The Making of State College,
Continued Jr.om page /.
ors Osmond, Bell, Jordan, Barnard
and Mr. Patterson were developing
the work in physics, chemistry,
agriculture, etc., while Professor
Buckhout was doing, as he has done
since, unusually praiseworthy work
in botany.
President Atherton arrived in the
fall of 1882, grasped the situation at
a glance, and began with unremitting
energy and force to develop the In
stitution along the lines called for by
Congress. In a few years he had
overcome the prejudice of the people
of the State toward the College suffi
ciently to enable him to convince the
Legislature of Pennsylvania of the
responsibility of the State for the
development of the Colllege, and to
persuade it to make -more or less
suitable appropriations with scarcely
a break up to the present time. From
that time unti' this, new buildings
have been springing up all over the
campus. At a slightly later date the
President did much toward persuad
ing Congress to pass the laws in
augurating the experiment stations
and supplying the grant colleges sub
stantial annual appropriations from
the United States Treasury.
During the material growth, the
work of the College enlarged in
every direction, the faculty increased
from eight or ten to sixty-six; the
student enrollment increased in num
bers in the college classes from less
than fifty to more than six hundred;
and the facilities for instruction be
came incomparably better. The
number of courses leading to a de
gree has increased from four to fif
teen with many electives.
The enmity to the College has
been gradually reversed so that,
though now and always there will be
knowing persons who would gladly
tear down that which has, been so
• laboriously built up, as a whole the
people of this state are proud of their
State "College and believe in the work
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
it is doing,
Let us seek for the wand which
has had the magic to transform in a
couple of decades a little school,
commonly thought to be a kind of
reform school —situated away in the
wilderness, twelve mileS from the
nearest railroad, with pitifully poor
facilities, a diminutive though de
voted band of teachers, a handfull of
boys from the vicinity as students —
into a magnificient institution of learn
ing'with a great plant worth millions
of dollars, a large faculty, student
numbers rapidly nearing a thousand,
with the good will of the people of
the commonwealth, and doing a
class of work which is recognized
as of sterling quality by educators,
industrial managers, and thinking
men the country over.
My own belief is that the secret
is largely Dr. Atherton’s strongper
sonality and his steadfast purpose to
make the education at this Institu
tion such that the men going forth
from her doors should be prepared
to deal successfully with the practical
affairs of life, to make them honest
and "upright, and to teach them to
be good and loval citizens.
The alumni of the College have
justified the aim expressed above by
their records which have done much
to reflect credit upon their Alma
Mater.
You may well imagine that during
this great development of the last
twenty-five years the upward course
has been beset by well nigh impas
sable “sloughs of despond” and
“hills of difficulty.” During such
times the President and Faculty have
been much strengthened and en
couraged by the firm faith of the
Trustees and general officers of the
College.
The new gymnasium at Ohio Wes
leyan will be dedicated on February
22. A Washington’s Birthday ban
quet will be given at that time.
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