OK 3wf Vol. IV. November 1, 1905. No. 7. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Past, Present and Future of Ohio Wesleyan University 1905 ISSUED BI-MONTHLY Entered February 24, 1902, at Delaware. Ohio, as Second-class matter^under Act of Congress, July 16. 1894 . tc Ar- f*'i' V-./SL- .... ••. '•*•"• '..' 't " v, ' :■ a- '•:• -vrrf >:."£5 Vol. IV. November 1, 1905. No. 7. O H I O WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Past, Present and Future of Ohio Wesleyan University 1905 ISSUED BI-MONTHLY Entered February 24. 1902, at Delaware, Ohio, as Second-class matter, under Act of Congress, July 16. 1894 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/pastpresentfuturOOohio Facts Concerning the Ohio Wesleyan University. Located at Delaware, Ohio — almost in the very geographical center of the state. Easy of access — Delaware has three railroads, one interurban line. Delaware a very healthful place — noted for mineral springs. University a Methodist Institution, though not sectarian, located in the center of the largest Methodist popu- lation in the United States. Number of Methodists in Ohio, approximately 325,000 Methodists in surrounding states : New York, approximately. . . 300,000 Pennsylvania “ ... 285,000 West Virginia “ ... 50,000 Kentucky “ ... 25,000 Indiana “ ... 188,000 Michigan “ ... 105,000 Total for Ohio and adjoin- ing states 1 ,278,000 Number of Methodists within a radius of two hundred miles of the University, approxi- mately 650,000 The above figures refer to actual mem- bers and do not include adherents. In 1844 the Ohio Wesleyan University was formally opened as a College, with twenty-nine students in attendance. In 1876 the Ohio Wesleyan Female Col- lege of Delaware was united to the University, since which time the Col- lege has been co-educational. In 1896 the Cleveland College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons was adopted by the University as its Medical Depart- ment. During sixty years of history nearly thirty thousand students have attended. S The College has turned out over five thousand graduates. Enrollment of Past Year, 1904-05 For College year — Academic.. 175 Collegiate 636 Music, Art and Commercial . . 301 Medical 82 Graduate students 39 Total 1,23 3 For Calendar year 1,472 Number of Graduates, 1905 Colleges of Liberay Arts 118 M. A 17 M. D 16 I 5 i Diplomas in Music 6 Diplomas in Oratory 2 8 Total graduates Teaching Staff of College 159 Professors in College of Liberal Arts 22 Instructors and Assistants Professors in Medical 0 00 1 Tt- School Associate Professors and 26 Lecturers 34 60 Total Material Equipment of College 130 Grounds and thirteen build- ings New Gymnasium being $750,000 built . 75,000 Endowment, approximately. 975,000 Total $1,800,000 Departments of the University College of Liberal Arts. Academic Department. School of Oratory. School of Music. School of Art. School of Business. School of Medicine in Cleveland. 4 HERBERT WELCH, D. D. President THE GYMNASIUM Scholastic Standing of College t it \ HE Ohio Wesleyan University ■ does not claim to be doing bet- ter scholastic work than other high grade colleges and univer- sities of the country, but she does claim that, so far as she has facilities, few if any colleges are doing better work. Our professors are thorough, scholarly men with excellent training for their work. Some of our great universities like Har- vard, Yale, and Chicago University, throw their emphasis on post-graduate and professional work, and much of the regular college work is done by assistant professors and instructors. The fact that all of our professors do their work in the regular college, and that all of our stu- dents get the benefit of their teaching and of personal contact with them gives us in some respects advantages over these great universities with regard to college work. Our graduates who have gone into the great universities of the East for post- graduate work have ranked very high in their scholarship. In fact, a comparison of statistics in recent years shows that our graduates in Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Chicago University have taken about four times the number of honors to which they were numerically entitled. In 1903-04 one of our seniors, Mr. C. H. May, made the highest grade in the Cecil Rhodes scholarship contest in Ohio, but failed to receive the scholarship on account of poor health. Last spring, one of this last year’s seniors, Mr. E. R. Lloyd, made the highest grade in a like contest in West Virginia and received the scholarship from that state. For eight years we have been in an Oratorical League with the State Uni- versities of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West 5 Virginia, together with Cornell Univer- sity of New York. We have won five first and two second places in the eight contests. Some of the State Universities became discouraged and wished to with- draw, so a new League has been formed with Chicago University, Cornell Univer- sity, Columbia University, and the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. For nine years we have been a member of the Big Four Debating League of Ohio. We have won six out of the nine contests in which we have been engaged, making us champions of the State. In 1902- 3 while our first team, taking the affirmative side of a question, defeated the Ohio State University; our second team, taking the negative side of the same question, the same night defeated the Illinois Wesleyan University. We did the same thing again the next year, 1903- 4, with Western Reserve University and Wooster University, winning both sides of a question the same night. Religious Character of College T HE Ohio Wesleyan University is, and has been in all of its six- ty years of history, pre-emi- nently Christian. It is a Meth- odist institution in that a majority of its trustees are elected by Annual Confer- ences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, its faculty and students are mostly Meth- odists, and the Annual Conferences of Ohio contribute somewhat toward its support; but the School is in no sense narrowly sectarian. No denominational requirement is made for either students, faculty, or trustees. Our professors and instructors, without exception, are pro- fessing Christians, and most of them are 6 very earnest and active. The moral life of the students is very carefully guarded. No gambling or drinking or anything of the kind is permitted. On the other hand every influence possible is exerted to lead the students to high, noble, Christian character. Work of Christian Associations T HE Young Men’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Christian Association are the centers of the religious life of the College. Their work begins a week or more before the opening of the college year. Committees are on hand, at the opening of the year, to meet all trains, greet the new students, and wel- come back the old ones. They help the newcomers to find places to room and board, and