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FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE 
 
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 JUDSON UNIVERSITY, 
 
 COLUMBUS: 
 
 NEVINS & MYERS, BOOK PRINTERS. 
 1876 . 
 
 JUDSONIA, WHITE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. 
 
 1875 - 76 . 
 
CALENDAR FOR 1876-77. 
 
 September 18, Monday — Fall Term begins. 
 
 December 22, Friday — Fall Term (14 weeks) ends. 
 
 January 3, Wednesday — Winter Term begins. 
 
 March 20, Tuesday— Winter Term (11 weeks) ends. 
 
 March 26, Monday — Spring Term begins. 
 
 June 8, Friday — Spring Term (11 weeks) Annual Commencement. 
 
 June 9, Saturday — Normal Institute begins, appointed by Hon. G. W. 
 Hill, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
Ex-Officio Members. 
 
 His Excellency Governor A. H. GARLAND, Chancellor. 
 
 President of the Senate Hon. BRADLEY BUNCH, Vice-Chancellor. 
 Chief Justice Hon. E. H. ENGLISH. 
 
 Associate Justice Hon. DAVID WALKER. 
 
 Associate Justice Hon. WM. H. HARRISON. 
 
 Term Expires May, 1877. 
 
 Judge WATERS, Helena. 
 
 B. C. BLACK, Searcy. 
 
 Rev. T. P. BOONE, Little Rock. 
 
 WM. PLANT, Russellville. 
 
 Rev. S. STEVENSON, ....... Little Rock. 
 
 Term Expires May, 1878. 
 
 Capt. E. W. BRIGGS, Judsonia. 
 
 Judge COMPTON, Little Rock. 
 
 Hon. T. C. HUMPHREY, Jndsonia. 
 
 J. R. CHERRY, ......... Little Rock. 
 
 W. C. WEST, West Point. 
 
 Term Expires May, 1879. 
 
 Hon. H. C. CALDWELL, ...... Little Rock. 
 
 A. B. COFFMAN, ........ Judsonia. 
 
 M. R. FORY, Judsonia. 
 
 T. A. REID, Red Bluff. 
 
 J. W. TURNER, Little Rock. 
 
4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Rev. BENJAMIN THOMAS, 
 
 President ex-officio. 
 
 R. C. BROWNING, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 A. T. JAMES, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 P. L. BARKER, 
 
 Corresponding Sec' y. 
 
 Term Expires May, 1877. 
 
 J. W. PIERCY, 
 
 Beebe. 
 
 J. A. HUFF, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Dr. T. D. NICHOLS, 
 
 Roseville. 
 
 CHARLES MARSH, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 C. C. SHEPHERD, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Hon. B. D. TURNER, 
 
 
 Term* Expires May, 1878. 
 
 P. L. BARKER, 
 
 J udsonia. 
 
 Rev. JEFFERSON BISHOP, . . 
 
 J udsonia. 
 
 R. V. GRAY, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 A. T. JAMES, 
 
 
 THOMAS OWEN, 
 
 West Point. 
 
 Dr. J. L. MO ETON, 
 
 Little Rock. 
 
 Term Expires May, 1879. 
 
 W. A. BONHAM, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 R. C. BROWNING, 
 
 J udsonia. 
 
 Rev. T. B. ESPY, D.D., 
 
 Cabot. 
 
 Rev. JOHN C. SHIPP, 
 
 Searcy. 
 
 Rev. R. M. THRASHER, 
 
 Malveyi. 
 
 R. J. WINN, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
FACULTY . 
 
 Rev. BENJAMIN THOMAS, D.D., President, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, MORAL SCIENCE, AND SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT, 
 
 FRANKLIN A. SLATER, B.S., 
 
 PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, CIVIL ENGINEERING, AND PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 HENRY S. REYNOLDS, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY. 
 
 Mrs. FRANCES A. REYNOLDS, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND MODERN LANGUAGES. 
 
 HENRY M. DOUGLASS, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF GREEK, MODERN LANGUAGES, AND NORMAL TRAINING. 
 
 HUBERT M. SKINNER, 
 
 PROFESSOR OF LATIN AND HEBREW, 
 
 Mrs. H. M. DOUGLASS, 
 
 PRINCIPAL OF THE MODEL SCHOOL. 
 
 C. C. SMITH, 
 
 PROFESSOR CF HORTICULTURE. 
 
 Miss ADELA J. THOMAS, D.M., 
 
 PROF'ESSOR OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. 
 
 Mrs. F. A. REYNOLDS, 
 
 VOCAfc MUSIC. 
 
 H. S. REYNOLDS, 
 
 TELEGRAPHY. 
 
 F. A. SLATER, 
 
 PENMANSHIP. 
 
 W. W. BRIEESE, M.D., 
 
 LECTURER ON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE. 
 
6 STUDENTS. 
 
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 NAME. RESIDENCE. 
 
 Barnwell Anderson, .... 
 
 . Nashville. 
 
