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A CENTURY OF
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
1819-1919
A STORY OF ALTRUISM
BY
SAMUEL TYNDALE WILSON, D.D.
FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
Published by
The Directors of Maryville College
Maryville, Tennessee
1916
n^^ Ns
COPSfRIGHT, IQ16, BY
The Directors of Maryville Collkge
Maryville, Tennessee
Printed by
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York
DEDICATED
TO THE
STUDENTS AND BENEFACTORS
OF
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
iv!ir?584
FOREWORD
It has been a characteristic of the institution of
which this volume treats to win the devotion of its
teachers and administrative officers to a degree never
exceeded in the case of other institutions of learning.
The College has always had connected with its man-
agement workers who were so zealous that the in-
stitution should efficiently serve its constituency, that
they have counted no self-sacrifice or toilsome labor
too extreme, if only they could see the College they
loved realize their ambitions for it. The most con-
spicuous embodiments of this devotion to Maryville
College were President Anderson, the founder, and
Professor Lamar, the second founder. It was the
writer's good fortune to be at first a student and then
a colleague of Professor Lamar, who in turn was a
student and then a colleague of Dr. Anderson; and
so the writer received almost at first hand the story
of Maryville, extending from the days of the begin-
ning down to the time when he himself entered the
faculty of the College. This story he has long felt
it his duty to recount for the future sons and daugh-
ters of Maryville, but not until now has he found
time which he could devote to the pleasant task.
If the lines in this character sketch of Maryville
should seem to any to be too ardent, let the fact that
vi FOREWORD
the writer has been connected with the College as stu-
dent, alumnus, and professor for forty-three years
explain and extenuate somewhat the warmth of his
appreciative devotion. He is happy to know, more-
over, that Maryville's sons and daughters at any rate
agree with him in believing that there is but one unique
Maryville in all the galaxy of the colleges, and that
no other institution shines with brighter, kindlier, or
truer ray!
Although historical, this book is not a history. It
is intended, as has already been intimated, to be a
character sketch of Maryville College. The century
just closing has been one of debate and discord and
division in the domains of church and state. So fierce,
for example, was denominational jealousy that Mary-
ville College, though itself always liberal to all de-
nominations, was for twenty-three long years denied
a charter by the Legislature of Tennessee. Happily
those days of narrowness are forever gone. The days
of battling "Old School" and "New School" Presby-
terians are also gone. Gone, too, is the ecclesiastical
and political bitterness engendered by the Civil War.
The College has emerged from a stormy but useful
past into a more widely useful present, and has be-
fore it what seems to be a vastly more useful future.
The writer avails himself of his author's license in
omitting from this book the divisive matters of the
past. The problems and the opportunities of the fu-
ture are surely large enough to engross all the atten-
tion and energy of the old friends of the College and
of the new allies that are rallying to their assistance.
FOREWORD vii
The writer takes this opportunity to thank the many
friends who have assisted in clearing up obscure points
of ante-bellum history. The destruction of almost
all the ante-bellum records of the College has greatly
increased the difficulty of his task ; and so he is deeply
grateful to the friends that have contributed informa-
tion that has been so much the more valuable on ac-
count of the absence of these official records. Espe-
cially would he express his indebtedness to Mr. James
A. Anderson, grand-nephew of Dr. Anderson, Mrs.
Martha A. Lamar, widow of Professor Lamar, and
Major William A. McTeer.
The accuracy of the book has profited greatly by the
criticisms of eight or more friends of the College that
have read the manuscript. The excellence and appro-
priateness of the thirty-six illustrations employed in
the volume are largely due to Professor Clinton H. Gil-
lingham, who spared no pains in their selection and
preparation. To all who have, in any way, contributed
to the value of this tribute to Maryville, the writer
hereby expresses his sincere thanks.
CONTENTS
Part First. The Ante-Bellum Maryyllle
CHAPTER PAGB
I. THE GREAT SOUTHWEST AND ITS CHALLENGE.
The Southwest of 1800 A. D. — The Land of Prom-
ise— "The Land of Do Without" — Pioneer Priva-
tions— Pioneer Deprivations — And Loss of Best
Things — A Wealth of Young People — A Dearth
OF Education — With Danger of Declension — So
Busy Making a Living — In Danger of Losing a
Life — ^The Challenge to the Patriot — ^The Chal-
lenge TO the Philanthropist — The Challenge
Accepted by Some 1
II. ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION. Elect
Pedagogues of the Frontier — Disciples of John
Knox — Rockbridge County Training Ground — A
Scotch Dominie and His Scholar — Isaac Ander-
son, Scotch-Irishman — ^His Schooling in the
Home — And Under the Dominie — And in Liberty
Hall Academy — And Under the "Edwards of Vir-
ginia"— The Birth of a Noble Purpose — West-
ward, Ho, Andersons! — To Beautiful East Ten-
nessee— And to a Broad Vision of Service . . 10
HI. ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS "LOG COLLEGE."
School-Days Ended — School-Teaching Begun —
"The Log College," Union Academy, 1802 — The
Grassy Valley Building — An Early Country-
Life Movement — Perpetual Motion — Extension
Work in the Saddle — Ambition to Serve Yet
More Widely — A Call to Maryville — ^Transla-
tion OF THE Academy — Sam Houston, Academi-
cian— "Chaplain Anderson" in War of '12 —
Vocational Work by the Fireside .... 20
IV. DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SOUTHERN AND
WESTERN SEMINARY. Continued Campaign-
ing— Distress at Destitution — Zeal for Educa-
tion and Character — Patriotic Statesmanship —
ix
X CONTENTS
CHAPTBB PAGE
The Harvard Anxiety Again — The Prophets'
Vision Again — How Secure More Educated
Leaders? — Self-Multiplication Impossible — Edu-
cation OF Imported Students Impossible — Impor-
tation OF Educated Impossible — Then Necessary
TO Educate Local Students — A Mighty Life Re-
solve— An Overture by Union Presbytery — An-
swer BY THE Synod of Tennessee — Worthy Fron-
tier Architecture — Plans and Specifications —
Notable Builders — **Dr. Anderson was Duly
Chosen" — Genesis 31
V. DAYS OF CREATION. Divine Providence and His
Agent — (1) Let There Be Teachers — (2) Let
There Be Students — (3) Let There Be a Local
Habitation — (4) Let There Be Food and Raiment
— (5) Let There Be Intellectual Culture — (6)
Let There Be Moral Character — ^To These Ends,
A College Endowment 47
VI. DAYS OF PROVIDENCE. An Education Provided
for All — Irrespective of Denomination — Irre-
spective OF Poverty — ^Help Through the Board-
ing-House — Self-Help on the College Farm —
Board Bill, Three Cents a Day! — Plain Living,
High Thinking — A Model Schoolmaster — A
Princely Preacher — A Father to His Students —
His Good Wife a Mother to Them — "The Mary-
viLLE Spirit*' He Created: (1) Breadth of Human
Interest — (2) Thorough Scholarship — (3) Manly
Religion — (4) Unselfish Service — ^A Worthy Out-
put 56
VII. THE TEACHERS THAT SERVED. The Founder
AT First Alone — ^Then Student Assistants — ^Then
One or Two Colleagues — Usually a Triumvirate
— Darius Hoyt — Fielding Pope — John S. Craig,
D.D. — John J. Robinson, D.D. — ^Thomas Jeffer-
son Lamar — Dr. Anderson Rests from his Labors
— Dr. Robinson, the Second President — Few Pro-
fessors BUT Large Service 72
Vra. THE FRIENDS THAT HELPED. Bricks Without
Straw — Professors Without Salaries — ^How They
Existed — ^The Work of the Agents — Current
Help — The First Professorship Fund — The Sec-
CONTENTS xi
HAPTER PAOB
OND Professorship Fund — Scholarship Subscrip-
tions— Faithful Treasurers — Difficulty in Se-
curing Teachers — ^The Teachers the Greatest
Helpers 85
IX. THE PLANT THAT HAD TO SERVE. The Log
Academy — "The Little Brown House" — ^Thb
Brick House with Six Fireplaces — The Board-
ing-House and Farm Buildings — ^The "New" Col-
lege Frame Building — "The Brick College" —
The Old Stone Church — Dream Buildings on
**The South Hills" — ^Total Property at Out-
break OP War 94
X. CRISES AND THE CATACLYSM. A Continuous
Crisis — Crises Through Attempts at Removal —
Crisis of the Fifties — The Seminary Depart-
ment Dormant — College Department Expanded —
Broadening Field — Work of Theological Depart-
ment— Work of College Department — Work of
Preparatory Department — Forty Times One is
Forty — Bugle Call to Arms — Inter Arma Silent
Scholce — The Cataclysm lOS
Part Second. The Post-Bellum Maryyille
I. COLLEGE RUINS.— 1865-1869. A Dismal Scene-
Gloom AND Grief — Dilapidation and Desolation —
A War-Ravaged People — A Glimmering Ray of
Hope — A Synodical Inquest — Synodical Lamenta-
tions — Unsalaried Devotion — The Reopening
Amid the Ruins — Small Salvage — Significant Sal-
vage— Maryville's Second Founder — ^His First
CoLABORERs— Clearing Away the Ruins — ^The New
Site and Campus 115
n. COLLEGE RE-CREATION. -- 1869-1880. Re-Cre-
ATioN NOT "Reconstruction" — Dr. Bartlett, the
Third President — Rev. G. S. W. Crawford, a
Fourth Professor — Anderson, Baldwin, and Me-
morial Halls — "Thus High Uplifted Beyond
Hope" — The Glories of the Small College —
"Contented with Little" — A Decade of Nu-
merical Plenty — But of "Toil and Trouble"
— And of Sore Financial Famine — And op Old-
Time Problems Revived 128
xii CONTENTS
CHAPTEB PAGE
III. COLLEGE ENDOWMENT. — 1880-1884. Crushing
Burdens — Maryville's Jean Valjean — Endowment
Sought — The Weary Years of Strain — And of
Hope Deferred — The Final Achievement — ^Wil-
liam Thaw and William E. Dodge — Preserved
Smith and Sylvester Willard, M.D. — A Decisive
Victory — But Won at Great Cost — The Lamar
Memorials — ^The Chief Memorial .... 138
IV. COLLEGE EVOLUTION. — 1884-1901. Evolution
Caused by Endowment — Development of Course
AND Force — Chairmen of the Faculty — Dr. Board-
man, THE Fourth President — Willard Memorial,
1890 — The Fa yer weather Providence, 1891-1907 —
Its Incalculable Service — Its Aid to Permanent
Improvements — Fayerweather Science Hall — The
Romance of Kin Taka.hashi — Bartlett Gymnasium
and Y.M.C.A. Hall, 1895 — The Heroism of Kin
Takahashi 148
V. COLLEGE EXPANSION.— 1901-1919. Dr. Wilson,
the Fifth President — Expansion Seen to be Neces-
sary— The President Enters the Field — Miss
Henry Seeks Scholarships, 1903 — Her Brilliant
AND Beneficent Life — The Voorhees Gift of
$100,000, 1905 — Voorhees Chapel and Music Hall,
1906— The Forward Fund of $227,000, 1908— The
General Education Board — Generous Donors —
Services of Dean Waller — Services of the Treas-
urers— Major Cunningham — Carnegie and Pear-
sons Halls — The Bible in the Curriculum — Bible
Training Department — ^The Home Economics De-
partment, 1913 — Growth of Other Departments —
Third Stories, Pearsons and Science, 1912-1913 —
The Swimming Pool, 1915 — ^The New Carnegie
Hall, 1916 — ^The Centennial Forward Fund, 1916-
1919— The General Education Board Again,
1916 — Philosophy of the Expansion. . . . 159
VI. MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS. The De-
sign Involved High Standards — Seminary Con-
stitution Revealed Them — Ante-Bellum Profes-
sors Embodied Them — Curriculum of 1866 Ad-
vanced Them — ^Thenceforward a Steady Advance
— A Thoroughly Trained Faculty — Added Funds,
Raised Standards — Four Years' Preparatory
CONTENTS xiii
chapter page
Course — Separation of Preparatory and Cod-
LEGE — Usefulness op the Preparatory Depart-
ment— Standards of the Preparatory Depart-
ment— Growth of the College Department —
Standards of the College Department — ^Theoretic
Standards, Actual Standards — Moral Standards
OF the Highest — Teachers' Support of Stand-
ards— Directors' Support of Standards — ^Stu-
dents' Support of Standards 181
VII. MARYVILLE'S STUDENT BODY. "Southern and
Western" Students — Mountain and Valley Stu-
dents— Scotch-Irish American Students — First
Women Students, 1867 — Matriculates from Many
States — Earnest Young People — Self-Reliant
and Industrious — Lithe-Limbed and Clean-Souled
— ^Literary Societies — Student Publications — The
Y.M.C.A., 1877--THE Y.W.C.A., 1884— Other Or-
ganized Religious Work — Athletics — Other Ac-
tivities— Esprit'de-Corps — College Colors, Songs,
and Yells 193
VIII. MARYVILLE'S HELPING HAND. Maryville Was
Founded to Help — Helps by Economy of Adminis-
tration— ^Helps by General Inexpensiveness —
Helps by Low Tuition Charges — ^Helps by Giving
Board at Cost — ^Helps by Giving Indoors Self-
Help — Helps by Giving Outdoors Self-Help —
Helps by Renting Text-Books — Helps by Its Loan
Funds — ^Helps by Its Permanent Scholarships —
Helps by Its Current Scholarships — Helps by
Caring for the Health — Helps by an All-Per-
vading Altruism 210
IX. MARYVILLE'S MANHOOD PRODUCT. Brawn
Manhood — Brain Manhood — Character Manhood
— With Its Negative Qualities — With Its Positive
Qualities — "The Maryville Spirit" Again — De-
veloped BY THE Efforts of a Century — By a Mis-
sion-Filled Teaching Force — By a Reverent Col-
lege Atmosphere — Preeminently by the February
Meetings — With Their Unique History — With
Their Able and Wise Leaders — With Their Vision
GoDWARD — With Their Vision Manward — And
WITH Their Transforming Ideals — ^That Become
Life-Purposes 224
xiv CONTENTS
CHAFTEB PAGE
X. MARYVILLE'S SECOND CENTURY. Rich Heri-
tage OF THE First Century : (1) Location — (2) His-
tory— (3) Character — (4) Mission — A Double Ju-
bilee FOR THE Great Past! — All Hail to the Great-
er Future! — ^The Policy for the Second Century:
(1) Try to Do as Well as in the Past — (2) And
Far Better Than in the Past — (3) Let Maryvillb
Be a College — (4) A Whole College — (5) And
Nothing But a College — (6) And the Best Possible
College — (7) Serving All the Needs of Its Con-
stituency— (8) In the Historic "Maryville
Spirit" — (9) Always in the Spirit of the Great
Teacher — ^The Purpose of the Second Century. 236
APPENDIX. I. General College Officla^ls, 1819-1919—
II. Post-Bellum Teachers — III. The February
Meetings ........ 249
LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS
Mabtvillb College Near the Close of the Centubt
OPP06ITX PAQB
Db. Isaac Anderson, Founder and First President . . 12
Union Academy, "The Log College" 22
The Seminary and "The Frame College" 84
Four Generations of Maryville Students 48
Rev. Thomas Brown, a College Builder 62
Prof. John Sawyer Craig 78
Dr. John J. Robinson, Second President 90
"The Brick College" 100
Prof. Thomas Jefferson Lamar, Second Founder . . . 114
Dr. p. Mason Bartlett, Third President 120
A Miracle of College Re-Creation 126
Prof. Crawford and His Successor, Dean Waller . . . 130
Dr. Nathan Bachman, Father of the February Meetings 134
First Post-Bellum Missionaries 138
Re-Builders of Maryville College 142
The Lamar Memorials — ^Hospital and Library .... 146
Dr. Samuel Ward Boardman, Fourth President . . . 150
Ejn Takahashi: "Let Us Rise Up and Build" .... 154
XV
zri LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FAQB
Knr AND THE Students: "So Built We the Wall" . . . 156
Km AND the Fibst Football Team 158
Dr. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, Fifth President .... 160
Margaret E. Henry, the Students' Champion .... 162
Ralph Voorhees, Donor 164
A Group of Views in 1916 170
A Corner in One of the Laboratories 178
Another Group of Views in 1916 184
Some Home-Economic Students 196
Literary Society Halm 200
The Students' Ministerial Association in 1916 .... 204
In the Cooperative Boarding Club 214
Maryville's General Assembly Quartet 224
Dr. Edgar A. Elmore, Chairman of the Directors . . 228
"Good-Bye" at the Close OF A February Meeting . . 234
"The Place Is Too Strait for Us" 238
"A Bigger and Better Maryville" 244
A CENTURY OF
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
PART FIRST: THE ANTE-BELLUM
MARYVILLE
CHAPTER I
The Great Southwest and Its Challenge
Before the Great West had received its name and
had excited the imagination and largely engrossed the
attention of the American people,
^i£?n*A^r* there already existed, on the one
of 1800 A. D. , , ur- . XT /u ^ -p •
hand, a Great Northwest Terri-
tory,'' and, on the other, "a Great Southwest" region,
that were also the cynosure of many eager eyes.
From 1790 to 1796 the region afterward called Ten-
nessee was known as "the Southwest Territory," but
*'the Great Southwest" included much more than that
one territory. In 1800 the region extending from the
Smoky Mountains westward to the Mississippi River
and southward to the Gulf of Mexico, including,
roughly speaking, what is now covered by the States
of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, was
^ A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
known as the Great Southwest. Although containing
200,150 square miles of area, it was occupied by a
population of only 277,138. By 1 810 the same region
had a population of 554,512; and by 1820 its popula-
tion amounted to 967,105. It is with this Southwest
that we have to deal.
The Southwest was in that day the land of promise.
It promised immediate benefits. There were cheap
farms and healthful homes for the
The Land of immigrants and for their children.
Promise r^ \. ^u a a -
It was to the more crowded regions
of the seaboard and the adjoining inland country an
alluring ultramontane Italy, or a land of Canaan, with
vines and fig trees, and milk and honey. It promised
not only immediate good but also later benefits. There
would be comfort and competence in coming days
when the wilderness had been subdued and the land
had been filled with homes and, as Livingstone would
have phrased it, with ''the pleasant haunts of men."
And this Southwest land also promised ultimate bene-
fits of great value. It would be a land of destiny,
filled with the wealth ''of Ormus or of Ind," as the
course of empire should press westward. It was, in-
deed, a land of boundless promise.
However, it was by no means as yet a land of reali-
zation, promising though it was. It was rather what
even more than a century later its
"The land of purely mountain communities have
Do Without" I 11 J u 1 J r ^ uu
been called — a land of do with-
out." In fact all frontier lands have been lands of
necessary makeshifts and ingenious substitutes, but
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 3
especially of the stern limiting of one's wants to his
bare necessities and to the even narrower possibilities
of the case. This absence of the comforts and the
commodities of civilization is the price paid for their
precedence by the advance agents of civilization. The
Great Southwest was a land of *'do-without" luxuries,
and almost of *'do-without" necessities.
The present-day descendant of the pioneer, if trans-
lated by genii to the pioneer times and the log home of
-,. ^ • X- his ancestor, would look in vain
Pioneer Pnvations , , . - , . . , ,
about the simple cabin and the log
barn for most of those utilities that are now deemed
indispensable to the comfort of the home and to the
management of the farm. But there were also in the
isolated frontier homes of the Southwest many days
when even hunger haunted the brave founders of em-
pire, just as there had been years of broken slumber
and anxious fear on account of "the red peril" that
had menaced them by day and by night. And these
pioneer privations were felt the more keenly by some
who experienced them, because in their old homes be-
yond the mountains or beyond the seas they had lived
in comparative quiet and comfort.
Privations, however, are not so serious as are de-
privations. Privations are usually transient and tem-
porary; deprivations are apt to be more permanent.
There were privations involved in
rioneer ^.j^^ ^ constitution of the loer
Depnvations , -^ , .,1
age; but so long as near the log-
cabin home, the log barn, and the log court-house,
there were also a log schoolhouse and a log church,
4 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the sorest deprivations had not been experienced.
But there were many places in the new and wild South-
west where the intellectual and spiritual interests of the
people were either entirely unprovided for or very
imperfectly provided for. In such communities a piti-
ful poverty of the best things of life prevailed; the
deprivation of the essential conditions of wholesome
and normal life prevented those best things of life
from being developed. And there were many com-
munities that suffered such pioneer deprivations.
The people of the extensive territory comprised in
the Southwest of 1800 had in many sections, of neces-
sity, as a result of frontier conditions and of the
breaking of old ties, and by rea-
B^ t Th*^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ isolation and the reck-
lessness of the frontier, lost many
of the best things that had belonged to them in the
old country and in their first homes in America.
Among these best things that disappeared were the tra-
ditions of the past — traditions national, racial, and
family — ^traditions that in many cases were laid aside,
and, for lack of use, were forgotten, and finally lost.
Some of these traditions, it was true, might better
have been lost ; but most of them were invaluable and
purchased by their ancestors at great price.
There, too, were the education and the considerable
degree of culture of the fathers and mothers that
were sometimes largely lost to the sons and daugh-
ters because these were brought up in an unfavorable
environment. But chief of all was the loss a sad and
tragic one when a family's religion failed to stand the
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 5
test of transplantation into a new and rough country.
