NEDL TRANSFER HN 53EM | CONSPICT PRODESSE QUAM 3 a Educle 5750.20.75 HARVARDIAN ADEMIAE ECC VE RI WATUIDUS IN TIS ΛΟΝ ONY Harvard College Library FROM Miami university 5 5. many ., 19.00 S SCS 있 CS 2 THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SEVENTY - FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY WALTER LAWRENCE TOBEY , President . WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON , Secretary . JOHN WILLIAMSON HERRON . SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT . JAMES ELI , WOOD MOREY . WILLIAM SCOBEY GIFFEN . HARRY WEIDNER . 電 」 了 重重 重重 重 下一章 2011 FFFFFFFF! UNIVERSITYBUILDINGIN1899THE O THE DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY il VOLUME il Liti !!! Lintil PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS AND THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF WALTER LAWRENCE TOBEY AND WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON 1824-1899 MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD , OHIO THE REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY HAMILTON , OHIO Educu 5750.20.75 LIBRARÀ HARVARD COLLEGE MAY 5 1900 CAMBRIDGE , MASS . Minie Uminuity 1 PREFACE . The publication of this volume grew out of the Seventy - fifth Anniversary of the Miami University . In preparing for the celebration the general committee of arrangements agreed that the time was at hand when the early history of the institution should be put into permanent form . This conviction grew as it was manifest that many of the alumni familiar with the earlier days had already passed to their reward and that a few years hence there might be lacking the men who connected the earliest times with the present . As the plans for the anniversary grew it was decided to secure from the alumni a series of papers upon the college and its work . Invitations were accordingly sent to alumni known to be fitted by personal knowledge and experience to prepare the papers that appear in this volume . The paper on the founding of the University was referred to the president of the University , for the reason that access to records and early documents was not practicable for any alumnus . The aim of the book is to bring before the readers a brief and accurate history of the founding and a series of pictures of the University as seen in the administrations of the presidents , and some account of the work and achievements of the alumni . These accounts are of necessity meagre , but they will convey to all students an impression of Miami that , we trust , will deepen V. H Preface . their interest in , the old college their affection for , and arouse her name a familiar word in whose honorable history has made life . The generous assistance educational circles and in public Brice , LL . D. , the interest he of the late Hon . Calvin Stewart Mater , and the genuine love for always manifested in his Alma to insert in this volume the him by the alumni , led the committee at the anniversary exercises by graceful tribute paid to him his annual report on Necrology . Rev. W. J. McSurely , D.D. , in Runkle , L. H. D. , was a The poem by General Ben Piatt at the alumni meeting , and prominent feature of the exercises item of interest to the alumni . is printed in this volume as an Reid , LL . D. , is also The address of Hon . Whitelaw which the theme and the ability with inserted . The timeliness of as a part of the history of it was treated warrant its publication the occasion . of the Phi Delta Theta fra An account of the celebration participated . The celebration was ternity is inserted by request will be the alumni and the account in by a large number of found of general interest . was a labor of love on the The preparation of the articles expense to the University . The part of the authors , and without appreciation of the courtesies editors desire to express their shown by the writers . TOBEY , WALTER LAWRENCE . WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON vi . INDEX OF ARTICLES . PAGE . The Seventy - fifth Anniversary I General Runkle's Poem 7 Address of Mr. Reid . 27 Memorial of Calvin Stewart Brice 64 The History of the Founding of Miami University . 66 The Administration of R. H. Bishop 86 The Administration of George Junkin 91 The Administration of E. D. MacMaster ... 107 The Administration of William C. Anderson 150 The Administration of John W. Hall .. 167 The Administration of R. L. Stanton .. 185 The Professors of Miami University ... 192 Miami in the War .. 205 Miami in the Ministry 221 Miami in Public Life ; the Bench and the Bar . 235 Miami in Literature . 251 The Golden Jubilee of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity ..... 308 Appendix 328 vii . INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . The Main Building , 1899 Frontispiece Portrait of Whitelaw Reid . 