 Albert Edward Barker, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Laura Bell Beecher, .... 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Benjamin H. Beall, . . . . . 
 
 Adkinsville. 
 
 Katie Best, 
 
 
 Caroline Isabel Bishop, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Palmer Dunn Bishop, .... 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Serepta May Bishop, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Charles Booth, ...... 
 
 . West Point. 
 
 Berton Warren Briggs, . . . . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Charles Willis Briggs, .... 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Flavel Greenleaf Briggs, . . . . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Robert Lincoln Browning, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 William Calvin Browning, 
 
 J udsonia. 
 
 Amarantha Louisa Church, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Laura Bell Church, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Sarah Eliza Church, .... 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Adeletha Edie, ...... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Cyrus Faunt Leroy Edie, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Evalena Edie, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Ida Lettie Edie, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Joseph Albert Edie, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Thomas Milton Edie, .... 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Pliny Ford, 
 
 
 Libbie Ferguson, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 George Hardin Glosson, .... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 James Alfred L. Glosson, 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
 Joanna Glosson, . . ... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Lucy Thomas Glosson, .. .. 
 
 . Judsonia. 
 
STUDENTS. 
 
 7 
 
 NAME. 
 
 H ESI PENCE. 
 
 Mary Lettie Gosnell, 
 
 Jud sonia. 
 
 James Pendleton Green, 
 
 Searcy. 
 
 Moses David Green, 
 
 Searcy. 
 
 Edward Gray, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Richard Leroy Gray, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Paul Price Herndon, .... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Olive Hildreth 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Amanda Ella Hussey, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Arthur Oliver Hussey, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Alpha Key, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 George Key, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Adelia Lawton, ..... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Mary Virginia Lawton, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Mary Maria Lewis, .... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Alice Isabel Marsh, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Florence Ella Marsh, . ... 
 
 Butlerville. 
 
 Harrie Willis Marsh, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Edwin Murrey, 
 
 Augusta. 
 
 Nannie E. Plant, .... 
 
 Russell. 
 
 Joseph Harden Riley, . 
 
 Jacksonville, Mo. 
 
 Ira J. Reynolds, .... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 James Henry Slitter, .... 
 
 Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 Charles Edward Smith, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Emily Carrie Smith, .... 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 William Royal Smith, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Joseph Lewis Stansbury, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Walter Cruthers Stansbury, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 James Y. Thomas, . 
 
 Nashville. 
 
 Alexander Tucker, . . 
 
 Traskwood. 
 
 Horace Polk Turner, .... 
 
 Paris, Texas. 
 
 William Simon Turner, . 
 
 Paris, Texas. 
 
 Americus Vespucius Vanmeter, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 California Vanmeter, 
 
 Judsonia. 
 
 Thomas Vanmeter, . 
 
 Judsonia. 
 

 NAME. RESIDENCE. 
 
 John Burrel Walker, 
 
 Margaret Wagner, 
 
 Albert Martin Watson, . 
 
 Eva Jane Watson, 
 
 Lillie Catharine Winn, . 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 Mrs. Damon, Miss Ella Hussey, Miss Willie Key, 
 
 Miss Jennie Love, Miss Alice Marsh, Miss Nannie Plant. 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 Males 41 
 
 Females 30 
 
 Total 71 
 
 Beebe. 
 
 Winthrop, Iowa. 
 Judsonia. 
 Judsonia. 
 Judsonia. 
 
 
STUDIES . 
 
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 I. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS. 
 
 NORMAL, BUSINESS, AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 MODEL SCHOOL. 
 
 Oral Arithmetic ; Olney. 
 
 Primary Arithmetic ; Olney. 
 
 Elements of Arithmetic ; Olney. 
 
 Science of Arithmetic (five chapters) ; Olney. 
 
 JUNIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Natural Philosophy; Rolfe and Gillet. 
 
 Winter Term. — Book-keeping; Bryant and Stratton’s Common School; 
 Salor’s “ Primer of Political Economy” once a week. 
 
 Spring Term. — Book-keeping advanced ; Groesbeck. 
 
 SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Science of Arithmetic (completed) ; Olney. 
 
 Winter Term. — Introduction to Algebra (125 pages); Olney. 
 
 Spring Term. — Introduction to Algebra (completed) ; Olney. 
 
 COLLEGE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 FRESHMAN CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Plano Geometry ; Olney. 
 
 Winter Term . — Solid Geometry ; Olney. 
 
 Spring Term. — Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical; Olney. 
 
 SOPHOMORE CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Surveying, Leveling, and Railway Building; Lectures and 
 Practice ; Higher Algebra and Calculus ; Olney. 
 
 Winter Term. — Higher Algebra and Calculus ; Olney. 
 
 Spring Term. — Higher Equations and Noted Theorems; Olney. 
 
STUDIES. 
 
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 JUNIOR CLASS. 
 
 Fall Tei’m . — Physics (Mechanics and Hydrostatics) ; Snell’s Olmsted. 
 Winter Term. — Physics (Pneumatics, Acoustics, and Optics); Snell’s 
 Olmsted. 
 
