CELFJB3RATION
OF THE
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
OF
J..A. t:L 3T'1 TT4 A       CO TM IA 3EG 3
HISTORICAL  DISCOURSE
BY THE PRESIDENT,
ISRAEL W. ANDREWS, D. D.,
WITH THE
ADDRESSES
AT THE
R E-UNION
OF THE
ALJUMNI ANTD  PBFRI:TENDS
OF THE COLLEGE,
Marietta, June 27, 1860.
MARIETTA:
PRiIN'ED AT TEE  iNTELLIGENCER OFFICE,,
1 860.








HISTORICAL  DISCOURSE.
When it was proposed to celebrate the secon(l centennial of Harvard College, a question arose as to
the date of its founding. The first Commencemnent
was in 1642, and the first President was inducted
into office in 1640. But as in 1636 the General
Court of Massachusetts agreed to give four hundred
pounds towards a School or College, it was decided
that the College had its origin in the year 1636.
TWe celebrate to-day the twenty-fifth anniversary
of Marietta College. Had it been our desire to assign the earliest possible date, as it manifestly was
in the case of our New England contemporary, our
celebration might have taken place three years ago.
In the early numbers of the American Almanac, Marietta College is stated to have been founded in 1832.
More recently, in the same work, the year 1835 has
been assigned as the date of its origin.
These conflicting dates will be reconciled by a brief
history of the events connected with the founding of
the College.  Colleges are established in various
ways. Sometimes the origin is absolute; the institution is established where no school or seminary of
kindred character previously existed. Others are
successors to institutions of lower grade. They are
not a creation  entirely independent of all other
schools; they have a kind of transferred life. Of this
latter character is this College. It was the lineal




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sucessor of another chartered Seminary, as that was
of one not chartered, but established and controlled
by priv:ate enterj)rise.
It was thle extraordinary success of a Higth Slchool,
started in Marietta )by Rev. L. G. Bingham  and Mlr.
fMansfield Frenc(llh, Which led to the agitation of the
question  whether an  effort should  not be mrade to
establ-ish an institution of higher grade.  Manv circurnstances seemed to point to this place as a desirable locality; there were many indications which were
reg'arled as Providential, not only by- the citizens of
Ma rietta, but by the friends of religion and education
elsewhere.  It was determined to change the form  of
the institution  and place it in charg'e of a Board  of
Trustees.  This was in the autumn  of 1832.  The
first entry in the Records of the College, is as follows:
"At a meeting, held at the house of Rev. Luther G. Bingham in
Marietta, on Friday evening, November 22, 1832, present, L. G.
Bingham, John Cotton, John Mills, Caleb Emerson, Jonas Moore,
Arius Nye, Anselm  T. Nye, Douglas Putnam; John Mills was
chosen Chairman, and Doug(las Putnam, Clerk,
"A draft of a bill for the incorporation of the'Ma.rietta Collegiate
Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary' —to be presented to the
next General Assembly of the State of Ohio-was presented by Mr.
A. Nye, which, after a discussion of the several sections, was
adopted by the meeting.
"On motion of A. Nye, it was
"Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to confer with
Mr. Henry Smith, in relation to his permanent conltinuance as an
Instructor in the Institution.
"L. G. Bingham, John Cotton, and Jonas Moore were appointed
the Committee.
"Resolved, That the Committee be instructed to enter into arrangements, so far as this Board is or shall be competent to do so,
for the permanent employment of Mr. Smith as a Professor of the
Institution —proposing to him a salary not exceeding six hundred
dollars."
Thus were taken the initiatory steps for founcling
a permanent institution  of learning.  On the 17th of
December  following,  an  act of incorporation  wias




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passed, namling as Trustees the eight gentlemen in
attendance at the meeting on the 22d of November,
and John Crawford.  This act was accepted by the
Trustees on the 24th of December, though not without considerable reluctance, in consequence of a section which provided that any future Legislature
might alter, amend, or repeal the act. On the 16th
of January the Board was fully organized, under the
act of incorporation, 1b  the choice of officers, viz:
John Cotton, President; Douglas Putnam, SecretarT;
John Mills, Treasurer.  Dr. Cotton was re-elected
President each year, till 1838, when Dr. Linslev
came to Marietta to reside.  Col. Mills performed the
duties of Treasurer till 1850, a period of seventeen
years. This labor was entirely. gratuitous, and for
the whole time there was scarcely a day when the
t.reasury was not overdrawn; In less than three
years from the organization of the Board, the balance
due the treasurer was over $7.500.  In the office of
Secretary, I am  happy to say, there has been no
change. Every diploma from this College bears the
name of Douglas Putnam, Secretacrius.
I have stated that the act of incorporation for the
Collegiate Institute was obtained December 17, 1832,
and that the Board of Trustees was organized under
it on the 16th of January, 1833. At the same meeting when the organization was effected, a resolution
was adopted requesting MIessrs. Binghamn and French
to state on what terms they would surrender the Institute to the Board of Trustees.  On the 1st of February the terms proposed by these gentlemen were
formally accepted, and the propert-y was transferred,
though the Board requested theml to continue the
charge of the instruction till the close of the academ



(()
ical year. The operations of the institution were carried on under the first charter for a couple of years.
It gave no power to confer degrees, and the section
authorizing any future Legislature to amend, or repeal, was a very objectionable feature. On the 14th of
February, 1835, a new charter was obtained, changing the name from the "Marietta Collegiate Institute"
to "Marietta College," giving the power of conferring
degrees, ahl f free from the obnoxious repealing clause.
The same gentlemen were named for Trustees as in
the first charter, although two of them; Messrs. Arius
Nye and John Crawford, had virtually retired from
the Board.
Thus the College was fouhldedl in 1835, and so we
celebrate in 1860 the twenty-fifth anniversary; yet.
except under a new name and with larger pouwersj
the institution went on as before. The instruction
was given by the same Faculty, and the whole'Was
managed by the same Trustees. And any historical
statement which did not relate the operations of the
two years prior to the date of the second charter,
would be very  A., i:.-.,  ^ x -
When the original organization was effected under
the charter of 1832, Mr. Smith was engaged in teaching at the Seminary, under the general charge of
Messrs. Bingham and French; and it was because of
the favorable impression he had made, that at the
first meeting of the Trustees a wish was expressed to
secure him as a permanent officer. Having decided
to avccept the position thus offered him, he soon went
back to Andover to complete his theological studies,
intending to return in the ensuing autumn. Before
his departure, however, the general plan of the insti.
tution had been marked out, and its different depart



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ments determined on. These were to be a Preparatory, a Collegiate, and a Teachers' department. Substantially, these have been continued nearly to the
present time. Sometimes the Classical and English
studies have been kept distinct in the Preparatory
Department, and sometimes they have all been taught
in the same school. But during the whole time, facilities have been furnished to those wishing to secure
a thorough preparation for college; and generally
an opportunity for study has been given to those
who wished merely to obtain an English education,
whether of greater or less thoroughness and extent.
The Teachers' Course at the beginning of the institution, corresponded nearly with that known as the 8cientific Course in later days, It has now been abolished, though facilities are still provided-which may
be increased as occasion shall require.-for those wishing to prepare themselves for teachers in the English
branches.
After Mr. Smith returned to Andover, negotiations
were opened with Mr. Milo P. Jewett, also a student
in the Theological Seminary, in regard to a post in the
Teachers' department, and on the 20th of May, the
twvo appointments were formally confirmed, viz.: Mr.
Smith as Professor of Languages, and Mr, Jewett as
Professor in the Teachers' department.* In August,
Mr. D. H. Allen, who had taken Mr. Smith's place in
the High School when the latter returned to Andover,
was elected Professor of Mathematics, and Mr. Samuel Maxwell, Principal of the Preparatory Department. These latter two were also connected with the
Andover Seminary, and all four were graduates of
New England colleges, viz.: Mr. Smith of Middlebury,
* In June, 1834, Prof. Jewett was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.




MAessrs. Jewett and Allen, of Dartmouth, and Mr.
MAaxwell, of Amherst.
In the autumn of 1833 the Collegiate Institute
went into operation under its new Board and Faculty.
The four gentlemen who had been elected to the different departments of instruction, did not all enter
at once upon their duties as instructors. Messrs.
Smith and Maxwell came to Marietta, while Messrs.
Jewett and Allen were engaged in presenting the
claims of the institution to the friends of education
and religion in New England.  Prof. Smith took
charge of the Freshman Class, the onlv College
Class formed as yet, and Prof. Maxwell, of the Preparatory Department. During the early part of the
year 1834 Prof. Allen entered upon the work of instruction, while Prof. Jewett was occupied a while
long'er in agency work.
This was the original Faculty of the Institute, and
these all continued connected with the institution
under the new charter, which was granted Feb. 14,
1835. On the 6th of March, of the same year, Rev.
Joel H. Linsley, at that time Pastor of Park-Street
Church, in Boston, was elected President, though
he was able to devote but little personal attention
to instruction for two or three years.  These five
gentlemen were the first Faculty of the College,
We regret that no one of the original number
now  remains connected with the College.  The
present Faculty are all in one sense novi hornines.
No one of them dates back to the beginning. One by
one the old corps of instructors withdrew to enter
other fields of labor. Prof. Jewett resigned in 1838,
went to the South, where he still devoted himself to
teaching. Within a few years he has returned to the




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North, and is now residing in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Prof. Allen yielded to the urgent solicitations of the
friends of Lane Seminary to take the chair of Sacred
Rhetoric in that institution in 1840, where he has
since continued; eleven years in the department of
Sacred Rhetoric and nine in that of Theology. President Linsley remained at the head of the institution
till 1846, a period of eleven years, when he accepted
a call to the pastorate of a Church in Greenwich,
Conn., where he still continues. Prof. Maxwell resigned his place at the head of the Preparatory Department in 1854, to establish the Family School
which is still under his charge. Dr. Smith listened
also to the loud call from Lane, and left us in 1855,
to take charge of the department of Sacred Rhetoric
and Church History in that Seminary. It should be
noted that four of the five continued in the work of
instruction after leaving Marietta, and the other, our
venerable first President, has for some years been a
Trustee of Yale.
The average term of office of the members of the
original Faculty was nearly twelve years, or, if we
include the time in the Institute, a fraction over thirteen. The present Faculty have been connected with
the College, respectively, twenty-two, twenty, nine,
and three years, or an average of over thirteen. It
has been my good fortune to be present at the graduation of all the Alumni except the first four. Besides
those who were here in 1835, and those here now,
there were two professors, Messrs. Hiram Bingham
and Addison Ballard, the former in the chair of Chemistry three years, and the latter in that of Mathematics
two years. The average term of office of the whole
number is about eleven years; an average much
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greater it is believed than most Colleges of the age
of Marietta.  Of the permanent officers, one is a
graduate of our own institution, and all the others
graduated from  New England Colleges, viz.: three
fiom  Middleburv, three from  Dartmouth, one from
Amherst, two from Williams, and one from  Yale.
The first four Professors, it has been said, were elected
to their several departments when students at the
Theological Seminary; most of the others entered
upon the work of College instruction at quite as early
an age. Of the eleven permanent officers, eight may
be said to have been teachers from their youth up,
and instruction was their first professional work.
Three —Messrs. Linsley, Bingham, and E. B. Andrews-had been  settled pastors before becoming
connected with the College.
A College should respect itself-should honor its
own work.  If all vacancies are filled by those educated elsewhere, a want of confidence is manifested
in the excellence of the instruction imparted.  Marietta is not subject to this reproach.  One of the pres,
ent Professors is an alumnus of the College, and since
1839 the same has been true of every Tutor.* Fifteen
of the sixteen who have held this office have been
our own graduates.  HowT sincere are the convictions
of the Trustees of this College in the correctness of
the principles according to which it has been established and conducted, is shown by their electing two
of its three Presidents from its own Professors; in
both cases, men who had come here in early manhood,
and whose whole experience of College instruction
had been here gained.
* Another alumnus, Mr. Edward P. Walker, has since been elected Professor of
Rhetoric and English Literature.




