c Of The Miami Bulletin Published Monthly by Miami University And Entered at Postoffice , Oxford , Ohio , as Second Class Mail Matter. Series VI. OCTOBER, 1907. Number 6 PREEACE. It is the attempt of this Bulletin to provide an accurate repro- duction of the first catalogue of Miami University, issued in July, 1 826, after the University had been in actual operation for almost two years. Such an attempt appropriately opens a sort of “cam- paign of education’’ preparatory to the celebration in June, 1909, of the Centennial Anniversary of the founding of what was then styled “ The Miami University.’’ Despite our conventional boast regard- ing Miami’s historical associations, the experience of the Centennial Committee suggests that most of the friends of the old institution have decidedly vague notions of her history. Witness the familiar ques- tion: “ We had a seventy-fifth anniversary in 1 899; how can we be a hundred years old in 1909? *' To set such doubts at rest, it may be well to prefix a few statements of fact to the reprinted catalogue. The Miami University was formally instituted by the General Assembly of Ohio in an act passed February 17, 1809. The wording of section 1 is memorable: Sec. 1 . Be it enacted by the Qeneral Assembly of the State of Ohio , That there shall be an university established and instituted, in the manner hereafter directed, within that part of the country known by the name of John Cleves Symmes’ purchase, which uni- versity shall be designated by the name and style of the Miami Uni- versity, for the instruction of youth in all the various branches of the liberal arts and sciences, for the promotion of good education, vir- tue, religion, and morality, and for conferring all the literary honors granted in similar institutions; and the benefits and advantages of the said University shall be open to all the citizens within this state. This same act provided for a commission to select a permanent site for the University, and appointed the following fourteeen original trustees: Hiram M. Currey and Wm. Ward, of Champaign Co. James Brown and David H. Morris, of Miami Co. Wm. McClure and Benj. Van Cleve, of Montgomery Co. Benj. Whiteman and Andrew Reed, of Greene Co. John Bigger and Ichabod B. Halsey, of Warren Co. John Reily and Thomas Irwin, of Butler Co. John Riddle and Joseph Vanhorn, of Hamilton Co. The first regular meeting of this Board was held June 7, 1 809, at Lebanon, Ohio, which seems to have been the location preferred by the commission for the University. The next February, however, the General Assembly took the matter of location into its own hands, and established Miami at the town of Oxford, which was to be laid off in the township of land previously set apart for the endowment of the University. Progress was slow and disheartening during the next ten years. The trustees met from time to time, often without a quorum to trans- act business. Provision was made for the survey and disposition of lands, and for the collection of fees, but years had to elapse before there was a fund sufficient to justify opening a college. A “ mission- ary " was sent into the east to solicit contributions to the new enter- prise, but secured little except some consignments of books, many of them unsuited for a college library. Building was begun as soon as possible. From February 1 3, 1811, dates an ordinance of the trustees munificently providing for the erection of “ a school house for the use of the Miami University out of the funds of the same University, the amount thereof not to ex- ceed one hundred and fifty dollars." In the spring of 1815 work was begun on a much larger scale, so that the journal of the trustees for June 23, 1 8 1 8, records with no little pride the completion of a University building, at the cost of $61 67.00. At this meeting the trustees also provided for the first regular instruction given under the direction of the University — a Grammar School, to be taught by the Reverend James Hughes, beginning the first