The Southwest land, however, was happy in the
fact that It did not lose its virile stock. Great fam-
ilies of young people who, in many cases, grew up
to be stalwart men and strong
Wg'^People ^°'"^"' swarmed about the log
houses of that period. The country
was but sparsely settled, but a populous generation
was scattered all over it and multiplied with great
and divinely-blessed rapidity. Whatever deficit of
assets might exist in other respects, there was a wealth
of assets to be found in the young people that were
crowded in the log-cabin homes of the land.
That was long before the days of the free public-
school idea, and the State did nothing for education.
What schools there were available, were article, or
subscription schools ; and the pres-
r -nj J.* sure of toil, the absence of money,
of Education 1 , , / . , ^ .
the lack of interest and of inter-
ested leaders, and the imperfect supply of even poorly-
equipped teachers tended to reduce to a minimum the
number of such schools. With few books or no
books in the home, and with no school in the com-
munity, and with little leisure on the part of the
parents, there was many an instance of intellectual
famine for the new generation where there had been
a sufficiency of education for the older generation.
"How can I, except some man should teach me?''
was the question of the wayfaring man. Where was
the Philip that was to teach the frontiersman?
6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
A real and threatening danger here! What will
become of the land if its people perish for lack of
knowledge? No schools or poor
Witn Danger schools meant declension in intel-
01 Declension .. , .. 11. .
ligence, education, and culture ; de-
terioration in moral ideals, stamina, and character;
and disintegration and dilapidation of the political
structure of the Southwest. By the irresistible logic
of cause and effect, illiteracy and its consequence, igno-
rance, would in their ugly train bring a declension
that would, unless checked, ultimately lead many rep-
resentatives of a noble race downward even toward
degeneracy. It would have been unpatriotic and un-
christian and foolish in the extreme to ignore the
danger that was impending over the Southwest.
The country was yet new, financial capital was yet
wanting, and the population, thanks to a kind Provi-
dence and a prolific frontier fe-
- . .*y maKing cundity, was rapidly increasing.
The industrious race that peopled
the region lived in the days when as yet primitive
methods of farming and manufacture prevailed, and
when machinery and steam and electricity had not
yet come to add to man's efficiency. It was mainly
man power, aided by horse power and ox power, and
by some water power, that earned man his livelihood.
And this making a living kept the people busy from
early cock-crowing till after candle-lighting.
So busily were men employed in earning their living
that there was real danger in the meantime of their
losing their lives. When, in order to win their daily
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 7
bread, they were compelled not merely to work but
also to labor and toil and drudge throughout the years,
it was easy to be so engrossed as
that cometh down from heaven.
The daily grind was in danger of crushing the real
life out of the soul, even while grinding out bread
for the body. And all thoughtful patriots and Chris-
tians saw the risk and feared the outcome ; and, pleas-
ant it is to say, some of them rendered invaluable
service in attempting to ward off the impending dan-
ger from the nascent commonwealths of the South-
west and from their people.
The early settlers of what is now Tennessee were
a very patriotic ,and liberty-loving people. They
formed for "the Watauga Associa-
PtJ'^l^r-^f tion," in 1772, the first written con-
stitution made by native Ameri-
cans ; and, in 1775, they erected the first geographical
division named for him who was to be "the Father
of his Country/' but who had then just assumed the
command of the army at Boston; and, in 1780, they
established, on the Cumberland River, an independent
government called "the Cumberland Compact"; and
in 1784, in the eastern part of the region, they dared
to found "the State of Franklin." This determination
to have law and order and liberty was a distinguish-
ing mark of the founders of the State; and a high
degree of patriotism was bequeathed by them to their
sons and successors in leadership.
The danger of the occultation, by ignorance and
8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
its attendant clouds, of the rising sun of liberty and
virtue in the Southwest did not escape the alarmed
notice of many patriots of Tennessee and the regions
beyond. Tennessee had become a State in 1796, the
first State to be carved out of the United States ter-
ritory, and the patriots of Tennessee wished it to de-
velop into an honored commonwealth; and they saw
in the menace of illiteracy a challenge to their own
patriotism to seek to ward off that menace.
While stern necessity kept many good men so busy
that they scarcely had time to note the dangers that
menaced them, and while the sel-
S'^iS'f^ll.^^ *^ fishness of a gross frontier materi-
the Philanthropist ,. , ^ , . , .
alism made many others entirely in-
different to the cause of education and religion, there
were many lovers of their kind who were sad of
heart and who suffered a holy discontent on account
of the dangers that threatened both themselves and
the rising generation in the Southwest. They saw in
the dearth of educational and religious privileges in
the region in which they lived the occasion and cause
of the breaking open of a Pandora's box of mischiefs
in it. Furthermore, they read in this condition of
affairs a summons to their love of man and of God
to help to supply the needs of their people and to
avert disaster to the state and the church. And many
worthy lives were dedicated to the work of saving their
adopted and already beloved land of the Southwest.
The challenge was, as has just been said, accepted
by some patriotic and philanthropic men throughout the
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 9
region; and, against great odds, these worthies ren-
dered a service whose beneficent influence was so great
as to be beyond the possibility
A ^ X J ^^^« of human computation. They
Accepted by Some , , . , , , ■;
planned for schools, and secured
teachers or themselves taught schools, and established
churches and secured preachers or themselves became
preachers, in order that learning and religion might
not perish from the face of the land. The adven-
turous and brave pioneers furnished some of these
men, while the next generation not only found them
just as necessary but also realized that they were
needed in larger number than before. To the honor
of religion, let it be said that it was the church that
saved education, and, of course, religion, in that crisis.
The debt of gratitude that the nation owes in other
sections of the land to the Christian ministry for
the keeping alive of education in the early days is
fully recognized on every hand; and certainly no
one can question that that debt is a great one in the
Southwest, where practically all the teachers of the
higher grades and many of the teachers of the lower
grades were the preachers who everywhere carried with
them, as the tools of their trade, the school book and
the Bible.
CHAPTER II
Isaac Anderson and His Vision
The Great Teacher magnified his profession. He
said: "Ye call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say
well; for so I am." Many of his
Elect Pedagogues followers have tried to do as he
of the Frontier , , . , ,
has done unto them; and so they
have taught others the learning both of earth and
of heaven. Practically all the early academies and
schools of higher education in Tennessee and the
Southwest were established by the preachers of the
frontier, and, principally, by the Presbyterian preach-
ers. The heaven-impelled preacher-educators, Samuel
Doak, Hezekiah Balch, Samuel Carrick, Charles Cof-
fin, Gideon Blackburn, Isaac Anderson, and others
that might be mentioned, left behind them legacies of
influence as educators that have enriched the past and
the present of the region they loved so truly and
served so richly.
As almost all of these educators could trace their
lineage back, by the way of the North of Ireland, to
Scotland, so could the schools that
John^Knox ^^^^ established trace their honor-
able and lineal descent from the
schools of that same land of worthy beginnings. The
lO
ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION ii
schools in every parish and the college in every notable
town, that John Knox and his followers planned for
in the Book of Discipline, were the ideals that the
American pedagogues of the Southwest tried also
to realize. And sad would have been the loss to
the frontier had they failed to attempt to carry into
effect the program of Knox. At first almost every
Presbyterian preacher was also a school-teacher; and
every one was the friend and champion of education.
Indeed, he was almost invariably the best educated
man in his community. To him as a steward of God's
grace had been committed not merely the standards
of faith but also those of education; and he tried
faithfully to fulfill his double ministry.
One of the centers of educational interest for the
Southwest from which radiated in many directions
the influences that were fostered
citi5''''S2nfn ^^^^^' "^^^ Rockbridge County, in
Ground ^^^ Valley of Virginia. That
county was settled almost exclu-
sively by Scotch-Irishmen. They brought with them
their principles, and tried to perpetuate them by
founding schools and churches in which their chil-
dren could be disciplined in intellectual culture and,
at the same time, indoctrinated with high and worthy
moral and religious ideals. They established com-
munity schools and even academies in their various
congregations.
Liberty Hall Academy is the most famous of these
schools of Rockbridge County. From this institution
many went forth to establish elsewhere in the South-
12 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
west what they had learned to prize under its tuition.
The names of Drs. Samuel Carrick, Samuel Doak,
Samuel G. Ramsey, and Isaac Anderson are house-
hold words in East Tennessee as names of educators
or founders of its educational institutions, and they
were all educated in Rockbridge County.
In the church called New Providence, located on
the northern edge of Rockbridge County, the people
of the congregation supported a
A Scotch Dominie subscription school which was
and His Scholar ^ .\ c x u ^ • • a
taught by a bcotch dommie. A
little lad named Isaac Anderson entered this school
as soon as he was old enough to attend; and here
he continued in attendance for several years. The
dominie was an efficient teacher and his drill was
thorough and persistent. He commanded the respect
of his pupils. He feared God, and did his utmost
to train the children also in the same fear. Every
morning he read the Scriptures to them and prayed
with them; and throughout the entire day he taught
them in a practical way how to realize the chief end
of man. It was evident that another Teacher was
also present in the school who instructed in heavenly
wisdom both teacher and pupil.
The lad, Isaac Anderson, merits our attention, for
without him the story this book has to tell could not
have been written. On March 26,
Isaac Anderson, g j^^ ^ farmhouse near New
Scotch-Inshman t^ . , a-i 1 j 1 ^
Providence Church, and about
twelve miles north of Lexington, Rockbridge County,
Virginia, Isaac Anderson was born, the oldest of the
Dr„ Isaac Anderson, Founder and First President.
ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION 13
seven children of William Anderson and his wife,
Nancy McCampbell Anderson. His ancestors had
come from County Down, in the North of Ireland.
They were sturdy representatives of that indomitable
Protestant Scotch-Irish stock that has always refused
to be defeated, but fortunately for the world has gen-
erally been on the right side of the issues that have
been battled over. Both his great-grandfather, Isaac
Anderson, and his great-grandmother, on his paternal
side, and his great-grandparents, the Shannons, in the
McCampbell line, on his maternal side, were present
at the siege of Londonderry in 1688. The Anderson
family and the McCampbell family, also of Scotch-
Irish stock, with whom they became intimately con-
nected, settled in Rockbridge County, Virginia, while
it was yet Augusta County and a very new country.
William Anderson, his father, besides being a good
herdsman and farmer, was a great hunter and a prac-
tised rifleman. He was a soldier at Point Pleasant on
the Kanawha, and in other Indian campaigns. Nancy
McCampbell Anderson, his wife, was born in America
in 1757, two years after her parents, James and Mary
Shannon McCampbell, came from Ireland to Rock-
bridge County, Virginia.
William Anderson was a Christian man, and the
priest of his family. The fire upon his family altar,
according to the law of God, was
^^\h^^H^^^^ always burning; it never went out,
even in the busy days of the har-
vest. Morning and evening a hymn was sung, a pas-
sage of Scripture read, and a fervent prayer oflfered.
14 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Mr. Anderson gave his children the best school edu-
cation the times afforded; but the education given
in the home was better than all else. He and his
good wife trained their seven children to honor God's
day and God's book and God's law. The children
were taken to church from the days of infancy, and
were guided to walk in wisdom's ways. All of them
remained under the parental roof until their maturity,
and thus received the full benefit of this long-con-
tinued home training. They grew up to be a notable
family of tall, large, and well-formed men and
women.
Isaac, the eldest son, received special and price-
less benefit from the guidance given his youthful feet
by his maternal grandmother, Mary Shannon Mc-
Campbell, who lived in the home and whose special
care and favorite he was. She taught him to spell
and to read, to love God and to pray to him. She
would tell him of her parents' experiences at the
siege of Derry, and especially of the rescue of her
wounded father from almost certain death through
the kind-heartedness of a Catholic girl. Amid the
heroic traditions and consistent piety of such a home,
Isaac Anderson was prepared for his important life-
work.
It is not to be wondered at that in such a home
there should have been developed seven worthy and
substantial men and women of force and usefulness.
Of the conspicuous service rendered by Isaac Ander-
son this book will have much to say. Three of his
brothers, Robert M., William E., and Samuel, were
ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION 15
all able lawyers and judges of circuit courts, making
such a galaxy of legal ability as few families could
boast; the other brother, James, was a successful
farmer, and a colonel of militia ; while the two sisters,
Mary and Margaret, married respectively to William
McCampbell and Bennet McCampbell, showed their
strength of character in the sterling worth of the
families they trained for usefulness.
The Scotch dominie taught his school in a log house
about a mile from the Anderson home. Before Isaac
was old enough to attend regularly,
Md Under ^^^ neighbor boys would some-
the Dominie ^ 1 . , . 1 ,
times carry him on their backs to
the school. There he was deeply impressed with
the singing and the praying of the school-teacher, and
afterward said that it produced in him "a great and
lasting impression for good." The dominie was strict
and earnest, and imparted to the children an excellent
common-school education. By the time the precocious
Isaac was seven years old, it is alleged that the lad
could **read any of the less difficult Latin authors."
Thus early did he reveal the spirit of a scholar.
In 1749 the first classical school west of the Blue
Ridge was founded by Robert Alexander, near Green-
field, in Augusta County, Virginia.
And in liberty ^f^^^. ^^rious changes of location
Hall Academy , , . , ,
and principals the academy was
located, in 1785, in a stone building, one mile distant
from Lexington. In 1796, President George Wash-
ington presented the academy one hundred shares of
the James River Company. The name of the school
i6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
was then changed from Liberty Hall Academy to
Washington Academy. Washington and Lee Uni-
versity is the continuation of this institution.
As young Isaac Anderson had enjoyed the best tui-
tion in the home and in the subscription school, he
now had, in Liberty Hall Academy, the guidance of
the best teacher of the Valley, Rev. William Graham,
a graduate of Princeton and a very able man. Under
him Anderson '^pursued his classical studies with
faithfulness, diligence, and success." He entered
when fifteen or sixteen years of age, and continued
until he completed his studies, which, presumably, cov-
ered the course of study then offered. Favored young
men were those who were trained by Mr. Graham.
After Anderson had completed the course in Wash-
ington Academy, for this name was adopted while
he was a student, he gave his time for a while to the
reading of history and literature.
He had now received what the best schools of his
neighborhood could give him. To what profession
or occupation should he devote his
^^?^^f^^*^® life? While still young he had
"Edwards of , , , , ,. .
Virginia" passed through deep religious ex-
periences that had transformed his
views of life. A few years later, in 1797, when seven-
teen years old, he united with the New Providence
Presbyterian Church, in Rockbridge County.
For two years thereafter he debated within himr
self the question of a life occupation. At one time
he decided to enter the law office of an uncle as a
law student, as a cousin had done. But his conscience
ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION 17
seemed to lead him toward the gospel ministry, and,
at the end of the two years; he fully and confidently
decided to study for the ministry.
He promptly presented himself before Lexington
Presbytery and was taken under its care as a candi-
date for the ministry. As yet there was no theologi-
cal seminary in the United States, and, in accordance
with the custom of the times^ he studied theology
under his pastor. This minister was Rev. Samuel
Brown, a learned, logical, and thoughtful divine whose
ability had won for him the title of the ''Edwards
of Virginia." His illustrious pupil, later on, in his
own teaching, adopted the plan of instruction em-
ployed by Mr. Brown. It was workable. He also
assisted his preceptor in the school which he taught
in his congregation, and gained experience there as
a teacher that was to be of service to him in coming
days.
As he pursued his studies in divinity, there de-
veloped within him a great determination to do the
utmost possible with the life en-
NoblfpSpo's ' trusted to him, in the bringing of
his fellow men to higher attain-
ments in education and character. It was a time of
too much dead formalism in the churches; but the
unction of this governing purpose marked him as a
prophet of better things for the church.
The drift of emigration continued down the Shenan-
doah Valley and spread out through the outpouring
cornucopia of the Southwest. In October, 1801, Wil-
liam Anderson, his wife, his parents, his mother-in-
i8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
law, and his children were caught in this drift and
removed from Rockbridge County, Virginia, to Knox
County, Tennessee. A family cara-
es wax , no, ^ ^j^j^ wasrons and cattle and
Andersons! ' .^ . j ^u •
other possessions, they made their
way down the forest-arched roads that led to central
East Tennessee, and found them a new home in Grassy
Valley, near House Mountain. Westward, southwest-
ward, the course of the Scotch-Irishmen had steadily
been pouring. In Grassy Valley the Andersons found
a beautiful and fruitful section where a good home
could be established, and here they planted themselves.
Better homes and better farms for the children had
thus been sought and found.
The Valley of Virginia was a choice region that
was now filled with the happy homes of a rapidly in-
creasing race. The Valley of East
10 ^eantiiul Tennessee, one of the most re-
markable of nature's sheltered and
favored preserves to be found in any of the Tem-
perate Zones, was decided by William Anderson, who
spied out the land before the family removed, to be
also one of earth's choicest regions. In 1801 it was
still frontier territory, and still seemed, as viewed
from its heights, to be covered with almost seamless
carpets of green forests. And here, in our day, many
of the lineal descendants of the pioneer of 180 1 are
grateful for their ancestor's judgment and prescience
that selected for the home of the family a modern
Garden of Eden in the very center of "God's Coun-
try." In the Anderson family burying-ground in
ISAAC ANDERSON AND HIS VISION 19
Grassy Valley there lie sleeping, side by side, six gen-
erations of the virile race of Andersons. And all
of them loved the land they lived in and died in.
Out of the narrower valley of their old home, into
the broader valley of their new home, the family of
Andersons fared ; and also out into
-rr^ • ^ ^ o^^ . a broader vision of service moved
Vision of Service , ^ , ^ , ^ .,
the nrst-Dom of the family.
Transplantation has made some trees take on a new
life; and the transplantation of Isaac Anderson gave
him a new and larger purpose. As he saw more of
the world, and of its crying needs, he became the
more eager to minister to those needs.
There entered also into his theological thinking,
at this time, the much-bruited doctrine of "disin-
terested benevolence" — a doctrine that in the case of
many had only a theoretic and curious interest; but
one that in his case was of especial value because
powerfully exemplified by his own practice and
strongly commended to others by his own unselfish
life. Isaac Anderson, twenty-one years of age, had
reached manhood's estate; and now there was pre-
sented before his eyes what ere long came to be al-
most an apostolic vision of service.
CHAPTER III
Isaac Anderson and His *'Log College"
Isaac Anderson, the student, ended his formal
school-days soon after he reached his new home in
East Tennessee. For a few months
T.^ j^ J " ^^^ he continued his theological studies
Enaea , ^ ^ , ^ . ,
under Dr. Samuel Carrick, the
president of Blount College, at Knoxville, receiving
some help also from Dr. Gideon Blackburn, of Mary-
ville. Great men, both of them, and they greatly
kindled his intellectual fires.
But his school-days came to an end. On Saturday,
May 28, 1802, Union Presbytery in session at Eusebia
licensed him — its first licentiate to the gospel minis-
try; and on Thursday, November 26, of the same
year, he was ordained to the ministry by the same
presbytery, and was installed pastor of the Washing-
ton Church, then just organized in Upper Grassy Val-
ley by Dr. Carrick. To this charge was added, later
on, the church of Lebanon-in-the-Forks — the forks of
the French Broad and Holston Rivers.
In a very true sense, however, his school-days never
ended. Throughout his life he was an indefatigable
student. In spite of almost inconceivably toilsome
labors, he devoted himself to study; and even down
ISAAC ANDERSON'S "LOG COLLEGE" 21
to old age continued to study hard and exhaustively.
Never, strictly speaking, a college student, always was
it true that "he was a student out of college."
Isaac Anderson's ordination to the ministry served
also as a consecration to the work of a teacher. On
Sabbaths he ascended the pulpit,
Bfun"^^^^^^"^^ and on Mondays, for the week that
followed, he ascended the school-
room platform. For fifty years he was one of the
most diligent and efficient of teachers. He had tried
his apprentice hand in the school taught by his pre-
ceptor in theology, Rev. Samuel Brown. And now
he began his remarkable career as pedagogue in his
new East Tennessee home.
Just after his ordination he established in Grassy
Valley on his farm — the one now owned by the
Samuel Harris family — a classical academy or "col-
lege," as it was popularly called. He named it Union
Academy, perhaps in honor of Union Presbytery, then
an organization only four years old. This academy
was prosperous and useful to a degree that rewarded
and also demanded a large expenditure of labor and
self-denial.
Among the afterwards more distinguished students
of the school were his four brothers, his cousin, Rev.
John McCampbell, and Governor
"The Log Col- Reynolds of Illinois. The acad-
lege," Union ^ , u ^u 1 •
Academy, 1802 ^"^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ embryo theologi-
cal seminary, for he had some stu-
dents in theology who found it convenient to meet him
in the academy building. He had so lively a taste
22 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
for educational work that he was an enthusiastic
teacher, and imparted dignity to the work by the
method of his performance of it. The academy be-
came a frontier Grove of Academus. This school
was the predecessor of Maryville College. It might
almost properly be said that Maryville College was
founded in 1802, for it was the same great teacher
who conducted his educational work without a break
through his academy, seminary, and college, down to
the time of his disability through old age.
Dr. Anderson's log academy building was a credit-
able one — ^almost a pretentious one — for the times. It
was a large, hewn-log, double build-
The Grassy Valley j ^j^j . j ^ . seventv two
Academy Building i^g, iniriy leet oy seventy, two
stories high, and contained four
large rooms besides the porch or hallway between
the rooms. From this hallway the stairway ascended
to the second floor. The seats and tables or desks
were, of course, home-made. Large fireplaces were
in use during the cold weather. The building com-
manded respect for its size, convenience, and com-
fort, and was known throughout the county as "Mr.
Anderson's log college."