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For Yale to pass by the multitude  of her distinguished sons, clerical and lay, and select as one of her
ten Trustees our venerable first President, was a compliment to us as well as to him; a testimonial from the
highest authority, to the sound views, the wisdom, and
the success whici have characterized this College.
Perhaps I may be allowed to say, also, that as our
Presidents are in demnand as Trustees, so our Trustees are sought after as Presidenrts.  Two of the four
resignations in the Board since 1835, were in consequence of the election of Dr. Hitchcock to the Presidency of Western Reserve College, and of Dr. Fisher
to that of Hamilton.
While the original Faculty have all withdrawn
from us and engaged in other fields of labor, they are
all, so far as is known, still living.  Indeed, the lives
of all those who have been connected with the College as instructors have been spared to a remarkable
extent.  Until the present College year, the whole
corps of instructors, both professors and tutors, remained intact. Tutor Washburn, of the class of 1857,
and appointed Tutor in the summer of 1858, was the
first to whom the summons of death was sent.  A
man of fine native abilities, which had been greatly
improved by culture, of a nature singularly gentle
and kind, ready to devote himself wholly to those
whom he loved, and withal a sincere, earnest, and
humble Christian, in his death the hopes of many
friends were crushed.  He could ill be spared from
the world, yet few are better prepared to leave it.
By the charter of 1835 the number of Trustees
was limited to nine.  Until 1838, when President
Linsley came to Marietta to reside, there had been
but seven in active duty. In the same year Rev.




Addison Kingsbury, then of Belpre, was elected a
member. In the winter of 1844-5 power was given
by the Legislature to increase the number of members to twenty-five. In 1845 six new members were
elected, and subsequently others, so that the present number of permanent members is eighteen. In
all, there have been twenty-six elected members, of
whom two have removed to distant parts of the country, two have been elected Presidents of other Colleges, and four have deceased-John Cotton, Henry
Starr, Caleb Emerson, and Jonas Moore. Three
of these were members of the original Board, and
their connection with the College ceased only as
death sundered it. They have gone to receive their
reward. They helped to lay the foundations of an
institution which we trust is to stand for many generations-they helped to plant a tree under whose
grateful shade shall sit successive hundreds and thousands. It is not too much to say that they and their
associates who are still with us, devoted themselves
to the welfare and prosperity of this College with an
assiduity and self-devotion which can find few parallels.
To recapitulate, there have been elected twenty-six
members of the Board of Trustees, of whom four
have deceased. The average term of office, reckoning from 1835, is thirteen years. There have been
eleven members of the permanent Faculty, all of
whom are now living; their average term of office,
eleven years. The number of Tutors has been sixteen, of whom all are living but one. In all, the
Boards of Trust and Instruction have consisted of
fifty-two different persons, of whom forty-seven are
still living.




I can not leave this branch of my subject, without
alluding to the remarkable harmony that has uniformly characterized the deliberations of those to
whom  the interests of this College have been entrusted. \Vhether in the adoption of general plans,
or in the election of officers of instruction, the Trustees have been agreed. Parties have been unknown.
I can not do better than repeat on this occasion what
I said five years ago, when entering upon the duties
of my present office: "When I think how difficult
and delicate are the duties devolving upon the Trustees of a young institution, how greatly are needed
wisdom and prudence, caution and yet courage; when
I see how inadequate are the views of education too
often entertained, how readily the standard of scholarship is lowered, how many expedients for securing
popularity are adopted; when I call to mind the crude
financial projects entered upon; when I see how unspeakably detrimental are intestine divisions, and
how great and constant the necessity for the exercise
of Christian love and charity, I am constrained to
say that God has blessed this institution with a special blessing."  Distant be the day when any one
connected with it shall feel himself called upon on to
publish such a controversial statement as I have recently read regarding a sister College in a neighboring State; far distant be the day when the members
of this Board shall be arrayed against each other in
hostile parties, one opposing whatever the other may
introduce. Well-deserved is the tribute paid to the
Board of Trust of Marietta College, by a prominent
citizen of Northern Ohio, himself a Trustee of a sister institution, and connected with many societies,
both secular and benevolent: "You have my hearty




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wish'es,'l he writes, "for the prosperity of your noble
institution, its valued Faculty, and its glorious Board
of' Trustees.  May long life and prosperity attend all
(:connected with one of the best corporations in the
lan d."
I have said that the members of the original Facultv were all graduates of New England Colleges;
so, too, of the original members of the Board of Trustees, three had received a Collegiate education-one
-at Harvard, one. at Yale, and one at:MAiddlebury. It
would be natural to expect that the infant College
would take the compllexion of Eastern institutions;
that in the general arrangements, and especially in
the course of study, the example of the best Colleges
of the older States would be followed. Its early officers were not only familiar with the best institutions
of the country, they were among the first men in
their several classes-three of the original five, the
first men.
From the beginning, the Board and the Facultiy
have been entirely agreed as to their idea of a Col.
lege, and as to the practicability of establishing one
which might afford the very highest facilities for a
liberal education.  The temptationi is very strong in
a young institution to make high scholarship yield to
the desire of numerical growth.  IHow resolutely this
temptation has been resisted in this College, it belongs
not to me to say. What reputation it bears East or
Wrest, can better be said by others. A case is not
remembered of a single student who has failed, on
application, to enter another College at the same class
standing; while I can recall four instances of young
men going from Marietta and entering other Colleges
a year in advance of their standing here. Of these,




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two went to the District of Columbia, one to Kentucky, and one to Indiana.
About the time this institution was established, the
feeling was prevalent in all parts of the land that
labor and study should be blended, as far as possible,
in our seminaries of learning.. There was a deep
conviction pervading the public mind, that the health
of students imperatively required that in every institution there should be provided facilities for systematic manual labor. The advantage in a pecuniary
view to those who were dependent, in whole or in
part, upon their own exertions for support, was an
additional argument in favor of the plan.  It was
quite natural, therefore, that the Trustees of this College should yield to public sentiment on this point.
Arrangements were made at the beginning, for regular daily labor, both mechanical and agricultural. A
farm of sixty acres was procured, and shops erected.
Each student was expected to work three hours a day
in summer, and two in winter. However excellent
the plan was in theory, there were serious difficulties
encountered in reducing it to practice. As early as
February, 1838, the shops and machinery were ordered to be rented, and the labor was no longer performed under the immediate supervision of the Steward. Soon after this, the performance of labor was
made optional, though the nominal Manual Labor
character of the College was retained for a few years
longer. The last mention of it in the Annual Catalogue is found in that for the year'42-3.
The Trustees did wisely to abandon the scheme
when experience showed it to be encumbered with
many practical difficulties. That young menengaged
in study need regular exercise, is a proposition that




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needs no proof; but how far compulsory labor is exercise, or, at least, such exercise as will answer the demands of health, is another question. I am inclined to
believe that the net profit, even in a pecuniary sense,
of the work performed by our students, is as much per
year now as when a Steward was employed to superintend the Manual Labor Department.  It is rare
that one who wishes to make his daily exercise profitable, does not find ways of effecting it. For all that
choose, therefore, the College is still a Manual Labor
Institution; and this without a heavy annual expenditure to enable the students to do something useful.
It is not desirable to enter into any detailed statement of the financial history of the College. Its beginnings were feeble, and though on the whole greatly
prospered, it has never been entirely free from embarrassment. Its funds have never been in such a state
as to lead its friends to forget their dependence upon
Him to whom it was consecrated. While its legitimate income-that arising from tuition and from the
interest on invested funds-has never equaled its
expenditure, its property, nevertheless, at the end of
each successive year, has been generally greater than
at the beginning of the year, through the donations it
has received. The first effort in its behalf was made
at a public meeting in Marietta, February 6, 1833,
two or three weeks after the organization of the Board
of Trustees. At this meeting, the sum of $7,000 was
subscribed by the citizens of Marietta and Harmar,
which was shortly after increased to a little over
$8,000. On this first subscription-book, there were
three donations of $1,000 each, two of $500, four of
$300, and three of $250.  Half of the $8,000 was
subscribed by the Trustees. Another effort was made




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the next year, and about the samle suml was subscribed
in Marietta and vicinity. Two of the four Professors
remained at the East, after their appointment in
1833, and acted as agents in behalf of the institution.
So also was the time of the first President devoted to
the same work almost exclusively for the first three
years, and at intervals afterwards. Besides members
of the Faculty, other gentlemen were employed by
the Board to solicit funds. The longest service of this
character was rendered by Charles Goddard, Esq., of
Richmond, Va., who was engaged from the spring of
1835 till that of 1838, when he died. He possessed
in a high degree the confidence of the Trustees, and
was successful not only in securing pecuniary aid, but
in making friends for the College wherever he went.
The largest of the early subscriptions was that of
Samuel Train, Esq., of Medford, Mass., in 1835. He
gave $5,000, the income of which was to be devoted
to paying the tuition of indigent students preparing
for the ministry. This was the first donation to the
Permanent Charitable Fund. MAr. Train's donation.
was in the form of a bequest, payable at his death,
with semi-annual interest. A few years ago a portion
of the principal was paid, the rest remaining still in
his hands. It is worth stating, that while the obligation to pay a subscription to a College or Benevolent
Society rests lightly on some, Mr. Train has promptly
paid this semi-annual interest for more than twentvfive years without a single failure. This Fund was
afterwards augmented by a donation of $1,000 from
Hon. Samuel Williston, of Easthamlton, Mass., who
has since so greatly distinguished himself by his benefactions to Amherst College, and bv the endowment
of an Academv in his own town.
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Early in the year 1839, another effort was made at
home, chiefly to relieve from present embarrassments.
Among these subscriptions was one of $3,000, one of
$1,500, one of $1,000, three of $750, two of $500, and
so on; in all, over $11,000. In 1843, the Society for
Promoting Collegiate and Theological Education at
the West, was formed, whose object was "to concentrate and direct the benevolence of the Eastern
Churches, and to assure them of the importance of
the institutions aided, by a thorough examination of
the claims and wants of each."  Marietta College was
taken under the patronage of the Society, and has
received from it invaluable assistance. The aid rendered was at first entirely for current expenditures,
though, subsequently, facilities were afforded for increasing endowments.  In both ways the Society
has placed the College under lasting obligations by
its very opportune assistance.
In 1845, the movement commenced which resulted
in the erection, by the citizens of Marietta and Harmar, of the second College edifice. In the spring of
1847, the pecuniary embarrassments of the College
had become very great. It was a time of anxiety
and alarm. The exigency seemed sufficient to warrant the calling of a special meeting of the Trustees.
The Board met in May, and after making a full investigation of the pecuniary condition of the College,
determined to make a vigorous effort to relieve it
from  its embarrassment.  The subscriptions were
made conditional on securing the sum of $25,000 by
August 1st, 1848. This condition was fulfilled; about
$26,000 was raised, of which over $15,000 was given
in this county. In this book are two subscriptions of
$2,500 each, one of $2,200, and one of $1,000.




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This was the last general effort made in behalf of
the College, at the %West. There have been partial
efforts from time to time, and there have been occasional donations through the whole history of the institution; some of them entirely unsolicited, and others the result of some private consultations among its
friends. Were it proper for me to mention names, I
could relate many facts showing the depth of attachment felt towards this College; I could narrate incidents coming under my own observation evincing the
care which a kind Providence has taken of it. For
many years I have had no doubt of its perpetuity and
of its success. There have been periods of darkness,
but I was certain that light would break forth. From
the very beginning, the College has had warm friends.
By far the largest part of its donations has been from
those who have continued to give, Especially has
this been true of our own citizens. The first subscription by the citizens of Marietta and Harmar in
1833, was $8,000; they have continued to give till
their donations have been increased tenfold.  The
present aggregate is over $80,000. The confidence
reposed ill an institution so young, is shown by the
comparative magnitude of the donations. The books
contain the names of sixty persons who have given
in sums of $500 and upwards, and twenty-nine who
have given $1,000 and upwards. The aggregate of
these twenty-nine donations is about $90,000, of
which about $58,000 was from Marietta and Harmar,
given by sixteen persons.
The donations received within the last five years,
(since my administration commenced,) have amounted
to $18,000; of which $16,500 have been in sums
of $500 and upwards. As an institution becomes