 Spring Term . — Astronomy. 
 
 ADVANCED COURSE. 
 
 Draining for Profit and Health; Waring, with Field Practice. 
 Mathematical Drawing (with instruments), Plane and Perspective. 
 
 Use of Water Colors and India Ink; Individual Instruction. 
 
 General Geometry and Calculus ; Olney. 
 
 Applied Mechanics; Rankine. 
 
 Civil Engineering ; Rankine. 
 
 II. SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
 
 NORMAL, BUSINESS, AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 MODEL SCHOOL. 
 
 Oral Geography. 
 
 Short Course in Geography ; Swinton. 
 
 Child’s Book of Nature; Hooker. 
 
 First Book of Zoology; Morse. 
 
 JUNIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
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 Fall Term. — Telegraphy (extra) ; Lectures and Practice, alternating with 
 Science of Government; Alden. 
 
 Winter Term. — Map Drawing; Butler. Complete Course in Geography, 
 Physical, Industrial, and Political; Swinton. 
 
 Spring Term. — Studies of Winter Term continued. 
 
 SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Physiology; Sewell’s Hooker, with Lectures. 
 
 Winter Term. — Chemistry (metals); Rolfe and Gillet, with Lectures and 
 Experiments. 
 
 Spring Term. — Chemistry (non-metals); Rolfe and Gillet, with Lectures 
 and Experiments. 
 
 COLLEGE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SOPHOMORE CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Mineralogy; Dana. 
 
 Winter Term. — Structural and Physiological Botany ; Gray’s Manual. 
 Spring Term. — Systematic Botany, with Collections of Plants, etc. 
 
STUDIES. 
 
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 JUNIOR CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Zoology (Structural); Agassiz and Gould. 
 
 Winter Term. — Zoology (Classification); Jordon. 
 
 Spring Term. — Zoology; Special Entomology, with Collections, etc. 
 
 SENIOR CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Geology (Dynamical); Dana’s Manual. 
 
 Winter Term. — Geology (Historical and State); Dana. 
 
 Spring Term. — Geology (Historical and State) ; Dana. 
 
 III. SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES. 
 
 NORMAL, BUSINESS, AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Latin (Grammar and Reader); Harkness. 
 
 Winter Term. — Latin (Fables and Dialogues); Harkness. 
 
 Spring Term. — Latin (Roman History); Harkness. 
 
 COLLEGE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 FRESHMAN CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Latin (Caesar); Harkness. Greek; Hadley’s Grammar and 
 Boise’s First Lessons. 
 
 Winter Term . — Latin (Cicero); Harkness. Greek; Boise’s First Lessons. 
 Spring Term. — Latin (Virgil); Chase and Stewart. Greek; Boise’s First 
 Lessons. 
 
 SOPHOMORE CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term . — Greek (Anabasis); Kendrick. 
 
 Winter Term. — Greek (Anabasis); Kendrick. 
 
 Spring Term. — Greek ; Homer’s Iliad. 
 
 JUNIOR CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — German ; Comfort’s Course. 
 
 Winter Term. — German ; Comfort’s Course. 
 
 Spring Term. — French; Otto’s Grammar. 
 
 OPTIONAL STUDIES. 
 
 Classes also may be formed at any time in Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, or 
 Russian. 
 
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 STUDIES. 
 
 IV. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND 
 PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 NORMAL, BUSINESS, AND PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 MODEL SCHOOL. 
 
 Oral Language Lessons; Hart. 
 
 Language Lessons; Hart. 
 
 English Grammar; Hart. 
 
 Penmanship, Composition, Reading, and Oral Spelling. 
 
 / 
 
 JUNIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Advanced English Grammar ; Green’s Analysis. History 
 of the United States. 
 
 Winter Term. — Advanced English Grammar ; Green’s Analysis. History 
 of the World ; Quackenbos. 
 
 Spring Term. — Rhetoric ; Hart. History of the World. 
 
 Penmanship and Rhetorical Exercises throughout the year. 
 
 SENIOR PREPARATORY CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — English and American Literature; Shaw’s New Manual. 
 Winter Term. — Literary Reader. 
 
 Spring Term. — Shakspearian Reader; Hudson. 
 
 Penmanship and Rhetorical Exercises throughout the year. 
 
 COLLEGE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SENIOR CLASS. 
 
 Fall Term. — Political Economy; Perry. Logic; Bowen. 
 
 Winter Term. — Moral Philosophy; Calderwood. Mental Science (Motion, 
 Sense, Instinct, and Intellect); Bain. 
 
 Spring Term. — Evidences of Christianity ; Dodge. Mental Science (Emo- 
 tions and Will); Bain. 
 
 V. SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. 
 
 Fall Term. — Soil, Situation, Propagation, General Nursery and Orchard 
 Practice, Ornamental Gardening. 
 
 Winter Term. — Laying out, Transplanting, Pruning, and Care of Nursery 
 and Orchard ; Ornamental Gardening. 
 
