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 winen I fall irj trie ranKs (as I riope to fall iri trie very front ranKs of tr\is 
 contest), and wrien rny arrr l sr\all no longer strike, and rny voice no longer 
 cr^eer, you nqay pursue trie conflict, and win trie victory,— trie victory of 
 righteousness Under trie banner of Jesus Christ? ... I beseecri you 
 to treasure Up in your hearts triese, rny parting words: BE HSHRMED TO 
 DIE UNTIL YOU HHYE WON SOME VICTORY FOR HUMANITY." 
 
 Baccalaureate Adclresss of 1859. 
 
flbemorial Exercises. 
 • • • • 
 
 FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF 
 
 Horace Mann, 
 
 TO BE HELD IN ANTIOCH COLLEGE, 
 YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, JUNE 16, 1896. 
 
 • • • 
 
 program. 
 
 9 O'CLOCK, A. M. 
 Address, Hon. W. A. Bell, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 ( CLASS OF I860. > 
 
 2:30 O'CLOCK, P. M. 
 
 Address, Dr. Edward Orton, State University, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 ( president of antioch college, 1872. ) 
 
 3:15 O'CLOCK, P. M . 
 Address, Dr. J. B. Weston, President oe Christian Biblical Institute, 
 
 Stanfordville, New York. 
 
 < CLASS OF 1857. ) 
 
 8 TO 10 O'CLOCK, P. M. 
 Reunion of Alumni, Students and Friends of antioch College, 
 
Dear Friends:— 
 
 fit trie rqeetirig of trie AlUnqni of i=lritiocr| College last si!rr\rr\er, trie 
 fact was rioted trjat tl\e present year, 1896, was tr\e Itundredtt) anniversary 
 of tr\e birtt] of Y\er farr\oxis first President, Horace Mann> 
 
 Measures were proposed and taKen to celebrate trie event r^ere, by call- 
 ing together frorn near and far trie children of trie College, trjat trjey nqigr^t 
 rneet and clasp t|ands at trie serine wt|ere one of tr\e first educators of trie 
 age offered Up r\is life in trjeir behalf. 
 
 TriroUgt] trie colunqns of tr\is paper, Antiocri rnost cordially invites and 
 urges you to corne to Y\er, and assist in rquKing trie occasion Wt|at it should 
 be,— one to be rerr\err|bered forever. Corne to trie spot fallowed by a thous- 
 and associations, into wr|icr| Horace Mann breathed a life trjat can never 
 die. You nqay or rqay not rjave seen r\inq, but, conciously or unconsciously 
 to you, r|e l)as influenced your lives and trie lives of ttiose wl\o rjave been 
 called to fill rjis place, 
 
 Tt]en conqe, and,— to Use a favorite quotation of r\is, — " Orient your- 
 selves," and go fortri again, refreshed, to trie duties of life, 
 
Horace Mann, 
 
 BORN IN FRANKLINTON, MASS., MAY 4, 1796. 
 DIED AT YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, AUGUST 2, 1859. 
 
 • • • • 
 
 Hfter a temporary interment ir\ tlqe grounds of Hritiocl) College, in a 
 spot now nqarKed, tlqroUglq tlqe care of later Hritiocl], Witlq a granite slqaft, 
 Iqis body Was removed to Providence, R. I., Wlqere it still rerqains. 
 
 Ir) tlqe too slqort space of r\is life, Iqe Was associated witlq sonqe of trie 
 greatest narnes and greatest reforrns of l\is tinqe and nation. He was Sec- 
 retary of trie Board of Education in Massachusetts, Menqber of Congress, 
 and gave Up Iqis nomination as Governor in order to accept tlqe Presidency 
 of Hntiocri College. 
 
 Hs truly as any Iqero, rqartyr, saint,— Iqe took Up Iqis cross at trie latter 
 place, and died, " a brave soldier in tlqe War of liberation of IqUnqanity." 
 Nothing can better slqow tlqe nqiglqt and influence of Iqis character tlqaiq tlqe 
 fact tlqat eaclq succeeding year Iqas only served to deepen tlqe inqpression 
 it n)ade. 
 
TWtfiocf] ir> the 'JTrrje of j|orace ]VUni). 
 
 In one sense a college begins its career when it 
 first opens its doors for the admission of students, 
 but to onlookers it is little more than a college in 
 the making until it has sent out into the world its 
 first graduates, whose accomplishments bear wit- 
 ness to the kind of work which the institution is 
 fitted to do. I was not a witness of the gathering 
 together of the raw material out of which the first 
 Antioch classes were largely formed, but, for" 
 tunatelv, there are a few men and women still 
 among us who can speak of those earliest days 
 from personal knowledge. My own connection 
 with the institution dates from the early part of 
 the academic year in which it first had a Senior 
 class, that is, from the autumn of 1856, and it is 
 
 of some of the elements of its life during the six 
 years preceding the suspension of the college in 
 1862, — quaeque ipse vidi, et quorum pars fui, — 
 that I purpose to write briefly. 
 
 College coeducation in those days -was still a 
 novelty. Oberlin, almost if not cpiite alone of 
 American colleges, had already opened its doors to 
 women as well as men, and to white and black 
 alike. It was announced from the beginning that 
 the policy of Antioch would be no less inclusive. 
 It might have been expected that Horace Mann, 
 the staunch defender of human liberty on the floor 
 of the national congress and wherever else oppor- 
 tunity offered, would brook no discrimination of 
 race in an institution presided over by him, but 
 
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 one could hardly have anticipated so hearty a wel- 
 come on his part to the doctrine of the equal intel- 
 lectual rights of women, considering that in his 
 own New England a college-trained woman had 
 never yet been heard of. Antioch even bettered the 
 example of Oberlin, for whereas the latter had a 
 modified course of study for women, supposed to 
 be better suited to feminine needs and the ordinary 
 feminine capacity, the younger institution offered 
 one curriculum to all. In the light of the exper- 
 ience of the last forty years it need hardly be said 
 that the women who responded to this welcome 
 needed to have no concessions made to their im- 
 agined intellectual inferiority. 
 