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better established, the benefactions of its friends are
made in larger sums. How well this College is established in the public estimation, may be inferred from
these benefactions.  Taking its comparative youth
into account, these figures speak strongly in its favor.
The expenditures of money have been made cautiously, and we believe, wisely. Marietta has never
crippled herself by the erection of expensive buildings. For fifteen years a single edifice was made to
suffice for every purpose. Nor has she endeavored to
gain students by selling scholarships for a sum merely
nominal. From the first, this College has kept free
from all such measures, deeming them injurious alike
to literary and to financial prosperity. And I do not
know of a single respectable College which has tried
the system of cheap scholarships, that does not now
regret it. Instead of pledging, to those paying in
advance, tuition at a small fraction of the ordinary
rates-in some Colleges, for the annual interest on
$2.5-the Trustees of Marietta have recognized but
two forms of scholarships-temporary, guarantying
tuition at the usual rates, and permanent, endowed by
donations of $1,000. Probably four-fifths of all that
has been given to the College, has been in the form
of absolute donations, with no incumbrance. Such
scholarships have nothing objectionable in them; and
when they are placed at the disposal of the College,
as is the case with many of ours, it enables us to furnish gratuitous instruction to young men of promising
talents, but of limited pecuniary means. Within the
last year a legacy of $5,000 has been left the College
by Mrs. Mary Keyes, of Columbus, for the endow.
ment of five permanent scholarships. We are now
able to remit tuition to ten or twelve students, besides




the aid rendered from the Charitable Fund before
spoken of.
Very soon after the College was established, it received a donation of $1,000, to be expended for books.
It came from the estate of AMr. Sanmuel Stone, of
Townsend, Milass.; who, having been called suddenly
to die, instead of making a will, left his property in
the care of a few friends, to be distributed in the
manner best calculated in their judgment to promote
the cause of religion. These friends gave $1,000 to
each of several Colleges, directing that the money be
laid out for books. Our portion was expended for
Philological works, thus making a handsome beginning towards furnishing one great department of instruction with facilities for study. WTith this exception the Library was quite miscellaneous, and the increase from year to year very gradual. On the catalogue of 1848-9, the number of volumes is put at
3,600. In the spring of 1850 an effort was made to
increase the Library, resulting in a subscription of
nearly $9,000, of which more than $7,000 was given
by our citizens. Something more than half this sum
was expended, and the remainder funded. The Library now contains over 9,000 volumes, and the Library of the Hildreth Cabinet, between 400 and 500
more. It appears thus that a large proportion of the
books in the College Library were purchased expressly for the purpose, and they are therefore, of
more worth to the College than a much larger number gathered up from private libraries, as is often the
case. It is believed that no College library in the
West is so well adapted to the purposes of instruction
as ours; none that contains so large a proportion of
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I should do injustice to the Literary Societies cona
nected with the College, if I failed to speak of the
great zeal and liberality they have manifested, both
in the fitting up and furnishing their halls, and in
increasin'g their libraries.  When the new building
was erected, the two upper rooms were given to the
Societies in the rough state, and all that has been
since done has been done at their expense. In the
winter of 1848-9, each library contained 750 volumes.
From that time the increase has been so rapid that
the libraries now contain together over 6,000 volumes;
so that in a little over eleven years the number in
each has quadrupled. In the year 1852, the Psi
Gamma Society made an addition of 600 volumes,
and during the two years 1851 and 1852, the Alpha
Kappa added 1,050. The Library of the Society of
Inquiry, which in 1849 contained only 500 volumes,
now has 1,000.
In all, then, the various libraries connected with
the College have increased since 1849 from 5,600
volumes to nearly 17,000. When we remember that
in 1838 there were only ten Colleges in the United
States whose libraries, College and Society, contained
10,000 volumes each, it must be considered that Marietta has done quite fairly to be able to show on her
twenty-fifth anniversary, 17,000 volumes.
I have alluded to the Library connected with the
Hildreth Cabinet. Most of the friends of the College
are aware that in 1850, after the completion of the
new building, our venerable townsman, Dr. Hildreth,
presented to the institution his large and very valua.
ble collections in the various departments of Natural
History, together with some hundreds of volumes of
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time to time, not only works of a scientific character,
but many historical treatises, as well as valuable
pamphlets, and a number of volumes of his manuscript correspondence with various scientific men in
this country and abroad. It is difficult to place a
pecuniary value upon this Cabinet and Library; for
it the owner had expended much time as well as
much money; and in presenting it to the College, and
thus so largely adding to the facilities for instruction
in branches of science now deemed of the highest imrportance, the donor has placed all the friends of the
institution under very great obligations.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY.-This institution was never
intended to be sectarian, but it was intended to be
under religious influences. It was founded by religious men, and they have been supported and encouraged amid all their labors and sacrifices by the hope
that the cause of Christ would be advanced through
its instrumentality. At the very beginning, a fund
was established the income of which was to be exclusively devoted to paying the term bills of young men
preparing for the ministry. It is pertinent to inquire, what has been the religious complexion of the
College? Has it been blessed with frequent revivals?
What proportion of its graduates have been professedly pious?  How many have studied for the ministry?
Without going into detail, it may be stated that
some ten or eleven distinct seasons of special religious
interest have been enjoyed, some of them of very
marked character. There has probably never been a
year when there was not a majority of the members
of College hopefully pious. Including the class to
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222; of whoml  172. or 77 per cen-t., are belieeved to
have been religious men at the time of graduating.
And 52 of these, or 23 per cent. of thle whole number, were converted in College. The number of those
who have entered the ministry, or are preparing for
it, is 92, or 41 per cent. of the number of graduates.
A  few years ago President Hitchcock, of Amherst
College, published some statistics as to the per centage of ministers from different Colleges.  The range,
in eleven Colleges, was from 46 per cent. down to 16;
and of the whole, only two gave a higher rate than
Marietta; Amherst was 46 per cent., Middlebury 43,
and we have seen that Marietta is 41.
An examination of the last triennial catalogue of
Lane Seminary, together with the last annual catalogue, shows that the students of that Seminary have
been furnished by different Colleges, as follows: Western Reserve, 10; Amherst, 11; Miami University, 19;
Illinois College, 21; Dartmouth, 21; Wabash, 40; Marietta, 60. Or, taking the numbers furnished since
1838, when the first class graduated here, Western
Reserve has sent to Lane 8 students; Miami University, 14; Illinois College, 18; Wabash, 40; Marietta,
60. Thus, during the time Marietta has been in operation, she has furnished fifty per cent,. more students
to Lane than any other College, and, with the exception of Wabash, more than three times as many as
any other.  Such is the relative position of MIarietta
College to Lane Seminary; such is the contribution
made by this institution through that Seminarv to the
Churches of the West.  The statistics furnished by
the last triennial catalogue of Andover are not now
at handl, but I have a distinct impression that they
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that Seminary than any other Western College.
Five of our Alumni are missionaries of the American Board; one in the Sandwich Islands, one in Africa, one in Syria, one in Persia, and one among the
American Indians. I may say, also, that two others
have offered themselves to the same Missionary
Board.
LITERARY STATISTISCS.-The first class was grad.
uated in 1838, numbering four. From that time the
succession of classes has been unbroken. Most new
institutions lose one or more classes. In the triennial
of Harvard we find four chasms of this kind. Our
experience thus far has been more fortunate. Sometimes there has been reason to apprehend that a class
might be broken up, and none left to graduate, but
these apprehensions have never been realized. Once,
in particular, a class which entered but seven, was
reduced to fbur at the end of the Freshman year; but,
though one of the four subsequently left, others came
in, and at the end of the course the class graduated
ten. Since the first class in 1838, the number of
graduates in any year has not been less than six.
The largest class, that of 1857, numbered sixteen.
The average for the whole time is a fraction less than
ten a year. This seems a small number; and is small
as compared with the older colleges; rather, I should
say, as compared with some of the older colleges, for
there are many institutions in the older States whose
classes are uniformly small. We hear of large classes
at Yale, and Harvard, and Union, and infer that all
Eastern colleges are similar to them in numbers.
In the summer of 1856, I examined the statis.
tics of different institutions to ascertain the size of
the graduating class in each for that year. I found
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one college in Maine, one in Vermont, two in Connecticut, one in the city of New York, and another in the
same State, one in New Jersey, one in Eastern Pennsylvania, and one in the District of Columbia, whose
number of graduates for that year ranged from 4 to
17. The sum total in the nine colleges was 79, giving an average of a fraction less than ninhe. There
are but few colleges that graduate uniformly large
classes; and these few had small beginnings.
That the sons and friends of Marietta who have
gathered here to-day, may know as definitely as possible what this College has accomplished, let me compare its statistics with those of the best institutions
in our own and two or three other Western States.
This is done without the slightest purpose of dispar.
aging them, but simply that you may have data for a
correct judgment. Let us take WXestern Reserve and
Kenyon in Ohio, Wabash in Indiana, Illinois in the
State of Illinois, and Beloit in Wisconsin.  They are
those with which we are the best acquainted, and are
admitted to be among the best in the XWest. In the
first twenty years, one of these graduated 115 students; another, 121; a third, 148; and the fourth, 162;
Marietta, 199. Or, taking the average of all the
classes up to 1859, it appears that one of these colleges has graduated each year less than six stu,
dents; two others, a little more than six, each; the
fourth, a fraction under eight; and the fifth, a fraction over eight. The average at Marietta has been
a fraction less than ten. The annual average of graduates here is then 16 per cent. above the highest of
the others, and 46 per cent. above the average of the
five.
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of discouragement; some of the best colleges in the
West have numbers smaller still.  The same was
true of the best Eastern colleges in their early days.
In the first twenty-three classes, Marietta College
graduates 222 students.  In the same time Harvard
graduated 147, and Yale 145. In the first fifty classes
Harvard numbered only 341, or an average of less
than seven a year.
Let us look at the relative perinaenzce of our students.  In all colleges, there is a diminution in numbers during the four years course, and in the newer
colleges of the West the disproportion between the
Seniors and Freshmen on the catalogues is often very
great.  A  college is intended to take young men
through a course of studyv, occupying four years.  Its
purpose is not to give them instruction for a term or
two, but to give them a complete collegiate education.
The shorter the time which the students of an institution spend at it, the more is it like a school, and
the less is it like a college. And intelligent men
judge as to the real excellence of a college very much
by its abilitv to retain its students. The better
adapted it is to accomplish the g'reat end of a thorough
education, the more likely will those who enter it be
to continue to the end of the course.  Hence, other
things being equal, the greater the ratio of Seniors to
Freshmen, the better the college. An officer of one
of the Ohio colleges uses the following language in a
published sketch: "It has sometimes occasioned surprise that there should be such a disproportion between the Freshman and Senior classes.  It is true
that less than one-half, sometimes less than onethird, of those who enter Freshmen, present themselves, four years afterwards, as candidates for a de



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gree. This fact will not surprise those who are familiar with the course of things in similar institutions." The writer evidently regards a reduction of
one-half or two-thirds during the course as a common
thing. And the facts will doubtless sustain him in
the supposition. I have examined forty-six catalogues
of the five colleges before mentioned, with reference
to this point. The highest ratio of Seniors to Freshmen on any of the five, is 57 to 100; the lowest is 42
to 100; the average of all is 49 to 100. These five
colleges are certainly among the best in the West;
two of them in Ohio, one in Indiana, one in Illinois,
and one in Wisconsin. In Marietta College, taking
the whole twenty-three catalogues which have been
published, the ratio of Seniors to Freshmen is 73 to
100; or 50 per cent. above the average of the five
others.
These results are as satisfactory as they are extraordinary. The Western public have been wont to
base their estimate of the excellence of a college upon
the size of its Freshman classes; whereas a much
truer estimate could be formed by comparing the
Freshman and Senior classes together, for a series of
years. There are colleges in high repute whose
Freshman classes have been on the average twice as
large as ours, while our annual number of graduates
has been greater than theirs.
It appears thus that Marietta has been characterized through her whole history by a remarkable degree of permanence in her students. The Senior
classes have been 73 per cent. of the Freshman from
the beginning. Nor is this ratio diminishing. In the
last five years, the time covered by my own administration, the ratio of graduates to the number enter



