of the donors would be more fully met and carried
out, if the title to the real estate at Kalamazoo should be
vested in the college, therefore
Resolved, that upon the execution and delivery to the
proper officers of this Convention of an agreement binding
said college, so long as it shall exist, to furnish tuition to
such beneficiaries of this Convention as the order of its
Board of Christian and Ministerial Education, or other
duly authorized board, committee or other officer, may
require, the Executive Board of this Convention shall make
and deliver to said college a good and sufficient deed, con-
veying to said college all the real estate, the title to which
is now held by this Convention, and which is situated in
the county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan; Provided
that said college shall not be bound to furnish tuition to
the value of more than three hundred dollars in any one
year." The adoption of this resolution was coupled with
the following conditions:
1. That such changes be secured in the charter of the
college as to make it a distinctively Baptist institution,
and to guarantee its continuance as such.
2. That the property shall be used only for educational
purposes and shall never be sold or encumbered by mort-
gage or in any other way.
3. That the Convention have the right to establish and
endow in the college a professorship of especially Christian
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learning, and to nominate the person who shall fill said
professorship."
The first condition was net by securing in 1887 the act
of the State Legislature, amending sections 3 and 4 of the
charter so as to read, "The president of the Board of
Trustees of said college shall be when elected a member in
good standing of a regular Baptist church;" and of the
board, "That not less than three-fourths of the trustees
chosen each year shall be when chosen members in good
standing in regular Baptist churches."
The third condition in the conveyance was essentially
met by the college trustees voting that a department of
Bible instruction be established, and that S. Haskell be
appointed permanent professor in the department, and the
Convention, in its action in 1891, giving expression of its
gratification and approval of the "work and the worker.”
AFFILIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO.
Kalamazoo College is now working under the terms of
Affiliation with the University of Chicago. Some of the
provisions of Affiliation, which are of general interest, are
as follows:
1. The President of the College becomes a member of
the University Council.
2. The Faculty and Courses of Study of Kalamazoo
College are endorsed by the University of Chicago.
3. Students whose work in the College is satisfactory
and whose examinatiors are approved by the University,
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receive credit on the University records for work done in
the College.
4. Such students, on graduation from the College, can
secure without tuition fees the corresponding degrees at
the University after completing twelve weeks' additional
work there.
5. One graduate of the College each year in the A. B.
course, receives the University degree without additional
work.
6. Each year three students who have earned the
Bachelor's degree, receive Fellowships entitling them to
tuition for one year in the Graduate Schools of the Uni-
versity.
7. Apparatus and books are loaned by the University
to the College for use in any department, and special
lecturers and instructors for temporary service can be
secured from the University.
By the agreement thus outlined, the evident advantages
of the small College are combined with the stimulus of
constant touch with a great and growing University.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
Presidents: Caleb Eldred, Henry Stanwood, John M.
Gregory, Silas Bailey, Kendall Brooks, Asher E. Mather,
C. C. Bowen.
Secretaries: Thomas W. Merrill, Edward Olney, Samuel
Haskell, Samuel Brooks, M. W. Haynes, T. M. Shanafelt,
J. L. Cheney, Hutson B. Colman.
Treasurers: T. Z. R. Jones, Caleb Ives, Caleb Van Hu-
san, L. B. Austin, Chauncey Strong, J. E. Howard. Under
several of these the details of business were entrusted to
Professor Clark.
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Financial Agents: T. W. Merrill, T. Z. R. Jones, S. W.
Pattison, Samuel Cornelius, Lyman H. Moore, L. H. Trow-
bridge, L. D. Palmer, J. L. De Land, J. S. Boyden, R. E.
Manning, F. E. Arnold.
In emergencies professors, pastors and other friends
have wrought most helpfully in financial undertakings.
RESULTS.
Throughout the sixty years of sustained instruction in
these schools the educational policy of the Baptists of the
state has been clearly vindicated. There have been those
who have advocated leaving all education except theologi-
cal, to the state. And the theological itself, they would
have the denomination provide for at the seat of the State
University. But, not to speak of the depreciated education
which must be given where great masses of students and
of teachers of all ranks are drawn together, a comparison
of religious influences and results will leave Christians
in no doubt as to their true policy. Said Professor Olney,
after his long and most honored service in the University
of Michigan, as one of his last utterances, while death was
besieging his powerful vitality:
"I am intimately acquainted with the workings of Kala-
mazoo College, having been a professor therein ten years,
and an active member of its board of trustees thirty years.
The last twenty years I have been a professor in our noble
State University. Why should we as Baptists support our
college?
1st. Because of its agency in saving souls. In twenty
years I have not seen as many students baptized as I used
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to see every year in Kalamazoo, though as large a number
here as there are of Baptist connections.
2d. Its agency in supplying Baptists ministers. It has
brought into the Baptist ministry more than the university
has sent into all denominations.
3d. The wide and important usefulness attained by its
students.
4th. The agency of the denominational colleges as the
salt of our educational system.
We have no other agency which, in proportion to cost,
pays half as well for denominational and all religious
work. It is inconceivable how any intelligent Baptist can
stand aloof from it. Courage, brethren! Courage, faith,
prayer, expectancy, work. Don't hang down the head, and
groan and mope. You may count on the subscriber to do
all he can in any way, for his heart and hope are in the
work.
EDWARD OLNEY.
With this we may fitly join the earnest counsel of Dr.
Broadus, when, after a service in the Woodward Avenue
church, he called a friend out of the Sunday school to say
to him, almost tearfully, "Don't give up Kalamazoo
College."
And so the few who survive of the veterans that have
met and conquered the threatening array of difficulties at
so many critical points, join their appeal and cheer with
*hose of the valorous dead, as they see the standard placed
in fresher hands to be borne forward.
In a report of the educational board of the Baptist Con-
vention, made by alumnus W. L. Munger and heartily
adopted by the convention, it is stated that, of the six
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thousand (possibly an over-estimate in number) who have
attended this school, six hundred and twenty-five were led
within these halls of Christian learning to an open confes-
sion of Christ. More than one-tenth of the whole number.
In the quarter century ending June, 1894, of one hundred
and twenty-seven graduates all but eight were professing
Christians at the time of graduating. Nearly two hundred
of those who have been enrolled in the institution have
been students for the ministry, and among them not a few
who have gained eminence in this and other lands. At
present twenty per cent of the preparatory and forty per
cent of the college students are engaged in or looking to
the ministry.
With our work of Christian education so well in hand,
cheered by so much of good already accomplished, inspired
by the brightening prospect of the greater and endless
future, we cannot but act our part in the present with
thankful joy and sure expectancy. But let it not be a for-
gotten or latent truth that our only reason to be as a seat
of learning is in our being "a habitation of God in the
Spirit," where unregenerate young life shall be born anew,
character be formed in unworldly fitness for Christian
usefulness and powers be trained for the best measure of
well-doing. Our State and land are full of education. It
runs over on every side, without what flows from denomi-
national schools. But state and nation and the earth are
afflictingly empty of the training that wins from the world
to God, and sends abroad the wise, who turn many to
righteousness, and shine as the brightness of the firma-
nent, and as the stars forever and ever.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
DATE DUE
.. 16 1981
SEP 28 1981
FCB 18 1
FEB 12 1984
OR
MUTILATE CARD
CHRISTIAN HERALD
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