 Spring Term. — Varieties of Fruit, Packing, Implements, General Princi- 
 ples; Window Gardening and Green-house. 
 
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14 HISTORY , ADVANTAGES , ETC. 
 
 HISTORY, ADVANTAGES, AND NEEDS OF THE UNIVEESITY. 
 
 The Baptist College Colony in Prairie county, in 1870, 
 having been impoverished and wrecked by land speculators, 
 a brave and enterprising few, undaunted by the disaster, 
 without much money, and in the midst of a community 
 recently hostile and in arms, but where prejudice and oppo- 
 sition is rapidly dying away, managed to secure a State char- 
 ter for Judson University, and purchased for it, on credit, an 
 old plantation on the high ground adjoining Prospect Bluff, 
 in White county, near the head of navigation on the Little 
 Red River. This property and the former village now con- 
 stitute the site of the incorporated town Judsonia. The 
 friends of the University, in weakness and poverty, have 
 endured severe trials. Opponents, both of northern and of 
 southern birth, have caused much. trouble, hut the fostering 
 care of Providence has been signally manifest in dark days. 
 A liberal charter was first secured for establishing various 
 schools, and for conferring all regular degrees, giving us a 
 broad basis on which to build. Then came that great trunk 
 railway, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, to the 
 very door, which, combined with the natural advantages of 
 Judsonia as a trading point for supplying the back country, 
 will doubtless make this an important town as soon as 
 machinery and manufacturing can be introduced. We are 
 in direct communication with St. Louis, 292 miles distant, 
 and with Little Rock, the State Capital, only 53 miles south- 
 west of us. The University, therefore, is very accessible 
 from all parts of this State and Texas, and from the North. 
 
 The University has been enabled to raise the mortgage on 
 its property, and if the next Legislature will favor colleges 
 
HISTORY, ADVANTAGES, ETC. 15 
 
 by exempting school lands from taxation, a large landed en- 
 dowment, no doubt, can easily be secured. But for our new 
 building, with all its conveniences, we are largely indebted, 
 if not in debt. 
 
 Providence has given us a faithful, self-sacrificing Presi- 
 dent. During the year, also, three young men and their 
 families seem to have been sent here to fill positions as teach- 
 ers. The distribution of talent, unsought and coming from 
 various quarters, we believe to be a marked indication of 
 Providential interposition. A mathematician comes from 
 Denison University, Ohio; a naturalist and a musician from 
 Illinois Industrial University; a linguist and a normal 
 teacher from Oswego Normal and Training School, New York. 
 Each one expects to identify himself fully and faithfully 
 with this State and with its highest interests. A journalist 
 and professor of languages from another State, also, we ex- 
 pect soon to welcome among us. Thus, at the &nd of one 
 year, are we able to organize five schools, with complete 
 courses of study. Text-books, the brightest and best, have been 
 culled from many sources with much labor and expense. 
 Apparatus and materials for illustrating principles of chem- 
 istry are new and well selected. We have also surveying 
 and leveling instruments of best quality. We hope con- 
 stantly to increase the library and cabinet for the use of the 
 students. 
 
 Lessons in penmanship will be given daily without extra 
 charge. A flourishing literary society meets weekly in the 
 University Chapel. 
 
 Ail students are expected to pass examinations in every 
 class before advancing. A careful record of each student’s 
 grade and deportment is kept by the University for refer- 
 ence. 
 
 We hope to find good places to room and board for all who 
 come from a distance, and we 3hall insist upon young ladies 
 boarding in families where they will be surrounded by home 
 
16 HISTORY, ADVANTAGES, ETC. 
 
 influences and suitable restraints. The President must 
 know the boarding-place of every student, and will expect 
 a faithful report of the general conduct and habits of each 
 from all who board or furnish rooms. 
 
 As a University we court the patronage and cooperation 
 of the commonwealth for whose benefit the various schools 
 are established; we court the favor of the Legislature of this 
 State to grant landed school property immunity from taxa- 
 tion, that a secure landed endowment may not be burden- 
 some ; and we court the prayers and donations of all who are 
 interested in the cause of progress, education, and Chris- 
 tianity in the great South-west. 
 
 Expenses pek Month. 
 
 Primary Arithmetic, Grammar, and Geography, . . $1 00 
 
 Written Arithmetic, 2 00 
 
 One higher study, 3 00 
 
 Two or more higher studies, 4 00 
 
 Music (eight lessons) extra, 4 00 
 
 Use of instrument, 1 00 
 
 Telegraphy (instruments and chemicals furnished) for stu- 
 dents, 2 00 
 
 For Telegraphy alone, 4 00 
 
 Good board, $8 00 to 12 00 
 
 Tuition is due at least one month in advance. No allow- 
 ance will be made for absences, except when satisfactory 
 written excuses are sent to the Superintendent at the time 
 of each absence. 
 
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
 
 THEOLOGY. 
 