each year aid from fifty to one hundred fifty young men to find places where they can at least help to pay their expenses in College. The old and new students alike are invited to the spe- cial meetings that are held each evening of the opening week. Every young man or young women who is not a Christian is soon found out and active, prayerful effort is commenced to lead such into the Christian life. A young man, the Y. M. C. A. secretary, is employed as a kind of college pastor, and devotes all of his time to the religious interests of the young men. He is aided by the officers and committees of the Association and by members of the Faculty. Results of This Active Christian Work B Y means of this earnest work during the whole of the College year, aided by the special ser- vices that are held during the winter term, a large number of students 7 are brought into the Christian life, and those already Christian are kept true to their profession and helped toward a bet- ter life. Last year three hundred fifteen of the young men and seventy-six of the young women were enrolled in Bible Study classes, which classes met each week, and for which study the students received no credit whatever in the Col- lege. One hundred sixty-five of the young men and one hundred forty of the young women were also enrolled in Mis- sion Study classes last year. This year the number both in Bible Study and in Mission Study will be increased. Two years ago we closed the year with ninety- five percent of our whole student body professing Christians. One year ago we closed with ninety-seven percent Chris- tian. This last year we closed with only twelve young men and three young women in our whole student body at that time who were not members of the Chris- tian Associations. Undoubtedly it would not be true to say that each one of these professing Christians was all that he professed to be. We have had young men and young women here whose conduct was far from that of earnest Christians, and no doubt many of our students are more or less negligent in their Christian duties. Yet the proportion of genuine Christian young people in the number of those pro- fessing is exceedingly high, far above that of the ordinary church. Statement of John R. Mott I N the past history of the Uni- versity about one in every four of our young men has gone either into the ministry or into the mission field. Mr. John R. Mott, the man who originated the Student Volun- teer Movement in colleges and who has 8 undoubtedly visited more colleges and universities in this country and in the world than any other living man, stated a year ago last winter, that “Cambridge University in England has yielded the largest missionary results of any univer- sity in the British Isles, and that so far as I have been able to ascertain, the Ohio Wesleyan University and Mt. Holyoke College occup)^ a similar position in this country.” That is surely a most remark- able statement coming from such a man, and shows the mightiness of the mission- ary influence of the College. Approbation of The Last General Conference T HE last General Conference in Los Angeles showed its appro- bation of the religious life of the Institution by calling its Presi- dent, Dr. Bashford, to become Bishop; one of its graduates, Dr. McDowell, to become another Bishop ; Dr. Oldham, who was for several years professor in the College, to become Missionary Bishop; Dr. Whitlock, a graduate and also now a professor, to be a member and chairman of the Book Committee; Dr. Anderson, another graduate, to be- come Secretary of the Board of Educa- tion ; and D. D. Thompson, also a gradu- ate, to continue as Editor of the North- western Christian Advocate. Seme Alumni and Former Students of the College In Government C. W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States. Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio. John M. Pattison, Congressman and Governor elect of Ohio. 9 Ex-Governors : — John M. Hamilton of Illinois. J. B. Foraker of Ohio. S. M. Elbert of Colorado. G. W. Atkinson of West Virginia. John Hoyt of Wyoming. Congressmen: — Jones of Delaware, Republican Chairman of State. W. R. Warnock of Urbana, O. Washington Gardner of Michigan. Judges of the Supreme Court : John H. Baker of Indiana. S. M. Elbert of Colorado. Ambassadors : H. N. Allen to Korea. Dr. M. W. Cramer to Copenhagen. In the Church Frank W. Gunsaulus, Central Church, Chicago. Charles E. Jefferson, Broadway Taber- nacle, New York City. Francis J. McConnell, New York Ave., Brooklyn. Naphtali Luccock, Union Church, St. Louis. F. P. Parkin of Philadelphia. Bishops C. C. McCabe, W. F. McDow- ell and E. E. Hoss. W. F. Anderson, Secretary of Board of Education. W. F. Whitlock, Chairman of Book Committee. Missionaries — Thompson, Drees and LaFetra of So. America. T. J. Scott and Wm. Mansell of In- dia. Lowry, Nathan Sites and L. F. Pil- cher of China. In the Educational World College Presidents : — F. W. Gunsau- lus, Armour Institute, Chicago. W. F. King, Cornell, la. E. H. Hughes, DePauw University, Ind. 10 W. F. McDowell, former Chancellor Denver University. Isaac Crook, Athens University. Guy Potter Benton, Miami Univer- sity. J. E. Stubbs, Nevada State Univer- sity. A. E. Smith, Ohio Northern Univer- sity. A. B. Riker, Mt. Union College. College Professors and Public School men : John Williams White, Harvard Uni- versity. A. E. Dolbear, Tufts College, co-in- ventor of the telephone with Bell. W. M. Bryant, St. Louis, professor and author. S. L. Beiler, former Chancellor of American University, now Profes- sor Boston University. E. G. Conklin, Pennsylvania Univer- sity, wrote article on Anatomy in Encyclopedia Americana. E. E. Sparks, State University, Ohio. B. F. Dyer, Supt. of Schools, Cin- cinnati. Wm. H. Maltbie, Baltimore Wo- man’s College. D. A. Hayes, Garrett Biblical In- stitute. Journalists: — Arthur Edwards and D. D. Thompson, editors of the North Western Christian Advo- cate. E. J. Wheeler, former editor of Lit- erary Digest , now editor of Cur- rent Literature. Dr. Geo. Gould, editor Medical Jour- nal, Philadelphia. Geo. W. Hitt, manager of Indianap- olis Journal. I. W. Dumm, editor Kansas City Journal. Professor John Williams White of 11 Harvard University said this last spring that he and Mr. John Henry of Chicago had been thinking and talking about the Ohio Wesleyan University and that they did not believe there was another College in the United States with so short a his- tory which had turned out as many men and women who had risen to distinction in their country’s history as had the Ohio Wesleyan University. When asked if he thought that was due to the superior scholastic work that was being done there, he said, “No, not in the main. I attribute it more to the high character and the in- tense moral earnestness of the young peo- ple of the Ohio Wesleyan University.” Ohio Wesleyan’s Ideal F ROM the above facts it will be seen that the Ohio Wesleyan University is not trying simply to give the best possible