Tuesday of the next November. In 1 820, contracts were let for a pretentious three-story addi- tion to the first building, adjoining it on the east, and corresponding to the square central portion of the present main building. This was to be completed by October 1 , 1 822, at which time the buildings of the University consisted of this three-story structure, with its west wing, and of a “ mansion-house** used for residence purposes. By 1 824, the funds of the University were deemed sufficient to support a college, and the Board resolved to begin college activi- ties the first Monday of November, with a faculty consisting of a president and one tutor to assist him. Robert H. Bishop was elected President, and William Sparrow tutor. Upon due consideration, this faculty was increased before November by the election of John E. Annan as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In March, 1825, Mr. Sparrow was made Professor of Languages, and a year later was succeeded in that chair by William H. McGuffey. Miami opened in November, 1 824, according to program, and the little faculty of three assumed responsibility over twenty students, whose names will be noted later. It will be seen by the catalogue that there were then two terms to the year — one from the first of November to the last of March, and the other from the first of May to the last of September. The University must have fairly leaped into favor, for before the end of the first year the roll of students had grown to 68, and the spring term of the second year saw an attend- ance of 1 1 1 , as recorded in the first catalogue. Much of the history of Miami University remains to be written; some of it never can be. The facts regarding the various steps in the progress and the names of those who directed its career are of course accessible in the records of Trustees and Faculty. But the actual life of those early days, the legendary fabric of student experi- ence, is fast vanishing from our possession and cannot be recalled. The oldest of the aulmni and former students are constantly dropping from the ranks. Hence it is especially desirable that there be col- lected and put in permanent form, in connection with this approaching Centennial, as much as possible of reminiscence and tradition looking toward a vital history of Miami University. This Bulletin may be re- garded as the first call to alumni and friends for such information, which may be sent to the Chairman of the Centennial Committee, and will be filed and accredited as received. Some of it, if possible, will be published before the celebration in the Miami Student or the University Bulletins, and all of it will be used as data for the Cen- tennial History of the University, As a feature of the Centennial, the Committee contemplates the preparation of a Historical Museum of Miami University, to include both loan exhibits and those which may become permanent property of the University. Those in possession of documents, relics or an- tiquities of any sort connected with Miami’s history, or those who know of the existence of such material, are urged to communicate promptly with the Committee. The exhibits will be faithfully cared for while in the Committee’s possession. The Centennial Celebration itself promises to be the largest and most significant event in the history of the Miami Valley. The exer- cises will extend through the regular Commencement Week of Miami University in June, 1909, and will bring together all the distinguished living alumni and former students *of Miami, as well as many of the leading educators of America. As the crowds will doubtless far ex- ceed Oxford’s accommodation facilities, a comfortable temporary camp is in contemplation, where the young people of south-western Ohio may enjoy an outing in connection with the privileges of the various programs. Educational gatherings, athletic contests, and the like, will be arranged at the close of the preceding week, to justify the longer stay that camping may involve. A vigorous campaign of advertising will be instituted next Commencement, to continue through- out the year; but in the meantime the active interest of all friends of Miami is solicited for the historical features of the undertaking, and suggestions of every sort are welcome. A. H. UPHAM, Oxford, Ohio. Chairman Centennial Committee. CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS AND STUDENTS OF THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD* OBXO JULY, 1826. HAMILTON, (O.) Printed by James B. Camron, High Street. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/miamibulletinOOmiam BOARD OF TRUSTEES. REV. HON, REV. REV. COL. REV. REV. REV. REV. JOHN THOMPSON, ) LUKE FOSTER, ESQ. > Hamilton county. STEPHEN WOODS, ESQ. ) JOSHUA COLLETT, ) Warren county WTLLIAM GRAY, \ Warren county. HENRY BACON, ESQ. ) Montaomeru county STEPHEN FALES, ESQ. \ M0nt 90mery county . WILLIAM GRAHAM — Chillicothe . SAMPSON MASON, ESQ.— Clarke county. JOHN JOHNSTON, — Miami county. JAMES COOLEY, ESQ. — Champaign county. DAVID PURVIANCE, ALEXANDER PORTER, STEPHEN GARD, DAVID M’DILL, JOHN RILEY, ESQ. DAVID HIGGINS, ESQ. JAMES M’BRIDE, ESQ. JOEL COLLINS, Secretary of Board of Trustees. JAMES M. DORSEY, Treasurer . Preble county. Butler county. FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS. REV. R. H. BISHOP, D. D. President , Professor of Logic , Moral Philosophy and History and Ex-officio Chairman of Board of Trustees. JOHN E. ANNAN, (of Dickinson College,) Professor of Mathematics , Geography , Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, and Teacher of Political Economy. Wm. H. M’GUFFFY, (of Washington College,) Profes- sor of Latin, Greek and Hebrew and Ex-officio Li- brarian. JOHN P. WILLISTON, (of Yale College,) Principal of the Grammar School. SAMUEL W. PARKER, 1 THOMAS ARMSTRONG, ! rp TT rrm> v JAMES REYNOLDS, i(/im JOHN S. WEAVER, J JOHN W. CALDWELL, Sec’y of the Faculty. [ 4 ] EXTRACT FROM THE BYE LAWS. 1st. There shall be a stated meeting of the Faculty on the last Saturday of every month at 10 o’clock A. M. 2d. At this meeting a return shall be made by every instructor of all the absences and deficiencies which may have occurred in his department during the month, and these returns shall be put upon file and preserved until the end of the session. 3d. The Faculty shall also at each of these monthly meetings enter into a full and free conversation on the con- duct & progress of the students generally & if any student, all circumstances being taken into view, shall be found not making the progress which he might do, or not conduct- ing himself wi oh that order and sobriety which are becom- ing, information of his situation shall be immediately com- municated to his parents that he may be removed. 4th. No student shall be allowed to recite with any class, who does not, within ten days after he may have made application to be admitted into that class, lodge with the President a certificate from the instructor, stating that his previous acquirements are such as to entitle him to a regular standing in said class. 5th. No individual shall be allowed, on any account whatever, to continue connected with any department, who is not in the opinion of the Faculty fully employed. Nor shall any individual be permitted to omit reciting with any class to which he may be attached, but by a vote of the Faculty at their stated monthly meeting. RESIDENT GRADUATE. 1 Thomas E. Hughes, of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. SENIORS . 1 Samuel C. Baldridge, 2 William M. Corry, 3 Daniel L. Gray, 4 James P. Pressly, 6 Ebenezer Pressly, 6 James Reynolds, 7 James Thompson, 8 John Thompson, 9 John P. Vandyke, 10 John L. Weaver, Adams county, Ohio . Hamilton do do Abbeville, S. Carolina . do do do do do do Preble county, Ohio. Hamilton do do do do do Warren do do do do do 11 James Worth : 12 Ebenezer,Woodruff, [ 5 ] Warren county , Ohio. Hamilton do do JUNIOR S. 1 James H. Bacon, Montgomery county, 0. 