 Another respect in which it was the determina- 
 tion of Mr. Mann that Antioch should be favora- 
 bly distinguished from other colleges, was its 
 stronger insistence upon the possession of an irre- 
 proachable moral character by its students as an 
 indispensable condition of graduation. Not that 
 American colleges in general altogether ignored 
 this qualification ; but, as a rule, it was only open 
 
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 and flagrant vice of which college faculties took 
 note in those days. That a man should be in danger 
 of losing a college diploma because he was known to 
 be somewhat addicted to profane swearing, was a 
 thing probably never before heard of. The most 
 striking characteristic of Mr. Mann's nature was 
 his ethical passion. To whatever seemed to him 
 to be duty, he gave the unstinted service of all the 
 powers of a mind of unusual vigor if not of the 
 greatest philosophical depth. To feel that a thing 
 was right, either for himself or others, was a chal- 
 lenge to its performance, or to its earnest defence 
 if nothing more was possible, which he never al- 
 lowed to go unheeded. So keen -was his scent for 
 unethical forms of procedure, that some features of 
 his code of morals seemed to ordinarj' mortals al- 
 most if not quite fanatical. He willingly shared 
 with me the expense of the exclusive control of a 
 bowling alley for the summer of 1857, in our vaca- 
 tion retreat on the island of Mackinaw, for exercise 
 only ; no game was to be played which should 
 test the comparative skill of the players, for that 
 
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 would be to arouse a spirit of competition and to 
 encourage an uncommendable strife for victory ; 
 each one was simply to exercise his muscles with- 
 out any reference to what the muscles of the other 
 were accomplishing. It this mental attitude seems 
 to anyone senseless and even ridiculous, let him 
 remember that it was the outcome, however 
 strained, of that truly ethical sentiment which 
 condemns the effort of one human being to over- 
 power or get the advantage of another. But an 
 example of this thorough-going conscientiouness 
 upon a higher plane is not wanting. Nothing in 
 matters pertaining to education seemed to him 
 more to stand in need of amendment than the 
 ordinary relations subsisting between teacher and 
 pupil. The notion, whether native or English-born 
 it matters not, that the schoolmaster and his 
 scholars are by nature mutual enemies, and the 
 kindred notion derived from this, that scholars 
 should band together against the common enemy 
 and endeavor to shelter from merited discipline all 
 offenders against law, were both supremely hateful 
 
 to him. At Antioch he set himself to eradicate all 
 traces of this most irrational temper. His first 
 and most practical effort in this direction was to 
 win the members of the upper classes not only to 
 a recognition of the soundness of his views, but 
 also to a hearty willingness to undertake to make 
 them prevail among the students as a recognized 
 ethical standard. It is not to be supposed 
 that all traces of the old leaven could be at once 
 removed, especially in an institution whose pre- 
 paratory department was largely made up of a 
 constantly fluctuating element ; but the first grad- 
 uating classes did to a marked extent contribute 
 to the good order and discipline of the college by 
 openly placing themselves on record as aiders and 
 not opponents of the constituted authorities in 
 their efforts for the promotion of the best welfare 
 of the whole college community. When, upon the 
 death of Mr. Mann and the accession of the Rev. 
 Thomas Hill to the presidency, Dr. Bellows re- 
 marked to the new president that there were some 
 peculiar notions of his predecessor with regard to 
 
college management with 
 would have no sympathy — referring to the views 
 jnst now spoken of— the reply came very promptly 
 that no educational opinions of Mr. Mann com- 
 mended themselves to him more completely than 
 these. 
 
 Since Mr. Mann and the present writer had 
 inherited from two of the older New England uni- 
 versities those traditions concerning the true ideal 
 of collegiate education whose glory had not in 
 those days been questioned, it was natural that 
 our conferences upon college matters should be 
 exceptionally frequent. Without distinctly and by 
 name setting before us Harvard and Brown as 
 examples for imitation, doubtless our more inti- 
 mate acquaintance with the methods of these two 
 institutions had its marked influence in determin- 
 ing the recommendations which we made to the 
 
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 which he doubtless faculty concerning scholastic requirements and 
 
 especially the demands to be made upon those who 
 would win the honors of the institution. Not to 
 institute comparisons in any direction, it may be 
 said without risk of contradiction that from the 
 very outset, few of the older colleges of the coun- 
 try did better work and secured better results, 
 making due allowance for the difficulties attendant 
 upon a new undertaking, than the then western 
 but now central college over which Horace 
 Mann was so fortunately called to preside — for- 
 tunately, though it cost him years of anxious toil 
 and a shortened life, — for the blood of the martyrs 
 is the seed not of the church alone, but of every 
 enterprise which looks to the moulding of men 
 into the image of God. 
 
 George L. Cary, 
 President of Meadville Theological School. 
 
Rev. Thomas Hill, D. D. 
 
 JANUARY 7, 1888, 
 
 NOVEMBER 21, 1891. 
 
 "Transparently frank, guileless, unsparingly 
 faithful in duty, . . . he manifested in his whole 
 life the beauty and power of the religion of which 
 he was the earnest and devoted minister. He can 
 have had no enemies, but more friends than can be 
 counted. A. P. Peabody. 
 