 Theological instruction by the President is provided in Judson Uni- 
 versity to accommodate students who desire such a course in connection 
 with other studies. Tuition in all departments is made free to Licentiates 
 preparing for the Christian Ministry. Good board can bo had at from 
 $8 to $12 per month, or from $70 to $108 per year. 
 
 TELEGRAPHY. 
 
 Thorough and practical instruction in this branch during the fall term, 
 at little more than actual cost of materials, will supply a want long felt 
 in Arkansas. Instruments are provided by the University or purchased 
 by the student, as he may prefer. 
 
 INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. 
 
 A fine piano and an organ are placed at the disposal of this department, 
 that all who desire may enjoy unrivaled advantages for making progress 
 under the instruction of our accomplished music teacher. 
 
 VOCAL MUSIC. 
 
 The cultivation and proper rendering especially of sacred music, we 
 believe, deserves a great deal of attention and practice. Hence song 
 occupies a very prominent place in our general school exercises. 
 
 PENMANSHIP. 
 
 A perpetual daily writing school, with general and critical instruction, 
 aided by the large Spencerian wall charts, is sustained throughout the 
 year. We desire every student to participate regularly in this 15-minute 
 exercise, in order to improve as much as possible in the most useful of all 
 fine arts. 
 
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ADDRESS. 
 
 BY REV. T. B. ESPY, D. D. 
 
 DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF JUDSON UNIVERSITY. JUNE 3, 1S76. 
 
 Having been invited to address you this evening, I pro- 
 ceed to do so, and have selected for my theme “ The need of 
 an institution of learning of high order for the Baptists of 
 Arkansas, and the adaptation of Judson University to this 
 purpose.” This subject, and the possibilities that lie out 
 before us as a people in this rich and undeveloped State, are 
 enough to enliven the occasion and thrill us all with the 
 noblest emotions. People rise in the scale of being and im- 
 portance exactly in the degree that they become able to 
 appreciate that which is God-like, beautiful, and enduring. 
 These high and holy ends are attained chiefly through intel- 
 lectual culture and develepment — by the expansion and in- 
 vigoration of those God-given attributes, bestowed for the 
 greatest and most worthy purposes, and intended to subserve 
 the highest earthly interests of men. To pervert these pow- 
 ers of mind is to give a new direction to the best aims of 
 human existence, and to so narrow our sphere of usefulness 
 and activity that life itself becomes almost a failure. But 
 as generalities will not meet the demands of the occasion, I 
 invite you to consider some of the reasons by which I have 
 been led to the conclusion that the hour has come when the 
 best energies of our people should be directed toward rearing 
 and making permanent a school of high order, to be the joy 
 of our hearts and the nucleus of our denominational life. 
 
 1. Our present surroundings signify this need with strong- 
 est emphasis. We are not now what we were in other years; 
 great changes have swept over us. Realities are upon us that 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 19 
 
 we would do well to recognize, and among these is the fact, 
 standing out in bold relief, that we must grapple like men 
 with the weighty responsibilities pressing upon us; or, fail- 
 ing to do so, render ourselves unworthy of the highest trusts 
 committed to our keeping, and prove ourselves too feeble 
 to cultivate the wide fields that Providence has opened to 
 us. Fifteen years ago our brethren in this State thought 
 the time had come to inaugurate the very measure of which 
 I speak, and put forth commendable and partially successful 
 efforts ; but the whole thing was brought to an untimely end 
 by the disastrous war that followed, and which paralyzed 
 every branch of business throughout the South. If our 
 brethren then could undertake a work of such proportions, 
 when they were numerically much w r eaker, and the spirit of 
 progress had possession of so few hearts, what might not the 
 thirty-five thousand Baptists of this State do now, with the 
 advantages which the present times have brought, and the 
 absolute necessities of the present hour? If it be said that 
 financially we are less prosperous now than then, admit- 
 ting this to be true, it need hardly be seriously main- 
 tained that there are many ills that financial prosperity has 
 utterly failed to cure— many demands upon the charities of 
 the people, which money-holders, money-lenders, and espe- 
 cially money-lovers, have been slow to recognize. It is not 
 so much the amount of money we have, but the use to which 
 we put it, that gives success to the great enterprises that 
 depend on free-will offerings from the people. Now and 
 then, indeed, there is a Howard, a Brown, a Vanderbilt, a 
 Colgate, a Mercer, to bless the world with their lives of devo- 
 tion and sacrifice, and their gifts of munificence. But from 
 this bright scene we may be compelled to turn away to con- 
 template the life of a Stewart, who lived to crush, and crushed 
 to live ; who reared a princely fortune, built his marble man- 
 sions, lived in elegant style, and died without one public 
 charity worthy the name. It will not do to omit the widow’s 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 20 
 