2 John W. Caldwell, Warren do do 3. G. R. Gassaway, Hamilton do do 4 Thomas A. Jones, do do do 5 John M’Mehan, Butler do do 6 Robert C. Schenck, Warren do do 7 Joseph S. Wallace, do do do SOPHOMORES. 1 Thomas Armstrong, Butler county, Ohio. 2 George Bishop, do do do 3 Bernard Brewster, Jefferson do la. 4 Godwin V. Dorsey, Butler do Ohio. 5 Henry P. Galloway, Green do do 6 John M. Garrigus, Park do Indiana. 7 Samuel W. Parker Butler do Ohio. 8 Joseph H. Reily do do do 9 James Simpson, Preble do do 10 Hugh B. Wilson Butler do do 11 Taylor Webster, Butler do do 12 William Burch, Fleming do Ky. FRESHMAN. 1 William Boyce, Preble county , Ohio. 2 Courtland Cushing, Warren do do 3 Ebenezer Elliott. Preble do do 4 William F. Ferguson, Franklin do la. 5 James N. Gamble, Green do Ohio. 6 John Hunt, Jefferson do Ia. 7 George W. Jones, Hamilton do Ohio. 8 Ralph P. Lowe, Warren do do 9 William C. Lyle, Bourben do Ky. 10 John M’Dill, Preble do Ohio. 11 James Reily, Butler do do 12 William B. Russell, Adams do do 13 John Vanausdall, Preble do do 14 Nathaniel Weed 15 Elias Williams, 16 Ira Root, [ 6 ] Preble county, Ohio . Butler do do Hamilton do do ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT. THIRD CLASS. 1 William Bishop, Butler county. Ohio. 2 Samuel Fleming, do do do 3 Robert G. Linn, Warren do do 4 William Porter, Butler do do 5 Ezekiel Walker, Hamilton do do SECOND CLASS. 1 Freeman Alger, Butler county, Ohio. 2 Charles Barnes, Hamilton do do 3 John H. Boyce, Preble do do 4 Robert C. Caldwell, Warren do do 5 Edward F. Chittenden, Butler “ ki 6 John Harrison, Warren , i i. 7 Wm. Hueston, Butler u a 8 Algernon S. Foster, Hamilton u it 9 Thoma* I. Foster, u it 10 Cyrus Falconer, Butler u it 11 Caleb B. Smith, Hamilton u a 12 Abner Longly, Butler it a 13 Hugh Webster, u u FIRST CLASS. 1 Robert Blair, Butler county. Ohio. 2 Joseph Blair, it it a 3 Clement Brown, Hamilton u u 4 Jonathan Harshman, Montgomery ti 5 Samuel M’Cleane, Hamilton ti ti 6 Thomas Pursell, Dearborn 44 Indiana . 7 Alvah White, Butler u Ohio. GRAMMAR SCHOOL. SENIOR CLASS. 1 Robert Bishop, 2 David H. Bruen, 3 Robert P. Brown, 4 Isaac N. Gard, Butler county , Ohio. Montgomery county, O. do do do Butler county, Ohio. [ 7 ] 5 Win. Gregg, 6 James Killough, 7 Wm. M’Queston, 8 Adam M’Creary, 9 James Porter, 10 Wm. Pressly, 11 Isaac P Schenck, 12 Roger N. Stemble, 13 Wm. Woodruff, Jefferson county , la, Preble county , Ohio. do do do do do do do do do Abbeville , S. Carolina , Warren county , O/m?. Montgomery do do. Butler 44 44 SECOND CL A SS. 1 Ebenezer Bishop, 2 Wm. Cochrane, 3 Wm. Horner, 4 James Irwin, 5 Isaac H. Jennings, 6 George W. Kidd, 7 Thomas H. Lynch, 8 Felix Marsh, 9 Daniel S. Major, 10 Milton M’Clean, 11 James Mount, 12 Jesse Murrell, 13 John S. Patterson, 14 John Rhea, 15 John B. W. Weller, Butler county , Ohio. it tt tt Warren Butler Warren Preble Dearborn Franklin Franklin Butler Hamilton Butler tt tt .t tt tt tt tt tt t» tt tt tt tt th tt 44 Indiana. 44 Ohio. 44 Indiana. 44 Ohio . tt tt tt tt tt tt FIRST CLASS. 1 James Anderson, 2 John Coffeen, 3 Adam Deam, 4 Wm. Greer, 5 George H. Hastings, 6 Reuben Jacobi, 7 George Keever, 8 David G. Leigh, 9 James M’Mannas, 10 Theodore Woodruff, Delaware county , Ohio . Warren “ Butler u “ tt tt ik tt tt tt tt tt tt Warren 4 4 44 Butler 4 4 4 4 Union 44 Indiana . Butler 44 Ohio. [ 8 ] SUMMARY College Proper 48 English Scientific Department 25 Grammar School 38 111 Those whose names are in the above catalogue are na- tives of fourteen different states. The youngest is in his seventh and the oldest in his thirty-third year. The great body are however natives of Ohio, and betwixt the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. At the close of the last session six had their names re- turned to their parents as not having made that improve- ment which would justify any further trouble or expense in endeavoring to give them a liberal education, and fourteen of the good and promising students of that ses- sion have been prevented by the circumstances of their lot from prosecuting their studies in this session. One of the present session has been sent home as not promising. Add these twenty-one to the one hundred and eleven given above and you have one hundred and thirty-two, as the sum total of toe present year. The College year is divided into two sessions of five months each. The winter session commences on the first Monday of November, and ends on the last Wednesday of March. The summer session commences on the first Monday of May, and ends on the last Wednesday of Sep- tember. The Board of Trustees meets statedly at the end of each session. COURSE OF STUDY. 