ing at the beginning of the course, is 78 to 100; and
the classes of'59 and'60 taken together, number as
many graduates as they entered Freshmen.How much of this disposition to remain, on the
part of those students who come here, is to be attributed to the excellence of the College, is not for me to
say. While I would by no means arrogate to the institution all the credit, it is difficult to avoid giving
to the fact a favorable interpretation. Something,
certainly, is due to the place, to the town, as well as
to the College. The beauty of the town, and the intelligence, morality, and social excellence of its citizens, exert a strong influence upon those who resort
hither for intellectual culture. Where the same institution in some other locality, with surroundings of
a different character, the records of the first twentyfive years might have been very unlike those now
presented. The success of this College is a success
achieved here. It is Marietta College in Marietta;
you cannot separate the institution from the place
where it is located.
Formerly, it was thought that young men engaged
in study should be excluded from the world, immured
in monasteries, or buried in a forest, in order to gain
intellectual culture, and preserve their morals pure.
They were to be shut out as far as possible from all
sight of man or woman-to see nothing but books, to
come in contact with none but their teachers. That
idea is now well-exploded.  The highest success of a
college requires pleasant local scenery, and an intelligent and refined population. I would not have
young men fritter away all their time in social visiting, but I would have them spend the four years of
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the advantages, and come under the softening influences of polished and cultivated society. Marietta
may be a little one side of the great centers of population, but once here, the student can. find in the surroundings of the institution all that is needful to
Ilaklie a residence agreeable, whatever mav be the advantages of the College itself. That these extraneous
influences are not without effect, that these collateral
advantages are in some degree appreciated, we have
good reason to believe. It causes me no pain to
know that many of our Alumni come back to see
other friends besides old mother College; it grieves
me not, to see other ties formed, other life-long friendships entered into, beside those between classmates.
If Marietta takes from other places, far and near, tile
choicest of their sons, it _may be but a fair requital to
give up in turn some of her own fair daughters.
The influence which an intelligent and moral community may be expected to exert upon an institution
of learning, may be seen here in the general order
which has been characteristic of the College from the
first.  It cannot be affirmed that every student has
been as diligent as he migiht have been, that the conduct of evei'y one has been entirely irreproachable,
but there has been, in general, little occasion for the
exercise of discipline. I do not now recollect a single
instance during my connexion with the institution
where a member of one of the College classes has received the highest punishment known in College law.
A  few have been privately dismissed, some have
been withdrawn at our request, but I recollect no
case of expulsion. The feeling sometimes prevalent
in our institutions of learning, that students form a
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class, that they may do with impunity what ill others
would call forth severe censure, is one with which the
officers of this College have no sympathy.  They
would have students treated precisely like other
young men; neither, on the one hand, the objects of
causeless censure, nor on the other, released from any
of the ordinary responsibilities to public sentiment.
And this they think can be best accomplished in a
townl like this, large enough to furnish such society
as young men devoted to the work of intellectual culture, require, and small enough to make the College
an object of prominence, and to secure at least comnparative immunity from the temptations to which the
youth of great cities ard exposed.
But I may not protract these remarks. To me it
has been a work of pleasure to look over the history
of this College. In every point of view which I have
been able to gain, the retrospect has been favorable.
I know of no one great mistake which the Trustees
have committed. There has been very little which
they would do differently were they to be placed again
in like circumstances. They have no reason to be
dissatisfied with their work. Its evidences are here
to-day.  Long journeys have been taken by these
sons of -Marietta, that they might join in the commemoration of this birth-day of their Alma Mater.
I have shown that few colleges can exhibit so long a
list of Alumni in the same space of time. I might
add that none can show a list more free from stain;
none can show a larger proportion of respectable, virtuous citizens, of useful, efficient men. Of all the
graduates, I know of no one who has made a wreck
of himself. A large fraction has gone down to the
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scarcely an exception, they have given up the high
hopes of this life in the hope of a blessed immortality.
Let me briefly recapitulate-let me give in few
words a summary of this first twenty-five years' work.
Graduating the first class in 1838, three years after
the founding of the College, the succession of classes
has continued from  that time unbroken; making,
with the class of 1860, twenty-three classes, and numbering 222 Alumni. Comparing it with five of the
best colleges in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, colleges founded on the same basis and moulded
after the same models, and thus furnishing the best
data for an equitable comparison, we find Marietta
has a greater annual average of Alumni than either
of the others, and is above their joint average 46 per
cent. If we compare it with the two oldest and best
colleges in the United States, we find that the first
23 classes of Marietta number 53 per cent. more than
those of Yale, 51 per cent. more than those of Harvard.
Looking at the permanence of students, we find
that 46 catalogues of the five Western colleges before
mentioned, show a ratio of Seniors to Freshmen of
49 to 100. Taking all the catalogues of Marietta, the
ratio of Seniors to Freshmen is 73 to 100; showing
this College to be 50 per cent. above the others.
I have no definite data for comparison of this College with others as to the religious statistics, but there
is reason to believe that 172 of our Alumni, or 77 per
cent. of the whole number, have been professedly
pious at the time of graduation.
The number of those who have pursued a course of
theological study, or are intending to pursue it, is 92,
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According to the best of my knowledge, there are but
two colleges in New England which can show a larger
per cent.; one of them 46, and the other 43.
Looking at our contributions of students for Lane
Seminary, we find again the comparison in our favor.
Marietta has sent to Lane 50 per cent, more students
than any other college. And commencing with 1838,
when our first class graduated, we have sent more
than any other two colleges, and, excepting Wabash,
more than any three.
Marietta has been distinguished for the permanence
of her officers, both Trustees and Faculty, The
average term  of office of the former is 13 years, of
the latter 11 years. Of the 26 elected Trustees, four
only have resigned their seats; and two of these did
it in consequence of their election to the presidency
of other colleges,
Marietta has honored her own work.  Since'39
she has never looked abroad for her Tutors; and for
nine years one of the professorial chairs has been
filled by an Alumnus. Instead of looking over the
lists of distinguished men scattered through the land,
to fill a vacancy in her highest office, she has quietly
transferred to that post those whom she herself has
trained in the work of instruction; whose reputation,
whatever it may have been, was gained under her
guidance.
From the evils of misguided counsels this College
has been most signally preserved. The Trustees in
all their plans have been a unit. The Faculty haye
agreed entirely as to what constituted a college, and
as to the mode of conducting it. The members of
each Board have been united amlong thenmselveseach has had confidence in the other.




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Professor Noah Porter in his "Plea for Libraries," published in 1848, says, "In Europe, the essentials of a College or University, are a Library, first
of all; then able instructors, and last of all, suitable
edifices. In the United States the prime essentials
are thought to be, instructors and college buildings.
In Europe, the buildings may be many or few, convenient or inconvenient. *  *  But there mnust be a
well-furnished library. Without this essential, wellqualified professors can not be procured; or if they
could be procured, they would not be able to discharge
their duties; or if they could do this in some sort,
they could not with satisfaction or honor."  Most
educated men would assent to the truth of this statement. It shows clearly and emphatically the necessity of books to the prosperity of a literary institution.
Comparing Marietta with the Universities of the
old world, her 17,000 volumes make a meager show;
but let us compare her libraries with those of the
Colleges of our own land. Taking the American Almanac for 1860, which gives minute College statistics,
and to secure accuracy sends a circular each year to
each College, we find that of the 124 Colleges in the
United States, only 15 have larger libraries than
Marietta. Of the 15 Colleges in New England, seven
have larger, and eight lhave smaller libraries than
Marietta. Of the 48 institutions in the VWestern and
North-Western States, only one has a larger nunm- l,,
of volumes than we; that one is a Catholic College in
St. Louis. Marietta has more volumes than Rutgers
College in New Jersey, which was founded in 1770;
it has more than Hamilton College in New York,
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founded in 1802, with about 1600 graduates; more
than Columbia College in New York city, founded in
1754, nosw probably the richest in the land, and having 1400 graduates. Of the eight Colleges in the
State of New York, only one equals Marietta in its
libraries, and that one has the same number of volumes —Union College, Schenectady, founded in 1795,
with about 3600 alumni. Surely the friends of this
College may congratulate it on the progress it has
made, and on the position it now holds in this particular. Many thanks are due those benevolent men
whose contributions have given the College this preeminence.
Such, gentlemen of the Trustees, is the report
which I present as the result of my examination into
the history of this College. Such, gentlemen of the
Alumni, is the character and such the work of the
mother who rejoices to greet you here to-day. Such,
friends and patrons of the College, is the institution
to which you have given your money or entrusted
your sons. Its course has been quiet and steady from
the first. Very gradually it has increased in the
number of its students and in its resources. Little
effort has been made to attract to it public attention.
Even its friends will hear with surprise how much
has been accomplished in the first twenty-five years.
More and more will they be disposed to regard it as
a child of Providence. More and more will they
render thanks for its success to Him whose cause it
was established to advance. May He who has thus
blessed it hitherto, continue to care for it. May He
preserve it from all evil influences, and give it that
degree of success which shall be most for His glory
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TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.
The public exercises were held in the Congregational Church,
Wednesday morning, June 27, 1860.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Addison Kingsbury, D. D., of Putnam, Ohio, a member of the Board of Trustees since 1838.
After music by Menter's Band of Cincinnati, the Historical Discourse was delivered by President Andrews.
Rev. D. H. Allen, D. D., of Lane Seminary, a member of the
original Faculty of the College, was then introduced and addressed
the audience.  The following report of his remarks is taken from the
Marietta Intelligencer.
Dr. Allen's remarks were extemporaneous, and mostly confined to
personal reminiscences of the earlier years of the College.  He said
that his connection with the College began in March, 1833, in Library Hall. He saw before him two or three familiar faces of those
who received their first instruction from him in that building, and
he was not ashamed to own them as pupils.  When he came to
Marietta, it was with no idea of making a permanent connection
with the College, but merely to occupy, for a few months, the place
made vacant by the temporary absence of Prof. Smith.  During this
time, however, he became so deeply interested for the success of the
College, that when invited to stay, hi could not resist.  There were
two things in the plans of the founders of the institution worthy of
notice;first, that its literary character should not be inferior; second,
that its religious character should be pre-eminent.  He paid a worthy
tribute to the fervent piety and holy zeal of Mr. Charles Goddard,
and his unwearied labor as an agent for the welfare of the institution.
Mr. G. showed himself a man of God, and the Trustees, wishing to
connect him permanently with the College, elected him Professor of
Pure Mathematics, which Professorship Dr. Allen resigned for this
purpose. Mr. Goddard was never, however, a member of the Faculty; he was called to his final home a few weeks after his election.
In the selection of Dr. Linsley as President, it was his religious
character that decided his election. He was known as a revival
preacher of great power and success.  It was the first great desire
of the Trustees that the College should be a fountain of piety, whose
streams would fertilize and bless the land.
As a proof that its literary character was, from the beginning, of
a high order, Dr. Allen related the following incident. Two young
men wished to go and connect themselves with an Eastern College.
They supposed they would lose one year by the transfer.  Dr. Allen
assured them they would be admitted to the same standing that they
had here, and they were so admitted. Dr. A. referred to the standing of this College abroad-and no one was better qualified to speak
on this point than he-and he could unhesitatingly say that no College, East or West, stood higher with the Faculty of Lane Seminary,
than Marietta, as a literary institution.
The bounty of the people of Marietta towards the College was




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spoken of; their unwavering' faith in God that he would bless their
efforts and make the institution a success.  Often had the Trustees
been disposed "to give up the ship;" everything  looked d-ark and
gloomy, but li(ght would break in; from some unexpected quarter
aid would be iecceived, and thus were their hopes kept alive.
If anything' distinguishes Marietta, except being the first];settled
town in the State, and the morality and intelligence of the,people,
it is her Colle'e.  If there is anythingl of which she oughtu to be
pioud, it is the College.  the benleflcetors of this institution will be
remembered with oratitude for ages to come.
Dr. Allen urged upon the Trustees and friends of the College the
necessity of placing the institution on a more permanent pecuniary
basis.  Put it above want.  It must necessarily progress more rapidly the next quarter of a century, than it has the last;, from the
greatly superior advantages she now enjoys; and its growth ought
to be more rapid than that of other Colleges.  It needs not only benefactions, but the players of the benefactors.  The church outside
of Marietta, must exert hersolf in its behalf. It is not a sectarian
College, and it has claims upon the church everywhere, especially
in Southern Ohio. He had never himself had a doubt of its success,
for its foundations were laid in prayer.  Many struggles have been
made at the Throne of Grace for its prosperity, when its friends had
no where else to go. They consecrated it to God, and He has accepted it and set upon it the seal of his blessing', and its success is
as sure as there is a God in Heaven.
Gov. Dennison also kindly consented to say a few words, and
it is much to be regretted that he has been unable to write out his
remarks. The following sketch does not do him justice.
Gov. Dennison spoke of the importance of combining the education of the head with that of the heart, and thought much of the success of Marietta College hitherto was due to this combination; and if
this course was persisted in, its future success was certain. He had
no sympathy with those who make the soul subordinate to the head
in the system of education.
He alluded to some facts mentioned by Pres. Andrews, in his address, in regard to the Library, and added that the College had just
cause for pride, for the library *as the life of a College; it was remarkable that so young ail institution had achieved such marvels in
the way of a Library.
He then addressed himsdlf to the Alumni, reminding them of the
mighty responsibilities thrown upon them by their superior advantages —responsibilities that were not discharged by the reception of
diplomas.  And to the undergraduates lihe would say, discharge the
duties of the hour, whatever they may be; persevere in your intelleturAl pursuits.  Do not lay aside your books, nor flatter yourselves
that you have reached the acme of learning. Your country has
claiims upon you which you must discharge.  Meet those claims
like men. Expect difficulties and disappointments-learn to endure
the olie and overcome the other.