 mite and the orphan’s portion in this account. It is not, 
 then, so much to our financial surroundings, hut to the degree 
 of personal responsibility to God which the changes of the 
 last ten or twelve years have inspired, to which we are to 
 look in finding a just solution of the question now before us. 
 Have all these results been disastrous? Has there appeared 
 in the midst of the surrounding darkness no cloud with a 
 silver lining, no rainbow of hope to cheer and comfort? 
 Have all the effects of the commotions and . revolutions 
 referred to been evil? As a sufficient answer to these 
 inquiries, let me call your attention to the fact that, before 
 the war, there was not a school, high nor low, under the 
 patronage of our denomination. The State Convention then 
 was not without efficiency, and was cultivating the home 
 missionary field with a good deal of vigor. There was then 
 a paper at Little Rock, conducted by Bro. Watson, and just 
 struggling into life. There were a few men of ability and 
 zeal kindling the fires of Christianity and progress wherever 
 they went, and laying the foundations of future usefulness 
 and success. I would place the very highest estimate on 
 those endeavors, and extend the heartiest recognition to 
 those men, some of whom are still among us and doing val- 
 iant service for the Master, and some of whom are resting 
 from their labors. But in almost every thing that consti- 
 tutes real efficiency in point of numbers, denominational 
 enthusiasm, cultivation, greatly increased ardor for home 
 development, and public spirit of every kind, I ask if we 
 are not now far in advance of any thing to which our State 
 has attained before? We now have four schools that are 
 doing something for ministerial education, having young 
 men in school, both in and out of the State, and will have 
 school property worth not far from $75,000 when free from 
 debt. We have a working convention, also a ministerial 
 institute, with many active associations, cultivating the 
 mission fields in their own bounds, and a considerable revival 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 21 
 
 of interest within the last few years on the subject of educa- 
 tion, home and foreign missions, ministerial education, Sun- 
 day-schools, etc. Years ago you would have looked in vain 
 in our State for such a meeting as we have here this even- 
 ing, where the beauty, chivalry, and strength of this locality 
 are assembled to pay their willing tribute to the sacred 
 cause of higher education, the glory of a nation, the safe- 
 guard of a people, and the hope of the future. Let us not be 
 unmindful of the warning voice of the present, that speaks 
 to us and urges us forward to the discharge of these sacred 
 obligations. 
 
 2. A second consideration is State pride, or a desire to do 
 something, and to be something, in such a way that the 
 State may get credit for it. Men who admit the force of this 
 principle are ready to come to the front in every hour of 
 need ; they may be depended on in every emergency. Those 
 who do not, are contented to eke out a bare existence, to live 
 for naught, and to leave the world just as they found it, or 
 in a worse condition, so far as their influence has been potent. 
 But it may be said, as it has been a thousand times, that we 
 have nothing to be proud of in Arkansas. Nothing to be 
 proud of! Look at the mountains and hills of Arkansas, 
 filled with inexhaustible mines of ore and stone; look at her 
 rich and beauteous valleys, teeming with a happy and thrifty 
 people, and fast becoming prosperous under the strokes of 
 the sturdy farmer ; look at her bright rivers, coursing their 
 way to the Mississippi, and the steamboats upon their bos- 
 oms, freighted with her own productions, at her railroad 
 lines, her schools and colleges, her towns and cities, her an- 
 nual influx of population from the North, South, East, and 
 W est. He who looks upon these things as he ought, will have 
 no temptation to say : “ I have nothing to be proud of as an 
 Arkansian.” It is just this old time-serving, do-nothing, 
 know-nothing, care-nothing spirit, which has been so much 
 in our way in the past, and which still has impudence enough 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 to assert itself in some localities. It needs to be dispossessed, 
 root and branch, and driven out into the region occupied by 
 the moles, bats, and owls; and now is the time to do it, and 
 every lover of Jesus in Arkansas should be armed, cap-a-pie , 
 to eradicate this monstrous evil — this worst enem}^ of our 
 prosperity and happiness. Why fritter away the strength 
 God has given us on other States? Why build up institu- 
 tions of learning beyond our limits and control, when we 
 have the ability to do a magnificent work of this kind for 
 ourselves? In the name of humanity, in the name of every 
 thing sacred and dear, I insist that our denominational life- 
 currents should flow back and forth to a common center, with- 
 in our own domain, our own State, and not outward forever, 
 till our last drop of vitality is gone. Arkansas has had some 
 experience in respect to schools beyond her border ; a fancied 
 connection with a certain school having turned out to be 
 as unreal as vapor, notwithstanding the solemn averments 
 of its representatives to the contrary; and when our people 
 learn to throw off all such yokes of bondage, and rely on 
 their own strength and the grace of God, a brighter and 
 happier day for our State and her enterprises will have 
 dawned. 
 