intel- lectual training to its students, nor is it trying simply to give the best possible moral and spiritual training. It realizes the importance of both. VaJue of Intellectual Training I T pays to get a thorough intel- lectual education. A study of the lives of our public men shows that thirty-two percent of our Congressmen, forty-six percent of our Senators, sixty-five percent of our Presi- dents and seventy-three percent of our Chief Justices have been college gradu- ates. An examination of the record of the 15,142 Americans who, during all our history, have risen to such prominence in all walks of life as to have their names recorded in the Cyclopedia of American Biography , shows that thirty-five percent of these have been college graduates. A 12 like examination of the record of the 6,029 persons whose names appear in Who's Who in America as leaders in our nation in 1899 shows that seventy percent of these have been college graduates. William T. Harris, the United States Commissioner of Education, says that the number of college graduates to-day is to the men twenty-one years of age and over as one to ninety-one. He adds that twen- ty-five years ago the number of graduates and non-graduates was as one to two hundred seventy-three. And the ratio of male college graduates to our male adult population throughout our entire history has not exceeded one to seven hundred fifty. So that while in all our past history the non-college men ought to have furnished seven hundred fifty times as many men who have risen to distinc- tion as the college men, they have in real- ity furnished only two and six-sevenths times as many, so that the chances of suc- cess of a college man, taking all our past history together, have been 262 times as many as have those of a non-college man. If the men of distinction to-day were the young men of the country twenty- five years ago when the ratio of non-col lege men to college men was 273 to 1, then the non-college men ought to have produced 273 times as many of the great men of the country to-day as the college men. But in reality they have produced only three-sevenths times as many ; or in other words, twenty-five years ago a col- lege young man’s chances of making a success and reaching eminence in life were 637 times as many as were those of a young man without a college education. Another significant fact is that an exam- ination of the college record of the known millionaires in the United States shows that twenty-five years ago a college edu- cation increased a young man’s chances is of becoming immensely wealthy about 440 times. The most significant fact drawn from the above figures is, that while the num- ber of college men in proportion to the number of non-college men has been rap- idly increasing in our country, yet the number of college men who have been successful and have reached eminence in life in proportion to the number of non- college men who have been successful has been increasing much more rapidly. This shows that a college education is becoming more and more imperative to the young man who expects to make a success in this life. Mere Intellectual Training Not Enough B UT mere intellectual training does not necessarily fit a man for success in life. The Cincinnati Enquirer made the statement this spring that there were at that time eleven bankers of Ohio behind prison bars and seventeen more were before the courts for trial. Several of these have since been sent to prison. Some of our brightest lawyers and most eminent phy- sicians have died drunkards. Aaron Burr had a mind, keen as the mind of a Ham- ilton, but Burr died in disgrace a traitor. World Demanding' Men of Character T HE business world to-day is de- manding men of character. Mr. N. W. Harris, the Chicago Banker, some two years ago asked Dr. Bashford, then our president, to send him each year two or three of our young men that wanted to go into bank- ing, for he wanted Christian young men that he could trust. A business man of Wooster, Mass., said to an audience of young men that he knew of at least a dozen splendid business openings that he could fill inside of a week if he only had 14 young men of character that could be trusted. The country is placing its stamp of worth upon character to-day. Presi- dent Roosevelt would never have re- ceived his enormous maj ority had not the people been won to him on account of his integrity, uprightness and square dealing. Folk of Missouri, Deneen of Illinois, La Follette of Wisconsin, Weaver of Phila- delphia, Jerome of New York and Hanly of Indiana have recently risen even to na- tional prominence, more because of their stand for righteousness and uprightness in government, than for any other reason. Insurance companies are refusing to insure men who drink. Railroads and many leading factories are refusing to employ men who drink. The two leading Bond Security companies in the United States have, within the last year, refused to go upon the bond of any man who gambles. The railroads and many fac- tories are building Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. buildings for their employees. What does it all mean ? It is merely the recognition of the value and of the almost absolute necessity of character as a qual- ification for success in business or public life. Value of Colleges That Develop the Moral as Well as the Intellectual Life H ENCE if one were looking merely at the preparation for public and business life, the de- velopment of upright Christian character is as much a part of that prep- aration as is intellectual development. But when one goes beyond this and real- izes that a man’s life in its highest and truest and best, consists “not in the abundance of the things which he pos- sesses,” nor even in the greatness of the things that he achieves, but rather in the true worth and greatness of his own highest self, in the Christlikeness of his 15 character, then he will come to appreciate something of the meaning of a College that is sending out from ninety to ninety- seven percent of its students Christian. For, if, as was shown above, college-bred young people are largely to be leaders in the world’s work, how important then to have these leaders of thought, of gov- ernment, of business on the side of Christ and righteousness ! Emphasis of Wesley and Early Methodism ok Christian Education W ESLEY founded schools almost as soon as he founded churches, because he believed in the power of educated Christians. Method- ism would never have been the civiliz- ing, uplifting force that it has been, had not the church laid such stress upon ed- ucation along with Christianization. Of late years the world has been placing the stress upon the education and too often has left out the Christianization. The Bible has been left out of the public schools. Some of the State Universities and Technical Schools, it is to be feared, have been sending out many of their young people more debauched and skep- tical than when they came. Thousands of fathers