 "The world will remember him as the philos- 
 opher, the man of science, the learned theologian 
 and preacher, profoundly thoughtful, the great 
 student, the scholar of almost universal attain- 
 ments, who made pilgrimages to all the holy lands 
 of literature and learning ; who loved to loiter on 
 
 the way wherever the mood invited, and to bring 
 back, as from adventurous voyages, the marvels 
 of his discovery and research, and all this great- 
 ness of attainment, combined with rare kindliness 
 and simplicity of life and with a stately purity 
 and nobility of character. Nor will he be forgot- 
 ten as one who has added his own share to what 
 is beautiful in our poetry. 
 
 In this world there remain for him only love, 
 good will and grateful remembrances, to crown 
 with honor the close of faithful service and a holy 
 life." J. C. Perkins. 
 
 Some Reminiscences of Thomas Hill, Second President of Antioch. 
 
 I returned to Antioch after an absence of some was one of the crowd of anxious students who 
 years, just after the death of Mr. Mann, so that I assembled to welcome our new president. 
 
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 Our orator forgot part of his address of wel- 
 come, and Mr. Hill helped him out with tact and 
 kindness. I wonder if that } r oung man, now a 
 successful lawyer in a distant citv, has ever again 
 been as scared as he was when he welcomed the 
 new President to Antioch ? 
 
 I see by reference to Dr. A. P. Peabody's bio- 
 graphical notice that Thomas Hill was placed at 
 the age of twelve years in a newspaper office. He 
 speaks of his first literary production, a New 
 Year's address to the patrons of the paper. He 
 does not mention however that the boy was 
 poorly housed and worse fed, became desperate 
 and ran away with a comrade. His nephew, who 
 told me of this adventure, used to point out a fine 
 residence in Princeton and say^, "Uncle Tom slept 
 one night on an ash heap in that yard." 
 
 It was always a comfort to me to know that a 
 boy who had slept on an ash heap in Princeton, 
 should have been at his next visit to the place, 
 ex-president of Antioch and of Harvard. It gave 
 me hope for boys in general, boys of the present 
 
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 and boys of the future. He ran away from neg- 
 lect and abuse but yielded to kindness and good 
 treatment. 
 
 His methods with the young were the outgrowth 
 of his own experiences. While pastor of the First 
 Church at Waltham, Mass.. he became quite an 
 active worker on the school board, and was for a 
 long time chairman of the same. One day a bov 
 who was considered incorrigible was sent to him. 
 As he came into the study, Dr. Hill merely mo- 
 tioned him to a seat and apparently went on with 
 his work. In reality he was watching the boy. 
 The latter rather restless and uneasy, sat waiting 
 for awhile, but finally began to examine the books 
 in the case, selected one, and was soon absorbed 
 enough to forget his present difficulties. Then the 
 good doctor found the clew he wanted. When he 
 knew that the boy liked to read he furnished him 
 with books, and fairly won his heart. In this and 
 every other way, he was intelligently kind and 
 gentle to us all. He seemed afraid of nothing so 
 much as of misunderstanding or underrating us. 
 
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 During his presidency at Harvard a student was 
 sent to him for being repeatedly late to chapel. 
 Instead of scolding him the Doctor looked up and 
 
 asked, " Mr. , what do you drink for supper ?" 
 
 "Milk." "Ah. I thought so. Leave it off, and 
 see if you don't wake up more easily in the morn- 
 ing." 
 
 Thus he solved our difficulties, and won our love 
 and loyalty at the same time. We were ashamed 
 of being mean or dishonest before a presence that 
 saw us as we were, and yet was never harsh or 
 unkind. 
 
 One of the Antioch students finding herself with- 
 out sufficient means to spend her senior year at 
 college was just preparing to leave, when a note 
 was handed her containing the required sum. Dr. 
 Hill had sent it through a third party because he 
 did not want the student to know who had 
 
 helped her. Years afterward, when she felt able to 
 repay him and offered to do so, he bade her keep 
 the money and help some one else with it. Both 
 she and her good husband have helped the weary 
 and discouraged and needy ever since. As Lowell 
 says : — 
 
 " the holy supper is kept indeed 
 In whatso we share with another's need." 
 
 Dr. Hill shared his goods with us, as did the de- 
 voted teachers who labored with him. There was 
 gratitude and devotion for them, but very little 
 money. 
 
 Our president had his faults, for he was after 
 all human, but he had great love and great 
 patience; and with love enough and patience 
 enough and strength enough, one can surety over- 
 come the difficulties of life. 
 
 Therese Byington Hill. 
 
 
Reminiscences of Dr. Austin Craig, 
 
 Among the men of unique character who have 
 been associated in the Faculty of Antioch College, 
 one of the most conspicuous is the Rev. Austin 
 Craig, D. D. Everyone who knew him was won 
 to him by the full-rounded loveliness of his spirit, 
 his transparent goodness, the clearness of his 
 head, and the warmth of his heart. His religious 
 convictions and his life were so pure, so self- 
 consistent, so really Christlike and inspiring to 
 others, that "those who were of the contrary 
 part, " if there were any such, could have no evil 
 thing to say of him. 
 
 Dr. Craig was born in Peapack, N. J., of a fam- 
 ily of large wealth and influence for the time, of 
 decidedly christian character, and members of the 
 Christian church. Austin manifested no special 
 signs of genius till his public profession of religion 
 and uniting with the church. After this he pre- 
 
 pared for college, and entered Lafayette College, 
 at Eaton, Penn. Here he held a good rank in his 
 class, but was especially interested in the study of 
 the Bible. Shortly before graduation, for some 
 reason, he withdrew from the college without 
 taking his degree.* Though very young, less than 
 twenty-one years of age, he commenced preaching 
 in Feltville, a small manufacturing town not far 
 from his home. Here he showed his independence 
 of thought as well as devotion of spirit, and 
 wrote and published several small tracts of both 
 speculative and practical nature, in the line of 
 what he deemed to be needed reforms. Afterwards 
 he preached to churches in New York City and 
 Fall River, Mass. 
 He was an omnivorous reader as well as an in- 
 
 *The degree of Bachelor of Arts was afterwards conferred on 
 him by the College. 
 