There was asi yet no city problem on the Southwest
frontier, for there was as yet no city; but there was
everywhere a country problem, for
^^^^^^yC^^^*^- all was country, and all was com-
Life Movement . , -^ ' , ,
paratively new and crude and un-
made. As a countryman intensely concerned about
his neighbors and their children and all their interests,
Isaac Anderson devoted himself with head and heart
^ifi ,Kr
ISAAC ANDERSON'S "LOG COLLEGE" 23
and hand to the working out of what would now be
termed a country-Hfe movement.
His community centers were the church, where he
led the worship and instructed and inspired the peo-
ple on the Sabbath day, and the school, where dur-
ing the week days he gave the young people of the
community and of other communities as good an edu-
cation as could be found in the country districts in
those days.
From these community centers — the church and the
home — ^presided over by this alert and benevolent high
priest of religion and education for the frontier,
worthy and elevating influences radiated into all the
homes of the community, and informed and inspired
and conserved the social life, the husbandry, and the
moral and political welfare of the people. Rallied
around the church and school centers and their in-
spiring leader, the people established and developed
in their community a country life of such culture and
general excellence as has made the community dis-
tinguished for its high standing in intelligence, edu-
cation, law and order, morality, and religion — in short,
for the chief excellencies of our Anglo-Saxon civili-
zation.
This leader of that early country-life movement
was kept very busy in carrying out his program for
■n X 1 ■«*■ X- the uplift and welfare of his com-
Perpetual Motion fir-. 1
munity and of its young people.
On Sundays he conducted divine worship twice, the
people coming from all over the county to attend the
forenoon and afternoon services. Dinner was brought
24 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
in baskets. At each service the preacher delivered
a well thought-out, instructive, earnest, and eloquent
address, which profoundly affected and inspired the
hearers. The moral and intellectual nature in man
was led to a royal banquet by this kingly preacher.
Then during the week came the daily work of the
academy, and of the students of divinity, and the re-
ligious work of a large community, besides the cares
of his own farm, which must be so run as to supply
the living that in those days could not be expected
to be derived only from church and school. Nothing
but ceaseless activity and untiring diligence could
carry forward so extensive a program of work. And
there was no Monday or Saturday or Sabbath rest
that intervened to intermit this endless round of toil.
Nothing less than perpetual motion could meet the de-
mands of the case; and so this community worker
discovered what many have sought after — the secret
of perpetual motion.
Some men can never be content with their achieve-
ments; they can not let well enough alone! Isaac
Anderson was one of those rest-
Extension Work i^gg geniuses. He saw his own
m the Saddle ^ . . , , .
community prospering under his
leadership, and was thankful. But he looked beyond
the limits of his community, and was concerned,
deeply concerned, about the communities beyond in
which he learned that no one was working, or work-
ing efficiently, for their uplift. His eager soul saw
these communities like so many Macedonias beckon-
ing him to their help. His unselfish spirit could re-
ISAAC ANDERSON'S "LOG COLLEGE" 25
turn but one answer to these calls, and that answer
must be the response of his presence and help, within
the limits of his ability. The annoying difficulty that
intervened was the fact that he could not be ubiqui-
tous. But, after all, with the aid of perpetual motion
a great deal of ground can be covered and a large
amount of work can be done. And so into his saddle
he vaulted, and went out in search of more service
for his people. And he found it awaiting him in large
quantities.
One summer he rode horseback over most of the
mountainous counties of central East Tennessee, and
as far westward as Fentress County in Middle Ten-
nessee; and everywhere he preached to the people,
and pitied their frontier destitution. A biography,
"The Life of Whitefield," helped also to kindle his
apostolic ambition and enthusiasm, and he determined
to supply in his own person the lack of religious lead-
ership, so far as he could. To this end he marked
out a circuit of about one hundred and fifty miles
which he covered during one week every month, for
several years, leaving home on Monday morning and
returning home on the following Saturday. He spoke
sometimes to small companies, and sometimes to thou-
sands. In this circuit-riding he was occasionally as-
sisted by his cousin, Rev. John McCampbell. This,
surely, was an approved form of university extension
work, also practised at an early day.
It would seem that Isaac Anderson, greedy as he
was to do good on a large scale, might have been
26 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
content with the dimensions of his task as he
then had it outlined. Pioneer, frontiersman, herds-
man, farmer, teacher, circuit-rider,
structor, and Protestant father
confessor for all the region, his service surely was ex-
tensive and intensive enough for any man. And yet
in 1811 he wrote as follows: "I have for some years
past viewed my situation with silent dissatisfaction.
My sphere of action, both as a minister of the gospel
and a teacher, has been too limited. I have often felt
the conviction that I am not serving my day and
generation in any suitable manner." And in order
to serve more widely he was willing to sacrifice his
own personal and financial interests.
After Dr. Anderson had labored in Knox County
nine years, he received a call to the pastorate of
the New Providence Presbyterian
Mfi^Juie Church of Maryville, in the ad-
joining county of Blount. This
church had been organized probably as early as 1786;
and had now been developed, under the powerful
ministry of Dr. Gideon Blackburn, into one of the
most important churches in East Tennessee. Dr.
Blackburn had resigned in 1810, and had removed to
Middle Tennessee.
Since "the strength and body of Presbyterianism
lay there" — about Maryville — and since, for that rea-
son, it was a favorable center for the larger work
which he coveted, Dr. Anderson felt it his duty to
accept this call, although at a financial loss to him-
ISAAC ANDERSON'S "LOG COLLEGE^' 27
self. He was ambitious, not for position, but for
more work, and thus for more usefulness.
He took leave of his parishioners of Washington
Church, and of his other church, "Lebanon-in-the-
Forks," with great sorrow; and, in the fall of 181 1,
began his labors in Maryville. In November, 181 2,
he removed to Maryville, taking with him his acad-
emy— except its building — and was there installed pas-
tor of the church. This pastorate continued until
1856, the year before his death.
In Grecian days there were peripatetic teachers in
the grove of Academus, but in the days of which we
are speaking, both instructor and
Translation of academy were peripatetic. Dr.
the Academy a j u L ll- a
Anderson brought his academy
with him the twenty-five miles that lay between
Grassy Valley and Maryville. Whether it was still
called Union Academy is not certain; but it was
the same academy with its identical faculty of one.
From the time he removed to Maryville, he was
constantly engaged in teaching. Says Professor La-
mar: "He first taught in an old academy building
then standing on the lot now (1885) occupied by the
jail; and then in an old log cabin which stood on
the bank of the creek where the railroad culvert now
crosses it. He had a few students in theology, and
a number in general literature, some of whom be-
came prominent in public life, and others equally so in
the learned professions."
Among the young men attending the academy was
the picturesque Sam Houston, afterwards the hero of
28 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Texas — its military chieftain and the first president
of the Lone Star Republic. Mrs. Houston, his
widowed mother, had brought her
SSidw?' ^^^"^ ^^ "'"^ children from the
hive of Rockbridge County, Vir-
ginia, and found a home near Baker's Creek, not far
from the Little Tennessee River, about twelve miles
from Maryville, and on the border line between the
whites and the Indians.
Young Houston received practically all his school
training from Dr. Anderson. As would be expected,
he was more interested in playing war and in drilling
the boys in military tactics than in study. But he was
a young man of remarkably keen and close observa-
tion.
Dr. Anderson said of him : "Many times did I de-
termine to give Sam Houston a whipping for neglect
of study, but he would come into the schoolroom
bowing and scraping, with as fine a dish of apologies
as ever was placed before anybody, and withal so
very polite and manly for one of his age, that it took
all the whip out of me; I could not find it in my
heart to whip him."
During the War of '12, volunteers for the cam-
paign against the Creek Indians were called for, and
Houston quit school, joined the army, and a few
months later distinguished himself at the Battle of the
Bend of the Tallapoosa, where he received three
wounds. Several of his relatives have graduated at
Maryville in recent years; one of them, Samuel O.
Houston, serving also as a director of the College.
ISAAC ANDERSON'S ''LOG COLLEGE" 29
Dr. Anderson, like most of his Scotch-Irish kins-
men, was very patriotic. During the War of '12 he
was chaplain of a brigade of Ten-
tnaplain ^ nessee soldiery that was command-
Anderson" in 11^- 1 Axrt •. A^ .1 u
War of '12 ^^ ^y General White. At the old
Hiwassee Garrison he preached a
fervidly patriotic discourse on the text: "Curse ye
Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly
the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the
help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the
mighty." — Judges y:2^.
In this sermon he pointed out the fact that the moral
cause of the war and its troubles was to be found
in the sins of the American people. These sins the
people should immediately abandon. The political
cause of the war, however, was *'the injustice of the
French and British governments." ''As it regards the
political cause of this war, we are on the Lord's side.
We should arm ourselves in the fear of God for bat-
tle, for we have not sinned against Britain but Britain
against us. . . . The call of country is the call of
God."
During the first seven years of his work at Mary-
ville, Dr. Anderson usually had, besides his academy
students, one or two theological
b^^he^FiLS"^ students. These sometimes lived
in his home, and found at his fire-
side a school of the prophets that was at once home-
like and schoollike. Here he trained such leaders as
Dr. Abel Pearson, the author of a book on the prophe-
cies; and Dr. William Eagleton, the brilliant orator
30 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
and logician of Murfreesboro. Another one whom he
trained was George M. Erskine, a slave whose freedom
was purchased by Union Presbytery and who was li-
censed in 1818, and ten years later went out to Africa
as the first foreign missionary from the presbytery.
In 18 1 8, Dr. Gideon Blackburn sent his son, James H.
Blackburn, to study Hebrew under Dr. Anderson ; but,
three months later, the young man, a very promising
candidate for the ministry, died in Dr. Anderson's
house after a very brief illness. Dr. Blackburn pub-
lished the sermon that Dr. Anderson preached at the
funeral service.
This vocational work by the fireside was the pre-
cursor of the larger work soon to be inaugurated.
And the self-sacrificing labor required in order to
train these individual students would seem appalling
in these days of large numbers and of the thorough
organization of vocational institutions; but it was
a labor of love on the part of this apostle of the South-
west
CHAPTER IV
Dr. Anderson and His Southern and Western
Seminary
So far as the demands of his academy and theologi-
cal students and large church and parish would al-
low, Dr. Anderson continued his
Cam^ar^nin "Presbyterian circuit-riding." He
conducted many sacramental ser-
vices and series of revival meetings, and was every-
where greatly in demand for special occasions. He
was a member of the Visiting Committee of the A. B.
C. F. M. to its missions among the Cherokees. The
early years of his pastorate at Maryville were years
of very great usefulness. Surely his '^dissatisfaction"
at the limited amount of service he was able to render
must now be diminishing or even disappearing.
On the contrary, his holy discontent seemed to in-
crease rather than to diminish. On every hand, as
he rode over the country, he wit-
D^^t^rt*^* nessed the evidences of a deplor-
able destitution, and his tender
heart was torn with sorrow for the plight in which
the young people of many a community found them-
selves— without education or religious privileges, and
31
32 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
without intelligent leadership. Need, crying need, on
every side, and not enough men to supply the tithe
of the need! At the time of Isaac Anderson's ordi-
nation there were only four ministers in all the broad
bounds of Union Presbytery; and up to 1819 there
were never so many as nine ministers in attendance
at a meeting of the presbytery. And the other denomi-
nations represented in the field were little better
manned. The destitution and the lack of men to re-
move it rested like a pall upon the anxious heart of
this apostle of the frontier.
In 18 1 2 he had helped organize the East Tennessee
Missionary Society, whose object it was to send min-
isters out on evangelistic tours throughout the more
destitute parts of East Tennessee. An eloquent re-
port of his as secretary in 1817 is still extant, and
contains a fervid appeal to the young men of the
section and of the land ''beyond the mountains" to
come to the help of the people in need. "Beautiful,
indeed, upon any of the mountains that surround us
will be the feet of them that bring good tidings, that
publish peace and salvation, that say unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth."
Horace Mann, who became famous a little later in
Massachusetts as an apostle of education, was not
more zealous for the spread of
2e^l^f E^f ation education than was this Isaac An-
and Character , r t^ ^ -p j
derson of East Tennessee; and
John Knox of Reformation days was not more zeal-
ous than was Isaac Anderson for the reform of in-
dividual and national character. With the book of
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 33
human learning in one hand, and with that of divine
wisdom in the other hand, he faced the manifest needs
of his people, and labored incessantly both to teach
them the true wisdom and to inculcate in them the
genuine moral character of which they were so much
in need. The high calling of a philanthropist-patriot
was upon him.
Leaders! leaders! leaders! They must be secured
or East Tennessee and the entire Southwest would
be unled or misled. In a letter to
ratnotic ^YiQ Knoxville Register he said:
Statesmanship ,,,,^, , . , ,. ^ ..
What, then, is the object of this
essay? It is to call the attention of the public to
consider the importance and necessity of providing
a competent supply of learned and pious teachers and
ministers, by some well-devised plan, supported by the
free-will offerings of the people. The best interests
of the public loudly demand this. We need them to
teach the young and rising generation, to refine the
public taste, to pour the light of science into our rising
academies and colleges, and to impart to us the les-
sons of heavenly wisdom from the sacred desk. I
plead for no particular denomination — all denomina-
tions of Christians hold the essential doctrines of
Christianity. I plead for a learned and pious ministry
to bless and adorn our rising country." Since the
harvest fields were ripe, it was the highest wisdom to
prepare reapers for the fields. Let there be men to
lead in the harvest!
This was the Harvard anxiety and the Harvard
statesmanship exhibited once more, this time down
34 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
amid the East Tennessee mountains. Cotton Mather
said when speaking of "the Christians in the most
early times of New England," and
SxiSTA^ain ^^ ^^^'"^ P'^^ *^ ^^"^^ ^ college:
*'They foresaw that without such a
provision for a sufficient ministry the churches of New
England must have been less than a business of one
age, and soon have come to nothing; the other hemi-
sphere of the world would never have sent us over men
enough to have answered our necessities; but with-
out a nursery for such men among ourselves darkness
must have soon covered the land, and gross darkness
the people. For some little while, indeed, there were
very hopeful effects of the pains taken by certain par-
ticular men of great worth and skill, to bring up some
in their own private families, for public services;
but much of uncertainty and of inconvenience in this
way was in that little while discovered. . . . They
soon determined it that set-schools are so necessary
there is no doing without them. Wherefore a Col-
lege must now be thought upon: a College, the best
thing that ever New England thought upon !"
Dr. Anderson, however, found warrant far back of
Harvard for his zeal for an educated leadership. In
his inaugural address he based his
The Prophets' remarks on these self-explanatory
words from Hosea and Malachi:
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ; be-
cause thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject
thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. For the
priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 35
seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger
of the Lord of hosts."
The problem, then, was how to secure these edu-
cated leaders. He set about the most serious con-
sideration of the problem. It
^^?; 1^;^^^^,^^^^ surely was capable of some so-
Well-Educated . . ^ A ^ -^ .1 -4- 1^
Leaders? lution. And manifestly it could
not be ignored; and a serious-
minded patriot could not dismiss it by passing it along
to his next neighbor. The problem was his and the
Southwest's, and it called for solution, or for a sword
to cut its Gordian entanglements. Given the need;
wanted, to find the supply of that need.
All that one man could do was to do his best. He
could raise himself to the n-th degree, but it would
be only himself, after all. Dr. An-
people and in his anxiety for their
development in education and character, wished and
tried to multiply his integer self; but he found that,
after all, he could be but one worker. The opportuni-
ties of educational and evangelistic work and the im-
portunities of schoolless and churchless communities,
when viewed in connection with the heart-breaking
limitations of time and physical strength and nerve
endurance, almost drove him to despair. So many
men's work to be done, and yet he could not multiply
himself! There was only one of him; and his power
was only limited one-man power.
Dr. Anderson and a few other ministers of East
Tennessee, as we have seen, had been educating all
36 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the teachers and mini'sters that they could, in their own
homes. And yet the supply of these leaders was ut-
terly inadequate. As Dr. Anderson
Education of ^^^ casting about for some way to
Imported Students ., • , , r i j
Impossible remove this dearth of educated
leaders, he received a visit, in 1817,
from an ardent young minister, Rev. Eli Smith, pas-
tor of a church in Frankfort, Kentucky, who was then
on his way to visit his old home in Hollis, New Hamp-
shire.
Mr. Smith listened to Dr. Anderson's pathetic plaint
over the lack of ministers, and then told the doctor
about the great revivals that had visited New England.
As they talked the whole matter over, the suggestion
came from Dr. Anderson that Mr. Smith should dur-
ing his visit down East attempt to persuade at least
six young men to come to East Tennessee, to be
trained here for their future ministry in the South-
west— two in Dr. Anderson's home, two in Dr. Har-
din's, and two in Dr. Coffin's.
Mr. Smith agreed to make the effort. Upon his
arrival at his old home, his fervid appeals to the
youth of Hollis set the whole town in a blaze, and
several young men volunteered to go to Tennessee
as students. But the terrors of the eleven hundred
miles' journey into the Southern wilderness fright-
ened all the candidates but one to such an extent that
they decided to stay at home.
The lad Eli N. Sawtell could not be frightened.
With all his worldly goods tied up in a cotton hand-
kerchief, and with his hickory cane in his hand and
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 37
fourteen and a half dollars in his pocket, on May
9, 1818, he set out for a land he knew not of. He
was nearly two months on the way, and yet kind
friends swelled his store of money until it was ten
times as much as when he started. Fifty years later
he wrote: "Dr. Anderson received me, and treated
me ever as a son." Dr. Anderson said of him : "God
conveyed him, as on eagles' wings, to a strange land,
to devote himself to the cause of the Lord Jesus."
Seven years later, after having received a thorough
education, young Sawtell was ordained to the minis-
try. He became one of the most successful of the
early agents of the Seminary; and was always a very
useful man, laboring for many years in Kentucky, and
then for some time serving as Chaplain to American
seamen in Havre, France.
Since only one student for the ministry in the South-
west was secured by so favorable a trial of the plan
for importing students to be edu-
Educ2ed^^°* cated in East Tennessee, it was
Impossible evident that the plan was inade-
quate to meet the necessities of the
case. So Dr. Anderson gave his attention to an at-
tempt to persuade those already educated to come to
East Tennessee to take part in the ministry so much
needed by the people. He first appealed to what home
missionary societies then existed, but he received from
them nothing more tangible than sympathy.
The next year, 1819, Dr. Anderson was a commis-
sioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church for the only time in his life. The Assembly
38 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
met that year in Philadelphia. In the mission society
rooms in Philadelphia and in New York he used every
effort to induce ministers to come to Tennessee to
help do the work that called for the doing. But he
failed to secure any volunteers.
Then he turned his horse's head toward Prince-
ton, where the first Presbyterian theological seminary
had been organized seven years before. Here at his
hotel he held an interview with a number of the stu-
dents and begged them to go to East Tennessee to
help in the Lord's harvest fields. He depicted to them
the destitution and challenged their assistance. But
Tennessee was at the ends of the earth in those days,
and the fields nearer home had a prior qlaim upon
them and insisted upon that claim.
The call to the foreign field nowadays does not usu-
ally demand so great sacrifices as did life on the wild
and dubious Southwest frontier a century ago. All that
Dr. Anderson attempted during this trip resulted in
failure — he did not secure even one recruit for the work
he loved. And as, in despondent mood, he turned his
horse's head homeward, the fire burned in his heart.
Dr. Anderson was an able logician, surpassing
most men in this respect. He was acquainted with
both the trilemma and the method
Then Necessary ^^ residues. He worked out the
to Educate , , . i . j • i . i
local Students problem m logic during his long
horseback journey southward :
since it had been proved that it was impossible to
import students to be educated on the field, and equally
impossible to import men who had been educated
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 39
elsewhere, it followed that the only course left was
to educate local students on the field and for the
field.
Sore of heart but clear of head, he talked the
whole matter over day after day with Rev. James Gal-
laher, his companion in the long journey back to the
Southwest. During that homeward journey, the in-
stitution of which this volume treats was created. The
thoughtful traveler determined that the methods of
educating ministers on the field had thus far been
on too small a scale; and that it was now necessary
that the Synod of Tennessee should establish for itself
a seminary to do a work for the Southwest as nearly
similar to that done at Princeton as possible. As
the address to the public in behalf of the proposed
Southern and Western Seminary a few weeks later
expressed it: "The seminaries of Andover and
Princeton, while they display the public spirit, the
ardor and strength of piety in a portion of our coun-
try, will not be able, for centuries to come, to supply
with ministers the vast uncultivated regions of the
South and West."
Well did he realize that in order that such a school
should be founded and be successful, some one must
devote himself to its service with
T 'f P 1 ^^ whole-souled devotion as char-
acterized the patriotic soldier on
the battle-field or the Christian martyr amid his en-
emies. He had learned from his Lord the supreme
lesson of unselfishness. Loving his neighbor as him-
self, he thus fulfilled the law. If such self-devotion
40 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
was needed for the education and the evangelization
of his people, he would devote the one man under
his control — himself — to the task of founding and per-
petuating the school. His life orientation was com-
pleted as he rode along the leafy roads of Virginia
and Tennessee.
At the fall meeting of Union Presbytery following
his return from the General Assembly, an overture
to Synod drawn up by Isaac An-
An Overture by ^^^^^^ ^^^ adopted by the pres-
Union Presbytery , ^ . ^ t^ . . ,
bytery in session at Dandndge,
Tennessee, on October 8, 1819. The overture opened
with the words : *The Presbytery viewing with deep
concern the extensive fields of the Southern and
Western parts of our country, already white to the
harvest, in which there are few, very few, laborers;
therefore. Resolved, That this Presbytery submit a
plan to the Synod of Tennessee for a Southern and
Western Theological Seminary, and do hereby recom-
mend the adoption of it or some other plan by the
Synod." Then followed the detailed plan.