 3. But do we not owe it to ourselves and the world, as 
 Baptists, to come right up to this work now ? Shall we wait 
 for a more favorable time ? How do we know that the moral 
 prospects will become more bright ? There may be great 
 and disastrous changes for us in the near future. Then, 
 why should we hesitate ? The fact that God has assigned to 
 us such distinction in the past, and has invested us with 
 such influence in the present, goes to show that there are 
 certain ends and aims of the Divine government to which 
 others would not be equal, and hence his need for us. If our 
 principles be what we claim for them — and this we do not 
 allow ourselves to doubt — they should thread their way 
 through all our efforts and enterprises ; occupy a prominent 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 place in the education that we dispense, and in dignity, im- 
 portance, and utility keep pace with our denominational 
 progress. It has been said the glory of our country is her 
 free-school system ; and the time is not far distant, if it 
 is not already here, when the glory of our people will be 
 their more efficient use of that great lever, denominational 
 schools and colleges. Let this work be commenced in the 
 Sunday-school, and at home, and finished at the university. 
 I sometimes ask myself if the time will never come in our 
 history when there will be no longer occasion for our people 
 to send their sons and daughters to Catholic schools. But if 
 the fact of their doing this is enough to excite disgust, what 
 shall be said of the shallow pretexts urged in its justifica- 
 tion ? The most common of these is the oft-repeated supe- 
 riority of their schools and colleges. But a more unmitiga- 
 ted conceit was never indulged. When you come to look at 
 this matter as it is, you will find it a great mistake. There 
 is a female school in Tennessee, which has made an open 
 challenge to test this matter before competent judges, by a 
 comparison of her graduates with those of any Catholic 
 school in the land, and that challenge till this day has not 
 been accepted. The truth of the matter is, that those who 
 are gulled by this mere offshoot of the imagination are such 
 as know nothing about the matter, and don’t care to know, 
 and who have opened their eyes in perfect astonishment at 
 the mention of such high-sounding names and titles as 
 “Bishop O’Hobson,” “Father O’Rafferty,” “The Mother 
 Superior,” “ Mother Angelica,” and a few other terms that 
 they do not understand. There are some men whose intelli- 
 gence and judgment have to do with their decisions, but 
 there are a great many whose distempered imaginations 
 constitute the basis of their action. And to this fact some 
 men and institutions owe their prestige and success. There 
 is another infatuation, equally hurtful and pernicious, and 
 sadly in need of correction, that the social standard is higher 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 in other schools than oar own. This objection will be found 
 to vanish into thin air whenever a sensible comparison is 
 instituted. There are a number of older schools and towns 
 in our State than this, where both sexes are taught, but I 
 am seriously disinclined to believe that there is a single lo- 
 cality where the moral and social advantages are higher or 
 more healthful than those we enjoy right here, in the beau- 
 tiful and prosperous town of Judsonia. Let those inclined 
 to be skeptical look into this matter and be convinced. But 
 as “ distance lends enchantment to the scene,” some Baptists 
 must needs send their children and wards way off to some 
 other State and school, of which they know nothing, save 
 what they have learned from the catalogues and circulars, 
 and where the advantages may be far behind those right at 
 home. Thus the world goes, and thus men of real intelli- 
 gence about other matters ramble on in the darkness until 
 they fall headlong into the ditch. 
 
 Though there are other considerations that could and 
 ought to be mentioned, 1 pass to the second part of my 
 subject: The adaptability of Judson University to the pur- 
 poses suggested. The adaptability of this school, of course, 
 consists in the advantages it is able to furnish over other 
 schools and colleges in this State. Further than this, I am 
 persuaded, the most ardent friend of this institution would 
 not wish me to go. And as the whole matter turns upon 
 this, I invite you to consider some of the advantages this 
 school enjoys. 
 
 1. In point of locality, Judson University is certainly 
 ahead of all competitors. And it will be agreed by all con- 
 versant with the subject that accessibility plays no mean 
 part in such matters. It is but fifty-three miles from the 
 commercial and political center of our State, and within 
 two hours of the capital by rail. To all that part of the 
 State through which the St. Louis Iron Mountain and South- 
 ern Railroad passes, beginning in the north-east corner, and 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 passing clear through the State, in a south-westerly direc- 
 tion, thus establishing direct communication w r ith several 
 of the most important places in the State. The location of 
 Judson University is every thing that could be desired. 
 Coming to Judsonia is about like coming to Little Rock, 
 from every part of the State save the north-east, and from 
 thence this place has the advantage. Very important parts 
 of the State are touched by the Memphis and Little Rock, 
 and Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroads, and to both those 
 sections Judsonia is easily accessible by means of those and 
 the Southern Railroad. With our present rate of progress 
 and development,' it may be expected that the completion of 
 other roads will add materially to the facilities for transpor- 
 tation now enjoyed by this place. I have said nothing about 
 White and Arkansas Rivers, the first of which is navigable 
 throughout the year, and the other for nine months, and 
 which supply ready and cheap means of conveyance to other 
 important parts of the State. 
 
 2. Let us not forget the fact that this institution already 
 has in actual possession real estate, school and other build- 
 ings, worth, perhaps, fifty thousand dollars. And this prop- 
 erty, so advantageously situated, is destined, in a few years, 
 to double itself in value, unless some great misfortune should 
 overtake the enterprise. This gives to the University here 
 a solid basis for all time, and presents one of the most en- 
 couraging features of the work, success, and future of this 
 institution. When God planted and reared His church, He 
 laid her foundations deep, that her adversaries might not 
 prevail against her, and there was like wisdom and discre- 
 tion in laying the foundations of this first Baptist institu- 
 tion of learning in Arkansas. Beautiful edifices are some- 
 times reared on sandy foundations, princely fortunes inherit- 
 ed by thriftless adventurers, and large sums of money squan- 
 dered on reckless sons, too graceless to appreciate them or 
 the source from whence they came ; and the total failures 
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ADDRESS. 
 