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 He became greatly interested Craig was then engaged, for his own profit, in a 
 
 dependent thinker 
 in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and 
 though he never became a disciple, the thought 
 and spirit of the mystical Seer gave a tinge to his 
 own thought and spirit in all his later life. Subse- 
 quently he was called to the pastorship of the 
 church in Blooming Grove, Orange county, N. Y. 
 This had formerly been the original Presbyterian 
 parish of the town, but its pastor, Dr. Arbuckle, 
 having incurred the displeasure of the Presbytery 
 for some alleged heresies of teaching, withdrew 
 from the denomination. His church followed him 
 and stood independent. It was a large church 
 composed of the wealthy and intelligent farmers 
 as well as lawyers and other business men of the 
 town. Here Dr. Craig remained as pastor for 
 nearly twenty-five years. 
 
 Here he first met Horace Mann. Through his 
 influence Mr. Mann was invited there to give his 
 lecture to Young Men. He was entertained by 
 Mr. Craig, and was struck by his conscientious 
 sincerity as well as by his quiet scholarship. Mr. 
 
 word-for-word translation of the New Testament 
 from Greek into English. The uniqueness and 
 thoroughness of the work he was doing struck 
 Mr. Mann with especial interest, and he conceived 
 a great admiration and a warm friendship for his 
 host which lasted during his life. He frequently 
 said that he had never met a man who seemed to 
 him so nearly the ideal of Jesus Christ as Austin 
 Craig. 
 
 When Dr. Holmes, the original professor of 
 Greek on the Antioch Faculty, obtained leave of 
 absence and went to Europe,— at the earnest solic- 
 itation of President Mann Dr. Craig was called to 
 take the chair during his absence. Thus he first 
 became attached to the Antioch corps of instruct- 
 ors. Though his success in the routine of class 
 work did not equal his scholarship, he became an in- 
 fluential member of the Faculty. He was especially 
 the preaching member. In his head and heart he 
 was a prophet of goodness. The resources from 
 which he drew seemed inexhaustible. Start him 
 
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 at any time, and a sermon would flow out. When 
 speaking, he became oblivious of everything but 
 his subject. Tho' his voice was weak and low, 
 and there was no demonstrativeness in his man- 
 ner, the originality of his thought, the freshness 
 of his expression, and the charm of his spirit, gave 
 his sermons a peculiar attractiveness and force. 
 Everybody liked to hear him preach. But his ser- 
 mons were long, frequently lasting an hour and a 
 half. His large-headed, broad-minded Blooming 
 Grove parishioners, who rode five or six miles for 
 a single service on Sunday, were not satisfied with 
 a short sermon, and he had formed his habit ac- 
 cordingly. The members of the Faculty expostu- 
 lated with him on the length of his sermons, and 
 assured him that with half the time he would clo 
 as much good and save himself the work ; but he 
 said that while speaking he knew nothing of the 
 lapse of time. They urged him to consult his 
 watch, and stop at the end of forty-five minutes, 
 at the longest. He promised to try it. And one 
 day, at the end of about forty-five minutes, I saw 
 
 him take out his watch, and thought he was 
 going to look at it and stop. But without look- 
 ing at all, he held the watch in one hand, rubbing 
 its face with the other, and in that position kept 
 on talking for forty-five minutes more. And it 
 seemed that not a word could be spared. 
 
 The sweetness and purity of his private life, and 
 the strong social element in his nature, gave him a 
 great influence over all who associated with him, 
 and makes his memory beloved. 
 
 After a year or two in the Greek professorship, 
 he returned to his Blooming Grove church ; but on 
 the reconstruction of the Faculty in 1857, in the 
 interim preparatory to the sale and repurchase of 
 the college propert} r , he was recalled to another 
 chair. It was at this time that he met and became 
 engaged to Miss Adelaide Churchill, a member of 
 the class of 1858. This was the occasion of Dr. 
 Warriner's conundrum : — "How is it that some 
 members of the graduating class are older than 
 members of the Faculty?" The answer was, — 
 "Because Miss Churchill is Dr. Craig's Senior." 
 
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 He soon afterward was married to Miss Churchill, 
 and went again to his work in Blooming Grove. 
 
 It was about this time that, on the recommen- 
 dation of President Mann, the Trustees conferred 
 on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. This was 
 not in harmony with the simplicity of his tastes. 
 He declined to accept it, and desired not to be ad- 
 dressed by the title. His wish was respected by 
 his friends as far as possible ; but when he became 
 head of the Christian Biblical Institute, the title 
 attached to him in spite of his wishes. 
 
 When, on the outbreak of the war, Dr. Hill re- 
 signed the Presidency, the Faculty were scattered, 
 and a large part of the College work was suspend- 
 ed, Dr. Craig was made President of the Board of 
 Trustees, with leave to remain in Blooming Grove. 
 Prof. Weston was acting President, and assumed 
 the general responsibility of the College work. Dr. 
 Craig returned at Commencements, and gave the 
 diploma to the one graduate of each year. On the 
 endowment, and the re-opening of full College work, 
 after the war, he was continued as acting Presi- 
 
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 dent, and removed with his family to Yellow 
 Springs, tendering his final resignation as pastor 
 at Blooming Grove. He remained at Antioch till 
 his resignation and the election of Dr. Hosmer in 
 1867. During this time he had charge of the phil 
 osophical and ethical studies of the senior classes, 
 and prepched at the College on Sundays. It was 
 at this time also, and through his influence, that 
 Professor Edward Orton was called to be Princi- 
 pal of the Preparatory department. He proved, 
 as is well known, a strong supporter to Dr. Craig, 
 and added great strength to the Faculty. 
 