In his inaugural address later on. Dr. Anderson said
that the necessity and importance of such a theological
seminary for the Western country had risen spontane-
ously in the hearts of many individuals about the
same time. Many of these individuals were members
of Union Presbytery, and united with the author of
the resolutions in unanimously adopting the overture
to Synod.
The Synod of Tennessee, very happily, met in Mary-
ville the week following the meeting of Presbytery at
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 41
which the overture was adopted. Rev. John McCamp-
bell, D.D., was chairman of the Committee on Bills
and Overtures. Rev. James Galla-
f^Jl\^^ *^® her, the comrade of the long horse-
Tennessee ^^^^ ^^^^' ^^^ present as a corre-
sponding member. On October
14, the consideration of Overture No. i was begun.
On the 19th the record says in the handwriting of
Dr. Anderson, for he was then Clerk of the Synod
of Tennessee and of the Presbytery of Union : *'The
Synod after maturely considering, revising, and
amending the; plans for a Southern and Western Theo-
logical Seminary, agreed to adopt it, which is as fol-
lows." Then follows the constitution with its thirty-
two articles. This was at the third annual meeting of
the Synod of Tennessee, the enrollment being twenty-
one, the largest attendance yet reached by the Synod.
In 1819 the United States had a population only
four and a half times the present population of the
State of Tennessee. Tennessee
y^r^.^y,^^^*^®^ had only 422,000 inhabitants, or
Architecture , , ., rJ,
only ten to the square mile. There
were then only forty-eight counties, while Blount
County, about twice its present size, had only a little
more than one-half its present population. Great
Shelby County could boast a population of only 364.
Maryville was a mountain hamlet containing a stone
church, a log jail, and a cluster of log and frame
houses, with here and there an exception in brick.
Very ambitious, indeed, as coming from a partly
reclaimed wilderness, does the constitution of the
42 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Southern and Western Theological Seminary sound to
us to-day. The plan was original and daring. Almost
the only precedents to consult were seven-year-old
Princeton Seminary, and eleven-year-old Andover
Seminary. Dr. Anderson once said facetiously:
"There is a feeling common to our race that the quali-
fications of those who live west of us can not be of
the first order." But the villagers of East Tennessee
were in earnest, and, braving the prejudice against
them, in all seriousness invited the Synods of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio — the
younger sister of Tennessee — to cooperate with them in
the establishment and maintenance of the new insti-
tution. The Synod of Virginia had already — in 1812 —
established a theological school of its own, of which
school Union Seminary, of Richmond, is the out-
growth.
When we take into account the fact that three of
the presbyteries of the Synod of Tennessee were
those of West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Missouri,
some idea of the generous geographical dimensions
that the field of the new institution was to include
may be formed. Four hundred copies of a circular
letter, containing the constitution and an address to
the public, were published, one of which is preserved
in the library of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
The constitution as recorded in the Minutes of the
Synod of Tennessee was very elaborate. Some of its
provisions were as follows : The directors, thirty-six
in number, were to be one-third Presbyterian laymen,
and two^thirds Presbyterian ministers. They were to
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 43
do the work that is usually committed to directors and
trustees. The professors were to be "ordained minis-
ters of the Presbyterian church,
SpScatons not under thirty years of age, in
good standing and of good report,
men of talents, science, and learning." They were
to be chosen by the Synod, presbyteries, or individuals
connected with the Seminary.
The vacation months were April, one-half of Sep-
tember, and October — ^two and a half months, instead
of the four months now given by most theological
seminaries.
The course of study was to extend over three years,
and to consist of the Greek Testament and the Hebrew
Bible, Jewish Antiquities, Sacred Chronology, Biblical
Criticism, Metaphysics, Didactic and Polemic Theol-
ogy, Church History, Church Government, Composi-
tion and Delivery of Sermons, and the Duties of the
Pastoral Care.
The Seminary was to be open to students of all
denominations on equal terms. Only those that de-
nied the common tenets of evangelical Christendom
should have their privileges abridged.
The high ideals that were held by the little com-
pany of villagers and country preachers who framed
this worthy instrument are manifest in its well-worked-
out details and in its comprehensiveness. The consti-
tution does credit to the enlightened zeal, benevolent
purpose, and Christian faith of its authors. The
men who wrote it believed in geometrical progression
in good influences, for they wrote in the address they
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issued in behalf of the Seminary: **When we cast
our eyes along the vista of time and eternity, we
see, by the instrumentality of the Seminary, if made to
succeed by the smile of heaven, the church increased,
millions made happy on earth, heaven peopled with
multitudes that no man can number; and the inhab-
itants of both rising up to call its founders and patrons
blessed."
In the roll of the thirty-six worthies that constituted
the first directorate were James Gallaher, the redoubt-
able revivalist, and author of "The
Notable Builders, ^^^^^^^ 5^^^^^ ^^^^„ ^^^ .^j^^
The Directors t-,., . r a 1 1 t^ -j »>
Pilgrimage of Adam and David,
and Chaplain of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives in 1852 and 1853 ; Charles Coffin, D.D., then
president of Greeneville College, and, later, of East
Tennessee College — now the University of Tennessee ;
Robert Hardin and William Eagleton, seven years
later elected professors in the Seminary; John Mc-
Campbell, cousin of Dr. Anderson and minister be-
loved among the churches; Abel Pearson, the mille-
narian author of "An Analysis of the Principles of
the Divine Government'' ; Thomas H. Nelson, and the
greater David Nelson, author of that classic of Chris-
tian apologetics, "The Cause and Cure of Infidelity";
Gideon Blackburn, D.D., once pastor at Maryville
and apostle to the Indians, and, later on, founder of
Blackburn University; Robert Henderson, D.D., the
revered pastor of Hopewell Church, and author of
two volumes of sermons; and James W. Stephenson,
D.D., for forty-two years a pastor in Maury County.
DR. ANDERSON AND HIS SEMINARY 45
The next act of Synod, however, was far more
significant than were the actions already noticed.
What was needed was not so much
W^* ^ I ^^^^^ thirty-six directors as one director
Chosen" ^^^ should indeed perform as well
as direct the work. This is a la-
conic record in the minutes of the Synod on October
20, 1819: "Synod proceeded to the election of a pro-
fessor of didactic and polemic theology. Upon count-
ing the votes it appeared that the Rev. Isaac Anderson
was duly chosen."
The records of the Synod of Tennessee are the chief
source of the ante-bellum history of Maryville. The
item just cited is the most important action regarding
the institution recorded in those minutes. But for
this action, all the mighty constitution and the resonant
resolutions with their sounding Whereases and Re-
solveds might have died away in the startled air as
a mere brutum fulmen. When Isaac Anderson was
balloted into the professorship, there was created a
Southern and Western Theological Seminary, even
though there was no endowment, no buildings, no li-
brary, indeed, nothing except a constitution and some
resolutions. In the momentous event of this election,
dynamics were put into an inert plan ; a great purpose
now became incarnate.
As we have seen, Dr. Anderson had been training
individuals for the ministry. Now the Seminary
Genesis would attempt this work on a
larger scale. What if the Semi-
nary be but Isaac Anderson "writ large"! Let the
46 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
work be done. Its Genesis has now been recorded.
At some tjme in the fall of 1819, either before or
after the meeting of Synod, it is uncertain which.
Dr. Anderson began his work "in the little brown
house, with a class of five students," getting ready
for his more advanced work soon to be initiated.
The inaugural services connected with Dr. Ander-
son's formal induction into his chair of Didactic The-
ology were postponed till 1822, when the new school
had been gotten under way. The inaugural sermon
was delivered by Rev. Robert Hardin ; the address by
Dr. Anderson ; and the charge by Rev. John McCamp-
bell. The three addresses were published, and the
pamphlet is a historical document of priceless value.
CHAPTER V
Days of Creation
The hand of God is seen throughout the history of
Maryville College, but especially is it manifest as
it is laid upon Isaac Anderson con-
Dmne Providence ^ecrating him to the work of col-
ana ms Agent , ^' t^ ^i
lege creation, l^rom the moment
of his high commission, this mighty man of valor
looms forth as an agent of Providence in bringing
things to pass at Maryville. To every man who would
accomplish something in the world God gives possible
days of creation in which he has at once the duty
and the opportunity of emulating his Lord, the great
Creator. Dr. Anderson was appointed by Divine
Providence and by his brethren of the Synod of Ten-
nessee to no small creative work — ^to six periods of it.
The first requisite of a school is a teacher. Other
things — habitation, equipment, and the like — are con-
venient; but a teacher is indispens-
Be Teacherr ^^^'- '^° ^^"'P '^^ Southern and
Western Theological Seminary
with teachers was the first task required of Dr. An-
derson; it was to be his first creative act. In view
of the fact that there was no income or endowment,
he decided that he would oflfer his own services, and
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this without salary if need be. But one teacher alone
would not be enough; three were needed. So, since
no other teacher was available, he decided to do three
men's work, teaching, when necessary, as many as
twelve hours a day. One of his pupils tells of his
beginning his teaching before early breakfast, and con-
tinuing it after supper. Thus he satisfactorily created
a faculty! And, in addition to his triumvirate ser-
vices, the older students also gave their services as
tutors. The story as to how the faculty of one grew
in size and numbers is told in another chapter.
"And the evening and the morning were the first
day."
Dr. Anderson met many difficulties in enlisting
young men to study for the ministry. There were
so few preparatory schools or col-
i^^o^^^ There i^^^g ^^^^ ^^le young men that came
to him were not prepared for
higher vocational education. Then, too, most of them
were too poor and too busy making a living to be able
to spare the time for such a course of study. Dr.
Anderson in a letter speaks of his students as being
"poor and almost penniless, but pious young men.''
East Tennessee at that time was a comparatively poor
agricultural country, and trading was done principally
by barter and not with money.
Opportune revivals of religion, gracious and re-
peated, brought to Dr. Anderson's door a number of
young men to be trained by him. They now had the
will, and Tie helped mightily to provide the way. Sev-
eral Indians were among the early students. The
REV. WILLIAM MINNIS. D.D.
CLASS OF \ezs
COL. JOHN BEAMAN MINN[S,B.A.
CLASS of 1861
WILLIAM EDWIN MINNIS. B-A. WILLIAM MINNIS SHERRILL
CLASSof I890 CLASSoP>9l>}-F315 »
Four Generations of Maryville Students.
DAYS OF CREATION 49
founding of the Seminary was more effective in bring-
ing students from a distance than the plan of private
instruction for them had proved. Among the students
from the North was John W. Beecher, the father of
Professor Willis J. Beecher, of Auburn Theological
Seminary. His diary tells of the coming of two or
three young men from New Hampshire, who had been
six weeks on the road, walking all the way; and of
men from Pennsylvania who had walked from Balti-
more. The young men from New Hampshire came
from Hollis, and were led to do so by the addresses
that Eli N. Sawtell delivered there upon returning for
a visit after his eight years at Maryville.
Dr. Anderson's first class — one of the ablest, too, in
the opinion of Dr. Craig — contained among others a
shoemaker, a tailor, a blacksmith, and a farmer. Of
this class, in 1825, there were licensed to preach Elijah
M. Eagleton, Hilary Patrick, William Minnis, William
A. McCampbell, and Eli N. Sawtell.
And so the students gathered from different sec-
tions and different peoples and represented different
grades of culture and different antecedents; and in
the democracy of the frontier and of a revived apos-
tolic Christianity, under the magnetic leadership of
their instructor, they were trained for the gospel min-
istry.
"And the evening and the morning were the sec-
ond day."
A third necessity was a local habitation for the
Seminary and its seminarists. Dr. Anderson was
charged, also, with this task of providing homes for
50 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the students and a home for the school. The real
shelter, however, was a man — Anderson — and not a
mansion. As Dr. John S. Craig
fLaS^H^bTatl'n ^'.^ °^. ^^^ "Without a building
and without a cent of money, m
a little shanty of a house," he began his work. He
used his own house, and then "the shanty" — the ''little
brown house" — and erelong the *'brick with six fire-
places," which seemed a palace to him and his boys.
And, here, too, another chapter, "The Plant That Had
to Serve," will tell more in detail how this creator
of a seminary made shift to keep his boys and his
school sheltered from the weather.
"And the evening and the morning were the third
day."
The sturdy young men whom Dr. Anderson gath-
ered around him from the farms and villages had
healthy appetites and had to be fed.
4*^^^*7-^^-^ ^l As to drink, the problem was a
Food and Raiment . - r ^ , ,
simple one, for the school was
from the beginning pledged to total abstinence from
alcoholic drinks; and there are fifty gushing springs
of pure water within a radius of two miles from Main
Street; and some milk there was too, but no malt.
But liquid nourishment was not enough. How to
feed the hungry students was one of the most difficult
problems before Dr. Anderson. The simplest way
was the way he first adopted — to feed them himself
so long as food should last. Said he: "Some of
these young men boarded with me without charge ; for
the boarding of others of them I paid out of my own
DAYS OF CREATION 51
pocket. When they were sick we took them to our
own house and nursed them." He used the produce
of his own farm to feed them.
In those early years such reports as these were fre-
quent: *Twenty-eight out of thirty-five were sup-
ported by charity"; "twenty-eight out of forty had
free tuition, and eighteen had free board." In 1827,
out of forty-four students, forty-three had free tui-
tion, and twenty-seven free board.
The school had no rich friends. The Synod repre-
sented a small and poor frontier church. That was
before the day of large fortunes and of large gifts
to education. The story of the boarding house and
of the farm is told elsewhere. And though some-
times the students were hungry, none of them ever
starved.
"And the evening and the morning were the fourth
day."
The task of providing intellectual culture was, in-
deed, a work of creation, for so imperfect were the
school facilities of the frontier that
(5) Let There Be ^j^^^.^ ^^ comparatively little to
Intellectual i -u • ^1 r - j. 1
Culture build upon in the way of intel-
lectual training in the students
that entered the Seminary. It was soon realized that
most of the students needed literary training as pre-
liminary to their theological training; so the literary
department was almost immediately added to the plan
of the institution.
The worthy head of the school, with an almost
incredible degree of industry, taught, as has been
52 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
said, all day long and longer still, in his attempt to
train the minds of his students for their high voca-
tion as leaders of the people. The agents he em-
ployed, especially Eli N. Sawtell, were successful in
building up a very creditable library, numbering in
the course of the years five thousand volumes, which
contributed much to the culture of the students. And
so stimulating was his leadership that he was success-
ful in arousing his students to that most effective of all
intellectual discipline — self -culture. Given such a
teacher and such eager and industrious students, the
natural result was a steady and gratifying advance in
the culture of the young men.
"And the evening and the. morning were the fifth
day."
The never-forgotten objective in Dr. Anderson's
life campaign was the development of Christian char-
acter in the leaders whom he
i^) ^^J;J^^^^f ^® trained for the Southwest; in or-
Moral Character i ^u 4. • ^u • ^ ..i i ^
der that, m their turn, these lead-
ers might, by precept reinforced by example, also be
successful in developing that Christian character in
the people whom, under the providence of God, they
should some day have the responsibility and joy of
leading.
In this character objective the moral element was,
of course, vital. The ethics of the Seminary must
be of the very noblest and most elevating type known.
Conscience must dominate and direct every act of
the young men. The young theologues must in true
DAYS OF CREATION 53
and consistent living be "ensamples." Of every one
it should be possible to say:
"That ferst he wroughte, and afterward he taughte;"
for
"If gold ruste, what shulde yren doo?"
And so Isaac Anderson inculcated moral culture
through his example.
And in this character there must be superadded to
the moral element the religious element. So success-
ful was he in implanting that characteristic in the
very heart of the students and of the institution that
it has ever since been part of the permanent riches of
the school. And these moral and religious elements
he had the good fortune to blend so intimately that
they became in the traditions of the school both one
and inseparable.
"And the evening and the morning were the sixth
day."
In those days of "do without/' a money endow-
ment was out of the question ; so let its place be taken
by moral endowments — of more
Endowment ^^ ^^^ nation. The Great Teacher
had no material endowment, in
the school of the apostles, but he carried with him the
riches untold of his life of loving service for hu-
manity.
Dr. Anderson was not a money-raiser, though he
54 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
was a master of men. He once told Rev. Thomas
Brown, Maryville's most successful agent in the ante-
bellum period, that personally he would not have had
the faith to raise as much as $6,000 in years. Dr.
Robinson says of him : "He never asked a man for a
single dollar."
» But there were gifts of rich value that he could
make, and so he gave toward the endowment of his
seminary: (i) His life — thirty-eight rich years of it.
Paul had said: ''Withhold not yourselves.'' And so
this Pauline man endowed the school with the riches
of his life. The Southern and Western Theological
Seminary is his eloquent biography. (2) His love —
the ardent and disinterested love for God and man,
blessing all who came under the influence of the school.
(3) His loyalty — keen and overmastering to such a de-
gree that he so lost his own interests in those of
the school that all his joys and sorrows were alike
connected with the work of the institution.
As he himself said, "the undying strength of this
passion" for the work of the Seminary was "the cause
of several effects: (a) When a minister has gone
forth from this school of the prophets who has proved
faithful to his Divine Master and his cause, I have
enjoyed it exquisitely, (b) When any have gone into
the harvest field and have proved lazy, inefficient
drones, it has been like a cancer on my spirits, (c)
When the faithful have been laid aside by sickness
or death, my aching heart has bowed to the stroke
without solace, except in the assurance that the Lord
reigns, and that he loves his church infinitely more
DAYS OF CREATION 55
than I can love it, and will take care of its best in-
terests with infinite skill."
Surely such a life, such love, and such loyalty made
an endowment of inestimable value.
CHAPTER VI
Days of Providence
The days of creation of which mention has been
made were followed by days of providence in which
the beginnings just described were
^^ ^f^rJ^^^^iin continued and enlarged. Isaac An-
Provided for All , , . , f.
derson determmed that any young
man ambitious to do good in the world should have
the opportunity to prepare himself for Christian lead-
ership in the Southwest; and so he established this
"school of the prophets" for the benefit of all comers.
The latch-string was always hanging out, and no fash-
ionable door-knocker was needed. Those that would
might enter.
The institution, though founded by the Synod of
Tennessee, was from its very foundation non-sec-
tarian in both theory and practice.
Irrespective of ^he poor of all denominations
Denomination ^
were encouraged to enter, and
were helped impartially in the meeting of their ex-
penses. The twenty-eighth article of the constitution
of the Seminary is as follows: "Young men of any
Christian denomination, of good moral and religious
character, shall be admitted into the Seminary on the
same principles, and shall be entitled to the same privi-
56
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 57
leges, as students of our own denomination." When
provision was made for the literary department in
1821, it was stated by Synod to be for "such poor
and pious youth of all Christian denominations as are
seeking an education."
In his inaugural address, Dr. Anderson said : "This
institution was founded with the most liberal views
toward other Christian churches. It opens its doors
to young men of all Christian denominations, and se-
cures to them its privileges just to the extent they
may choose. From these liberal views and a prac-
tice as liberal, it is hoped the institution will never
depart. What can a generous public ask more at our
hands?" The hope expressed by Dr. Anderson has
been fully realized in the history of the institution.
There has never been any sectarianism or proselytism
at Maryville.
The institution, as Dr. Craig says, was early known
as "the poor man's college." In spite of the cruel
limitations of his own resources,
Lrespective of j^^. Anderson extended a helping
hand to as many as he could reach.
The Seminary began without any endowment, income,
or guarantee fund. The struggle for existence during
the first few years was a desperate one. It would
have disheartened a Faint Heart; but Anderson was
a Great Heart.
The students were waiting at the door. He said,
"Give us this day our daily bread," and then he shared
the loaf with the students that also needed their daily
bread. For example, in 1824, Dr. Anderson gave $449
58 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
in boarding and tuition, although he had not yet re-
ceived any compensation for his services as professor.
The next year he gave $607, and in 1826, $582.
With the help of collections made by agents, Dr.
Anderson in 1823-1824 purchased for $400 two small
TT 1 rm. 1. 1. buildings and one and a half lots
l:S-H?Jsr ^^i--"g *e half lot on which the
Seminary stood; and he then em-
ployed a steward for a salary of $100 and the board
of the steward and family. This was as purely a
venture of faith as was any of George Miiller's enter-
prises. Some students paid part or all of their modest
board bill, but not many did so. Where the $100 and
the food for the boarding-house were to come from, its
manager did not know.
But the supplies came, sent by the Power that
winged the ravens to Elijah, and wrought wonders in
the widow's cruse of oil and barrel of meal. But
the boys did not fare sumptuously every day. "Some-
times the students are suppHed with the necessities,
but rarely with the comforts of life; and sometimes
are almost destitute of even the necessaries of life."
Among the occasional gifts gratefully acknowledged
and reported to Synod were: Through Dr. Emmons
of Massachusetts, $70; from Dr. Alexander McGhee,
1,886 pounds of pork; from certain Maryville fam-
ilies, free boarding of students; and from various
churches, all kinds of farm products, including 172
bushels of dried apples, fourteen shoulders and seven
jaws, joints and middlings, flour, potatoes, and forty
pounds of lardt And the boarding-house kept open
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 59
but did not keep out of debt. The entire debt of the
school in 1827 was $1,005. The average cost of board
at first was two dollars a month, or fifty cents a week,
or seven cents a day!