(38)'rhe Re-Union of the Alumni and Friends of the College.
In response to the invitation of the Committee of Arranllements,
a large number of the graduates of the institution had convenledrepresenting every Class but three,-as well as many of the friends
and patrons of the College.
Shortly after the close of the public exercises atl; the Church, the
Alumni and their invited guests met in the College grounds, where
a procession was formed to march to the Lecture Room of the Congregational Church, and partake of a dinner provided by the Alumni.
Luther Temple, Esq., officiated as Marshal, and the following was
THE ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Menter's Cornet Band.
The President of the Alumni, W. B. Thomas, Esq.
President Andrews and Governor Dennison.
Board of Trustees.
Faculty.
Invited Guests.
Alumni.
Undergraduates.
As soon as the guests were all seated, a blessing was asked by Rev.
Eli P. Adams, of Rockville, Ohio, of the class of 1839. At the close
of the dinner, all united in sin singing the following verses to the tune of
Old Hundred, under the lead of Beman Gates, Esq.
From all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land, by every tongue.
Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
The President of the day, Wm. B. Thomas, Esq., of the class of
1843, th2n delivered the following address of welcome to the Alumni
and their guests:
When I look around and see so many of my brethren with spectacles on nose, others with silvery locks, others with a bare place
where the "locks ought to grow," I hardly know whether to consider the appointment to the post I occupy this day, a compliment.
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our Alma Mater. Of the toils and difficulties, joys and sorrows,
she has encountered since she sprang into existence,'tis not for me
to speak. I have been chosen as the oldest son who has never been
from home, in the name of our Alma Mater, to welcome her children back to this birth-day festival; and I pledge you, you returning prodigals, that I shall not pout and stay outside while you are
eating the fatted calf, for you know the "whole household is ours,"
and we can afford to indulge our younger and wilder brothers in a
"family frolic." We all know the value of cultivating a home feeling, keeping up the family interest. What is there that exerts a
more powerful tendency to bind the family together than the festival? It revives and keeps alive the veneration, respect, aye! love
for father, mother, brother and sister, introduces us to "new pledges
of affection"-cultivates a regard for other dear ones at home-and
when the hour for departure comes, we leave with reluctance and
firm determination of so conducting ourselves that the dear ones
who gave the good wishes and " God bless you," shall never have
cause to blush for us. The old Patriarchs well understood the influence of these family festivals, and it may not be amiss, my young
brothers, who are about to leave our Alma Mater, with the fresh aeademic laurels pressing your brow, and hearts big "with hope and
promise high," I say it may not be amiss to state to you that by
far the largest and most happy family party ever given by good
old Abraham, was the day Isaac was weaned.
The Patriarchs of old well understood the influence of these family festivals - and, even in these latter days of speed, when boys
are crowded through our Colleges on the air line principle, right under the nose of good old Harvard and Yale, where the people are
wise and looked up to as models of all that is good, the LL. D.'s
A. B.'s and M. D.'s that are sent from that classic soil to pour
knowledge into this benighted region, assure us there is nothing like
the family feast. Independence day is forgotten - everything, from
a promissory note to the age of a colt, dates from Thanksgiving day.
And this is proper, for these rites of hospitality are a seal of friendship in all lands, So with a festival like ours  it keeps the feelings
warm, makes the heart fresh and green again. There is danger
that in scattering in different pursuits we lose interest in each other,
It revives College memories, College ties -acts as a spur to exertion. We see the prominence that some of our brethren have attained
and those behind tighten the rein, ply the lash, eager to pursue and
overtake, It is a needed stimulant, not hard to take, and should be
repeated at least as often as once a year,  To our distinguished
friends and guests who honor us with their presence, I not only
give you a hearty welcome, but thank you for the expression of interest and regard shown by you in uniting with us in celebrating
the old Lady's birthday.
Letters had been received from several of the former members of
the Faculty, and from others, who were unable to be present, They
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The first regular sentiment was then given from the chair:
OuR ALMA MATER —She is young; let her sons make her great.
"For the mother's sake the child was dear,
And dearer was the mother for the child."
Prof. E. B. Andrews, of the class of 184w, was called upon to
respond, who spoke in substance as follows:
It was to be hoped, Mr. President, that this sentiment, which  is
first in order, as, I trust, it is first in all our hearts, might be allowed to pass without any response, as it certainly needs none.
But I have just been told by competent authority on my left, that T
must at least break the ice, not an unpleasant task this warm day, if
done literally and not in a figure.
I need not say to you, sir, that by all who have graduated at this
Institution, our Alma Mater is greatly loved.  The sentiment just
read declares her "young." She is both young and fair, and we
may well congratulate ourselves, my fellow students, in so blooming
and beautiful a mother. But our guests must not think that her
youth and comparative inexperience will prevent the careful training
of her growing family; I can assure you that her boys are very well
behaved. Still, she is young, the object of our love rather than of our
veneration. There may be those here to-day, loyal sons of other Institutions, who wiil exhibit the temerity and singular taste to exult
in mothers two hundred years old, with five thousand children or
mole,-facts which must be startling to the calm Agassiz.  Let them
exult.  Our young mother has a smooth, fair brow, her heart is
filled with all the love and generous impulses of youth, and she
walks before us with a light step, at once our mother and queen.
The sentiment calls on us to "make her great."  This may not
be done by calling her great, but by being great ourselves, and
thus reflecting back upon her the light and glory of lives well lived
and of good deeds achieved.
But it is not for me to take your time to-day. I have at least broken the ice, or rather, I should say, I have found no chilling ice
to break. There are only warm currents to flow to-day. There are
other sentiments and other responses to come, some pleasant, some
grave, but all reminiscent and delighting us as
"we listen to the echoes that start,
When memory plays an old tune on the heart."
I venture to promise to our guests a pleasant hour. The boys who
surround me are, I see, in the mood. They have eaten and are
full and cheerful with their good cheer, and with hearts glowing and
eyes brightening, they will give you some speeches worth hearing,
for they are the boys that can do that very thing.
2 THE FOUNDERS OF THE COLLEGE.-Their Fathers founded the State; their
Grandfathers, the Republic.
Douglas Putnam, Esq., of the Board of Trustees, in response
expressed himself as follows:
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parts, that referring to the labors and achievements of our fathers,
and that referring to on: own efforts, in connection with this College.
The deeds of those men who, in tile dlark and perilous days of the
Revolution, aided to secure our lib3rties, or of those who first planted
here in the W\est the free institutions which we have inherited, may
safely be left to speak for themselves.  In regard to the establishment
of this College, I will say only a very few words.  I do not regard it
as my vocation to make speeches.  It is rather my province to act
when the time of action comes.  The College was established for the
great purpose of furnishing, to this part of the country, the means of
sound Christian learning.  It was our hope and prayer that the institution might live and prosper for centuries to come. Thus far we
have no reason to regret what we have done; we rejoice rather in the
measure of success which the C6llege has met with, and in the great
good it has already accomplished.  These assembled graduates of the
College, coming up here from, various spheres of useful labor, bear
ample witness that we have not labored in vain.  Our chief regret,
Mr. President, is that we have not been able to do more for the institution. I speak for myself, and yet I presume I express the feelings
of.some of my associates, when I say that, on account of embarrassments resulting from the prosecution of some other public enterprises,
the nature of which many before me will understand, we have not
been able to do what we desired for the College.  But our interest
and confidence in it remain undiminished, and when these embarrassments are passed, should our lives be spared, we hope to do still
more for the advancement of Marietta College.
3. THE TRUsTEEs. —Prudent, liberal, yet conservative; they have been wise and
generous guardians of our Alma Mater.
Responded to by Anselm T. Nye, Esq., in substance as follows:
I cannot understand why a member of the Board making no pretensions to the character of a literary man, should, at a festival like
this, be called upon to respond to the sentiment just read, when there
are members of the Board around me, some who are clergymen,
others lawyers, a judge, and several Railroad Directors. The reason must be found, I presume, in the fact that I am one of the only
three members of the Board who were such at the organization of
this Institution, 27 years since.  Of our associates at that time, two
have resigned, and four have been removed by death.
Of the three now remaining, one has just been called upon to
respond to another sentiment; the modesty of the other must prevent
his speaking on an occasion like this.
I must be allowed, however, at this time, to speak of two of our
former associates, who have been called to their promised restCaleb Emerson, Esq., and Dr. John Cotton.  The moral worth of
the former has never been fully appreciated by this community.  A
man of the Martin Luther stamp, he was ready to do what public
duty required, whatever obstacles might stand in the way. Of Dr.
Cotton, I think I speak the sentiments of my associates of the
Board, when I say that his place has not been filled.
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The College has not been raised to its present condition without
great effort and self-denial. The Board has labored diligently to
bring the institution to its present condition. Dr. Allen has truly
said, in his address to-day, that there have been periods of great
darkness in its history; but in our extremity help has arisen from
some unexpected source, to revive us and increase our faith. We
have felt the value of the injunction, "Trust in the Lord, and do
good; so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed."
The College still needs the aid of its friends.  Much remains to be
done. Its character and prosperity are more or less identified with
the character and efforts of its Alumni.  We have great confidence
in the interest they feel in their Alma Mater, in increasing her usefulness and future prosperity.
4. THE FIRST PRESIDENTS.-Though lost to sight, to memory dear 
Rev. Dr. Jacob Little, of Granville, was called out, who responded
in the following characteristic speech:
MR. CHAIRMAN: —Why am I called up to speak in rotation with
those just called "boys," and that to a toast on our Presidents?
Though my hair is not "silvered o'er" like my comrades in age, time
has made on my form his marks.
I always wondered that Dr. Linsley, a man of sufficient intellectual
dimensions to be pastor in Hartford or Boston, should stoop to be
President of what was then Marietta College. It was no small favor
that the helm of our ship was first put into such hands.
President Smith was a finished scholar; knew how to make a great
effort, to select a library in Europe, and to sustain well his position
and himself.
It is not sufficient for our Presidents to excel in one thing, or in
some things.  They should be armed at all points, be respectable everywhere, and surpass other men in the largest cluster of excellences,
A vast amount of funds has been wasted, and not a few institutions
ruined, by giving the reins to men of one idea, men whose commanding trait eclipsed all the rest.
The word sense is variously used,-good sense, bad sense, bright
sense, quick  sense, common  sense  and uncomrmon sense.  But
one of these never made a good Plesident, because it did not
make him excel everywhere. He who does this, who has the
greatest assemblage of commanding points, is emphatically a man
of common sense; and such is our present incumbent.
[Here Dr. L. was stopped by deafening applause.]
Prof. E. B. Andrews, in response to numerous calls, paid a brief
but earnest tribute to the great worth and eminent services of the
former Presidents, both of whom had been his teachers. His remarks were enlivened with some pleasant reminiscences of College
life under the Presidency of Dr. Linsley.
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John T. Cotton, M. D., of Charleston, Va., a member of the first
class graduated by the College, spoke in reply to this toast.
6. TRE STARRED NAMES IN OUR CATALOGUE.
Pres;dent Andrews, who was called oil to respond to this sentiment, remarked that in the historical address of the morning he had
already spoken briefly of those who had deceased from the Trustees
and Faculty, and allusion had also been made to them by one of the
speakers this afternoon.  A reference, merely general, to the deceased
Alutmni, wolltl be unsatisfactory alike to the hearers and the speaker;
and there was no time for any adequate (lelineation of their respective
characters.  It had been his good fortune to enjoy a personal acquaintance with each of those who had been taken away; they had all been
students since his connection with the College commenced.
It may well be said that death has been busy.  Not every class has
suffered, but the number of the dead is greater than the number of
classes.  Of the whole number of the Alumni, more than a tenth are
gone.  Each face he could recall; and it would be a kind of mournIull pleasure to recount the virtues they possessed and the labors they
had performed.  But this testimony to their worth could be paid more
suitably by membes of their respective classes; and while such testimonials were never out of place, they might, perhaps, be deemed
more especially suitable to the meetings of the Alumni.  He hoped,
therefore, that he might be excused from speaking more at length.
The tribute of' the heart is paid, though words may be wanting.
7. OUR CLERICAL ALUMNI -Noble men of a noble calling. Their preaching is
better than their living.
The Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, of Rockaway, N. J., a member of the
class of'41, was called on and responded in substance as follows:
MR. PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS: - It was intimated to me a day or
two since that I should be required, on this occasion, to answer in
behalf of my brethren, the Clerical Alumni of Marietta College.
My informant, who loves a joke, gravely told me that the sentiment
which was to wake up the eloquence of the Clergy, was this, "Our
Clerical Alumni- their preaching is poorer than their pay 1"  And
to me it seemed a matter for honest doubt whether I ought to be compelled to make a public confession of such a fault, even if it were
too plain to be denied.  Still, I had a lingering hope of finding that
my waggish friend was only practising a little pleasantry at my
expense.  But I leave it to you whether his waggery did not come
nearer the fact than is common among those who are inclined to
look at human nature in some one of its many weak sides.  "Our
Clerical Alumni.  *  *       *  Theirpreaching is better than their
living!"  All this may be true; but is it generous, if it be a fact,
to make it so conspicuous on such an occasion, and call upon one of
the culprits to confess it?  "Their preaching is better than their living," indeed!  How flattering the statement to the worthy founders
of this College, conspicuous among whom is the very modest and
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for help and sympathy have been based on " the wants of the great
West," and the ability of this College to furnish a godly ministry;
and yet, after twenty-five years of patient travail, you sum up this
part of your work by telling your Clerical Alumni, with a dubious
compliment about their being' noble men, of a noble calling," that
"their preaching is better than their living! "  With unfeigned
amazement, we might exclaim, " Et tu, Brute! "
But I am made suspicious by your merriment that perhaps my
interpretation of the sentiment may not be the right one.  Can it be
that you are referring to the pecuniary rewards of your Clerical
Alumni?  If so, I admit that, inferentially, it might be regwarded as
a compliment; at any rate, we are thankful if our Fair Miother,
and those worthy gentlemen who have the care of her, think that our
preaching is better than our pecuniary living, not to mention the
moral aspects of the case. And yet, when I think of the Clerical
Alumni, and venture an estimate of the emoluments of their calling,
it does seem to me a very questionable illustration by which to
show your appreciation of our preaching.  An elephant would not
be much complimented to be told he was greater than a mouse, or
a Brutus feel flattered to hear that he was more patriotic than a
Catiline. The very allusion to our living is scarcely a compliment
to our preaching, for if the latter were not a great deal better than
the former, I would advise you to shut up this institution, and devote
its property to better uses than educating such men.
But pleasantry aside, and disclaiming any share in the good
words you nieant to speak for your clerical sons, I may say that
they have wrought in the Master's vineyard in the spirit of self-sacrifice and with many signs of the Master's approbation.  They
have not been place-seekers, who could see no "open doors of Providence" until their eyes had been anointed with the salve of a "good
living." I knew a minister who went all over Indiana looking
for an "open door of Providence," but could not find it; A fiiend
suggested that a door, to be seen by him, would need be as big as
a barn door, because a fine farm at home was between his eyes and
the long sought for but never found "door of Providence." Your
clerical place-seeker is not the noblest of characters.  Think of a
man afflicted with the hallucination that "he is not appreciated,"
that "his talents ought to have a larger field," that "quite inferior
men are shining in conspicuous places, while he is compelled to
hide his light under the bushel of some little and unimportant congregation!"  Such a one sought the land over from  Portland to
New Orleans, and never found a sphere which came up to his notions of his own superior gifts.
It was a truth which I learned at home, within the limits of a
poor mountain parish of which my honored father was the pastor,
that it is a distinguished honor to be permitted to be an "anmbassador
for Christ," even to the smallest and poorest Church on earith, and
thatwhen the ambassador so persuades those to whomhe is sent,
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fleice by thinking with profound amazement and gratitude, n(,t of tlha
small salary he receives, but that he is a "worker together with
God," and that his blessed work shall outlive the sun, because "they
that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they
that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever."
Mr. President, when I recall our Clerical Alumni, many of whom
are still "fiuhting a good fight," and some of whom have gone up
to receive their crown, I am sure I do no wronu to truth in declaring that so long as our Alma Mater bears such sons, she will
be dear to Christ, and many will rise up and call her blessed.
If you will indulge me in a sing'le reminiscence suggested by
the face of a beloved instructor, who has to-day so touched our
hearts by his recollections of the early struggles of this College,
the first question ever asked me in my examination for admission
to College was propounded by him: "What is a vulgar fraction?"
It posed me, as it has done many others; but had I known then
what I know now, the answer would have been easy. It is very
common for some gentlemen to speak of their wives as their "better halves," and one learned friend speaks of his in extravagant
terms as his "nineteen-twentieths."  Now, sir, look at yourself,
and at these gentleman on my right — the older graduates - the
most of whom can say, " we are no longer in a fractional condition; our better fractions and ourselves constitute the unity  spoken of by high authority, "they twain shall be one flesh."
But, sir, look at these young gentleman on my left, these young
Alumni and undergraduates, so uneasy, so uproarious, look at them
in gross or in detail, and in their unmated condition, behold the
answer to the question which puzzled me so much twenty-three
years ago: "What is a vulgar fraction? "
Mr. President, I thank you in behalf of our  Clerical Alumni
for your kind expressions to-day.
8. THE STATE OF OHIO.-The first born of the Ordinance of 1787. The presence
of her Chief Magistrate to-day is proof that the principles of Liberty on which she
was founded are still loved by her people.
This sentiment was most appropriately and eloquently responded
to by his Excellency, Gov. Dennison.
9. OUR MEDICAL ALUMNI.-We wish them well and their patients better.
Responded to by J. D. Cotton, M. D., of Marietta, of the class
of 1842:
MR. PRESIDENT:-The sentiment just read is somewhat anmbiguous.  I suppose, however, it means success and prosperity to the
physicians, and the same to their patients, in order to enable them to
pay their bills.
It is a iact well known thlat while the medical profession are, as a
general thing, poorly paid, more is expeeted and required of them
than of any other profession.
The true and honest physician is the setvant, yea, the slave of the
people.  lHe is expected to be ready at all times to obey the call of
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like the minister or the lawyer, he can call no time his own.  He
knowvs not at what hour he may be needed to alleviate the sufferings
of his fellow-being.  He requires more true courage than the soldier.
His elnemny is a secret and hidden foe, requiring him to be ever on his
guard.  I am proud to say the true physician has never yet turned
his back upon danger.  In whatev&r section of our country the raging pestilence breaks forth, bearing death in its course, whilst others
are fleeinr, for safety, you will always fin(l the physician at his post,
ready to rmeet danger and death rather than desert his friends in the
hour of their calamity.  I am happy to say that such has been the
influence of our Alma Mater, that none of her sons have yet been
found  in  the ranks of quackery, and may thle day be far distant
when any of her Alun.ni shall be found willing, for the sake of money, to humbug the people.
10. OtTR LAWYERs.-We boast of our lawyers. and an honest lawyer is the noblest
work of God.
A. T. Goshorn, Esq., of Cincinnati, of the class of 1854, said a
few words in response, concluding with the suggestion that those
needing any assistance of a professional character, would find an
office in Third-Street, Cincinnati, &c., &c., &c.  (The quiet manner in which this was said "brought down the house.")
John F. Follett, Esq., of Newarlk, of the class of 1855, was also
called upon, and replied in a vigorous speech, of which it is to be
regretted there is no report..
11. TEACHERS AMONG OUTR ALUM.NI -The prosperity of the Colleze in a great degree depends upon their efficiency, and upon cheir affection and zeal for our Alma
ahiter.
Mr. George H. Howison, of Harmar, of the class of 1852, responded. He noticed the obligations of the Public School System
to the College; the College was the great conservator of Liberal Education as opposed to the so-called Utilitarian Education, so popular
and plausible. The tendency of the public towards assuming the
object of public education to be the furnishing the man for his special calling in life-his daily drudge-work —and not of enlarging his
powers as mani, rendering him wiser and stronger in his immortal
nature, constituted the prime obstacle in the way of the teacher's
success; and against this materializing tendency the College stood
as the living protest.  The peculiar fidelity of Marietta College to
the principle of Liberal Education, was alluded to.
Mr. Howison then proposed the following sentiment:
12. MARIETTA COLLEGE -The faithful prot'ectress of a rational eduction. May her
future gather within itself the perfect conclusion to which such an education tends.
The following song, written for the occasion by Mr. D. E. Beach,
of the class of'59, was sung:
Should Alma Mater be forgot,
And "never brought to min'? "
Should Alma Mater be forgot,
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CHORUS.
O memories of "lang syne!"
O "'auld lang syne!"
We hail the day that wings us back
To "auld lang syne!"
With filial hearts, with grateful tongues,
All Marietta's line,
Now hail once more the halls ye loved
In "days of lang sync."
O memories, &c.
Here oft we trimmed the midnight flame,
At Pallas' secret shrine,
While kindling hope fired heart and brain
In "days of lang syne."
O memories, &c,
Here swords were whet for wordy strife,
Here oft we wooed the " Nine;"
Ah! these old walls have tales to tell
Of "auld lang syne."
O memories, &c.
IIere up life's steep we looked and read,
In many a radiant line,
Strange words that made us shout and climb,
In'"days of lang syne."
O memories, &c.
Thus toils and pleasures, dreams and fears
We've plucked from this dear vine;
But its growing branches wide have spread
Since "auld lang syne."
O memories, &c.
And higher, wider, may it spread,
Green as the mountain pine;
But greenest in our hearts shall be
The "days of auld lang syne."
O memories, &c.
13. THE OLD nMANUAL LABOR SIJOP, WHERE OUR EARLY ALUMNI MADE BROCMS
THAT SWEPT CLEAN.
Deacon Adams, the former Superintendent of the Manual Labor
department, in answer to loud calls, replied as follows:
MR. CHAIRMAN: —-It seems strange that I should be called upon,
but I am sure it was in kindness and good faith.'They had no wish
to put me under the table.  But I presume the intention was to have
a laugh; which, by the by, may be well in our present circumstances.
A little mirthfulness after dinner is thought to be conducive of health,
promoting digestion.  However that may be, these young gentlemen
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of bygone days, which ill their estimation was ridiculous in itself, and
needs to he remembered only to be laughed at.
Now I don't knowv exactly about the morality of laughingi at the
dead.  But, Mr. Chairmin, you remember what our venerable friend
by your escrow said, (Rev. Dr. Littie,) a little while ac,, about the various kinds of sense exllibitedl in the worl(l, such as bright and strong
sense, good, sound, hard, common sense, &c.  And then!, as you
know, in the speeches that followed, we had interesting exhibitions
of all these different sorts of sense —the living reality brought before
us; and it probably occurred to these young gentlemen that there was
yet another kind of sense in this worldl, called nonsense.  And they
might have felt like having a little of that also; and so, of course they
called me up.
However that may be, I am not prepared to say, as your neighbor
on your left did, (4. r. Nye, Esq.) that I am not a literary man.
I make no such admission as that, Mr. Chairman.  I have been
through your College many times, up and down and crossways.
I have been at college long enough to heave acquired all the knowledge any one needs to have, and yet there are some branches
where I am  still deficient; and, as my bad luck will have it, one of
these is just where I am at fault this afternoon.  I have not been instructed in the tactics of such little speech-making as this.  I don't
know how you do, in case you are called up when you have nothing
to say.  Of course, I do not know  what is expected of me now,
whether I am to sit down, or talk on and make a speech, giving it
length to make up for leanness.
But in relation to that old Manual Labor Department, Mr. Chairman, I can assure you, notwithstanding any depreciating sentiments
in which the present generation may indulge, that it was not looked
upon as an unimportant affair in those olden times. It was thought
that the prosperity, if not the very existence of the College depended
upon it. I was highly honored myself because of my relation to it.
I stood at the head of the Carpenter Department; the Carpenter Department of Marietta College, Mr. Chairman. Now I presume I
need not sav in this learned assembly what a Department of a college
means in college language. It was not uncommon for the students to
give me the titles suited to my standing. Some called mne Professor,
while others, who could better appreciate the dignity of my position,
called me Father.  These however, were small matters to me, nor did
I quite understand why I should be honored above other Professors.
Probably it might have grown out of some of their college notions in
relation to the comparative honors of the chair and the bench.
The term  chair was used, not so much to designate the chair
itself, as its honorable occupant; and so also has the term bench
acquired a similar meaning. When the great Court of the nation
meets at Washington, we see notices in the papers in relation to the
Bench: so, perhaps, our students might have deemed the presiding
dignitary of the bench to be worthy of especial honors.
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scenes, although there was neither romance nor poetry about them at
the time, yet they are interesting to me as old remembered things,just
because tlhey belong to old lang syne.  They are impiessed upon my
inemor? as if thley were now sp)read out before me; the broom sllop, and
cooper slio!, and e,,pecially thle carpenter shop, wittl their tools and
berches. and those who worked uplon thenm; thle farmers alo, with their
cart and load of fencing-posts, anl1 the Comimons ]hall, and Commons
dinners, and tlhose who ate them and thlose who served,-all before
the mind just as they were, and looking( as thev did.  Yet there is
no particular event or thi,  which I could so (lescribe as to make it
interesting to thiq assembly, nothinr to make a speech about.
It is like a painted landscape; all who see it may call it good(.  It
is true to nattlre, and therefore beautiful; yet there may not be any one
point of excellence to draw  the eSe especially to itself, as being the
chief attract(ion of tlhe piece.
As to the nrictical working of our several departments, I used to
tlhilnk that the i1nfiuenle of tllose whlt operate(l in tile brick house was
rather against us.  WVl0 t1e le voung tmen catme out from the presence
of tllose chllirs, tlleir tnlitl s woere i'l prepared to appreciate Ithe interests or claims of tlte bencll; tlleir heads were full of anything but carpentry.
Ill the main, however, we got along pretty  well, and our rights
were dutly res pected.  And as always in a piece of pailting stlch as
I deseribed, tlere must he light andli slhadle, so it is, Mr. Chairman, in
this picture; tllhere is tthe blending o~f light an(l slhade.
But tile brielilest ani best of liht spots. are the falces of Inen,  the
open, honest colunteanale of mlian, the cordial smnile of unselftish   friend.
ship.  And siuch, M1r. Clbairnian, were ti'e surroun(linurs in the midst
of whiel: 1my lot was cast in those (lays.  And this was an ample
compensation for thle small annoyances.f the way.  But the world is
moving on. all things are moving.  IThe lights that shine upon us from
Heaven are moving; tley go shining round the world, and tliough
they drop below the hlorizon and hiite their light from  us, yet they
are still shining somewhere, and s(,on thiev rise agrain and shine upon
us as before.  Anti so, Mr. Chairman, did those faces, those countenances lumninous with friendship. disappear from my sight; and they
have been moving round the world, and no doubt have been still
shining soniewhere, though nct exactly on my path.  But now, after
the lapse of twenty years, they have turned up again, and here they
are before me, shining upon me warm as ever; and it does me good
thus to meet them; it warms up my old heart, and sets me talking,
though I have nothing to say.
Luther Temple, Esq., a student of the olden time, was also called
out, and gave some very interesting reminiscences.
14. BETTER HALVES AND FRACTIONAL'PARTS OF OUB ALUMNI.
Rev. G. M. Maxwell, of Cincinnati, of the class of'42, responded
appropriately, expressing much regret that the smallness of the room
prevented the ladies from participating in these festivities.
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Col. Alban, of Marietta, and Henry Hudnall, Esq., of Richtnond,
Va., of the class of'46, were called out in defense of bachelordom.
15. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, THE OLDEST OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. —Two centuries
have not impaired her energies, or checked her progress. May she continue to possess
the secret of perpetual growth.
This sentiment was responded to by Rev. E. C. Guildl, a dutiful
son of Harvard, who paid a merited tribute to the worth of his Alma
Mater, and gallantly defended her from the charges made in the pleasant allusion to her extreme age, in a previous response.
16. YALE COLLEGE.
Gen. H. B. Carrington, of Columbus, a graduate of Yale, and a
Trustee of Marietta, replied to this.  An abstract of his remarks was
promised, but has not been received.  He proposed the following
sentiment:
17. lTIE FOUNDERS OF MARIETTA COLLEGE.-Great-hearted, far-sighted and Christian. They have impressed their own likeness upon the institution they cherished
and loved. May the first fruits of their planting here gathered, be the pledge that
the sons of Marietta will vie with her Founders to illustrate and perpetuate those
principles of frerdom and religion which have made her worthy to share with old Yale
the favor of the people and the blessing of Heaven.
18. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE.-She has lent us Presidents, Professors, and Trustees.
We will honor her draft in return.
A very happy response was made to this by Rev. Milo J. Hickok, of
Scranton, Pa.
19 KENYON COLLEGE.-We honor and esteem her. We congratulate her on having a President Andrews, too, at her head.
This was spoken to as follows, by Rev. John Boyd, of Marietta:
Where the members of a family, after long  years of separation,
have met for a thanksgiving reunion, is not quite the place for a
stranger.  However, it is better to be at a family reunion than  at a
family quarrel.
I believe that the most cordial feeling exists between these two institutions. In some of their features there is even a family likeness.
Some years ago your President's name was Smith, and so was ours,
if indeed Smith be any name. Now your President's name is Andrews; so is ours,-and Andrews is a name.  It has occurred more
than once that we have divided families between us; you having one
brother for a student, we another.  And there have been  cases in
which the same students have been at both Institutions; some beginning with you and finishing with us; others beginning with us
and finishing with you. And, indeed, in one or two instances, the
same person has graduated at both Institutions, with a diploma from
neither. As both of our Commencements fall on the same day, these
persons, being unable to choose between the two, of necessity remained at home. And, as if not satisfied with having a succession
of Presidents of the same name, and with interchanging students,
you have for your classical Professor one who formerly filled the
same chair with us. Thus many links bind us together, in addition
to having the same high purpose of training young minds and hearts.
It is true we differ ecclesiastically; yet here also we interchange:
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side sits a reverend fiiend whom we educated, hoping to make something of him, though he has turned out nothing but a Presbyterian
minister. Yet, in our Theological School, we have the son of one
of your professors. And I see one here of Episcopal source, who for
a time went under ground, flowing through Congregationalism, yet
he has at length emerged again all right. Besides; we have one
semi-churchman in one of your old Puritan chairs, one professor to
put a little Episcopal tincture into your Pierian spring-if indeed so
stiff a substance as Episcopacy can be taken up through the roots of
dead languages and the still drier roots of political economy. A few
of your students, also, are of Episcopal families; others have Episcopal streaks through them; and sometimes even a tutor, when not
watched, plays truant and steals around to the church where the
half-reformed wear gown and bands.
Our fathers were once hard on yours in merry old England. But
you can afford to forget that, for you have a broader New England
wherein you rule: a state without a king and a church without a
bishop. If in the days of Laud or Jeffreys, we could have found
you presuming, without the apostolic successors, to gather at a ieunion like this, we would have dispersed you with dragoons. But
now the day is yours. And I, the successor of Archbishop Laud,
and my friend Rhodes, the honorable Probate Judge, legitimate successor of Judge Jeffreys, are here at a reunion with the children
of the Puritans, cooling our mutual wrath with ice cream. I like
this mode of children settling the quarrels of their fathers.
I remember the response which the Hon. Hosmer Curtis made to
a toast at a Fourth of July dinner at Gambier Hill. He was with
Bishop Chase when the latter made his first visit to Gambier to look
out a site for his College.  Coming to the foot of the hill they dismounted, and laboring up through the thick underbrush, they
reached the top at the extreme southern part. The bishop, glancing
round with his quick eye, put down his cane with characteristic
emphasis of will, and with scarce breath enough left to speak, said,
"'This will do!" and that determined the location of Kenyon College.
As soon as possible after this, the work was begun. The first thing
which the bishop did on crossing the line which bounded the college lands, was to kneel down and pray for strength to keep a vow
then and there made, that while the buildings were in process of
construction, nothing that could intoxicate should ever cross that
line. This was an original temperance pledge, and it was sacredly
kept. I fear it has been often broken since his day. Immediately,
with his hired man and little son, on the spot where old Kenyon
now stands, he cut forks and planted them in the ground, laid transverse poles, covered this with plank, felled an oak and rived clapboards to enclose it, put straw in one corner, spread his bed upon
it, and that was the Episcopal palace of Ohio. Though his friends
were all against him, and though he had not twenty dollars at his
command, he began laying his foundations as if he were a prince of
the CEesars, building a palatial structure. This was in June, 1826.
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trepid Morse, now living, preached the sermon for the occasion, on
"Christian Piety and Knowledge; or Literature and Religion."  And
now from the spot where the bishop's cane went down, rises the
spire of the noblest institution of learning in the West —except this
at Marietta.
Our charter is nine years older than yours. Which bears its age
best, I modestly forbear to say. I only hope that they may ever remain true yoke-fellows in the service of education and religion.
These reunions are charming things. It trust that you may all
have many of them, and all of them delightful, and that all who
meet here to-day in the reunion as Alumni, with all who are in the
school of Christ, may have a better and enduring reunion in the
presence of our common Redeemer.
The following lines were composed for the occasion by Lawrence
Waldo, Esq., of Cincinnati, of the class of'53:
Once more amid these "sacred seats,')
After long exile meeting,
Our student-brotherhood repeats
The old accustomed greeting.
Here once our joyous youth believed
No darkness of the morrow;
But in the after-years were grieved
To find them dimmed with sorrow.
Hither, in separated days,
On worldly currents floating,
We gaze through time's impurpling haze,
Our distance sadly noting.
And as the toils aud cares of life
Press us with heavier burdens,
We but compare its present strife
With earlier, sweeter guerdons:Or while the smoky wreaths arise
From  Meerschaums or Havanas,
We watch them fade with wistful eyes,
And sigh "fugaces annos!"
In social hours, sometimes we think
Of years when we were suitors
To liberal art, and memories drink
Of cross or genial tutors;Talk over happy days here spent,
Faults, follies oft pursuing;
When different ways our wishes went,Wisdom and sweethearts wooing.
Thus toward our Alma Mater's beams
Our eyes are ever turning,
Where erst we drank at classic streams,
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To her we gladly give to-day
Our tribute and attendance,
Nor would of her maternal sway
Declare our independence.
We at her reverend threshold meet,
Art-loving, heart-bound brothers,
But here aud there a vacant seat,Ah! werl there not still others?
Some voices that were music once,
TIo hear in vain we listen;
Some names are named-and for response
Drops on our eyelids glisten.
No tears for those whose toil has won'rheir final coronation;Only for those who struggle on,.
In weakness and temptation;
The thorny roses of whose past
Are purchased all too dearly,
Whose sweet and bitter, crowding fast,
Count tedious cycles yearly:
Contented while o'erruling Will
Conceals their light inherent;
Unrecognized'" star-bearers " till' Stelligeri cesserunt i "
The banner of perennial Truth
Enshrouds their names with glory,
Who fought her battles in their youth-," Et vincere, et mori! "
Victors, though fallen, they await
The world's emancipation
From bursting bonds, which, like their fate,
Foretell transfiguration.
When that to come shall cloud what is,
As clouds the past the present,
And Nature's quickening chrysalis
Shall ope to life senescent,Then only shall creation see
The universal dutv,Religion's fair humanity,
And Truth's perfected beauty.
Meanwhile, if every social throe
Eradicates one error,
Soon mental tyranny and woe
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The hope, the promise of that day
Supports us, still wayfaring,
Ready at times to faintY away,
Again with strength upbearing.
So, by an ever-varying path,
Through sunshine and through shadow,
We seek with living, constant faith,
The spirit's Eldorado;
Till break upon this grosser sight
The amethystine portals,
And, re-endued with perfect light,
We walk with the immortals.
The following sentiments were prepared and responses were ready,
but the time allotted for the exercises had been exceeded.
20  The Ohio University.-President Howard.
21. Our Business Aien.-Messrs. Geo. B. Collier, Philadelphia, and Douglas Patnam, Jr., Cincinnati.
22. Our AIissionaries. —'Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world."-Rev. L N. Woodruff, Gaysville, Vt.
23. Farmers. —In their affection for Mother Earth they must not lose their'regard
for our Alma Mater. George Dana, Jr., Esq., Belpre.
24. 3larietta.-Mayor Whittlesey.
25. The Old Dominion.-Henry Hudnall, Esq s Richmond, Va.
26. The Press.-Amos Layman, Esq., Harmar.
27. Female Seminaries of the West.-W. P. Kerr, Esq., Granville.
28. Our Literary Societies.
The exercises were closed with a Latin song, slightly modified
from one prepared for the second centennial anniversary of Harvard,
and ending with the following lines:
Cantanda semper omnibus,
Dum vox, et aura, datur,
Vigescat, atque valeat,
Insignis Alma Mater!
Of the five members of the original Faculty, two were present,
Rev. Dr. Allen, of Lane Seminary, and Prof. Samuel Maxwell, of
Marietta; and letters were received from Dr. Linsley, the first President, and Prof. Jewett, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Letter from Rev. J. H. Linsley, D. D.
GREENWICH, CONN., June 19, 1860.
*  -'  "   I have all along indulged the hope that I could be with
you at your anniversary. I have strongly desired it, on many accounts.
I have not ceased to feel a deep interest in the character, course and
prospects of the college.  *  *,  I want to see the improvements