and mothers wait at home in fear and trembling lest their boys come out of college moral wrecks or else in- tellectual skeptics or agnostics. How important then, in the life of the church and in the life of the nation, are the schools that are truly Christian in char- acter, that are sending out their young people not only educated in mind, but true and earnest and Christlike in char- acter ; that are the means of leading from fifty to one hundred fifty young people into the Christian life every year! Why Christian Men and Wo- men Should Give Largely to Such an Institution I Because Such Giving Will Yield the Largest Returns M EN and women are more and more using good business judg- ment in the distribution of their property for Christian and char- itable purposes. They want to invest here, as well as in all business invest- ments, where the surest and largest re- turns may be expected. Jesus Christ commended all giving that had for its object the helping of humanity, and said that visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, was visiting, feeding and clothing himself, and further said that one could not even give a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple without receiving a reward for it from his Father. And yet at the same time Jesus Christ taught plainly that life meant more than the supplying of these things. He said, “The life is more than meat and the body than raiment”, “Take no anxious thought what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed”, “A man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things that he pos- sesses”. He often withdrew himself from the crowds of lame and halt and blind and lepers and went aside to teach the minds and souls of his followers. Christ came primarily to reach the mind, the heart, the soul of man. That which elevates the mind of man, that which makes him more Christlike in character, is doing a far grander and more telling work than that which merely or mainly administers to his physical wants. Money, property, home, friends, health may all be swept away from one here in 17 this world, but an educated mind and a Christlike heart are gifts enduring as eternity. Nothing makes a man so nearly like his God as a great mind, ruled and controlled by a great heart. Where, then, can greater returns be received than in giving to an educational institution that is sending out from ninety to ninety-seven percent of its graduates, not only educated in mind, but Christlike in heart! If college men and women are to be leaders in society, in business, in government, in education — what an influence for good the one hundred twenty or more graduates from this Christian College each year will have upon the people of America and of the world ! Larger gifts to the Univer- sity will mean larger facilities for intel- lectual work and consequently larger numbers of young men and young wo- men coming to the University and re- ceiving the benefit of the Christian as well as the intellectual influence of the College. 2 Because Ultimately it Would Mean Larger Gifts to Other Benevolences O RPHANAGES, asylums, hos- pitals and homes for the aged are doing noble service for man- kind, and giving to the support of such institutions is one of the noblest and most Christlike things that a man or woman can do. Yet if one looks with statesmanlike foresight out into the great future he will see that in giving to a Christian college like this, he may be doing more for the sick and the blind and the aged and the distressed, than he could possibly do by giving directly to these benevolent institutions. For, if what was said above be true, that a college educa- tion greatly increases a young man’s probabilities of becoming wealthy, then 18 in the years to come many more of our students will become possessors of great wealth than would these same young people without this college education. Thus a gift to the College now will, all along down the centuries to come, be helping to increase the wealth-producing ability of those who attend the College, and if these young people, under the in- fluence of the Christian College, go out permeated with a Christlike spirit, when they amass wealth they will give to all these Christian benevolence. Thus a few thousands now, given back at the source, may in the centuries to come mean millions poured into these charities. Of course if all generous-hearted Christians to-day should give all their gifts to Christian colleges, then the char- ities of the present would have to suffer. But there is no danger here, for Chris- tian hearts will always be touched with pity for the distressed and the homeless and the poor, and they will give for their relief. Many more people will give for the immediate relief of suffering than will, with the eye of faith, give for the greater future. 3 Because Such Giving is the Best, Most Tell- ing and Most Lasting Memorial of One's Life Work F I y HE endowment of a professor- ship in a Christian college like this is a far more fitting and lasting memorial than any gran- ite shaft or costly mausoleum, for it not only perpetuates the name, but it also multiplies and perpetuates the influence of one’s life. A man who has labored and toiled and sacrificed, who has, with God’s help, been successful and has ac- cumulated something of a fortune, does not desire to see that fortune scattered and in a few years after he is gone have the efforts of his lifetime dissipated and 19 lost forever. And yet this is too often true. A man dies without a will, his property is scattered among a score or more of distant relatives, and in a very few years all trace of that which repre- sents the efforts and savings and success of his lifetime has disappeared. Money given to the University as en- dowment is not itself used for the sup- port of the University, but is placed out in safe investments and the income each year goes toward the support of the In- stitution, so that the amount given for endowment is kept as a permanent and perpetual fund. The Ohio Wesleyan University has not met a loss on its loans for many years, because these loans are secured by first mortgages on real estate, and the amount loaned is only about one- half the value of the property mortgaged. Further, in case any loss should occur, the loss would fall upon the general un- designated funds of the University, and thus would preserve intact every endow- ment granted for a specific purpose and commemorating the name of the donor. No gifts, therefore, are more perma- nent than gifts to educational institu- tions. In fact, such endowments are more permanent than governments or na- tions. “The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England ; Montpelier, Tou- louse and Orleans in France; Cologne, Heidelberg, Erfurt and Leipsic in Ger- many; and Pisa and Bologna in Italy, are all older than the existing govern- ments of those countries. Indeed, each of them has outlived several revolutions and varying dynasties !” Let a man endow a