In 1826 the far-famed college farm of over 200
acres was purchased for $2,500, and was paid for in
part by money collected by Eli N.
Self-Help on the Sawtell. It was the farm on which
College Farm o 1 ^r -n • 1 . j
South Maryville is now located,
and lay between the Crooked Creek and Montvale
roads, and extended from Pistol Creek to the neigh-
borhood of the Broady farm. The manual-labor fea-
ture was introduced, each student who received help
being required to work on the farm a day, or, at least,
half a day, a week. The products of the farm helped
supply the boarding-house. The students set out a
large orchard in 1827. Reuben L. Cates, father of
Hon. Charles T. Cates, Sr., and John McCuUy, father
of Isaac Anderson McCully, were among those that
had charge of this farm for a while.
This farm work did not interfere with the scholar-
ship of the students, but rather improved it, benefited
their health, and still further reduced the expense
of living. In 1827 the Directors said: 'The progress
of the students is flattering, and not retarded by their
occasional labors on the farm." The daughter of Rev.
John W. Beecher writes : ''As I read over my father's
diaries and see how much was expected of the young
gentlemen who were students there, both as to physi-
cal hard work and mental work as well, I do not
wonder that Maryville has sent out many industrious,
6o A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
energetic, and exceedingly capable men. I am really
astonished at what my father went through, earning
his own way while keeping up his class work and
passing good examinations."
It is not to be wondered at that the directors in-
sisted that the expenses were lower than at any other
school on earth when we learn
Board Bill, Three ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^j^^ boarding-house was
Cents a Day! , ,. , , , , 7 . , ,
established board was furnished at
from twenty-five to thirty dollars a year ; and that in
the boarding-house it was reduced to about two dollars
a month ; and that the farm reduced it still further to
about fifteen dollars a year; and that after the im-
provement to the farm had been deducted, it was only
about $9.09 a year, or less than a dollar a month, or
three cents a day! Dr. Anderson announced that for
every ten dollars in cash he would board a student
for an entire year. Surely the Directors were justi-
fied in saying: 'There is no other institution where
the benefactions of the liberal may be made more
abundantly productive of good."
These statesmanlike methods of cooperative work
resulted in comparative prosperity for the school. The
. . students were healthy, industrious,
H h Th^^' appreciative, and reasonably con-
tented, though sometimes on a
short bill of fare. What they could not earn or bring
from home Dr. Anderson and, later on, his helpers
gave them or forgave them. And all went well for
five years or more.
In 183 1 the Secretary of the Presbyterian Education
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 6i
Society visited Maryville and urged that Dr. Ander-
son, who had twice decided against such a policy,
should allow his students to become the beneficiaries
of the society. The offer of forty dollars or more a
year was very tempting to the poor boys in their strug-
gles and hard fare, and very naturally they sided with
the kindly visitor. Finally, Dr. Anderson yielded the
point, but against his best judgment. When the stu-
dents found themselves in possession of a goodly
amount of cash, they lost their love for the farm with
its work, and for the boarding-house with its uncertain
fare, and preferred to keep "bachelor's hall" or to
board in private families. Thus the prosperous man-
ual-labor farm lost its prestige and popularity, and,
finally, its very existence.
However, the Seminary prospered for a while under
the new policy, or under the two policies. In 1832, it
was announced that one day's work a week, together
with $7.50, would pay a year's board bill! The an-
nouncement was also made that no one who had read
languages from three to six months need turn away
from the institution for lack of funds. The new
order of things was not so picturesque nor so heroic,
but it was a deal more comfortable. All that was
needed to the continued prosperity of the Seminary
was that the barrel should never give out.
In 1836 the manual-labor feature was definitely
abandoned, and the old boarding department went
with it. A modified boarding-house was, however,
established, where board could be obtained, at first for
sixteen dollars a session, and later at twenty dollars
62 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
a session. Mr. James Gillespie, of the class of 1849,
said in his reminiscences: "I boarded one session at
the boarding-house, and my recollection is that it cost
me less than two dollars a month." In 1838
the Education Society, influenced it is to be sup-
posed by the troubles that in that year disrupted
the Presbyterian Church, ceased to assist the theologi-
cal students at Maryville. This greatly embarrassed
Dr. Anderson and his helpers, and ultimately hastened
the practical suspension of the theological department.
These days of providence that developed the school
were crowded with the personality of Dr. Anderson.
At first the only teacher, he was
« , 1 ^ , always a schoolmaster indeed.
Schoolmaster t- j 1 -.i j.
li-ndowed with a commandmg pres-
ence, a winning personality, and inexhaustible tact, he
won the affection of his students, and was to them
the ideal teacher. Governor Reynolds, in his autobi-
ography, speaks of "that noble dignity that seemed to
be his birthright." "Nature bestowed upon him great
strength of mind."
Says Dr. Robinson : "He possessed the rare faculty
of impressing himself on his pupils, while at the same
time requiring no servile assent to his mere dictation.
He could not brook such a thing. His constant aim
was to make his students think and understand for
themselves. . . . Every student was required to read,
study, and write on the topics which he announced
to them from time to time, as they progressed in the
course. After they had done what they could in this
way for themselves, he read to them the lectures which
(lr/t^i^^^-^y\Jt^ ^'^^-^c.^-^yJxK)
A College Builder.
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 63
he had prepared with great care." He also carried
his method of Socratic and catechetical teaching into
his church work. "He prepared long lists of ques-
tions and answers for the different quarters of his con-
gregation on the Evidences of Christianity and the
Inspiration of the Bible." These were published in
the village paper. Naturally, he welcomed the Sun-
day school as an ally in his campaign of Christian
education. As early as 1834 fourteen Sunday schools
were conducted in different quarters of the great par-
ish of New Providence Church of which he was
pastor.
His students appreciated and loved him. One of
his first class said of him : "When I received my com-
mission to *Go, preach the gospel/ and was obliged to
tear myself from him, it seemed that my very heart-
strings were breaking."
It is not given to many persons to excel in different
lines ; but Dr. Anderson was as great a preacher as he
was a teacher. He was a princely
A rnnceiy preacher, and commanded the rev-
erence and admiration of all that
had the good fortune to hear him. Dr. Robinson com-
pares his eloquence to a "mighty rushing wind." Of
commanding presence, "his majestic form seemed,
sometimes, to swell into almost gigantic proportions,
as he poured forth a torrent of appeal." "That which
arrested the attention and excited the admiration of
every beholder, was the remarkably sweet expression
of his countenance, and the facile power of his eye.
On the Sabbath, when he rose in the pulpit to com-
64 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
mence the service, the impress of a more heavenly
serenity, a more placid benevolence, a calmer dignity,
is seldom seen on human brow."
He was a thorough logician, but was also capable of
the most impassioned earnestness, and so, naturally,
he was a doubly impressive preacher, winning both the
reason and the emotions of his audience. Dr. Allen,
of Huntsville, Alabama, said of him: "I have been in
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and have heard
their greatest speakers; I have been in Liverpool,
London, and Manchester, and have listened to the
preaching of their most distinguished men; but that
man is the greatest man I ever heard.'' No wonder
that the people were eager to hear him at sacramental
meetings, presbyteries, and synods. He usually
preached about two hundred sermons a year, besides
carrying on all his other work.
The Directors said of Dr. Anderson in 1833 : "He is
one who needs not to be ashamed. Invincible in argu-
mentation and luminous in the exhibition of truth,
he stands as a pillar of light in this dark valley of
death."
The students found in their honored president not
only a great teacher and preacher, but also a father
and friend. His heart was large
^- 04. j^ ? and his sympathies were overflow-
His Students . a • 1 • .• 1 i_ j
ing. As m his congregation he had
kind words and a shepherd's tender care for every one
of his flock in health and in sickness, so in his school
he won every student by his unfeigned interest in him
and by his fatherly regard for him.
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 65
Says Dr. Robinson : *' 'He was a father to me' ;
this is the language they uniformly use when speaking
of him. And this feeling of filial regard was the
result of his kindness and sympathy, and the manifest
interest which he felt in their happiness and pros-
perity." Said one of his earliest students: '*I never
looked upon him in any other light, nor did he ever
exhibit any other feeling than that of the kindest and
best of fathers."
Dr. Anderson's wife, Flora, or as the inscription
on her monument calls her, Florence McCampbell, was
a member of another strong,
5^,®°^?™^ sturdy, and substantial Scotch-
Mother to Them t • , V -i , 1 , . -
Irish family that also settled in
Rockbridge County, Virginia. She had a character
that was worthy of her family and her husband. The
marriage took place on October 19, 1802.
Rev. G. S. White, in addressing the Alumni in 1857,
said of her : "In spirit, in energy, in decision, in love
to God, and devotion to his cause, there was in her
natural and moral habits an entire adaptedness to
encourage, advance, and sustain her noble husband
in every good work and undertaking."
As her husband fathered the students, she mothered
them. "Many a young man far from home, in a
strange land, felt the power of her kind words, and
the value of her kind attentions." And she was a most
loyal wife, toiling with all her strength to help her
husband carry out his too ambitious plans of helpful-
ness for the students. Dr. Anderson's distress at her
loss was pathetic in the extreme.
66 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
"I do remember her many virtues with gratitude to
God. Prudent and discreet in her intercourse with
society, respected l^y all, kind without ostentation, not
letting the left hand know what the right hand did,
firm and resolute in her purposes, prayerful, and a
lover of God and of good men, the word of God
dwelt in her richly, and she sought and loved the
truth. How great is my debt of gratitude to God for
such a wife!"
The most beneficent and permanent contribution
made to the institution of learning that he founded,
^ and through it to the world, has
S^t'"^HT^^^^ been what Maryville students have
Created* '^^^ '^^^^ ^^ ^^^ habit of calling
*'the Maryville spirit." To former
Maryville students it has needed no definition, for they
have seen it and felt it and believe in it. To outsiders,
the uninitiated into the college mysteries, it is rather
hard to define, but its outlines may be roughly indi-
cated.
Thanks to Dr. Anderson's cosmopolitan sympathies,
the school has always had a breadth of sympathy that
has been a part of its animating
(1) Breadth of .^.j^ g^jj j^^. Robinson: "U
Human Interest , ,. , , .n
there ever lived a man who illus-
trated in his life the doctrines he taught from the
pulpit and the professor's chair, that man was Isaac
Anderson. Love was the sum and substance of his
teaching and his life. He had a heart large enough
and loving enough to embrace within its benevolent
desires all mankind. He had a broad philanthropy.
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE e^
a hearty good-will to man, which led him to labor for
the salvation of the humblest slave as well as for
the proudest child of fortune. Any object of want or
suffering never failed to move his sympathies and
elicit his charitable benefactions. In his benevolence
he was no respecter of persons. The African, the In-
dian, the foreigner from whatever land, was to him
as a brother, and as such he felt under obligation to
promote, so far as he could, his temporal and eternal
welfare."
The typical Maryville man is interested in whatever
concerns humanity. He believes in home and foreign
missions of every type; he is not sectional, but na-
tional, and fits in well in the South, North, East, or
West. And this is the spirit that has prevailed ever
since the beginning, because Dr. Anderson embodied
it and taught the students to embody it. A priceless
boon was this great contribution to the institution.
It v/as one of the many strong points in the char-
acter of the founder of Maryville College that he was
himself by nature and training a
SchoSship^^ representative of thoroughgoing
scholarship, and by instinct and
practice as a pedagogue entirely unable and unwilling to
be content with anything but the most painstaking and
accurate work on the part of his students. In his
classes in theology he employed a system that was so
scholarly and thorough that it commanded the respect
of his students even after they had pursued their
studies further in the best institutions in the land.
His condensed text-book in didactic theology was
68 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
printed in Maryville, in 1833, ^^d contains 112 pages
of questions and answers and outlines. The three
years' course of theology as taught in the Seminary
is here carefully outlined. The plan of instruction is
described as follows: "The class have the subject
given to them, as, for example, Natural Theology.
They are then directed to read such and such authors ;
if the subject is a controverted one, they read on both
sides. After they have done reading they then hear
a lecture from the Professor, and are required to
write an essay on the same subject, and then read it
before the Professor for remarks. Afterwards the
class are examined, according to the preceding ques-
tions, and such as the Professor may think proper.''
An acute reasoner, he aroused his students to clear
and logical thinking; and did much more than that —
for he infused into the college spirit that quality of
thorough scholarship, which has never departed from
the College, its faculty, and its student body.
The kind of religion that Isaac Anderson believed
in and exemplified had nothing weak or cowardly or
invertebrate or uncertain about it.
(6) JXLaniy j^ ^^^ ^j^ contrary, strong: and
Religion . ' . . . ^' _.^
brave and positive. Thomas
Hughes had not yet written about the '^Manliness of
Christ" ; but Christ had lived his manliness ; and Isaac
Anderson, Christ's disciple, had walked with him,
and had learned to be one of the modern Boanerges.
"The Maryville spirit" has, from the days of An-
derson, had as one of its distinctive elements what
may well be called "manly religion." Anderson made
DAYS OF PROVIDENCE 69
his students feel that religion calls out the highest and
noblest qualities of one's nature and elicits and enlists
the heroic and godlike in a man. And throughout the
century the men of Maryville have become Christians
in order to attain the highest and richest possibilities of
their manhood; not in order to '*be saved" in any
small and selfish sense, but in order to be saviors of
men "on the largest possible scale." Not cant nor
cowardice, but sincerity and courage send men out
into the field to battle for the right.
If a man has entered into the spirit of things at
Maryville, and has allowed "the Maryville spirit" to
enter into him, he has, then,
(4) Unselfish breadth of human interest, the love
Service
of thorough scholarship, and the
practice of manly religion. But he also has, if true
to the teachings of his College, a spirit of unselfish
service that impels him forth to help and bless his
neighbor. He appreciates life as an opportunity for
usefulness. He looks upon himself as his brother's
keeper. The Maryville student that hides his talent in
a napkin does sad discredit to the spirit that his alma
mater inculcates. The College has practised self-
denial for the benefit of its students to such a remark-
able degree that the students that are responsive to the
call of the worthy have become imbued with the
prevalent college spirit and have in turn tried to pass
on to others the benefit that they themselves have
received.
And this unselfish service was rendered on the part
of Dr. Anderson without any egotism or bluster or
70 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
attempt at notoriety. Said Rev. G. S. White : "In no
other instance have I ever seen modesty connected
with great and glorious plans, so retiring and so
speechless as was his."
In these years that we have termed **Days of Provi-
dence," the College, in spite of manifold limitations
and hindrances, succeeded in pro-
Out ^r* viding for the world and its needs
a most worthy threefold output:
(i) "The Maryville spirit," which has just been ana-
lyzed and described, was in itself a very worthy con-
tribution to the world. To possess many leaders of
the Southwest with such a spirit had a significance
in good done that can not be overestimated.
(2) The Maryville men who were speedily sent out
to serve as leaders in their section of the country were
an invaluable contribution to the community at large.
By 1826 it could be said : "Already twelve young men
have been sent out to preach the everlasting gospel."
Three years later the directors report forty-one min-
isters representing three denominations, as already at
work among the churches. In 1833 the directors write
that "nearly sixty have gone out to preach." In 1840,
they say that "fourscore" have entered the ministry;
while four years later Dr. Anderson himself says that
the institution has sent out "nearly a hundred," who
in turn had "gathered hundreds and hundreds into the
fold of the Good Shepherd."
In 1840 it was said that without the Seminary, "for
aught that we can see. East Tennessee would be with-
out a Synod and comparatively without a ministry."
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From 1825, when his first class was licensed, to 1852,
Dr. Anderson assisted in the licensure of seventy-
seven young men, and in the ordination of sixty-six
licentiates, in Union Presbytery alone. His students
were ordained by other presbyteries and other denom-
inations in considerable numbers. At the spring meet-
ing of Union Presbytery in 1844 Dr. Anderson
preached a sermon on II Timothy ii: 15, to the minis-
ters that had studied theology under him. And they
were a rare body of manly men.
(3) The vast amount of worthy work that was done
in the Southwest through the agency of the men of
Maryville was another valuable contribution to the
world. What the directors hoped for in 1825, as their
report to Synod by Charles Coffin, Chairman, and
William Eagleton, Clerk, indicated, was, during these
"days of providence,'' fully realized : "It is hoped and
believed that hundreds will issue from this fountain
of science and piety who will spread a benign and
salutary influence in the community on the temporal
and eternal destinies of millions of mankind."
CHAPTER VII
The Teachers That Served
For several years after the founding of the insti-
tution, Dr. Anderson did all the teaching that was
done in the theological department,
^?®t:,.^^4^^®^ and ''extended his tuition to stu-
at First Alone , . . v. . . .
dents in literature in its various
branches." He was aided by the young theologues
in his work in the department that was from the first
inevitable, and that came to be called "the Literary
Department."
During this period it was that he often worked
twelve hours a day in the classroom. And yet he was
pastor of New Providence Church, of Maryville, and
the Second Church, of Knoxville, and bore all the re-
sponsibilities of these churches in addition to his
school work. In 1827 New Providence Church ranked
thirteenth in size among the Presbyterian churches
in the United States; its membership numbered 467,
and a few years later reached a total of 700. No
wonder that the strain of so much work should have
been almost unendurable.
As early as 1821 Synod amended the constitution
of the Seminary to provide for a tutor in ''the requisite
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THE TEACHERS THAT SERVED 73
literature" for those who were not far enough
instructed to enter upon the study of theology.
In 1824 it was reported: "The
Then Student divinity students have gener-
Assistants - . , . . ,
ously given their assistance, when
necessary, to the instruction of those who are pur-
suing a course of education in the institution."
The work, however, was too great for one man
and student assistants. The Directors said in 1826:
"After a course of nearly six years' experience, we
are fully convinced that it is utterly impossible for
one man to attend to the arduous and various duties
of the Seminary. It is a pressure which neither the
body nor the mind of any man can long sustain. . . .
The responsible care of two congregations, added to
the superintendency and charge of the boarding-house,
and the instruction of a large school in the different
branches of literature and theology, is enough to bring
any constitution, even the most elastic and durable,
to a premature grave. But by the appointment of
additional instructors this difficulty, otherwise insur-
mountable, may be easily obviated."
In view of this condition of affairs, the Synod
voted to proceed immediately to the election of two
professors. Rev. William Eagle-
Then One or Two ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ appointed "Instructor
Collea^es . ^ j c • »> •
in Languages and Sciences in
1825, and had begun to serve in the spring of 1826.
Now, in the fall of 1826, Synod elected him as "Pro-
fessor of Sacred Literature," and Rev. Robert Hardin
as "Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church
74 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Government." In 1827 it was reported to Synod
that Mr. Hardin had accepted the appointment; but
he served in the field as an agent rather than as a
professor in the classroom. The "two professors" re-
ferred to in the eighth report (1827) were doubtless
Dr. Anderson and Rev. William Eagleton. Dr. Eagle-
ton had been educated under Dr. Anderson before the
Seminary was founded. Dr. Craig says of him : *'He
was a rather brilliant orator, a clear and cogent rea-
soner, and of rather captivating eloquence. While
he was on a visit to Maryville in 1833 or 1834, I heard
him preach several times, and the people were much
delighted with him — a thing much to his credit before
and with a congregation such as Dr. Anderson's was
at that day. Dr. Eagleton built up a large, stable,
and flourishing church at Murfreesboro."
From 183 1 onward there were usually three pro-
fessors in the faculty. In the report for 1840 it is
stated : '^Hitherto the labor of in-
Fspally a struction both in literature and the-
ology has fallen on three profes-
sors, and has been sustained by much self-denial and
sacrifice. The duties of their office have demanded
all their time, almost without a moment for relaxa-
tion or for enlarging the circle of their own knowl-
edge." And then there followed an appeal for at
least one more professor. A small number of pro-
fessors, it is true, but the old colleges, such as Har-
vard, Yale, and Princeton, had their long periods of
history in which they, too, were served by not more
than three professors.
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Professor Eagleton was dismissed from Union Pres-
bytery to Shiloh Presbytery in 1829, and probably left
-V . w _^ the Colles:e in that year. In 1829
Banus Hoyt ^ t^-tt^ i*jt>
Rev. Darius Hoyt was elected Pro-
fessor of Languages, and served until his death, which
occurred on August 16, 1837. He was a son of the
famous Rev. Ard Hoyt, who came from Connecticut
to Georgia to be a missionary to the Cherokees. He
was educated at Maryville, and was licensed to preach
in 1827. He served as tutor in the Seminary until
he was elected a professor.
Says Dr. Craig: "Mr. Hoyt was a good linguist, a
shrewd critic; of a very mild, quiet, inoffensive spirit,
and of a remarkably amiable disposition." He loved
the students and they loved him. He established The
Maryville Intelligencer, to be a weekly religious news-
paper. In its columns he did his utmost to further
every good cause. Of a very sympathetic disposition,
he was the warm friend of the Indian and the slave.
He was a leader in the temperance reform. A man
of great tact and personal influence, his premature
loss by death, when only thirty-three years of age,
was greatly lamented, the Seminary building being
"shrouded in mourning." The Directors said of him:
"His devotion to the cause of education and to the
interests of the church has hardly been surpassed."
Judge J. G. Wallace said of him: "He was one of
the most amiable characters I ever knew. Everybody
loved him and he loved everybody." Professor Hoyt's
grandchildren recently placed an appropriate granite
76 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
monument on his grave in the New Providence ceme-
tery.