 26 
 
 that have followed have been only so many illustrations of 
 the weakness and folly of beginning any work on a preca- 
 rious foundation. There is an old Greek adage to this effect, 
 “The beginning is half the ending,” and if this sentiment 
 has its application here— and there is no good reason why it 
 should not — it is but right to regard this institution of learn- 
 ing as already on the high-road of success. It has only been 
 a few brief years since this work was begun, the first blow 
 struck, the first stone turned, the first stick cut, the first 
 cabin built. Now see the evidences of thrift around you : a 
 beautiful and growing town, neat cottages, beautiful grounds, 
 an energetic, industrious population, and, above all, the 
 beautiful school-building that we occupy this evening, one 
 of which we may all well be proud, the first built by Baptist 
 hands and labor for educational purposes in this State. I 
 confess it was with feelings of peculiar satisfaction and pride 
 that I first surveyed this building, when I was first shown 
 through it and had its several divisions and their uses ex- 
 plained to me, and saw their adaptation to the purposes for 
 which they were intended. More commodious and more 
 costly school-buildings there may be in the State, but I 
 doubt that there is one altogether so convenient and well 
 arranged. And what does all this prove ? Why, that there 
 is a future for our educational interests, and that those who 
 laid the foundations of this institution may yet live to see 
 a harvest of rich fruit, far beyond the highest anticipations 
 they indulged at the start. 
 
 3. The health advantages of Judsonia deserve mention 
 in this connection. This is a matter that always interests 
 such as h aye children to send from home, and should never 
 be overlooked in the location of schools. It would be a piece 
 of folly to attempt the building up of a school in a sickly 
 locality. In justice to all concerned, it may be proper to say 
 that Judsonia, in this respect, will rank with the most 
 healthful places outside of the mountainous districts of our 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 State. The country about the place, and to the north, is 
 slightly broken, the water is good, and there seems to be no 
 local cause for sickness. Up to this time there has been lit- 
 tle or no sickness among students coming from a distance. 
 There is a sulphur spring near by, and five miles away are 
 the far-famed sulphur, alum, and -chalybeate springs of 
 Searcy. No reason exists why parents and guardians should 
 concern themselves about the health of the children they 
 send here. 
 
 4. Let me speak, lastly, of the educational advantages of 
 the place, and the healthful religious and moral atmosphere 
 breathed by the students that attend Judson University. 
 The course of study here will be found to compare very fa- 
 vorably with that of our best colleges in the South-west; 
 the teachers of every department are competent and agree- 
 able ; the discipline is kind, strict, and healthful ; and there 
 is attached to the school-building a laboratory, containing 
 chemical, geological, and other' specimens. In short, there 
 are all the usual facilities for obtaining a first-class educa- 
 tion. President Thomas, who has had considerable experi- 
 ence as an educator, presides over the institution with ease 
 and dignity, and brings to bear upon it an amount of finan- 
 cial and administrative ability which is fast telling in its 
 favor. 
 
 Now as to the religious atmosphere of Judsonia. There 
 is regular religious worship on the Sabbath, also a well-con- 
 ducted Sabbath-school, and a University prayer-meeting held 
 every Sunday evening, with particular reference to the 
 wants of the students, and other religious meetings, some- 
 times every night in the week, and the Judsonia Literary 
 Society, in which the citizens and students vie with each 
 other in the cultivation of elocution and logic. The fact 
 that there is not a saloon or whisky-shop in or about the 
 place deserves special mention. So much, then, for Judsonia 
 and its surroundings. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
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 Now, who will say, with these facts before them, that we 
 are not haying educational progress in Arkansas; that there 
 is not a future of thrift and advancement for our State of 
 which few have rightly conceived ; that now is not the time 
 for us to declare our independence of other States, as our 
 fathers did of the mother country just one hundred years 
 ago, and to stand, strike, live, battle, work, pray for the 
 right? In this blessed resolve the friends of education 
 throughout the country rise up to greet us and urge us for- 
 ward; the brilliant successes of co-educators in other States 
 and sections stand out in living characters for our encourage- 
 ment, and the triumphs and failures in the sacred cause of 
 mental and moral improvement shine out as beacons upon 
 the pathways to be trod that leads on and on in the realm 
 of progression and expansion. 
 
 “ When tlie vast sun shall veil his golden light, 
 
 Deep in the gloom of everlasting night ; 
 
 When wild, destructive flames shall wrap the skies, 
 
 When ruin triumphs, and when nature dies;* 
 
 Man shall alone the wreck of worlds survive ; 
 
 7 Mid falling spheres, immortal man shall live.” 
 


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