professorship in this University and a thousand years hence, if the world lasts that long, his gift will still remain intact, a monument to his name and life's work, and its income will still be aiding young men and young women to secure a Chris- tian education. A man is remembered not so much by what he has accumulated, but rather by the good he has accom- plished. By giving to such an institution as this, a man may be able to accomplish more for humanity and for Christ’s king- dom in the centuries after his death than he was able to accomplish during his life- time. 4 Because The University Must Depend Large- ly Upon The Income From Such Gifts For Its Support I N almost every state in the union there is at least one state university that receives its sup- port from the state. Ohio has two colleges beside her State University that are supported by direct taxation of the people. Hundreds of thousands of dollars thus pour into these institutions almost every year. The Ohio Wesleyan University, in common with other Chris- tian schools, receives no aid whatever from the State. Its receipts last year from educational collections taken in the few patronizing Conferences was only $422.50. Our main source of income, therefore, aside from tuition paid by the students themselves, is the income from the gifts of noble, unselfish, far-seeing Christian men and women. The entire income from such gifts last year, that went toward the running expenses of the College, was less than fifteen thousand dollars, an amount entirely inadequate to the demands of a great University. Christian Men and Women Do Not Realize Our Need S OMETIMES men and women who are earnestly interested in Christian education feel im- pressed that our colleges have already sufficient endowment. This is 21 surely not true of the Ohio Wesleyan University, as will be seen from the above statement. The salary of our regular professors is only about seventeen hun- dred dollars a year. This is a very small salary for men who have spent from five to eight or ten years in preparation for their work, many of them having had to go into debt to complete that preparation. Several of our professors have been offered from five hundred to two thou- sand dollars a year more salary in other colleges or in other lines of work. They have declined, however, and have re- mained here. Our professors are also teaching more hours per day than are professors in any of the eastern colleges or in any of the state universities. We cannot charge our students much more tuition without making it impossible for a great many to attend the University. More than half of our young men and some of our young women are compelled to earn something each year tow T ard their college expenses. Many of our young men are paying all of their expenses as they go. These young people are full of life and energy and they will make the best citizens. But every added dollar of expense shuts some of these young peo- ple out of the College. Last year the stu- dents paid into the University $39,385. The treasurer paid out for the running expenses of the College $65,434. Thus the students were compelled to pay con- siderably more than half of all the ex- penses of the University. To increase this expense would be to close the door in the face of many, noble, worthy young men and young women who ought to be under the influence of this Christian Col- lege, or would drive them to the state institutions where the tuition is lower. 22 The University Must Advance if It Draws and Holds Stu- dents I N order to draw and hold the young men and young women of to-day and of the future our Christian colleges must not be inferior in their intellectual work to those institutions which are supported by the state, or to institutions supported by pri- vate benefactions which are not specifi- cally Christian in character. Young peo- ple are not going to a Christian college simply because it is Christian. The par- ent, or the student himself, generally selects the college that he believes will give the best intellectual training for life’s work, and the college that draws the larg- est number of students in the future as to-day will be the college that gives the best intellectual training. A well known college professor said recently in an ad- dress that “the rivalry among colleges for patronage and recognition is as sharp as it is in the business world. The states are supplying state colleges with large revenues. Denominational relationships will not be content with unequal advan- tages ; patrons will not be satisfied with less than the best.” And this is surely true. The professors of a college may all be earnest Christian men, the whole atmos- phere of the college may be permeated with the highest type of Christian spirit, but if only a few students get the benefit of that atmosphere and of contact with those professors, the influence of that col- lege is necessarily limited. Therefore, if our Christian colleges are going to have a large moulding influence on the life of the world in the centuries to come, they must first have a direct moulding influence on the lives of a large number 23 of the young people themselves, and this cannot be done unless the young people attend the Christian colleges. Now if the rivalry among colleges is as great as the rivalry in business, then if we expect the young people to attend our Christian colleges we must make the Christian col- leges equal, if not superior, in all intel- lectual advantages, to any other colleges in the land. The store that offers the best goods for the money will soon get the most customers. The same law holds in regard to colleges. The college that gives the best intellectual training, other things being equal, will draw the most young men and young women to it. The state universities and colleges sup- ported by the state, and many other in- stitutions which are not specifically Chris- tian, are receiving large appropriations each year, and are thus enabled to con- stantly increase the intellectual advant- ages offered to the young people of the country. In order to keep abreast of these other institutions in intellectual ad- vantages offered and thus to draw and hold students of the future, the Ohio Wesleyan University must greatly in- crease its facilities for intellectual train- ing, and hence must have greatly in- creased endowment. We must pay our professors more. We cannot hope to hold our best men when other institu- tions are offering them so much larger salaries, and hence so much greater op- portunities for self development ; nor can we hope to secure the best young men to fill the new positions that must be created, unless we offer them some such financial inducement as other institutions offer. We must give our men and our students better equipment. A carpenter cannot work without tools. Neither can profess- ors or students without books or without well equipped laboratories. Then we 24 must have several new professors if we are going to give our young