 The classes that came under Dr. Craig's care, the 
 students and others that listened to his preaching, 
 and the Faculty that was associated with him in 
 the daily work of the College, felt that his life, 
 and speech and all his influence was a benediction. 
 And the equanimity with which he bore himself, 
 the firmness and yet impartial friendliness mani- 
 fested by him during church difficulties that oc- 
 curred while he was in Yellow Springs, gave him 
 the confidence of all parties except a few who 
 
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 would have liked to use him for selfish ends, and 
 could not. By those who were members of the 
 College, or citizens of the town while he was con- 
 nected with the College, he will always be remem- 
 bered with great esteem. 
 
 Soon after leaving Antioch, Dr. Craig was ap- 
 pointed to the Presidency of the Christian Biblical 
 Institute, serving a year in the meantime as pas- 
 tor of the First Christian church, of New Bedford, 
 Mass. The Institute was opened, under his Pres- 
 idency in the buildings of Starkey Seminary, N. Y., 
 in the fall of 1868. In 1872 the school was re- 
 moved to Stanford ville, its present location. He 
 remained in this position, giving to the students of 
 the Institute the benefit of his inimitable daily lec- 
 tures, till August, 1881, when his sudden death 
 brought sorrow to many hearts throughout the 
 
 country. He had been enjoying his usual health, 
 and on the day previous to his death had been 
 gathering pears from a favorite tree, and carrying 
 them to the house on his shoulder. At night he 
 had a painful and sudden attack of what the phy- 
 sicians called cholera, though it lacked the usual 
 symptoms of that disease, and at ten o'clock on 
 the next day he quietly breathed his last in the 
 bosom of his family. 
 
 Any who remember Dr. Craig, could give many 
 reminiscences of unique things of his doing and 
 saying. Space, however, will not allow us to enter 
 upon them. But of the good men who have been 
 connected with the Faculty of Antioch,— and there 
 is a grand galaxy of them — no one is more to be 
 remembered for his transparent goodness that. 
 Dr. Austin Craig. J. B. Weston. 
 
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Dr. George W. Hosmer. 
 
 Rev. George Washington Hosmer, D.D., was born 
 in Concord, Mass., Nov. 27, 1803, and died in 1881. 
 
 Pastor for thirty years in Buffalo, N. Y., he was 
 President of Antioeh College from 1866 to 1873 — 
 "seven years of marked and beautiful influence," — 
 and for five years pastor at Newton, Mass. 
 
 "A holy man, with large experience, excellent 
 judgment, and entire consecration of mind and 
 heart. His grand frame and broad, smiling face 
 dignified carriage and sonorous voice, with his 
 careful attention to manners and costume, gave 
 him a natural superiority. To carry a smile like 
 his around the world requires great essential 
 worth and dignity of character to save it from be- 
 
 coming sentimental and weak. It was his charm, 
 and perhaps somewhat his cross, for nobody could 
 be as uniformly sweet and tender as he looked. 
 But broad and general as his smile was, he lived 
 up to it, and felt what it indicated as nearly as 
 any creature of mortal flesh and blood could. It 
 was the genuine expression of a rare good nature, 
 a true love for his kind, an easy, ready power of 
 making the best of everything, a native and prin- 
 cipled benignity, springing from a full and gener- 
 ous heart, and maintained by the power of a good 
 conscience and a determined will. . . . We should 
 expect to see his grave smiling with flowers, even 
 in winter." Henry W. Bellows. 
 
 Antioeh under Dr. Hosmer. 
 
 The arrival of my father and myself at Yellow together, with our families, on a tempestuous even- 
 Springs took place in Septemeer, 1866. We came ing, finding shelter from the storm, though hardly 
 
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 from homesickness, in a little tavern of the village. 
 Next day however we were in the President's 
 house, and soon the foundations were laid of a 
 pleasant home. When the term opened, the num- 
 ber of students, large and small, was not far from 
 two hundred, — to a large extent young men and 
 women of excellent promise, to labor for whom 
 was a pleasure. 
 
 No picture of Antioch life in the late sixties and 
 seventies would be at all fair which should omit 
 certain pleasant features, some of which were 
 quite peculiar to the college. At frequent intervals 
 the parlors, halls and piazzas of the President's 
 house were thrown open to the students and their 
 friends. Light, music, flowers made the occasions 
 attractive; the evening was given to delightful 
 and refining intercourse; in indirect but effective 
 ways the young men and women were brought 
 under humanizing influences. At Thanksgivings, 
 faculty and students dined together in the com- 
 mon hall, an atmosphere of good cheer and good 
 feeling prevailing, which gave these occasions the 
 
 air of great family festivals. At Commencement 
 for several years one evening was given up to the 
 presentation of some noble play in the chapel, the 
 glen being rifled of its green and flowers to make 
 rich the mimic garden, the village ransacked for 
 properties to give elegance to palace-hall, the 
 shapely j^ouths and maids reciting as they moved 
 therein the verses of our grandest poets. These 
 performances I had the privilege of superintend- 
 ing, giving to them much enthusiasm and work. 
 Naturally, among my Antioch reminiscences, none 
 are so pleasant as those connected with the plays. 
 I had intended to write of them afresh, but hap- 
 pening to take up an almost forgotten Atlantic 
 article (which I wrote twenty-five years ago) to 
 refresh my recollections, I feel I cannot do better 
 than quote from it now. It was probably not 
 much read at the time; nobody now remembers 
 it ; and at this distance of time and place I cannot 
 make so vivid a picture as the one I drew on the 
 spot while the matters described were taking 
 place. 
 