The first "literary" professor was Rev. Samuel Mac-
Cracken, one of whose nephews is ex-Chancellor Mac-
-. , ,. p Cracken of the New York Univer-
sity. Mr. MacCracken was elected
Professor of Natural Science in 1831, and was greatly
respected as a man and as a teacher. He was a mem-
ber of the United Presbyterian Church, and resigned
the following year in order to take up work in his
own church.
In October, 1832;, Rev. Fielding Pope, at the time
pastor of a church in Athens, Tennessee, was elected
as Professor MacCracken's successor, to serve as Pro-
fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; but
he did not begin teaching until May, 1833. He was
a polished and courtly Kentucky-bred gentleman of
impressive appearance, and represented the Cavalief
type as decidedly as Professor Craig represented the
Covenanter type.
Professor Pope was an alumnus of Maryville. In
his education in Kentucky he had secured a good
knowledge of mathematics and of some of the sci-
ences. He was married before he felt called to the
ministry, and he brought his wife with him to Mary-
ville. Here he studied the languages and theology.
In 1827 he was licensed to preach, and the following
year he was ordained to the ministry.
Mr. Pope served for seventeen hard-working years
as a professor in the literary or college department of
the institution. As a teacher he was much beloved
THE TEACHERS THAT SERVED 77
by his students. In 1850, for the lack of adequate
financial support, he resigned his chair, and became
Principal of the Maryville Female Institute. The In-
stitute building stood on Main Street, just east of
the old New Providence Church. While teaching,
Mr. Pope was also pastor of Eusebia Church. In
1856 he was installed as Dr. Anderson's successor in
the pastorate of New Providence Church, where he
served until 1865. He died near Lumpkin, Georgia,
on March 23, 1867.
On September 3, 1840, Rev. John Sawyers Craig
was elected Professor of Languages to succeed Pro-
Johns. Craig, D.D. ^"^^°^ ^°y*- ^\ *^\^ ^'''ff^y
served as a tutor m the College
from August, 1837, to 1846, being appointed tutor
immediately after the death of Professor Hoyt. He
was born in a log cabin in Knox County, Tennessee,
and was educated at Maryville, entering in 1832, and
graduating, probably in 1836.
In personal appearance Mr. Craig was a little more
than medium in height, of a red complexion, with
sandy hair, and gray eyes. When he reached Mary-
ville to enter college he was dressed in a suit of home-
made and home-dyed blue cotton, and carried all his
earthly belongings tied up in a red bandanna handker-
chief. So unprepossessing and so unpromising a
student did he appear, that, if the traditions are true,
Professor Pope decided to hurry him home by as-
signing to him lessons of excessive length; while the
students decided to assist his departure by such means
as were within their power. To the amazement of
78 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Professor Pope, the lad gave him perfect recitations
and seemed greedy for more ; while the students soon
found that ^'yellow head" was abundantly able to take
care of himself. And so John Craig won his stand-
ing in a college of which he was to become one of
its most brilliant graduates and professors.
Dr. Craig was a stem, inflexible, rugged, blunt, bril-
liant, and kind-hearted, and even tender-hearted
genius, and was one of Maryville's ablest men. He
was a profound scholar in all lines of college studies.
His memory was so retentive that he conducted his
recitations in the classics without the help of a text-
book. Capable of an almost unlimited amount of work,
he filled his twenty-one years of service with very
arduous toil, and bore his full share of the cares and
responsibilities of the College. At one time, soon after
the breakdown of Dr. Anderson, he was the only pro-
fessor left in the institution. He stood by the Col-
lege in its weakness and poverty.
Dr. Craig was a man of deep thought, broad mind,
strong character, firm convictions, and martyr spirit.
He lived in troublous times that tried men's souls,
but was a brave and conscientious man throughout
all those trying years. He was more noted for being
fortiter in re than suaviter in modo; but no one ever
doubted his sincerity. In complete sympathy with
the purposes of the College, himself the product of
the institution into which he entered as raw material,
he spared himself not at all in his self-denying effort
to make Maryville serve efficiently its student body.
Prof. John Sawyers Craig.
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From 1861 until his death, which occurred on April
4, 1893, he served in the ministry in Indiana.
Rev. John J. Robinson, D.D., was bom in 1822, in
Georgia, the son of Col. Joseph W. Robinson, a mem-
ber of the State legislature. He
^bLon, D.D. graduated from the University of
i ennessee, at the head of his class,
in 1845, ^^d from Union Theological Seminary, New
York, in 1849. He was elected Professor of Sacred
Literature in 1850, and served until 1855, when he
resigned to go to Kentucky. A man of "energetic
mind and urbane manners," he helped the College in
a time of great depression. One of his colleagues
called him "a fine scholar, able theologian, eloquent
preacher, and thorough instructor." One of his stu-
dents says of him: *'He was a refined, cultured, and
scholarly man." Maryville owes him a great debt
of gratitude for his labor of love, the ''Memoir of Dr.
Isaac Anderson, D.D.," an octavo volume of 300 pages,
published in Knoxville in i860.
In 1844 there appeared at Maryville a new student,
who in future days was to be the ref ounder of the Col-
lege. Lamar was a modest, quiet,
J^J^J^ ^^^^^^^ alert, observing, and persistent
eighteen-year-old lad; and in due
time came to be recognized as one of the strongest
of the students. Mr. James Gillespie tells of reciting
VatteFs Law of Nations to Mr. Lamar, who was then
a Senior. After graduating in 1848 from the college
department, he studied theology under Dr. Anderson
for a year; and then in 1849 ^^ went to Union Theo-
8o A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
logical Seminary and took a regular three years'
course, graduating in 1852. After four years of work
done in Missouri he was, on September 27, 1856,
elected successor to Rev. John J. Robinson, as Pro-
fessor of Sacred Literature. Synod appointed Elder
Daniel Meek, who had helped Mr. Lamar meet his
college expenses, chairman of a committee to inform
Mr. Lamar of his election to the professorship, and
to urge upon him to accept the appointment and to
enter at the earliest practicable period upon the duties
of the professorship. He entered upon his work at
the College the following year ; and from that time to
his death he gave his heart and life to the upbuilding
of the institution.
During the last ten or twelve years of his life Dr.
Anderson was partially disabled by the paralysis of
one of the nerves of the lumbar
Dr. Anderson plexus, and had to remain seated
His Labors ^^^^^ preaching and teaching. The
last two or three years he used a
crutch in walking. More serious, however, was the
mental weakening that also came upon him during the
last two or three. years of his life. He was nearing
seventy-five years of age when the collapse of his
powers became so pronounced that he was forced to
give up most of his work. The only wonder is that
such excessive labors as he expended during a long
life did not earlier occasion this disability. For fifty
years he toiled as very few men ever toiled.
Ten months before his death his residence, with all
THE TEACHERS THAT SERVED 8i
its contents, including his library and his priceless
manuscripts and correspondence, was consumed by
fire. It was with difficulty that he himself was saved.
The shock doubtless hastened his death. One can easily
imagine the pathos of the only thing he said as they
bore him from the flames : **My library is burned up."
Two of his students, John Beaman Minnis and Isaac
Nelson Caldwell, carried him in a chair to a neigh-
bor's house. It was a strange coincidence that the
library of the second president. Dr. Robinson, was
also consumed by fire in his old age. Invaluable his-
torical records were destroyed in both these fires.
After the fire Dr. Anderson was tenderly cared for
by his daughter-in-law, who was now the wife of one
of Dr. Anderson's former students, Rev. John M. Cald-
well, at her home in Rockford, six miles north of
Maryville. Here the founder of the College fell
asleep on the morning of January 28, 1857. He was
buried in the New Providence cemetery, at the side
of his wife and son. The old stone church, before its
removal, extended over the place where he now lies
buried. His body lies almost at the very spot where in
1822 stood the pulpit from which he delivered his in-
augural address as the first president of what is now
Maryville College.
"I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors ; and their works do follow
them."
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His monument bears the following inscription :
[East Face]
In Memory
of
REV. ISAAC ANDERSON, D.D.,
Born in Rockbridge County, Va., March 26, 1780.
Ordained and Installed Pastor of Washington Church, in
Knox County, Tennessee,
1802.
Installed Pastor of New Providence Church, Maryville,
1812.
Inaugurated President and Professor of Didactic Theology
in the Southern and Western Theological Seminary,
[Now Maryville College]
1822.
Died January 28, 1857.
"Servant of God, well done.
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battle fought, the victory won.
Enter thy Master's joy."
[North Face]
Members of New Providence Church join with other friends
of the deceased in erecting this monument, "not because
they fear they will forget, but because they love to re-
member him" whose dust sleeps beneath it.
Immediately following the death of Dr. Anderson,
the Directors of the College elected Rev. John J. Rob-
inson, D.D., the former Professor of Sacred Litera-
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ture, as his successor in the presidency. Dr. Robinson
entered upon his work as President at the opening of
the summer session, April 7, 1857. His administration
covered the four troublous years
the^conT"' immediately preceding the Civil
President War, and yet substantial progress
was made, opposition died down,
and the attendance increased by i86i to its maximum
— over one hundred — in ante-bellum times. They came
from most of the States of the Southern and Western
group.
Scholarly, energetic, and possessing good executive
ability, he was laying foundations for better days.
He revised and improved the curriculum and raised
the standards of scholarship. Dr. Robinson was a
good speaker. Those who remember him speak of
his voice as being peculiarly moving and melodious.
Captain W. H. Henry said of him: **Henry Ward
Beecher, as I heard him, did not seem a more elo-
quent speaker than Dr. Robinson.'' During the War
Dr. Robinson served as chaplain in the Confederate
army, and after the War he served churches in Ala-
bama and Georgia. He died in Atlanta, on November
8, 1894.
The writer of this volume has had the privilege
of reading some of Dr. Robinson's private correspond-
ence, and has been deeply impressed by the evidences
there given of his kindly courtesy, transparent sin-
cerity, genuine honor, and sterling Christian conscien-
tiousness. He was one of the most worthy builders
of Maryville.
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It seems incredible that so few men as have been
enumerated in this chapter should have been able
to accomplish so large a work as
Few Professors ^^^ ^^^^ . Maryville during the
but Large Service . ^ . ^u ^ i j x
forty-two years that elapsed from
1819 to 1861. Nothing but a high altruistic purpose
and indefatigable industry could have achieved such
large service. It was not a "forlorn hope," the en-
terprise in which they were engaged; but they exem-
plified all the heroism which is usually associated with
those who volunteer for such a desperate service. The
College is proud of their self-denying toil and worthy
achievements, and prays that its present faculty may
have a double portion of their spirit.
CHAPTER VIII
The Friends That Helped
The pages of this book are intended to recount
what may be called the genesis and the exodus of
Maryville — its genesis into being
Straw ^'*^''''* a^d its exodus from its early limi-
tations. In the days of its genesis
and its long-time bondage no one need be surprised
to hear of heavy burdens, when bricks had to be made
without straw. The chapter, *'Days of Creation," has
told of some of those sad and weary times. Of friends
to help there were but few; but some friends there
were, or the story of the College would be even more
grim and serious than it has confessedly been. What
was the need of such friends, and whence did they
arise ?
There was no source of income at first from which
the salaries of professors could be secured. So the
unique spectacle was presented of
wlSorSalaries l "'^^ ""* only^teaching for no
Financial return, but also laboring
with his own hands to supply the needs of the stu-
dents that had gathered under his care. Dr. Anderson
did not receive any regular salary until in 1830. In
1826, $100 from funds collected for the Seminary
85
'86 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
was appropriated to him as an acknowledgment of
what the directors termed his "disinterested devoted-
ness" to the interests of the institution ! It would be
easy for a smug critic to find a true bill against the
worldly wisdom of this strange man; but inasmuch
as the indictment would equally hold against the
apostle Paul, Maryville's sons may well continue to
be greatly proud of a man who so well fulfilled the law
that he loved the Lord his God with all his heart,
and his neighbor even better than himself.
Dr. Anderson earned his living by toiling in several
lines of work, but he secured it mainly from his farm,
and from the churches that he
"F ^M^pi "^ served. Besides his multitudinous
activities in other directions, for
many years he even did a considerable amount of
manual labor on his farm. The salary from the
churches was small and usually in arrears. What was
true of him was true of most of the ante-bellum pro-
fessors— their living had to be sought principally
from farms and churches ; and they taught school for
philanthropy's sake. Salaries were conspicuous by
their absence. It was demonstrated at Maryville that
a college can run on very little money if only the
professors do not draw salaries!
The work of securing financial help for the Col-
lege since the Civil War has been done almost en-
tirely by the president or a mem-
^eAgente ber of the teaching force. Before
the War the few professors there
were could not be spared from the classroom; so re-
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course was had principally to agents, who went into
the field in behalf of the school. Letters are still
extant in which Dr. Anderson pleaded with men to act
as agents. A great deal of hard traveling over many
States, principally on horseback, and mainly in the
South and Southwest, was done by these representa-
tives of the College. Some of them were unable to
collect amounts sufficient to cover even their ex-
penses. Rev. E. N. Sawtell, one of the earliest of
these agents, collected in the Southwest about $2,000,
part of which was used in part payment for the semi-
nary farm. He spent one Sabbath at the home of
Gen. Andrew Jackson. He reported in October, 1828,
his work from April, 1826, saying that he had traveled
more than seven thousand miles, and had secured
$1,335 ^^ cash, and $1,000 in subscriptions. He found
the lack of a charter impeded his work. He gave
his services for one year entirely without salary, taking
only $396 for his traveling expenses, since he had
spent much of the time in evangelistic work. Most
of his collections were invested in books for the li-
brary. Mr. Sawtell made three trips for the Semi-
nary.
By far the most successful of the ante-bellum agents
of the institution, however, was Rev. Thomas Brown,
an honored graduate of the Seminary, who was or-
dained in 1828. He was born in 1800 and died in
1872, and was in the ministry for forty years. A
very strong preacher and very companionable, he was
everywhere a welcomed guest. From 1825 until his
death, says Dr. Craig, he knew every Presbyterian
88 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
church, minister, and prominent member in the S)mod
of Tennessee — East Tennessee and Southwestern Vir-
ginia. His service in the raising of both professor-
ships will be told in succeeding paragraphs.
The help for current expenses that was secured was
received mainly from the church people of Blount
-, . TT 1 County and East Tennessee, and
Current Help ^ j j • ^u ^ r ^u
was expended m the support of the
students rather than of the professors. The gifts of
food were used in the boarding-house, while the do-
nations of clothing and the like were distributed among
the students. Especially during the early days of the
Seminary, such contributions were sometimes consid-
erable in amount. There were "female societies" of
different churches in different States that contributed,
and liberally for that day, to the current expenses of
the students. For example, "a Female Charitable
Society" of Cherokee Indians contributed ten dollars
in 1824. The lack of a charter till 1842 made it diffi-
cult to secure money for permanent funds; and so
what was given was largely contributed to current
expenses.
In 1827 the Synod of Tennessee overtured the Gen-
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to receive
the Seminary under its care and
Tne ±irst supervision, provided a professor-
Professorship ,f J .^c^ u ij
p^j^^ ship endowment of $10,000 should
be secured. Then Revs. Thomas
Brown, Elijah M. Eagleton, and W. A. McCampbell
were enlisted as special agents to raise this profes-
sorship. Most of the fund was raised by Mr. Brown.
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The subscription list, containing the names of almost
all the old Presbyterian families of Union Presby-
tery, is printed in full in the Calvinistic Magazine for
May, 1829.
In the annual report made in October, 1829, these
glad words were punctuated with an exclamation
point: "A subscription has been obtained for found-
ing the first professorship of $10,686!" The subscrip-
tions were on a five-year basis. The collection of
the amounts subscribed was slow and difficult. Pro-
fessor Lamar states in a manuscript sketch of the
College that $8,000 of the $10,000 was collected, and
that, by consent, a part of the amount was appropri-
ated to completing the payment for the seminary
farm. This professorship of Didactic Theology is
the one that Dr. Anderson occupied, and finally it was
of service to him. Dr. Robinson succeeded Dr. An-
derson in this professorship. Some of the subscrip-
tions were void since they were made on condition
that a charter should be secured for the Seminary.
In 1843, '^^ the dying days of the theological de-
partment, a resolution was adopted by Synod pro-
viding for the raising of $15,000
The Second ^^ establish a professorship of
Professorship ^ , ,. . ^ , ^
Yojiii Sacred Literature, the payments to
be made in this case also in annual
installments during a period of five years. The fact
that the charter just received (in 1842) from the State
did not give the Synod the power to elect the directors,
hindered the securing of subscriptions. But in 1845
the desired amendment to the charter was obtained,
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and the canvass was then vigorously pushed by Rev.
Thomas Brown. On October lo, 1846, he reported
$15,185 as subscribed to the professorship. Synod in
its vote of thanks to Mr. Brown commended the '*zeal
and fidelity of the indefatigable agent.'* By 1858 the
collections on this fund amounted to $9,5chd. The
funds when once received were carefully administered.
The incumbents of the chair of Sacred Literature
were Rev. John J. Robinson, 1850-1855, and Rev.
Thomas J. Lamar, 1857-1861. By 1855 the amount
of the income of the fund was $540.
Besides these two regular endowment funds, there
was contributed for about ten successive years, 1833-
1843, to the support of Rev. Fielding Pope and others,
what was called the "Temporary Professorship Fund."
The contributors and amounts contributed were usu-
ally as follows : Samuel Rhea, $60 ; Rev. James King,
$30; D. M. Shields & Co., $10; Rev. Frederick A.
Ross, $60; and W. S. McEwen, $30. Total, $190.
As early as 1826 the directors urged the necessity
of endowed scholarships; but whatever help came in
was, for many years, only current
SubSSL scholarship aid. In 1854 it was
proposed that one hundred perma-
nent scholarship certificates exempting from paying
tuition and good for thirty years should be sold, at
$250 each, the proceeds to be devoted to the endow-
ment of chairs of Mathematics and Modern Science
in the Literary Department. During the following
year "not more than fifteen or eighteen of these schol-
arships were taken." In 1856 the directors adopted
Dr. John J. Robinson, Second President.
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a modified form of this plan, and succeeded in get-
ting subscriptions to this fund to the amount of $10,-
000. Comparatively little of this subscription was
collected before the War came to sweep away the
subscription and many of the subscribers.
There were two ante-bellum treasurers, and they
deserve to be enrolled on Maryville's honor roll of
**friends that helped." James
Faithful g^j. E ^^g chosen as the
Treasurers ^ ^ • o j j
first treasurer m 1019, and served
faithfully and without compensation until his resig-
nation in 1833. Colonel — afterwards General — Wil-
liam Wallace was elected his successor, and served
till his death in 1864. Gen. Wallace served as State
legislator and several times as a presidential elector
for Tennessee, and was president of the Knoxville
and Charleston Railroad. In 1855 the treasurer re-
ported that the only loss of endowment since the
founding of the first professorship fund had been one
of thirty-eight dollars. It is true that the treasurers
had but a comparatively small amount of money to
care for, but in those days the money was invested
in personal notes, and so required a great deal of
personal attention. In 1855 the bond of the treasurer
was $20,000. Up to the Civil War, during the treas-
urership of Gen. Wallace, only eighty dollars of the
investments was lost, and even that loss did not fall
upon the College, for the treasurer paid the amount
out of his own means. The long terms of service on
the part of Treasurers Berry and Wallace were valu-
able contributions to the welfare of the institution.
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When we take into account the excessive amount
of work that had to be done, and the fact that the
. high-water mark of the salaries
SeciSng Teachers '^'^^^^^^ '^^. P-'of^^f ^s in Mary-
ville College m ante-bellum times
was $600, and the low-water mark $000, it can hardly
be wondered at that it was very difficult to persuade
men to accept professorships at Maryville. Families
must live, and the cost of living calls for some sal-
ary. But the directors, though beggars, were choosers,
for this is a sample of what they said: *The pro-
fessor to fill the chair of Sacred Literature shall be
a man who has received the highest advantages of
education offered in the United States." Dr. Ballen-
tine declined this chair in 1849, ^^d Dr. William Eagle-
ton in 1850. The directors became very much ac-
customed to having their proposals rejected.
When, however, a man felt it his duty to become
a professor at Maryville, the Maryville spirit of dis-
interested benevolence seemed to
GreateTneTpera ^^* Possession of him, and he made
such sacrifices for the institution
as one would be expected to make only for his own
family. If salary was missing, the man taught on,
as if such small matters as food and raiment were
not at all involved in the case.
The budget — how was it financed? Principally by
the teachers' working for practically nothing. And
they did so for the kingdom of heaven's sake. Their
small tuition fees, the meager salaries paid them by
the churches to which they preached on the Sabbath
THE FRIENDS THAT HELPED 93
day, and the income of their farms, kept the wolf
from the door, so that they could almost donate
their services to the institution.
In making an honor roll, then, of the friends that
helped the school, the highest place in that roll must
be given to the professors who served their institution
with such self-sacrificing liberality and fidelity.
CHAPTER IX
The Plant That Had to Serve
The large double log house, seventy feet long, with
its two stories and its rooms, thirty feet by thirty,
that was the home of Union Acad-
The Log Academy ^^^ j^ ^^^^^^ Valley was de-
scribed somewhat in detail in the third chapter. It
was a rather ambitious school building for 1802, and
was several times larger than Rev. William Tennent's
historic *'Log College,'' the mother of all later Presby-
terian schools of higher learning. When Rev. George
Whitefield visited the Log College at Neshaminy, near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he wrote as follows : *'The
place where the young men study now (1739) is, in
contempt, called The College. It is a log house, about
twenty feet long and near as many broad, and to me
it seemed to resemble the school of the old prophets.