people the advantages that are now being offered to them by other first-class colleges of the country. These needs are imperative. The fact that the University has turned out many men and women in the past who have risen to distinction will not suffice to draw and hold students for the future if other institutions are offering them far greater intellectual advantages than we are able to offer them. Keep this Univer- sity equal, if not superior, to the other colleges and universities around us in its scholastic work and then large numbers of young people will be constantly com- ing here, they will be brought under the Christian influence of the College, and they will go out from it not only trained in mind but Christian in heart. Ought the young people of Ohio, ought the sons and daughters from the hundreds and thousands of Methodist homes of Ohio and surrounding states be compelled to turn away from this Christian College that is sending out from ninety to ninety- seven percent of its students Christian, in order to get the highest and best schol- astic training for life? Detailed Statement of the Needs of the Ohio Wesleyan University T HE following unendowed pro- fessorships, some of which are already occupied, ought to be endowed with not less than thirty or thirty-five thousand dollars each. Forty thousand dollars would en- dow the professorship and also the de- partmental library in connection with the professorship. Latin Language and Literature. German Language and Literature. French and other Romance Languages and Literature. Physics. Chemistry. Geology and Physical Geography. Botany. Zoology. Psychology. Philosophy. Sociology. Political Science. European History. Pedagogy. Fellowships or Departmental Libraries O NE wishing to do something for the University but not being able to endow a full professor- ship, might endow a fellowship or a departmental library for one of the above professorships. Modern methods of instruction have rendered indispens- able a working library for each depart- ment. No longer is a single text book x sufficient; the student must become ac- quainted with the collateral literature of subjects. Ten thousand dollars would endow the departmental library of either of the above professorships, and such an endowment would be a worthy and last- ing memorial to the donor. General Endowment for the Library rjT“l LIE General College Library is | in imperative need of at least one -*■“ hundred thousand dollars en- dowment at once. Since the completion of the new Library Building with its fireproof stack rooms we can pro- vide space for 175,000 volumes. We have now less than 45,000 volumes in the Library, and a number of these are duplicates. Yet within the last few years the use of the large reading room has 26 increased ten fold. More and more is the scholastic life of the College center- ing in this building. Nothing could be a greater benefaction to the University than the immediate gift of one hundred thousand dollars for the endowment of this Library. Laboratories to Be Endowed r"| ] HE following laboratories ought I to be endowed. Modern meth- ods of teaching in all sciences require well equipped laborato- ries and apparatus for in-door and out- door work. After each name, first the minimum amount that would endow the laboratory, and then the amount that ought to be secured for the proper en- dowment of it, is given. Physical Geography . . .$5,000 Geology 5, 000 — 10,000 Botany 5, 000 — 10,000 Zoology 5,ooo — 10,000 Physiology 5, 000 — 10,000 Physics 10,000 — 20,000 Psychology 10,000 — 20,000 Chemistry 10,000 — 20,000 Schools of the University to Be Endowed nn HE following Schools or de- 1 partments in the University ought to be endowed and the minimum and desired amounts for each are here stated. School of Oratory. .$100,000 — $200,000 School of Business. . 100,000 — 200,000 Political Science . . . 100,000 — 200,000 School of Art 100,000 — 250,000 School of Science . . 100,000 — 500,000 School of Medicine. 100,000 — 500,000 New Buildings Needed Young Men’s Christian Associ- ation Building $35,000 Gymnasium and Y. W. C. A. Building on Monnett Campus 50,000 Conservatory of Music, $50,000 — 75,000 27 Three Methods of Giving to the University I. Direct Gifts This, of course, is what we need most of all — a large increase of our present productive endowment. Those who are able and will give outright for endow- ment can help us more than any others. II. Annuities Many who cannot give outright, who need the income of their property dur- ing life, or who desire the income of all or a part of their property to go to a wife or child or some dependent during the lifetime of that person, but who would be glad to have their property ultimately go to the University, may give their property to the University now, and the University' will pay an annuity on it dur- ing their own lifetime or during that of the person it is desired to aid, and the property will then fall to the University at the death of the annuitant. The rate of annuity paid varies generally from four to five percent, according to the age of the donor. This method of giving has several advantages : 1. It often saves the quibbling and ] awing that comes over wills, and makes more sure that the property shall go where the donor wishes. 2. It saves the paying to the State of the inheritance tax of five percent which is assessed against all estates left to charitable institutions by bequest. 3. It enables the donor to become the executor of his own estate during his lifetime. This saves the executor’s or administrator’s fees, which amount to six percent on the first thousand, four percent on amounts between one and five thousand, and two percent on all over five thousand dollars. 4. It exempts the donor from current taxes. No tax whatever is assessed upon the principal, unless it consists of real estate, in which case the University pays the tax. All gifts of cash or personalty, or real estate when turned into cash, en- joy the exemption which is allowed edu- cational funds. The donor pays tax not on the listed value of the whole proper- ty, but on the listed value of the annu- ity. This, of course, would vary with the age and physical condition of the an- nuitant. In other words, the annuitant pays taxes on what his claim for annu- ity would probably sell for if placed on the market. This is always a small frac- tion of the value of the property, and thus his taxes are reduced to a small percent of what he would otherwise pay. 5. The Annuity Plan relieves the donor from all care and anxiety about the money or property, and the income is assured. The Trustees of the Univer- sity give to the annuitant a bond secured at the present time by property valued at $1,800,000, guaranteeing the annual pay- ment of the percent agreed upon. 6. A five percent annuity from the University, when one takes into consid- eration the reduction in taxes, on the one side, and the fees, commissions and oc- casional losses, with temporary cessation of income at the expiration of loans, or the repairs, insurance, etc. connected with real estate investments, on the other side, is equivalent to a gross income of from seven to ten percent on ordinary loans or on investments in farms or other real estate. 