Iborace /iftann Centenary. 
 
 "Our play at the last Commencement was 
 'Much Ado about Nothing.' It was selected six 
 months before, and studied with the material in 
 mind, the students in the literature class, available 
 for the different parts. What is there, thought I, 
 in Beatrice— sprightliness covering intense woman- 
 ly feeling— that our vivacious, healthful Fanny 
 Tucker cannot master; and what in Benedick, her 
 masuline counterpart, beyond the power of Cooke 
 to conceive and render ? It is chiefly girlish beauty 
 and simple sweetness that Hero requires, so she 
 shall be Ada Vail; Claudio, Leonato, Don John, 
 Pedro —we have clean-limbed, presentable fellows 
 that will look and speak them all well ; and as for 
 lumbering Dogberry, Bergen, with his fine sense of 
 the ludicrous will carry it out in the best manner. 
 A dash of the pencil here and there through the 
 lines where Shakespeare was suiting his own time, 
 and not the world as it was to be after three hun- 
 dred refining years, and the marking out of a few 
 scenes that could be spared from the action, and 
 the play wvas ready ; trimmed a little, but with 
 
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 not a whit taken from its sparkle or pathos, and 
 all its lovelier poetry untouched. 
 
 Then came long weeks of drill. In the passage, 
 '0 my lord, 
 When you went onward to this ended action, 
 I looked upon her with a soldier's eye, ' etc., 
 Claudio (Schenk) caught the fervor and softness 
 at last, and seemed like Palamon, in love indeed. 
 Ursula (Martha Holden) and Hero rose easily to 
 the delicate poetrv of the passages that begin, 
 ' The pleasantest angling is to see the fish 
 Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,' 
 and 
 
 ' Look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs.' 
 Pedro (Pitman) got to perfection his turn and 
 gesture in 
 
 ' The wolves have preyed ; and look, the gentle day, 
 Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about 
 Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.' 
 With the rough comedy of Dogberry and the 
 watchman, that foils so well the sad tragedy of 
 
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 Iborace /Ifcann 
 
 poor Hero's heart-breaking, and contrasts in its 
 blunders with the diamond-cut-diamond dialogue 
 of Benedick and Beatrice, there was less difficulty. 
 From first to last, it was engrossing labor, as 
 hard for the trainer as the trained, yet still delight- 
 ful work, for what is a conscientious manager but 
 an artist striving to perfect a beautiful dramatic 
 picture ? The different personages are the pieces 
 for his mosaic, who, in emphasis, tone, gesture, 
 by-play, must be carved and filed until there are 
 no flaws in the joining, and the shading is perfect. 
 But all was ready at last, from the roar of Dog- 
 berry at the speech of Conrade, 
 
 ' Away ! you're an ass ! you're an ass ! ' 
 to the scarcely articulate agony of Hero when she 
 sinks to the earth at her lover's sudden accusation, 
 
 ' Heavens ! how am I beset ! 
 What kind of catechising call you this ? ' 
 I fancy you ask, rather sneeringly, as to our 
 scenery and stage adjuncts. Is it wise to have 
 only sneers for what can be brought to pass with 
 
 Centenary. 
 
 modest means ? Our hall at Antioch is as large as 
 the Christ Church refectory at Oxford, and hand- 
 somely proportioned and decorated. A wide stage 
 runs across the end. We found some ample cur- 
 tains of crimson, set off with a heavy yellow 
 silken border of quite rich material, which had 
 been used to drape a window that had disap- 
 peared in the course of repairs. This, stretched 
 from side to side, made a wall of brilliant color 
 against the gray tint of the room. The stage is 
 the one thing in the world privileged to deceive. 
 The most devoted reader of Ruskin can tolerate 
 shams here. The costumes were devised with con- 
 stant reference to Charles Knight, and, to the eye, 
 were of the gayest silk, satin, and velvet. There 
 was, moreover, a profusion of jewels, which for 
 all one could see, sparkled with all the lustre of 
 the great Florentine diamond, as you see it sus- 
 pended above the imperial crowns in the Austrian 
 Schatz-Kammer at Vienna. The contrasts of tint 
 were well attended to. Pedro was in white and 
 gold, Claudio in blue and silver, Leonato in red, 
 
Iborace /Ifcann 
 
 while our handsome Benedick, a youth of dark 
 Italian favor, in doublet of orange, a broad black 
 velvet sash, and scarlet cloak, shone like a bird of 
 paradise. 
 