in Marietta —I want to see old friends —and especially I should be
glad to take by the hand the early Alumni of the college, whom I still
remember with undiminished interest.  Until within a few days I
had confidence I should be with you, and accomplish these cherished
objects.  But in addition to other difficulties in my way, heretofore
alluded to, new embarrassments have arisen connected with my pastoral duties, which will make it well nigh impossible to be away. at the
time required.  I must therefore relinquish my plan and forego the
pleasure I have had in anticipation.              "  
\Ve all know that this college, as well as all our best Literary institutions, was founded by good men for the welfare of the church. From
its inception to the present hour, I believe it to have been a child of
Providence and of prayer: therefore I rest assured that however it
may have to struggle with difficulties from pecuniary embarrassment,
it can never sink.  I pray that it may never falter in its beneficent
career.  I trust God has marked out for it an extended and bright
future.  Convey my salutations and congratulations to old friends,
whether in the Faculty, in the Board, or among the beloved Alumni.
I shall in heart, if not in tongue, be with you on yourjubilee day, and
when you shout, "Long live and prosper Marietta College," please
add the amen of her friend and yours,              J. H. LINSLEY.
Letter from Professor Jewett.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 20.'i ~ ~"~ Two years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting my classmates at Dartmouth after a separation of thirty years, and the same
season I met many beloved bmethren at the Semi-Centennial Celebration at Andover Theological Seminary-both among the happiest
events of my life.  But still more strongly, more tenderly, does the
Reunion you propose appeal to my heart.  I long to look, once more
before I (lie, on the faces of my old friends and brethren of Marietta
-to feel the warm grasp of their hands-to see their glistening eyes
— my colleagues Smith, Allen and Maxwell —those members of the
first Board of Trustees, Cotton, Mills, Emerson, Putnam, Nyve-the
early students, my pupils —the Brooks, Hall, Pogues, Adams, and
numbers of others-not to forget the families I so much loved, Mrs.
Goddard's, the Woodbridges, and the members of my Fearing and
Salem churches.  They all, all live in my memory, my respect, and
my warm affection.
In a somewhat extended and. intimate acquaintance with men in the
different sections of our country, I can affirm that I have never met a
truer, manlier, more generous, more self-sacrificing community than
that in which Marietta College is situated.
If I were called on to give a sentiment on this occa ion, it should
read somewhat like this:
As the original settlers in Mariettta, in 1787, laid the foundation of their civil polity in principles which have made the State of Ohio a poswer among the sovereign
States of this Union; so did the founders of Marietta Colle_,e. in 1835, establish this
institution on principles which will secure to it an honorable rank and a perennial
fame among the Colleges of our country.