7. Those who may benefit by this method of giving are : a. Those who from age or sickness or any other cause have become too feeble to care properly for their property, but who need the income. 29 b. Husbands or fathers who wish to provide for wives or daughters and do not wish to impose upon them the bur- den or uncertainty of business. c. Fathers or mothers who have af- flicted children that are not capable of caring for property. This may also ap- ply to the care of dissipated sons. It in- sures against poverty and want. d. Widows or maiden ladies who are left with property and feel its care a burden may thus provide a sure and fixed income for life. In all the above cases the donor is not only providing a certain support for those he wishes to help during their life- time, but he is also building a monument that will last as long as time, and he will be aiding and influencing hundreds and thousands of young people, and through them thousands of others, in the cen- turies after he is dead and gone. 8. Another form of giving somewhat analogous to the Annuity Plan is that by which a man deeds real estate to the Uni- versity and then takes a life lease on it. He thus gets the benefit of the use and income of the real estate during his life- time, and makes sure that at his death it goes where he desires. This form of giving also avoids the inheritance tax and the administrator’s fees. This method of giving may be used where one is suddenly taken sick and is not expected to live long. A will bequeathing prop- erty to a charitable institution must be made at least a year before the death of the donor, in order to hold. But so long as one is in his right mind, he may deed his property as he wishes. If he should unexpectedly improve and finally recover, the use and income of his property would be his during the remainder of life. III. Wills One of the most common ways of 30 transferring money or property to the University is by will. Although there may be circumstances when a will may be broken, and although many attempts are made to break wills after the donors are dead and cannot defend them, yet when they are properly made and at- tested, they are as sure as any other method of giving. One thing must al- ways be borne in mind in regard to wills in Ohio, and that is, a will tansferring money or property to a benevolent or charitable institution must, if the testa- tor leave issue of his body, or an adopted child, living, be made at least one year before his death in order to be binding. The great danger in the making of wills is that persons making them will de- lay until it is too late. Several of the warmest friends of the University, men who have loved it and have planned to give largely to it, have suddenly taken sick and within a few days or weeks have died, and not a dollar has ever come to the College. The property of one or two of these men who have died in recent years without wills has been scattered among more or less distant relatives, and already is largely spent. One need not hesitate about making his will, for should he live on many years and should he wish at any time to change his plans for the future, the will can easily be changed or a new will made. Who- ever, therefore, is planning to give either to this or to any other benevolent insti- tution ought not to delay in regard to his will, for life is uncertain and no one knows what a day may bring forth. Be- low will be found a legal form for a be- quest to the University, together with a copy of the Ohio statute in regard to wills for philanthropic or educational en- terprises. 31 Statute in Regard to Wills for Benevolent Institutions UJ F any testator die leaving issue I of his body, or an adopted child, living, or the legal representa- tive of either, and the will of such testator give, devise or bequeath the estate of such testator, or any part thereof, to any benevolent, religious, edu- cational or charitable purpose, or to the state, or to any other state or country, or to any county, city, village or other cor- poration or association in this or any other state or country, or to any person in trust for any of such purposes or municipalities, corporations or associa- tions, whether such trust appears on the face of the instrument making such gift, devise or bequest or not ; such will as to such gift, devise or bequest shall be invalid unless such will shall have been executed according to law, at least one year prior to the decease of such testa- tor.” 32 Form of Bequest In the name of the Benevolent Father of All, I, A B of , do make and publish this my last will and testament , as follows: I give and devise to the Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and their successors and assigns forever , the folloiving lands and tenements [descrip- tion] in. . . . County , in the State of ... . I give and bequeath to the Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University the sum of dollars , to be paid by my executor out of my estate within months after my decease. In testimony whereof, I hereto sub- scribe my name and affix my seal, this day of , A. D [seal.] A B Signed and acknowledged by the above named A B , testator , as his last will and testament , in our presence, and signed by us in his presence and at his request, as subscribing zvitnesses to the foregoing last zmll and testament at the date last aforesaid. C D E F 33 Extracts From Address Of Professor Rollin ri. Walker on ” Ideals of the University,” Delivered at President Welch’s Inauguration f ^ HE ideal of a university may perhaps be more concretely and effectively expressed by noting some of the needs of the indi- vidual student who comes before us. Everything centers around the callow freshman, who comes awkward and em- barrassed to the president’s office on the first day of the school year. The univer- sity is made for him. The man who stated that his ideal university was an institution with great libraries and labor- atories and ample endowment, but no students, was emphasizing a certain legit- imate aspect of the function of the grad- uate school, but such a conception was far removed from that of the men who founded the Ohio Wesleyan University. Their thought was far more the diffusion of learning than its advancement. And doubtless under the circumstances they were right. Let me first, then, suggest some of the needs of the freshmen, and then, in the light of those needs, note one or two of our ideals for ourselves and for you, Mr. President, who have been called to be our leader. It is a platitude in this presence to say that our chief desire is that the student should be clean and true and manly. The struggle to be clean and true and manly amid the tempestuous scorms of early youth is an