 There was a garden-scene, in the foreground of 
 which, where the eyes of the spectators were near 
 enough to discriminate, were rustic baskets with 
 geraniums, fuchsias and cactuses, to give a south- 
 ern air. In the middle distance, armfuls of honey- 
 suckle in full bloom were brought in and twined 
 about white pilasters. There was an arbor over- 
 hung with heavy masses of the trumpet-creeper. 
 A tall column or two surmounted with graceful 
 garden-vases were covered about with raspberry- 
 vines, the stems of brilliant scarlet showing 
 among the green. A thick clump of dogwood, 
 whose large white blossoms could easily pass for 
 magnolias, gave background. The green was lit 
 with showy color of every sort,— handfuls of nas- 
 turtiums, now and then a peony, larkspurs for 
 blue, patches of poppies, and in the garden-vases 
 high on the pillars ( the imposition ! ) clusters of 
 
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 pink holtyhocks which were meant to pass for ole- 
 ander blossoms, and did. It was brought in at 
 sundown, still wet with the drops of the after- 
 noon shower, which had not dried away when all 
 was in place. First it was given under gas ; then, 
 the hall being darkened, a magnesium-light gave a 
 moon-like radiance, in which the dew on the buds 
 glistened, and the mignonette seemed to exhale a 
 double perfume, and a dreamy melody of Mendels" 
 sohn sung by two sweet-girl voices floated out 
 about the ' pleached bower ', like a song of night- 
 ingales. Then toward the end came the scene of 
 the chapel and Hero's tomb. To theeye, our Hero's 
 tomb was a block of spotless marble seen against 
 a background of black, with a fair figure recum- 
 bent upon it, whose palms and lids and draping 
 the chisel of an artist seemed to have folded and 
 closed and hung, — all idealized again by the magic 
 of the magnesium-light. As the crimson curtain 
 was drawn apart, an organ sounded, and a far- 
 away choir sent into the hush the ' Ave Verum ' of 
 Mozart, low-breathed and solemn. 
 
24 
 
 Iborace /lfcann Centenary. 
 
 They were American young men and 3^onng wo- 
 men, with no resources but those of a fresh- water 
 college, and such as their own taste and the 
 woods and gardens could furnish ; but the young 
 men were shapely and intelligent, and the young 
 women had grace and brightness ; their hearts 
 were in it, and in the result surely there was a 
 measure of ' sweetness and light ', for them and 
 for those who beheld. " 
 
 The time from '66 to '73 was not the great time 
 of Antioch. Nevertheless the traditions of Horace 
 Mann were well preserved. A dignified and benev- 
 olent President was at the head ; among the Pro- 
 fessors were many of abilitv ; among the students 
 much zeal and power. The teachers and the 
 taught of those years, now becoming so remote, 
 look back upon them with pensive pleasure. 
 
 James K. Hosmer. 
 
 ANTIOCH IN THE SEVENTIES 
 
 " Oh to think of it ; oh to dream of it ! " 
 
 (Kerry Dunce.) 
 
 I sit with my face towards the rocky ledges of 
 the Coast Range, looking eastward. The charm 
 of California was never more persuasive. The 
 rains, for which we had to wait long, have tinged 
 the low growth on the mesas with hues still som- 
 bre, but relieved by bright strips of grain, and 
 toned in the distance into the blue haze of the 
 
 mountains. But I am looking eastward. And my 
 thought, escaping the fascination of a land where 
 nature is as all, and even oppresses the sense which 
 cannot free itself from the associations of other 
 scenes and yield unreservedly to her power, alights 
 in a little corner of the earth, a quiet nook, where 
 one takes nature as it were by the hand, and sits 
 with her in friendly converse. Twenty years soon 
 slip by. And twenty years of changeful experience 
 
Iborace /Ifcann 
 
 have passed sinee I searched the woods there for 
 the Erigenia, the harbinger of spring. But time 
 can never dim the recollection of those tranquil 
 clays. Time indeed, though it works changes of its 
 own upon our impressions, seems with the passing 
 years to weave certain of our memories more close- 
 ly into the texture of the mind. And Antioch's in- 
 fluence, Antioch's associations, have this enduring 
 quality. They are imperishable elements of my life. 
 And what I owe to Antioch, I owe indirectly to 
 Horace Mann. But in my time, which was early 
 in the seventies, Horace Mann, save as insepera- 
 ble from his work, was no more than a tradition- 
 I never saw his face. He had finished his task, 
 that is, the direct work of his hand, and others 
 had entered into his labors. And I suppose, judg- 
 ing from what I could learn of his spirit and meth 
 ods,that the atmosphere of the school had in some 
 degree changed since it had felt the influence of his 
 personal control. I should say — perhaps those 
 who knew the earlier Antioch and its founder 
 would dispute the statement — that its spirit was 
 
 Centenary. 25 
 
 broader. He had the make-up and the aims of a 
 born educator. But in the strength of his reform- 
 atory zeal there was a suggestion of the school- 
 master's ( shall I say the moralist's ) narrowness, 
 a too confident reliance upon mere rules and direct 
 moral teaching, as compared with the indirect but 
 deeper and more humanizing influence of a broad 
 mental culture. But the broad mental culture was 
 given, and it had its effect. * * And in Antioch 
 as I knew her, along with the passion for work, 
 and a generous hospitality to all forms of thought, 
 there was on the whole a surprising geniality and 
 soundness of tone, without much religious phras- 
 ing or a too self-conscious morality. The hard 
 work of a really good education is itself a moral 
 discipline, and that work had begun to tell. In 
 fact, the earnest, unpretending life of that little 
 community in it^ student days seems to me now, 
 at least in comparison with the life of the great 
 world, little less than ideal. But if Antioch had in 
 this sense developed, the initiatory impulse had 
 come from Horace Mann. The spirit which per- 
 
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 vaded her work and her social relations was, in 
 its developed form, the spirit which he had origi- 
 nally breathed into her life. 
 