Begging you, me dear Sir, to accept my hearty thanks for the kind
ternis with which you were pleased to accompany the' circular, I remain very truly and re spectfUlly,
Your ob)liged and obedient servant,
Mi. P. JEWETT.
Letter from  Professor Adkins.
RICHMOND, Va., June 23d, 1860.
E*  *:     Very relu( tantly, indeed, do I give up thle idea of being
present at your'quarter-century celehration."  It would afford me
the greatest pleasure to be present.  I thlink olf so allnlly Wvhose memory is dear to me whom I should have hoped; to meet there at that
gathering, and whom, probably, I shall have no other opportunitv of
meeting on earth.  Probably the survivors of nmy own class will be
there.  There are but four of us; the rest hlave paid thie debt of miature,
and meet no more witi earthly assemblies.  Gladly indeed vould I
take the survivors by the hand again.
I should be glad too, to Ineet the old Faculty, Doctor Liusley, Dr.
Allen, Doctor Smith, (should he be there,) and Prof. Jewett'I'hlese
excellent men, whom I shall always revere. were in the Faculty whlen
I was a student-all, except Dr. Iinsley, when I came t!lere in 1835.
Dr. Linsley came soon after.  I came to Marietta an utter strange r.
I have more to remember of these generous men thati simply  that
they were to me kind and faithful instructors.''The manna r in whlich
they sustained to me that endearing relation is enough to manke their
memory dear, and entitle thlem to my lasti g gratitudel.   jBut they
also shewed me that kindness, and gave me tilat encouragement which
the stranger alwa; s needs, andt of whlich I have ever been k. enly sensible.  And, indeed, I mnake a similar ackllowlelgelrent of the kindness of many of the old citizens of  Marietta.  Th'l'e kin(l treatmernt I
experienced soon made me feel at home; and I find now, in the retrospect, that I passed the happiest yearq of life at Marietta.
Accept for yourself the assiurance ofl my sincere regard.
Very respectfully yours,            E. ADKINS.
Letter from  Joseph Perkins, Esq.
Dear Sir:-I am very much obligedl for your kind invitation to visit
a spot which it would afford me great pleasure to see, and where I
should especially enjoy a re-unioln with old andl valued friends. * " *_
If I should be unable to accept your invitation, you will have my
hearty good wishes for the trosperity of your noble institution, its
valued Faculty, and its glorious Board of Trustees.  lThat long life
and prosperity may attend all connected with one of the best corporations in the land, is the sincere prayer of   Yours very truly,
JOSEPH PERKINS.
CLEVELAND, May 15, 1860.