1. Grammar School. The studies of the Grammar School, preparatory to ad- mission into the Freshmen Class, are English, Latin, and Greek Grammar, Mair’s Introduction to the making of Latin, Caesar’s Commentaries, Cicero’s select orations, Virgil’s iEneid, Greek Testament, Collectanea Minora, and Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractious, and the extraction of roots. [ 9 ] II. The Freshmen Class. FIRST SESSION. Algebra, Sallust, six books of Homer’s Iliad, Grseea Majora begun, Adam’s Roman Antiquities begun, Mod- ern Geography, Prosody revised, English Grammar re- vised, translations from Greek and Latin into English, Declamation and Bible recitations. SECOND SESSION. Euclid’s elements, Horace’s Odes and Satires, Greeca Majora continued, Roman Antiquities finished, Ancient Geography, Moreil’s Rome, Neilson’s Greek exercises, Double translations, Declamation and Bible recitations. Ill, The Sophomore Class Study. FIRST SESSION. (Cambridge Mathematics) Plane Trigonometry, Log- arithms, Mensuration, Surveying, Horace’s Epistles, Greeca Majora continued, Double translations, Morell’s Greece, Declamation and Bible recitations. SECOND SESSION. (Cambridge Mathematics,) Spherical Trigonometry, Navigation, Dialling, Excerpta Latina begun, First vol- ume of Majora finished. Double translations, Declama- tion and Bible recitations. IV. The Junior Class Study. FIRST SESSION. Conic Sections, Fluxion’s, Physical and Political Geog- raphy with the use of the globes, Excerpta Latina finish- ed, Second volume of Majora begun, Ty tier’s Elements of History begun, Composition, Declamation and Bible recitations. SECOND SESSION. Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Virgil’s Geor- gies, Horace de Arte Poetica, Grseca Majora continued, Translation from Greek into Latin and from Latin into Greek, Tytler’s Elements finished, Hebrew Grammar, Jamison’s Grammar of Rhetoric, Composition, Declama- tion and Bible recitations. t 10 ] V. The Senior Class Stndy. FIRST SESSION. Moral Philosophy including the Philosophy of the mind, Astronomy, Chemistry, Grseca Majora finished, Cicero de Oratore, Latin and Greek compositions, Hebrew Bible begun, Declamation and Bible recitations. SECOND SESSION. Logic, Say’s Political Economy, Cicero de Officiis et de Natura Decorum, Select portions of Graeca Majora re- vised, Hebrew Bible continued, Evidences of Divine Revelation, Declamation and Bible recitations. VI. English Scientific Department. The studies of the English Scientific Department are substantially the same with the studies of the College Classes, with the exception of the Latin and Greek lan- guages. No person can be admitted into this depart- ment who is under sixteen years of age; and to profit by admission, arrangements ought to be made so that each student may continue two years at least. It is intended to have some of the modern languages taught in this department, and to give regular diplomas to those who may study the whole course. Miscellaneous Notices. A small but well selected Philosophical and Chemical apparatus has been imported from London. Additional articles will be procured as the state of the institution may demand; a small sum is also permanently appro- priated to procure regularly, for the use of the Faculty, a few of the most important Literary Journals and any new work which may be of more than ordinary interest in any of the departments of science. The