. . . All that we can say of most of our universities
is, They are glorious without."
Dr. Anderson conducted his academy, after his re-
moval to Maryville, apparently in more modest quar-
ters, one academy building, as we have seen, stand-
ing where the old jail afterward stood, and the other
old log cabin standing on the banks of Pistol Creek
where the railroad culvert has since been built.
94
THE PLANT THAT HAD TO SERVE 95
Dr. Anderson had young men studying in his own
house during the years that preceded the opening
of the Seminary. His residence
«rm.g "Little
xiic xuttic frame building: standing
Brown House" , ., * . j r
where the Armory stood a few
years ago, but, as we have seen, it was destroyed by
fire in 1856. The class that Dr. Anderson gathered
in 1819 was one to be instructed in literary branches,
the Seminary being formally opened in 1822. The
class of five gathered in 1819 recited in *'a little brown
house" standing on Main Street on the north corner
of the lot where Mr. A. K. Harper's residence now
stands. It was brown, not with paint, but because
weather-beaten. It stood until after the War. Mr.
Eli Nunn occupied it for a while. This was used
probably until the seminary brick building was com-
pleted, two or three years later. Dr. Anderson also
frequently used his own residence for one or more
recitations.
In 1820 a small unfinished two-story brick build-
ing that had been intended for a female academy,
was purchased for $600 from the
^i^^ck House ^^^3t^^3 of the academy, one of
with Six , TAJ i_-
Fireplaces whom was Isaac Anderson him-
self. The building stood on the
half lot at the east corner of the two lots on which
New Providence Church now stands. It was about
twenty-five feet by forty. The Boston Recorder for
December 9, 1820, announces the purchase as fol-
lows: "The Directors of the Southern and Western
Theological Seminary report that they have purchased
96 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
a lot and eligible building in Maryville, Tennessee,
for the use of the Institution at the low price of $600.
The building is of brick, two stories high, with six
fireplaces. The appointed professor is preparing a
course of lectures on didactic theology, and will hold
himself in readiness to communicate all the informa-
tion he may be able in the whole course of prescribed
studies, until other professors shall be chosen."
The building had one large room and two small
rooms downstairs and similar rooms upstairs. The
small rooms were used for dormitory purposes; the
large room upstairs was used for the library, and
the large room downstairs was usually employed for
recitations. Professor Lamar, while a student, roomed
in this building.
The completion of the building involved an expense
that was met by different gifts, but principally by
collections made by agents. This was the theological
seminary building, and it was constantly in use until
the Civil War. While Federal troops camped in
Maryville they tore down the brick seminary to fur-
nish bricks for their '^Dutch ovens"! Some of the
bricks may still be seen in a brick walk at John P.
Duncan's home.
In 1824, for the sum of $400, a lot and a half, ad-
joining the lot on which the seminary building stood,
and containing two small frame
^e Boarding- buildings, was purchased for the
House and Farm , ,. , fi ^ t-. a j
Buildinffs boardmg-house that Dr. Anderson
had decided to establish. He em-
ployed a steward and opened the boarding-house.
THE PLANT THAT HAD TO SERVE 97
When these buildings were removed to allow the main
building of later years to be erected, the boarding-
house was located elsewhere. While the farm was
owned, the boarding-house was located upon it, near
the spring now called the Goddard spring; while,
during the Fifties at least, it was situated on the south
side of Church Street, only a stone's throw from the
main building. Most of these boarding-houses were
frame buildings, small, and inexpensively built.
In 1825 Dr. Anderson "got his eye on the farm
which adjoins the grounds on which the Maryville
College buildings now stand," and sent Mr. Sawtell to
Mississippi and Louisiana to raise the money needed
to buy it. Mr. Sawtell returned after a hard winter's
work with, perhaps, two thousand dollars. The farm
consisted of two hundred acres, of which eighty acres
were in cultivation, and was purchased at a cost of
$2,500. As has been said, it was located in what is
now called South Maryville. It contained a com-
modious dwelling house, a barn, and other houses, and
was well watered by springs. From the first it was
the dream of Dr. Anderson and the directors to re-
move the entire institution to this quieter home, where
the boys would be removed from "the noise and con-
fusion of the town." Maryville was then a giddy
little city of perhaps fifty houses, and perhaps two
hundred and fifty inhabitants. But the dream was
not realized during the lifetime of Dr. Anderson.
The brick building was "the Seminary." In 1829
arrangements were made to erect a frame building,
98 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
thirty feet by sixty, two stories high, for the separate
use of the literary students, as the college department
young men were called. Four years later (1833) the'
building was finished, ready for
The "New"
jLiic iicw ^gg except the putting up of a
College Frame , . . X . . , .
Building chimney, and the citizens had
subscribed sixty dollars towards
the chimney. There was paid out on the building
that year the sum of $623. Two years later (1835)
the directors reported that they were then finishing
the building ! The building was located on the north-
west corner of the lot, and faced Main Street, and
was flush with it.
This building also had six rooms. The first floor
was used as the chapel except for two small rooms at
the southwest end, one of which was a laboratory with
chemical and philosophical apparatus, and the other
a recitation room, long occupied by Professor Pope.
The chapel would seat from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred, and was also used for prayer meetings
and Sabbath school, and Dr. Craig used it as a recita-
tion room. The pulpit was on a three feet by four
platform boxed up about three feet high, and was
located in the east comer of the room. One of our
older citizens recalls seeing John M. Caldwell ordained
to the ministry in this old chapel, on April 2, 1851.
The two small rooms upstairs were used for class-
rooms or dormitory rooms, and the large roorn for
the Beth-Hacma Literary Society hall. A circular
belfry containing a small bell surmounted the build-
THE PLANT THAT HAD TO SERVE 99
ing. A big fish-shaped weather-vane hung above
the belfry.
The exterior of the building, "had it not been for
the numerous windows, might have been taken by a
stranger passing through the place for a cattle barn" !
There was no fence about the square. A grove of
locust trees covered the little campus.
In the south corner of the half-acre campus there
also stood a little frame building owned by the Beth-
Hacma ve Berith Literary Society and used by its
members for their meetings.
In 1849 the Directors reported to Synod that they
had an agent in the field collecting money "for rearing
a College Edifice," and that he had
r 1 1 )> secured subscriptions for $2,000 in
Maryville and vicinity. The next
year the subscriptions had been increased to $3,000.
In 185 1 the members of Synod pledged themselves
"not to let the enterprise fail for the want of the
aid in their power." In 1853 the building had been
commenced and the walls were expected to be erected
and covered that fall. It was located just back of
the frame building and in the center of the two lots.
In 1855 a portion of the building would soon be
ready for use. In 1856 ten rooms had been com-
pleted, and some of them had been occupied as class-
rooms and some of the others by students. The
frame "College" was removed when the brick "Col-
lege" was far enough advanced to be used. In 1858
the debt on the new building was $2,000, and $1,000
was needed to finish it.
loo A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
The catalog of 1854 thus describes the building:
"A large and handsome college building is soon to
be completed. It is of brick, three stories high, and
presents a front of no feet. It contains a chapel,
four recitation rooms, study and lodging rooms suf-
ficient to accommodate sixty or seventy students, and
two halls for the use of the literary societies. . . .
The building, when entirely completed, will be worth
$10,000, and will afford ample accommodations for
the present."
This most ambitious building of the College before
the War was never completed, though it was used in
Its incomplete condition for several years. The War
found it incomplete and left it a ruin. Its story
will be taken up again. The pen and ink sketch of
the building found in this volume was drawn by
John E. Patton, a student of the College during the
years 1849-1852.
During the greater part of the ante-bellum period
New Providence Church occupied the old stone church
which was loi feet by 60 in dimen-
The Old Stone ^j^^^g j^^. j^^^^ Gillespie, writ-
Church . . ^ . , r 1 1 1 1
mg m 1095, said of the old days:
*Tn those days almost all the public exhibitions at
the close of the term were held either in the large
stone church, which stood where now stands Colum-
bian Hall, or at the camp ground located where Mr.
Hyden now lives. Usually at the closing exercises
the graduating class, with the help of the ladies, would
fit up the old stone church in a becoming style. Gen-
erally at this time the two societies would close the
THE PLANT THAT HAiy TO- ^BRVJf • foi
exercises with a debate ; this debate was at night, and
at that time we had no electric lights, no gas lights,
not even coal-oil lamps; in fact nothing ordinarily
but home-made tallow candles; but on these grand
occasions we would send to Knoxville and get a lot
of sperm candles, and it took a lot of them, you may
be sure, to light up the large old church. A large
home-made chandelier was hung in the center and
filled with these candles and festooned in beautiful
style. On these occasions the old church, which would
seat some fifteen to eighteen hundred people, was usu-
ally packed to its utmost capacity. Sometimes at the
close of the year, in place of a debate, the societies
would get up an exhibition, and when this was the
case the old camp-ground shed would be brought into
requisition, and I do not think I exaggerate when
I say that there were sometimes from 2,500 to 3,000
persons gathered to witness these plays."
President Robinson and Professor Lamar recog-
nized the unfavorable and cramped location of the
College on its town lots on Main
Dream Buildings Street, and looked enviously over
Hills^^^ ^ toward "the south hills," where a
beautiful location could anywhere
be found for a new Maryville College. So pressing
did the need of removal seem to them that they se-
cured from the Synod, in 1858, the adoption of reso-
lutions authorizing a special committee to make an
appeal to '^persons of well-known benevolence and
Christian liberality to furnish voluntary contributions
for the erection of new buildings in the vicinity of
i02 A CENTURY. OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Maryville for the use of Maryville College." It was
specified that "no building shall be undertaken until
ten thousand dollars cash in hand shall have been
obtained." The donor should have the privilege of
naming the building he erected. The wildest dreams
of those days have now been far more than realized.
A little city crowns the "south hills."
"So great was their faith in the feasibility of their
plans," says Captain W. H. Henry, "and such their
determination to see them carried out, that Dr. Robin-
son and Professor Lamar gave their joint personal
obligations for $2,000 to secure fifty acres of ground
just west of the present grounds for that purpose."
The Civil War, however, put an end to all this dream-
ing and planning.
Such, then, was the plant that had to serve the Col-
lege before the War. Professor Lamar sums it up
in the brief lines: "At the begin-
Total Property at ^j ^^ ^^^ q^jj ^^^ ^j^^ ^^j^^.
Outbreak of War ^ . . ^ , ^ ,,
ment fund of the College amount-
ed to about $16,000. The real estate consisted of
two half -acre lots with three buildings — one wooden
(the boarding-house), one small brick, and a large
brick unfinished. The library contained about 6,000
volumes. The indebtedness of the College amounted
to $1,000."
CHAPTER X
Crises and the Cataclysm
As has, certainly, been indicated by the preceding
chapters, Maryville College really had never, thus
far, been free from a crisis.
CrisiT*^^^^^^ "Crisis'' was engaged in a continu-
ous performance. There had been
good and sufficient reasons in every year of the his-
tory of the institution to give up the whole attempt to
keep the school in operation. The question was not
whether the reasons for giving up were sufficiently
strong, but it was, rather, whether the spirit of self-
denying service on the part of the professors in
charge would become sufficiently weak to be finally
exhausted. The splendid fact was, as we have seen,
that the college altruism did not fail ; and so the con-
tinuous crisis did not end in a cataclysm. The College
lived right on in spite of the chronic crisis. Pluck,
prayer, and perseverance defied the ever-threatening
disaster.
There were three attempts to remove the institu-
tion from Maryville. The first took place at the very
beginning of the career of the institution. There was
a strong body of Tennessee Presbyterians west of the
Cumberlands who very naturally wanted the new semi-
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104 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
nary to be located within reaching distance of their
churches. There was much preliminary sparring pre-
paratory to the real battle, which
AUem te at ^""^^^^ ^''''^ ^'^^^ ^^ ^^^ '^^^^'''^ ""^
Removal Synod at Murfreesboro, in 1823.
Murfreesboro was then the capital
of the State. Governor Carroll was inaugurated while
Synod was in session.
When the great debate between Dr. Isaac Ander-
son and Dr. Gideon Blackburn about the location of
the Seminary was in progress, most of the legislators
were interested spectators. The East Tennessee dele-
gates to Synod were in a hopeless minority, for only
six were present; but their champion, Dr. Anderson,
adopted the Napoleonic strategy of "Divide and con-
quer." He had Dr. Blackburn's plan read and dis-
cussed seriatim, and succeeded in convincing the Synod
of its impracticability in all its parts. The decision
as to the permanent location of the Seminary was
"deferred to some future meeting." The next year
at Columbia, the Synod resolved that "the Southern
and Western Theological Seminary be, and it hereby
is, permanently located at Maryville in East Ten-
nessee."
The second attempt to remove the Seminary was a
peculiar one. Dr. Hardin, in the field as an agent
of the Seminary in 1827, entered into an agreement at
Danville to remove the Seminary to Danville, to con-
solidate it with the seminary that the Kentucky people
had under contemplation. Then he carried a round-
robin agreement throughout southwestern Virginia and
CRISES AND THE CATACLYSM 105
East Tennessee and secured the signature of every
Presbyterian minister except Rev. William Minnis.
Dr. Minnis was one of the first graduates of the Semi-
nary, and for nearly forty years he proved himself
a Stonewall in defense of his alma mater. Others
surrendered, but he never.
Dr. Anderson was at first crushed, and, in tears on
account of the seeming ingratitude of the brethren,
signed the round robin ; but he soon regained his nerve,
and with Dr. Minnis, Dr. McCampbell, and others,
snatched victory out of defeat. In a letter written at
this time. Dr. Anderson stated that he had nineteen
reasons why he was unwilling that the Seminary
should cease its existence. The friends of Maryville
rallied, and raised the $10,000 subscription for the
first endowed professorship, of which mention has
already been made. This put a quietus on Dr. Har-
din's plan.
Early in the Fifties the College passed through a
crisis that was almost fatal to it. The great national
crisis was in precipitation, but the
x^^^l^-^x- collesfe crisis anticipated it several
the Fifties t^u • • 1 • r
years, ihe prmcipal occasion of
the crisis was the collapse of the physical and mental
powers of Dr. Anderson. For several years before
his death, in 1857, ^^* Anderson's disability removed
his strong hand from the helm. His second child-
hood was a pathetic and yet noble one, as was shown
in his farewell conversation with his old pupil. Dr.
Abel Pearson. The number of students in attend-
5Uice greatly decreased. The financial difficulties of
io6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the school became so acute that, as has been said
before, the faculty collapsed, and Dr. Craig was left
as the only professor in the school, and in 1856, at
least, no instruction in the theological department was
given. For several years no professor of mathematics
was elected for lack of a salary.
Naturally there was much criticism of the College
while its fortunes were at this low ebb. At Blount-
ville, Synod appointed a special committee on the
general subject of the building up of a strong college
and theological seminary. The majority report pre-
vailed, opening the way for the removal of the insti-
tution from Mary ville to some other place. Dr. Will-
iam Minnis, thirty years after his first "Stonewair'
service, presented a brief but incisive report opposing
the transfer for five conclusive reasons. He concluded
his report with the earnest words: "We therefore
would recommend that the Synod, in place of pulling
down and starting anew, would proceed harmoniously
to build upon our present foundations, laid in prayers,
tears, and self-denials, and almost the sacrifice of
life." Dr. Craig says of *'the curly-headed Scotch-
Irishman," Dr. Minnis: "East Tennessee never, per-
haps, had an abler and more logical preacher and
defender of the truth. He was one of the Boanerges."
The next year (1856), at Athens, the Synod by a de-
cisive vote resolved that "it would be inexpedient
to accept the proposals to found another literary and
theological institution within our bounds." The liberal
oflFer of Rogersville was, however, put on record. It
was an offer of one hundred and forty scholarships
CRISES AND THE CATACLYSM 107
of $250 each, and of the local Presbyterian church
building and lot, on condition that Rogersville should
be the site of the new institution. Thus ended the
third and last attempt to remove the institution to
some other location.
The next day Rev. Thomas Jefferson Lamar was
elected Professor of Sacred Literature. The next
year Dr. Robinson was elected president, and seemed
soon to harmonize the discordant elements in the
Synod.
During this decade the theological department was
almost extinct. There was, usually, only one or two
enrolled in the department. The
The Seminary ^^^^^ ^f ^^^ ^^j^^^j ^^^^ j^
Department ^ . -^. ...
Dormant easier for young men to decide to
go to other seminaries that had
now been established, and that were available by rail-
road. Out of the college class of 1850, three gradu-
ates went elsewhere to a seminary. The Education
Society no longer aided the candidates for the min-
istry. There had been for many years a seculariza-
tion, not of the College, but of the age. .The Synod
lamented from year to year the paucity of candidates
for the ministry. The result of these various influ-
ences was the virtual extinction of the theological
department before the Civil War finally deposited it
among the other wreckage of the past.
The college department had been found necessary
at the very beginning of the Seminary, and so the
constitution had been changed to provide for it. It
was evident from the earliest days that, whatever
io8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
might be true of the theological department, the col-
lege department would develop just as rapidly as the
facilities provided for it might make it possible. The
conspicuous service of the semi-
ExMndeT^ nary department v^as rendered dur-
ing the first twenty-three years of
the life of the institution. The charter of "Maryville
College'' was secured in 1842 ; and, by chance, that is
the date when the seminary passes into eclipse and the
college department begins to shine in full brightness.
The late Hon. J. G. Wallace, of Franklin, one of
Treasurer Wallace's sons, received in 1844 the first
printed diploma issued by the College. From 1842
to 1 861 the seminary was merely nominal, while
the college developed steadily, and, to the extent of its
limited facilities, came to be strong and scholarly and
successful. As time passed, the nomenclature ad-
justed itself to the new conditions, and the institution
was spoken of as "the College" instead of "the Semi-
nary." As has been said, plans for a new location
and for larger facilities were being made at the very
time when the Civil War — the end of the world, as
it seemed — ^burst upon the country.
The field of the College was broadening. The At-
lanta Constitution of April 23, 1886, gave a list of
Broadening twenty-three prominent citizens of
Field DeKalb County, Georgia, who had
been educated in Maryville College. Several of them
were in attendance during the Fifties. The clientage
of the school was waking up to the opportunities at
Maryville, and the character of the work done there.
CRISES AND THE CATACLYSM 109
Most of the Southwestern States were represented
in the attendance of the last two or three years of
the ante-bellum College. Had not the War intervened,
it was probable that the enrollment of students would
soon have greatly increased. It did increase from
sixty in 1857 ^^ over one hundred in 1861. President
Robinson, Professors Craig and Lamar, and a tutor
made a strong and efficient faculty, and the work was
more consistent and better articulated than for many
years. There were indications also of the existence
of a larger number of friends ready to cooperate
with the College. Maryville was, evidently, coming
into its own.
One of the invaluable records destroyed when the
library of Dr. Anderson was consumed by fire was
a private register, gratefully kept
SieoV^cal ^^ *^ Doctor, of those who had
Department ^^^^ educated for the ministry at
Maryville since the founding of
the Seminary. That was, doubtless, the only complete
list that was ever in existence. In the catalog of
1859 a list of about one hundred ministers educated
in the Seminary was published. Professor Lamar,
however, added many names to the list, and stated
that the entire number of such ministers amounted
to at least one hundred and fifty. A remarkable
achievement was this to be wrought amid such limi-
tations of men and money as prevailed at this frontier
Seminary.
The loss of all the records makes it impossible
also to give any exact summary of the work of the
no A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
college department. There is no record available of
even the number of graduates of the College in ante-
bellum days. It is believed that there were at least
two hundred and fifty of them in
Work of College ^„ departments, and that is
Department , ^, ' , . ^
the number used as a basis for
the statistical summaries of the work of the institu-
tion. The catalog of 1858 says : "Hundreds of young
men have been educated for the learned professions
who have attained to positions of eminence and use-
fulness."
In a section of the country and at a period when
there were few preparatory schools and no high
schools, it was necessary for every
worK or college to conduct a preparatory
Dep^tmeJt department. Indeed, there was
then hardly a college in the United
States that did not have such a department. In Mary-
ville there were many students who afterward were
the leading business men of the section who received
what education they had in this department. The
teaching was doqe in part by student assistants — often
mature men — and in part by the regular professors
of the college and the seminary. The attendance was
about the same as in the college department. The
debt owed by the state to the voluntary and indis-
pensable aid afforded by the church schools in the
days when the state was doing comparatively little
for popular education can never be fully appreciated
or liquidated.
One man is not so impressive a sight as are forty.
CRISES AND THE CATACLYSM ill
but one man in forty years may accomplish what
forty men could do in one year, or even more than
they. A modest school may not attract much public
attention or applause, but in the
Forty Times One ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ j^ ^g^^^
Is Forty , ^u ^
much more than do some more
ambitious schools of fewer years. With the facili-
ties at command, and with the hindrances to be met,
surely old Pvlaryville has performed as worthy a ser-
vice as any institution has ever rendered.
In the progress of the years, the quiet college halls
caught the sound of discordant debate and angry dis-
cussion, and witnessed premoni-
isugie tall tions, perhaps at the time not treat-
ed seriously, of the coming national
division and desolation. The muttered threat, suc-
ceeded by angry quarreling, was suddenly drowned out
by the heart-stirring bugle blast summoning men to
arms ! The clarion calls of hostile bugles echoed and
reechoed among the East Tennessee hills, and awoke
in young and brave and excited hearts a response that
boded ill for the continuance of college work. The call
of patriotism, the impulse of passion, the love of ad-
venture, the ignominy of cowardice — ^all sounded louder
than did the quiet tones of peace and school and home.