 And the four years that I lived under the influ- 
 ence of that spirit, I look back upon as among the 
 happiest I ever spent. I could have been content 
 to stay (let no satirical young "fresh" say, to 
 sleep) within the sound of the college bell all my 
 life — making due allowance, of course, for inex- 
 plicable accident to the bell. The little society 
 there, organized on the principle of co-education, 
 then still in the experimental stage, was in a 
 sense complete in itself. True, the Crescents some- 
 times attempted, it seemed to me, to prove that 
 co-education is impossible in practice, by making 
 life miserable, for instance, for the Adelphians or 
 the Stars. But riper experience has convinced me 
 that an important function of the Crescent, and of 
 women generally, is to inure man to the cross, 
 and I am equally convinced that in school, or 
 out of school, she will do her duty. I had simply 
 failed to grasp all the implications of the the- 
 
 ory. And no causticity of the feminine mind 
 (editorial) was ever remembered at the matron's 
 receptions. The educated woman retained there 
 all her social adroitness and graces, and taught us 
 that no intellectual discipline will make her less 
 than woman or less indispensable to man. Thus 
 our world was in its way complete. It had its 
 own tasks, its own relaxation, and, with the help 
 of symathizing friends, its own independent life ; 
 and the student who staid in it long enough to 
 fairly catch its spirit could not fail to carry 
 through life a beneficent sense of the superiority of 
 its ideals. Quiet toil and steady self-development 
 took the place there of the pretense and the noisy 
 display which divert so much of the world's atten- 
 tion from the worlds' proper work, and obscure 
 the fact that the roots of the virtues, intellectual 
 and moral, must thrive, if at all, under ground. 
 
 The humanizing effect of Antioch's culture 
 would doubtless have been more complete if liter- 
 ature had been as seriously studied as the sciences. 
 Sound instruction in the ancient classics did much, 
 
to be sure, to cure this defect 
 at Antioeh, and what I may call the bias of her 
 teaching, gave an extraordinary impulse to the 
 study of nature. All through the glen, and for 
 miles around, I suppose not a stone was left un- 
 turned that might hide a beetle or some lowly 
 type of life. And in this scrutiny of natural forms 
 which extended, of course, to the constituents of 
 the rich fossiliferous rocks of the region, the per- 
 sistence and finer sense of woman fairly matched 
 masculine strength. In fact, it gave one a new con- 
 ception of woman's vocation to find her studying 
 with equal address the structure of the latin period 
 and the anatomy of the snake. It became quite 
 clear that when the world should be made over she 
 would rate as something more than a sensitive toy, 
 or a mere bundle of disordered nerves; would take 
 her place, in a word, as a human being with the 
 
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 But the situation full human endowment, looking at nature with 
 
 intelligent curiosity, and not debarred by her deli- 
 cate organization from the study of facts. 
 
 Unfortunately Antioeh was hindered in her de- 
 velopment by the narrowness of her means. And 
 in estimating her value as an educational force, or 
 as an expression of the principles and aims of her 
 founder, one must bear in mind that she could not 
 be all that she would. But she was much — more 
 than I can express — to me ; and I shall always 
 look back upon the brief years that I spent in her 
 ardent communion of teachers and learners, with 
 its freedom from false ideals and false social tests, 
 its hearty recognition of merit, its intellectual 
 earnestness, and its religious breadth, with grate- 
 ful and affectionate remembrance. 
 
 Frederick Meakin. 
 
 San Diego, Cal., March 25, 1896. 
 
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Edward Everett Hale, 
 
 Trustee of Antioch College 1865, to the Present date. 
 
 In this capacity, as in every other, he has done "his LEVEL BEST," 
 
 AND STEADILY " LENT A HAND." 
 
Dr. Edward Orton 
 
 Dr. Edward Orton, born in New York State, 
 March 9, 1829, has been a student and teacher all 
 his life. President of Antioch in 1872, and Presi- 
 dent of Ohio State University in 1873, he resigned 
 the latter position in 1881 in order to devote him- 
 self to the chair of geology in the same institution, 
 and to the duties of State geologist. 
 
 " The rocks have been his scroll; the stones the 
 
 sermons, wherein he has read the wonderful handi- 
 work of the Almighty. He has walked in paths 
 where few of his time have trodden, and he has 
 reaped lessons from the fields of the universe which 
 have but opened to him new avenues in the vast 
 wilderness of the creation, the which he has fal- 
 lowed through the advancing years. He has been 
 a writer of books, a teacher of men." 
 
 Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 1, 1896. 
 
Hon. Francis A. Palmer. 
 
 .p. 
 
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 To the Hon. Francis A. Palmer, one of Antioch's 
 first trustees, and once more, at present, a trustee, 
 who in 1859 gave her a new lease of life, and who 
 has often shown his interest in her since then, we 
 owe one of the pleasantest features of this centen- 
 nial year, the endowment of a chair of Christian 
 Ethics. No chair more characteristic, more truly 
 commemorative of Horace Mann's life and spirit 
 and aims, could have been chosen. Antiochians 
 feel a heart\^ debt of gratitude to its founder, and 
 will repay the debt with interest. 
 
WILLIAM CHANNING RUSSELL. 
 
 Prof. William Charming Russell died Feb. 24, 
 1896, at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., aged 
 eighty-two. His connection with Antioch Col 
 lege in 1865, as Professor of History, conferred 
 upon her an honor which later Antioch appre- 
 ciates, and is proud to record. 
 
 AARON BURT CHAMPION. 
 
 Aaron Burt Champion, horn in Columbus, 0., 
 Feb. 9, 1842, died in London, England, Sept. 6, 
 1895, and is interred in Kensal Green Cemetery. 
 As treasurer of Antioch College, he served her in- 
 terests wisely and well, and was in all ways a 
 true friend whose absence is her loss. 
 
"Here's to our college— God bless her ! 
 
 Here's to the clay of her birth ! 
 Here's to her beauty, and health, and wealth ! 
 
 May she shine like a star upon earth ! 
 And here's to the men and women 
 
 Who shall sing and speak and rhyme 
 When a hundred more years of laughter and tears 
 
 Shall have passed through the gates of time! " 
 —Zella Keid Crony n, 
 
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