first commencement will be on the last Wednes- day of September next, when the degree of A. B. will be conferred on the members of the present Senior Class. With the commencement of the third year, on the first Monday of November next, it is proposed to form a reg- ular class of resident Graduates. The studies of this class will embrace a course of general reading adapted to the particular profession, to which the members may be [ 11 ] individually devoted and to a review of any of their for- mer studies to which they may be peculiarly attached. No degree of A. M. or of any kind will in any case be conferred as a mere matter of course. Particular attain- ments and a character corresponding to these attain- ments will in every case be required. EXPENCES. Tuition in Grammar School and in First Class E. S. Department, $5 per Session. College Proper and Second and Third 1 a,™,- Classes E. S. Department, } $1 ° per Session. Boarding One Dollar per week. To those parents and guardians who have thus far en- couraged an infant institution, those who have the more immediate direction of its concerns tender their sincere and grateful acknowledgements; and trusting in the con- tinued protection of a wise and good Providence, assur- ance is hereby given that every possible exertion will be made to make the MIAMI UNIVERSITY, in all its de- partments a public and common good. EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF FACULTY MEETING. Miami University Nov. 1 3th, 1 824. The faculty met for the first time. Members present Rev. Robt. H. Bishop, John E. Annan, and William Sparrow. The following students were reported as having been regularly entered, viz: IN COLLEGE. JUNIOR CLASS. 1 Daniel Lewis Gray, 21 years Abbeville, S. c. 2 James Pressley 16 do do do 3 Ebenezer Pressly 16 do do do 4 John T. Vandyke 21 do Warren, Ohio. SOPHOMORE CLASS. 5 James H. Bacon 13 do Montgomery, Ohio 6 John W. Caldwell 16 do Warren do 7 Robert C. Schenck 15 do do do FRESHMAN CLASS. 8 George Bishop 14 do Butler Ohio 9 Robert C. Caldwell 14 do Warren do 1 0 Godwin V. Dorsey 12 do Butler do it John M. Garrigus 17 do do do 1 2 Edward Sparrow 15 do do do GRAMMAR SCHOOL. FIRST CLASS. i David H. Bruen 13 do Montgomery, Ohio 2 William H. Blodget 10 do do do 3 Isaac N. Gard 13 do Butler do 4 George W. Goble 19 do do do 5 George W. Smith 15 do Montgomery do 6 Isaac P. Schenck 14 do Warren do GRAMMAR CLASS. 7 Robt. Bishop 10 do Butler Ohio 8 Richard M. Ross 1 1 do Warren do ROLL MAY 30th, (1825) JUNIOR CLASS. 1 Samuel Baldridge 24 years Adams County, Ohio 2 Daniel Lewis Gray 21 do Abbeville, S. C. 3 Robert G. Linn 22 do Butler County, Ohio 4 James Pressly 16 do Abbeville, S. C. 5 Ebenezer Pressly 16 do do do 6 James Stewart 23 do Richland County, Ohio 7 John P. Vandyke 21 do Warren do do 8 John S. Weaver 22 do Butler do do 9 James Worth 24 do Preble do do 1 0 William Bishop 19 do Butler do do ii James Reynolds 19 do Preble do do SOPHOMORE CLASS. 1 James H Bacon 13 do Montgomery Co. Ohio 2 John W. Caldwell 16 do Warren do do 3 Richard Disney 14 do Hamilton do do 4 Thomas A. Jones 18 do do do do 5 Robert C. Schenck 15 do Warren do do 6 John McMahen 15 do Butler do do FRESHMAN CLASS. i John Alexander 15 do Green County, Ohio 2 George Bishop 14 do Butler do do 3 Bernard Brewster 26 do Jefferson, Indiana 4 Robert C. Caldwell 14 do Warren County, Ohio 5 Godwin V. Dorsy 12 do Butler do do 6 John M. Garrigus 17 do Butler do do 7 Edward Lytle 16 do Hamilton do do 8 Theodore Smith 16 do Montgomery do do 9 Samuel W. Parker 19 do Butler do do 10 Taylor Webster 23 do do do do ADDITIONS. June 1 4th. George W. Jones, age 17 Hamilton County, Ohio. Norman Squire do 20 Preble do do J. P. Hagget do 21 Butler do do William Boice do 18 Preble do do Nathaniel Weed do 17 do do do July 1 4th. Joseph Pierce do 15 Hamilton do do Alexander Hoffman do 21 Rush County, Indiana. August 1 . Ebenezer N. Elliot do 21 Preble County, Ohio. 14. Andrew B. Combs do 20 Butler do do Sept. 1 . James Killough do 25 Preble do do