27 * Portrait of Calvin Stewart Brice 64 The Campus in 1838 .......... 71 Portrait of President Bishop 86 Portrait of President Junkin .. 91 Portrait of President MacMaster ....... 107 Portrait of President Anderson . 150 Portrait of President Hall 167 Portrait of President Stanton .. 185 The Herron Gymnasium 195 The Brice Sciertific Hall . 205 The Campus in 1898 ... 235 Memorial Tablet of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity . 308 viii . Ullhalu L !! lilil THE SEVENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY . JUNE II - 15 , 1899 . In the president's report to the Board of Trustees in June 1896 , attention was called to the fact that Miami Univer sity was approaching her seventy - fifth year and a suggestion offered that it might be well to observe the occasion in a suitable manner . The desire was to emphasize anew the new life of the college upon the alumni and to bring a large number of theni together for the renewal of the friendships of the last half century . Miamni has always been rapked as one of the most important of the small colleges in the country , and it may be said with entire truthfulness that about no other small college clusters so rich and beautiful a sentiment as is to be found in the alumni for “ Old Miami . ” This sentiment has bound them together with a peculiar affection . Among other fea tures Miami was noted for the large number of men educated from the South . The Civil War was the parting of the ways politically for men who , prior to that time , had alike par taken of the Miami spirit and who with equal enthusiasm and devotion had opposed each other on the field of battle . That history was all written . It seemed now an oppor tune time for the earlier alumni to re -kindle at Miami's altars the old affection for the college and for each other that had MI ' 1 2 The Miami University been so characteristic of other days . In this particular the celebration of the anniversary was an unqualified success . Every man who came from south of Mason and Dixon's line was as happy as he was welcome . The old time enthusiasm caught the boys and they soon discovered that the passing of the years had not chilled their hearts and that they loved each other as only true meu can . It is reported on good authority that these same men tarried in their class reunions and fra ternity gatherings with unabated energy until five o'clock in the morning But there was more than north and south in the reunion . The east and the west paid tribute to the occasion . Men who had been separated for nearly a lifetime were brought face to face in the renewal of old acquaintance . From 1835 to 1899 every class was represented save the classes of ’37 , '40 , '42 and '52 . This fact in itself speaks for the character of the reunion . It meant a great deal to the alumni , many of whom enjoyed for the first , and perhaps only , time the pleasure of greeting by the hand the men whose names in public life are as familiar as their faces were in college . On the other hand the anniversary was intended not sim ply for the renewal of friendships . It was intended to emphasize anew to the alumni the growing vigor of what has been termed the “ New Miami . ” The long quiescent period from 1873 to 1885 had brought many alumni to feel that the old college had finished its work . For twelve years not a student was enrolled . This made it necessary for the alumni to seek other colleges in which to educate their sons . There lingered even after the opening in 1885 some doubt in the minds of many whether Miami could ever be re - established . New enterprises had sprung up and Miami's alumni had become interested in the building of other colleges . There Diamond Anniversary Volume 3 was a doubt , too , as to the policy of the State of Ohio in the support of the college . But time has begun to solve these doubts . The policy of the state has been declared and safely established . The revenues of the college have been greatly increased . The buildings have been enlarged , improved and thoroughly refitted . In addition to these the modern conven iences of electricity , steam , water and sewers have put the material equipment of the college in such condition as to nieet all modern demands . The Faculty has reached the number of fifteen . The roll of the students has steadily increased . The curricula of the college and the standard of education are attracting the attention of the educational forces of Ohio , Indiana and Kentucky . Under these conditions it was believed that a great reunion of the alumni and former students would bring about a revival of interest everywhere in the work of the college . In June 1896 the Board of Trustees appointed a committee of five , viz . , Messrs . Hunt , Herron , Tobey , Morey and Thomas , to take into consideration the matter of the anni versary .