effort that must be looked upon with great sympa- thy and a physician’s kindly insight. One of the first requirements for our boy Tom, as he begins his college course is a bracing psychical climate ; and this climate is produced by the association together of a group of teachers and stu- 34 dents breathing the spirit of Christian idealism. After a bracing climate it is perhaps next in importance that our freshman should be given good reason to believe that he is known by name and understood in his difficulties and perplexities. When the woman at the well was told by Jesus the facts of her past life, in great excite- ment she went to her native village and said, “Come, behold a Man that told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ ?” And so it will be with the stu- dent who finds a teacher that, by sympa- thetic insight, is able to sense him to the quick. It is surprising what severe sur- gical operations the young student will submit to if he can once be convinced that his teacher is his friend and understands his profession. There are one or two classrooms in this university concerning which some of us are accustomed to say that they ought daily to be washed down with antiseptics on account of the large amount of surgical work that is per- formed in them, and yet they are not by any means our least popular lecture- rooms. Another need of our young man is that his inner experiences be interpreted to him. Like Nebuchadnezzar of old, “the visions of his head trouble him,” and how much they trouble him any one of you may realize by recalling the expe- riences that intervened between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two. He looks into the faces of his teachers and says, “Show me the dream and the interpreta- tion of it.” He needs, you see, not only the services of the pedagogical physician and the psychologist, but also those of the seer. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, of the Broad- way Tabernacle, said to us one day at the end of his student days at Delaware, 35 “I have tried to make my college course a poem.” Would that as teachers our thought of the present were so filled with a sense of how it is all linked up with the great deeds and strivings and think- ings of the heroes and the sages of an- tiquity, so that we could cast a glamour over every subject and teach all of our youth to make of their college courses a poem. The youthful student, like the wise men of old, is forever inquiring, “Where is He that is born King?” How his soul thirsts for the presence of greatness and reality ! The chief function of the col- lege professor is to be kingly. You re- member that when the banished Kent sought out his former lord and disguised as a menial, offered his service, Lear re- sponds, “Dost thou know me, fellow?” And Kent answers, “No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.” “What’s that?” says Lear. And the answer is, “Author- ity.” O, the pathetic seeking of the youthful mind for that quality in men that speaks with unwavering and certain conviction. Your Faculty, Dr. Welch, would speak with authority and not as the scribes ; would be delivered from all suggestions of pedantry, and would be more anxious for intellectual life than for learning. CORNER STONE OF UNIVERSITY HALL. FRONT OF UNIVERSITY HALL. GENERAL VIEW OF CAMPUS MONNETT HALL As Others See Us Editorial by Or. Levi Gilbert, Editor Western Christian Advocate I N a recent Sunday afternoon we sat in Gray Chapel, Ohio Wes- leyan University, during the Commencement L o v e-F east. The meeting-room was filled with stu- dents, professors, and former graduates, who had come back from many fields to avouch their enduring love for Alma Mater. There was one note which ran through all the testimonies ; and that note, gathering cumulative force and coming to a climax with the hour’s close, touched the very depths of all hearts. The graduates of the present year — almost without exception Christians — thanked God with voices full of emotion that they had ever been led to come to Ohio Wesleyan, and that they had re- ceived such leading into the Christian life and such abiding impressions for good. One after another the alumni spoke of how invaluable for their characters and life-work they had found the moral and spiritual discipline of the dear old school. Men and women who had labored in mis- sion fields in China, Africa, Japan, and India, told how they had been upheld by the ideals they had received in Delaware. One or two native Chinamen and Japan- ese spoke of the uplift and vision which had come to them. Professors confessed to the satisfaction and joy they had in teaching amid an atmosphere which, was so religious and evangelistic, and where, at the same time, the scholastic standards were held up so high ; where men were encouraged frankly to unbosom their doubts and struggles that they might receive loving advice, prayer, and helpful direction. Pastors from here and there, devoted workers in God’s vineyard, narrated, with tears in their voices, how they had been 37 “born there”, and how the first strong and definite religious convictions had come to them which sent them out after- wards as pleaders for Christ. Teachers in other institutions explained how often there was forced upon their notice the- something wanting in many students in secular colleges, who, with all their brightness, knowledge, and culture, lacked that which Tennyson said Goethe did not have, but Dante did — the spirit- ual element. The testimony of the leaders in the greatest colleges of our land was given not only to the intellectual alertness and preparedness of the graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan, which ranked them side by side with the product of the most famous schoolSj but also to the presence of a certain moral earnestness which furn- ished these young people a constant in- centive and impulse for most strenuous endeavor in the arena of life. Parents joyfully added their word, thanking their Father for what Ohio Wesleyan had done in giving solid religious convictions to their children, and sending them out sheathed with triple-plate armor for the battle of life. Thus young and old spoke during the all too brief hour. And, though we had had some considerable conception before of what a Christian college meant and of what it could do, it was never before borne in upon us so overwhelmingly, convincingly, and affectingly as during those precious moments. Surely the slur against denominational colleges on the part of those who say that there can be no such thing as Methodist geology, or Presbyterian physics, or Baptist astron- omy, is easily answered. There can be an atmosphere, a purposefulness, a con- viction, an esprit de corps, a potency is- suing from the individual and collective lines of the teaching force and the student body and the traditions of the school which shall make a Christian college both a distinctive and also a vastly needed ed- ucational factor in the world. 38 w