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Letter from Rev. Theron Baldwin,
SECRETARY OF THE COLLEGE SOCIETY.
NEW YORK, June 23, 1860.
My connection with the Society for the promotion of Collegiate
and Theological Education at the West, has miade me somewhat familiar with the origin, character, noble struggles and achievements of
Marietta College.  And it is a source of high satisfaction to have
been associated with other friends of Christian learning, in an organization which has, in ally measure contributed to its prosperity.
And I may say that it was especially gratifying to the Directors of the
Society to be able to publish in their Tenth Annual Report the following testimony from the Rev. Dr. Smith, then President of the Institution:
"'fell the patrons of your Society what you well know to be true,
that the few thousands bestowed during the last ten years upon Marietta College, through its instrumentality, have saved it to the Church."
And this leads me to speak of a coincidence in respect to that favorite Pilgrim name, the Mayflower, which is a matter of some interest, at least to my own mind. From the " Pioneer History," by one of
your own honored citizens,* I learn that the first settlers of Marietta descended the Ohio in a boat of their own construction, which they
named "The Mayflower"  But in the summer of 1842, after the adjournment of a Convention held in Cincinnati for the purpose of consulting upon the interests of evangelical religion and Christian education at the West, I was ascending the Ohio in the steam boat "Mayflower," and when not far below Marietta, while reflecting alone in
the cabin upon the depressed and forlorn condition of our several Colleges in the new States, the idea arose in my mind of combining all
their interests in one grand organized movement. Other minds about
that time were similarly affected, and, as the result of many counsels
both at the West and at the East, the Society for aiding Western Colleges was established.
I regret that this Society has not yet been able to carry to a full
completion all that it proposed to do for Marietta College   Were it
in the Treasury, I would hurry with it over the Mountains, as a final
token of the interest felt in your noble Institution by the Directors of
the Society, and the Churches and donors which they represent.
Please, however, accept the following sentiment:
MJarietta College.-The natural outgrowth of principles carried down the Ohio in the
"Mayflower" by the first settlers of Marietta,-worthy descendants of the men who from
the original "Mayflower" landed on the stormy coast of New England. The results of
the first twenty-five years of its growth give cheering promise of the rich abundance of
the fruit to be gathered when it shall have become a "tree of centuries."
Letter from Rev. E. D. Morris.
COLUMBUS, June 22, 1860.
*      *'  I exceedingly regret that an unusual press of duty in
connection with the dedication of our new house of worship, which
will occur on the first Sabbath in July, will prevent me from uniting
* Samuel P. Hildreth, LL. D.
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with the other friends of Marietta, in your anticipated least of Cornmeinoration.  It would give me great pleasure to express in this way
the cordial interest which I personally cherish in your institution, and
also to bear my part in representing dear old Grandmother Yale
among the bright sisterhood of those who, through their children,
will come together to utter words of welcome and encouragement to
their younger sister in the great and harmonious household of learning.
Perhaps it is true that the graduates of these maturer institutions
whom Providence may have located in the vicinity of these younger
ones, ar( over slow to transfer their interest and influence, and to labor
with an appropriate earnestness for the enlargement and prosperity of
the latter.  Perhaps they are too ready to indulge in unfavorable comparisons, and to make account of these circumstantial differences; and
too dilatory in recognizing those fundamental features in which such
Eastern institutions as Yale and such Western institutions as Marietta
are agreed.  Such feelings and such results are certainly to be deprecated. True fealty to Yale imperatively requires me, and all her graduates, to be faithful to the interests of Marietta and Hudson, and of
all those institutions scattered through the great Northwest, of which
Yale may be justly regarded as the original germ and type. Our love
and devotion to the Eastern, imperatively command us to guard and
foster and conserve the Western Colleges, so far as God, may give us
power so to d!), and he is a traitor to his own Alma Mater, as well as
to the cause of sound learning andl Christian culture, who forgets or
ignores these high obligations.
Allow nue earnestly to express my desire that the approaching anniversary may meet your highest expectations; and that the host of those
then assembled may respond in heart to this sincere sentiment:
The present President of Marietta College:
"Live long ere from thy topmost head
The thick-set hazel diesLo)g ere the hateful crow shall tread
The corners of thine eyes."
Letters were also received from William Slocomb, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y., (a member of the Board of Trustees, and Rev. H. L; Hitchcock, D. D., President of Western Reserve College, formerly a
Trustee of Marietta, regretting their inability to be present, and expressing their warmest wishes for the prosperity of the institution.
The account of this commemoration meeting may be fitly closed
with an extract from the Matrietta Intelligencer of June 28:
"All agree that the celebration has been a success. Nothing has
occurred to mar the festivities. The College dinner especially was
most happily conducted.  The regular sentiments were read by Mr.
Thomas at one table and by Mr. G. R. Rosseter at the other. The
responses were full of wit and humor, and called forth round after
round of applause. Many gems were thrown out, worthy of more
lasting preservation than in the memories of those who heard them.
From beginning to end it was a time of unalloyed enjoyment."




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BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
APPOINTED.                                        RESbNEbD.
1835. Rev. JOEL H. LINSLEY, D. D.                   1846.
1835. *Hon. JOHN COTTON, M. D.                      1847.
1835. JOHN MILLS.
1835. *CALEB EMERSON, Esq.                          1853.
1835. DOUGLAS PUTNAM.
1835. Rev. LUTHER G. BINGHAM.                       1845.
1835. *JONAS MOORE, M. D.                           1856.
1835. ANSELM T. NYE, Esq.
1838. Rev. ADDISON KINGSBURY, D. D.
1845. *HENRY STARR, Esq.                            1851.
1845. Rev. JACOB LITTLE, D. D.
1845. Hon. SIMEON NASH.
1845. Rev. EBENEZER BUCKINGHAM.
1845. Rev. CHARLES M. PUTNAM.
1845. Rev. ALEXANDER DUNCAN.
1846. Rev. HENRY SMITH, D. D.                       1855.
1846. Rev. HENRY L. HITCHCOCK, D. D.                1855.
1847. Rev. FRANKLIN S. HOWE.                        1854.
1847. WILLIAM SLOCOMB, Esq.
1849. NOAH L. WILSON, Esq.
1849. Hon. WILLIAM P. CUTLER.
1849. Rev. THOMAS WICKES.
1849. Hon. WILLIAM R. PUTNAM.
1850. WILLIAM STURGES, Esq.
1854. Rev. SAMUEL W. FISHER, D. D.                  1859.
1855. Rev. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS, D. D.
1855. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, Esq.
1859. Rev. E. P. PRATT, D. D.
1859. SAMUEL SHIPMAN.
T R ]E A. S UTJ ER E R S.
1835. JOHN MILLS.                                   1850.
1850. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS.                            1855.
1855. SAMUEL SHIPMAN.
SE CRETAR Y.
1835. DOUGLAS PUTNAM.




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PROFESSORS.
APPOINTED.                                             RESIGNED.
INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
1835. JOEL H. LINSLEY, D. D., President.                 1846.
1846. HENRY SMITH, D. D., President.                     1855.
1855. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS, D. D., President.
LATIN AND GREEK LANGUAGES.
1835. HENRY SMITH.                                       1846.
1846. JOHN KENDRICK.
MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
1835. D. HOWE ALLEN.                                     1838.
1830. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS.                                 1855.
1855. ADDISON BALLARD.                                   1857.
1857. EVAN W. EVANS.
RHETORIC.
1835. MILO P. JEWETT.                                    1838.
1838. D. HOWE ALLEN.                                     1840.
1840. JOHN KENDRICK.                                     1846.
1860. EDWARD P. WALKER.
CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.
1846. HIRAM  BINGHAM.                                    1849.
1851. EBENEZER B. ANDREWS.
PRINCIPAL OF THE PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
1835. SAMUEL MAXWELL.                                    1854.