The Latin maxim, *'In the midst of arms, the laws
are silent," may be freely adapted to say : In the time
of war, schools are closed. Fort
csM ^1. e^^i Sumter was fired upon on April
Silent Scholae ^^ r> j- ^ r u ir
12, 1861. By dmt of much self-
possession and with many searchings of heart the
112 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
professors and their students had managed to con-
tinue their usual work during the turmoil of the
months since November, i860; and even now they
were able to hold on with their work for a few days
longer. But it was impossible that the quiet pursuits
of peace could be followed in the presence of the
cataclysm of civil war, and especially so in the Volun-
teer State, where men are always prompt to answer
their country's call.
On April 22, 1861, less than a week after the first
blood of the Civil War was spilled, the last chapel
exercise was held. Dr. Robinson conducted the ser-
vice, and announced the suspension of the college
work "on account of a state of armed hostilities in
the country." And the teachers and students sep-
arated, most of them to take up arms for whichever
cause seemed right to them. Some of the students
were to die in battle or in the hospital; and not one
of them was to come back to the old College when
the cruel war was over. Their schooldays at Mary-
ville were ended.
It was sadly typical of the divisions made by the
War that of the four teachers — three professors and
-« ^ . , one tutor — at work in 1861 two
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sympathized with the Union and
two with the Confederacy. Of the students some
"went North" and some "went South"; and some
found themselves arrayed against their friends and
kinsmen and a few even against their fathers. Those
were dreadful days and they tried men's souls.
And all that Maryville's lovers of the church, of edu-
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cation, and of the future could do was to do what
seemed to them their duty; and then to live or die,
as the Lord of Sabaoth should determine. And, yet,
perhaps, in God's good time, there might some day be
such a thing as peace again; and peaceful ways and
works; and, possibly, open schools; and, if the Al-
mighty God should lay bare his mighty arm, there
might be — ^yes, there might be — some day, another
Maryville College, with its old-time altruism, bidding
the young people of the Southwest to enter as of
yore !
Men fought and waited, and the thoughtful ones
prayed as they fought, and watched as they waited,
and sometimes caught a vision of a possible answer to
their prayers, so that their hearts were glad with
a joy that can not be measured:
"Peace! and no longer from its brazing portals
The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies!
But beautiful as songs of the immortals.
The holy melodies of love arise."
Rev. Thomas Jefferson Lamar, Second Founder.
PART SECOND. THE POST-BELLUM
MARYVILLE
CHAPTER I
College Ruins — 1865-1869
It seemed as if the four weary years of the Civil
War would never end. At last, however, the thunder
of hostile guns died away, and men said that peace
had come. The armies disbanded, and their veterans
took up again the pursuits of other days. Man must
do his work even if his heart is sore.
It was a dark day in 1865, a^d Professor Lamar
stood alone and heart-sick at the intersection of Main
- -^. , «^ and College Streets, in the little
town of Maryville. The clouds
hung lowering over the scene. They resembled the
smoke of battle, but they were only natural clouds
of mist, and not the unnatural smoke of civil strife.
The War, thank God, was over. But not so, as yet,
were the results of war. The ruin and wreckage of
that abomination of desolation had not yet been cleared
away. The town looked grim and gloomy, indeed.
The old Court House up the street showed ghastly
wounds inflicted by shot and shell fired by Wheeler's
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ii6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
men; beyond and opposite the Court House, on both
sides of the street, the principal business portion of
the town lay in cinders and ashes, as another memento
of Wheeler's raid; while down the street the ram-
shackle hotel, the successor of an important inn on
"the Federal Road,'' showed by its shattered windows
and plaster pillars all agape that unhappy days had
befallen the hospitable old hostelry.
The few men that rode horseback up Main Street
— for there were few buggies to use in those days —
some of them wore suits of blue or brown jeans that
had been woven, cut, and made at home. Here and
there a suit of soldier's blue or gray that had outlived
the camp and campaign were reminders of a house
divided against itself. The farms from which the
horsemen, had come were most of them gully-gashed,
fenceless, and wretchedly stocked with the left-over
cavalry wrecks of cruel war — for war is as destructive
of horses as it is of men.
In those early post-bellum days, whenever the cau-
tious reserve and prudent reticence into which the
Gloom and Grief P^^P^^ had been trained by the
daily dangers of war, were put
aside, it could easily be seen that there was heavy
gloom within as well as without. There were many
hearts and homes of mourning for the dead of many
battle-fields ; and many hearts of hate for wrongs in-
flicted during those irresponsible years of bloodshed.
Mingled even with the profound happiness arising
out of the fact that the war was over, were suspicion
and anxiety and dread as to the future.
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But while the professor standing at the meeting of
the ways felt the gloom about him, as during all the
sad Sixties he had felt it, what
then was the scene immediately be-
fore him. The two quarter-acre town lots now graced
by the beautiful edifice of New Providence Church
were then occupied by the one surviving building of
Maryville College — the three-story brick building,
which had not been completed at the outbreak of the
War, and which now in the last stages of dilapidation
would surely never be completed. Indeed, the boys
who played about the doorless structure might well
have found a safer place for their sport.
The "College," poorly built at best, after serving
both armies as barracks and stable for four destruc-
tive years, was now a mere shell, an unsubstantial
ghost of an unsatisfactory building. The door-frames
and window- frames had been torn out for fuel. Its
smaller and older companion, the little two-story, six-
roomed brick "Seminary," located in the east corner
of the narrow campus, had been torn away in war
times, as we have seen, by the blue- jackets to make
ovens for the mess shanties on their camping ground.
The main building itself might appropriately have
shared the fate of its smaller colleague, for it surely
was suitable for nothing better; it was a disreputable
old hulk.
And not only was the building a wreck, but it did
not even belong to the College. It had been sold for
debt during the War. It was no longer "Maryville
ii8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
College," but was merely a battered piece of property
owned by other parties.
The professor who stood there had graduated from
the College seventeen years before, and had been
elected a professor in it nine years
Pe^^lT"^''^''* before, and had stayed by it
throughout the dark years of the
War, and had prayed for it every day at family wor-
ship, and still loved it with all his soul. As he viewed
his dear old college home in ruins, he had the addi-
tional sorrow of knowing that those friends of the
College that would have helped rebuild its walls, if
they could, were themselves the victims of war, and
were not able to lend any appreciable help in the re-
building of a college. Reduced to hard straits by the
War, they had enough trouble, penury, and poverty
of their own, without assuming any in behalf of a
defunct school. Let it remain dead! Public spirit
was dead. Many precious lives had passed away
during the holocaust of the four years ; one corporate
life, more or less, was of little moment compared with
those costly losses of fathers and husbands and
brothers and sons that had filled the land with one
long-continued agony.
What! build the College again! One professor,
one building in ruins, no property, and no friends able
to help! And the teacher looked
Ra^^oTHo^^^ up and down the street, and across
the desolate hills on either side, and
the sight was sufficient to proclaim as only an idle
dream the fancy of attempting to build a college on
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such ruins as lay before him. Where was help to
be found? He had looked on every side to no avail.
Now, like Isaac Anderson of the earlier days, when
all else failed, he looked within and saw the glim-
mering hope of a resolute human will. And yet he
felt that only if there were windows in heaven could
these things be! However, he looked upward, and
there he saw a window ajar, and a glimmer of hope
shining through. And then he went on his way, some-
what cheered in heart and altogether resolute in will,
to do what man could do to rebuild the walls of his
Zion. Since there was a window in heaven, please
God, these things could and should be.
On an October day in 1865 our preacher-teacher
went to New Market to attend the first meeting of
the Synod of Tennessee that was
fn^S^^^ held after the Civil War, and, in-
deed, the first since 1862. Should
the S)mod reopen the College? In the discussion, an
earnest address of Hon. Horace Maynard had much
to do with leading the Synod to determine to attempt
the seemingly impossible. The following day thirty-
six directors were elected. The Synod then ordered
the newly-appointed directors to elect a treasurer, to
redeem the property, to pay debts, and to invest what
might remain in suitable securities; and it also di-
rected that the advisability of appointing one or two
professors should be taken under consideration. A
committee chosen to consider the appointment of an
agent to attempt to secure funds for the College
120 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
nominated Professor Thomas Jefferson Lamar, the
man of the vision, to serve as such an agent.
And all this constructive planning took place at
a Synod where the Committee on the Narrative of
the State of Religion began its re-
Lamentations ^^^^ ^^* ^^^^^ infinitely pathetic
words: *'0h, that my head were
waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of the daughter
of my people ! The waves of war have swept up and
down the valley of our East Tennessee, and the fence-
less fields, the unmended roads, the prostrate forests,
the open schoolhouses without windows and doors,
and the dismantled churches mark the path of the
fiery surges. The dead are sleeping in our valleys
and along our hillsides, and the soil of many a field
has been wet with human blood."
Professor Lamar returned to Maryville the unsal-
aried but divinely commissioned man whose business
. it was to reestablish Maryville
D^^tioT College. Late in December, 1865,
he made a trip to the North in the
hope that he might secure help for the College. Shrink-
ing from the work of solicitation of help, he still did
manfully for the College what he never would have
done for any other cause; but apparently all in vain.
He returned in April, 1866, having secured only one
hundred and twenty-five dollars, while the expenses
of the journey were one hundred and ninety-eight
dollars. What had become of that window above?
Ah, well! he was merely learning that the infinitely
Dr. P. Mason Bartlett, Third President.
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patient God will not greatly use any one until that
one has schooled himself to do his best and then bide
God's time.
Instead of despairing, as he should have done had
it not been for his seeing the Invisible, he returned
home, as "in the beginning" Dr. Anderson did from
his historic visit to Princeton, to make a college him-
self, since others would not provide it. In view of the
fact that he had no money to invest, again like Dr.
Anderson, he determined to invest himself. And this
is just what Providence wants — a man with whom and
through whom to work. With God the man is the
most important endowment of any cause. The man
he must have; the money he already has an abund-
ance of in reserve, and when he sees best he will,
as he has done in the case of Maryville, most gener-
ously provide it.
On an auspicious and patriotic day, July 4, 1866,
Professor Lamar, through Rev. Ralph E. Tedford,
the Recorder of the Directors and
A •Al''^^''^^ the father of the future Mrs. La-
Amid the Ruins . , . . ,
mar, issued a one-paged circular
announcing that Maryville College would reopen on
the first Wednesday of September, 1866. By cor-
respondence and visits, the Professor did what he
could to secure students. Those were days of home
and farm reconstruction, and many who longed for
an education could not be spared from their homes.
However, on the morning of September 5, Professor
Lamar, the acting-president and acting-faculty and
acting- janitor of the College, rang the same old cruel-
122 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
throated bell that throughout the decades has sum-
moned the students to their tasks. Soon there gath-
ered for the first post-bellum chapel exercise thirteen
young men, most of whom had come directly from
the farm: Frank M. Allen, George E. Bicknell, Gid-
eon S. W. Crawford, Calvin A. Duncan, James A.
Goddard, Benjamin H. Lea, Isaac A. Martin, William
H. Porter, Edward W. Sanderson, Hugh W. Sawyer,
Joseph P. Tedford, Charles E. Tedford, and Edward
W. Tedford. Four of the thirteen had been soldier
boys. And all the company had the spirit of the
thirteen "No Surrender" apprentice lads of London-
derry. One of the number afterward said : "Every-
thing was so horrible and disgusting that some of
the students almost determined to leave in spite of
the professor's entreaties. But after attachments were
formed, and the number of students had increased, the
school went on finely."
The modest endowment and the limited property of
the ante-bellum days were almost entirely swept away
« „ « , by the besom of war. All that
Small Salvage ,11 , , r ,1
could be gathered from the dust
and ashes of 1865 amounted to about six thousand
dollars in value. Small salvage, indeed! But there
was salvage of another kind whose value could not
be computed in terms of the dollar and its multiples.
When Professor Lamar gazed on the ruins of Mary-
ville he saw in his mind's eye more than appeared
before him. The finances were, indeed, phantoms;
but not so was the memory of the men that made
Maryville in the early days. Those men stood be-
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fore him again in all their faith, fidelity, devotion, and
heroic zeal, and he felt his own brave spirit grow
braver. As he himself said : "The work of these men
formed a basis on which to stand and from which
to work and appeal for help with encouragement and
hope."
What he saw in part and imperfectly, God saw in
full and perfectly. The foundations that God saw
had more of tears and self-denial
Significant ^^^ loving consecration in them
^ than they had of dollars and bricks
and mortar. The achievements that God saw were not
classic halls and ivied towers and scholastic pomp, but
buildings of human intelligence and structures of
beneficent character and homes of modest helpfulness,
which the builders of early Maryville had constructed.
The endowments that God saw were not the perishable
riches of men but the imperishable treasure of Chris-
tian manhood laid up by prayer and praise before
the very throne of God in heaven. This was the most
active endowment that any college could have, and
Maryville had much of it, for its founders were pre-
eminently men of prayer. This capital, then, Mary-
ville had to begin with, when beginning life all over,
in the middle Sixties. Salvage worth while, indeed,
was this precious capital saved from the wreckage of
the past.
The miracle of modern Maryville came about partly
because God was mindful of the foundations and
achievements and endowments contributed by Isaac
Anderson and his colleagues to the ante-bellum Mary-
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ville. But God was also mindful of the royal spirit
of eager service on the part of Professor Lamar and
of the noble colleagues whom, as time went on, he
gathered around him.
Professor Lamar was thoroughly imbued with the
spirit of Maryville. Born in Jefferson County on
November 21, 1826, he spent his
Maryville's earliest school-days at Holston
Second Founder ., .xttv/ti. j
Academy m New Market; and
then the years 1844- 1848 in Maryville, where he took
the Bachelor's degree in 1848 ; he studied divinity one
year in the theological department at Maryville; and
then took the three years' course at Union Theological
Seminary in New York City, graduating there in
1852. He was one of the best educated of the ante-
bellum Maryville men. He was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of Brooklyn in 1852; and in 1854 he
was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of
Lexington, Missouri.
In 1856 he was chosen Professor of Sacred Litera-
ture in his alma mater, and began to serve in 1857.
His spirit was chastened by the death of his wife
about the beginning of the War, and by twelve years
of devoted care for his invalid daughter. He developed
a rare spirit of unselfishness. He felt called to the
mission of rebuilding Maryville College. His firm
convictions and his high sense of duty made him a
Rock of Gibraltar in those troublous times. His states-
manship, remarkable for its far-sightedness, showed
itself in his leadership of the causes he espoused. His
genius of perseverance and dogged persistence were
COLLEGE RUINS— 1865-1869 125
a rich asset of the College in those days of making
bricks without straw. And, with it all, he was the
most modest of men. All the persuasion of his friends
could not induce him to accept the degree of Doctor
of Divinity conferred upon him by Wooster Uni-
versity; he modestly declined the honor. So vital was
his part in the reviving of Maryville that many of
the friends of the institution came to regard him as
the chief endowment of the College.
The little faculty began to grow. Professor Lamar,
as we have seen, was the charter member. He gradu-
ally gathered around him a small
His First ^^^ ^^i^ I^qJ Qf colaborers. His
Colaborers r • 1.^ j j 4. x-
far-sightedness and accurate esti-
mates of character were illustrated in the choices he
made. The first professor added was Rev. Alexander
Bartlett, who began in October, 1867, a notable service
of sixteen years. His chair was that of Latin, but
he taught in several departments. His colleagues used
to say that his scholarship was so general and so
thorough and his genius so versatile that there was
hardly a course of study given in the institution that
he could not have satisfactorily conducted. His stu-
dents felt the profoundest respect for his learning,
his industry, his kindliness, and his sterling Christian
character. His sudden and lamented death occurred
on November 19, 1883. His brother, Rev. P. Mason
Bartlett, D.D., did not begin his active service until
in March, 1869. Special mention of his work belongs
to the next two chapters.
The recitations were held in the old brick barracks
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for about four years. This was done in spite of the
fact that a committee of the Directors had reported
that the building could be made
SrE^fiis^^^ safe only by removing the third
story and placing the roof on the
second story. Some of the students even ventured,
although with much trepidation, to room on the sec-
ond floor of the ruin. With admirable forethought,
they selected the limbs of the adjoining trees to which
they would leap when the walls should begin to col-
lapse ! One Sabbath afternoon in the spring of 1870,
when no one was in the building, there was a sudden
roar and a crash ; a large segment of the wall facing
Main Street had buckled out and collapsed in ruins.
The building was then abandoned, torn down, and
removed, and Maryville College started on its travels.
It had already removed part of its work eastward half
a block to the old boarding-house, a little frame build-
ing that stood on Church Street, where now the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church stands. Here and in a little
house at the west corner of Main and College Streets
the College kept its humble state until the following
October.
Meanwhile, William Thaw, of Pittsburgh, John
Center Baldwin, of New York, and other friends be-
came interested in the College ; and
^ r"^ sufficient funds were secured to
realize the dream of a decade
earlier in the purchase of a new campus on the hills
to the east of town, and the erection of college build-
ings thereupon. At first sixty-five acres were pur-
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chased; but later on additional purchases were made,
increasing the campus to its present broad extent of
two hundred and fifty acres, as noble a domain as
any college could desire.
The first building erected on the new college grounds
was a residence for Professor Bartlett, located in the
edge of the woods ; it was built in 1868. The follow-
ing year the foundation of the new college building,
Anderson Hall, was laid on what now took the name
College Hill; and Maryville's friends rejoiced that the
ruins were disappearing, and that instead there was
arising. Phoenix-like, a new and greater Maryville.
CHAPTER II
College Re-Creation — 1869-1880
The rebuilding of the political institutions of the
South after the Civil War was styled their "recon-
struction," a term that came to
?£?:nl°uctron" have an unhappy signification. In
the case of the remakmg of
Maryville College, after its destruction by the War,
the word "reconstruction" can hardly be used with
propriety, for there was too little salvage to provide
any building material. It was a re-creation and not
a reconstruction that took place. The work of found- 1
ing the College had to be done a second time. The
work of the founder had now to be supplemented by
that of a refounder; the "days of creation" of which
a former chapter treated had now to be followed
by days of re-creation. It might be reconstruction in
the South at large, but it must be re-creation in the
case of Maryville.
In the fall of 1868 Rev. P. Mason Bartlett, D.D.,
LL.D., was elected president of the College; and in
March, 1869, he entered upon the
Dr. Ba^lett, the discharge of the duties of his of-
Third President ^ t ,i_ . r .i.
nee. In the announcement of the
opening of the College in 1866 his name had appeared
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COLLEGE RE-CREATION— 1869-1880 129
as teacher of Mathematics with that of Professor La-
mar, who was to be teacher of Languages, but he did
not begin his work in the College until nearly three
years later. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut,
on February 6, 1820, and graduated from Williams
College in the Class of 1850, and from Union Theo-
logical Seminary in the Class of 1853. In the Semi-
nary he began his lifelong friendship for Professor
Lamar who was a member of the Class of 1852. He
served in the ministry in Ohio and in New York from
1853 to 1 86 1 ; was chaplain in the United States Army
from 1862 to 1864; and served in the ministry in
Massachusetts and Connecticut from 1864 to 1868.
He was president of Maryville College for a term
of eighteen years. Besides performing the many and
varied duties of president, he regularly conducted all
the courses of study pursued by the Senior Class.
Those courses were also many and varied, the curric-
ulum comparing favorably with that of any small col-
lege of those days. Dr. Bartlett was a very versatile
teacher, and was especially strong in philosophy and
psychology. At the same time, he was also of an emi-
nently practical turn of mind. As chairman of the
building committee charged with the erection of the
three new buildings, he served with the efficiency of
a skilled architect and builder. The present soundness
and serviceability of these old buildings is an eloquent
testimonial to his skill and fidelity in the oversight of
their erection. And he was also a builder of such per-
manent spiritual institutions as the Tuesday Evening
Conference and the February Meetings ; for both these
130 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
characteristic Maryville institutions were established
during his presidency.
Dr. Bartlett was a man of robust physique, and of
soldierly carriage and bearing. He was full of energy
and enthusiasm, and was an able and eloquent speaker.
In addition to his work in the College, he preached
often throughout East Tennessee. He served as presi-
dent of the Bank of Maryville from its founding till
the time of his death, which took place on October 22y
1901.
The trio, President Bartlett and Professors Lamar
and Bartlett, had heavy burdens of administration and
instruction to bear, and usually had
KevMj. b. W. ^j^j Qj^g Qj. ^^^ assistants besides
GrflrWioru. &
Fourth Professar ^^^^ student helpers. In 1874,
Rev. Gideon S. W. Crawford be-
came a tutor, and the next year was made full pro-
fessor of mathematics ; and so the trio became a quar-
tette. His services, like those of Professor Bartlett,
extended through sixteen years, during which time he
bore his share of the many and heavy burdens of the
institution. He was one of the original thirteen stu-
dents. He entered in 1866, and graduated in 1871.
At the call of his alma mater, he returned to her ser-
vice after three years, two of which were spent in
Union Theological Seminary and one in Lane Theo-
logical Seminary. He was one of the worthiest sons
of the College, and gave to it unstintedly of his accu-
rate scholarship and loyal endeavor. During the years
1882-1883 he served the State of Tennessee as Super-
intendent of Public Instruction. He was Stated
Prof. Crawford and His Successor, Dean Waller.
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COLLEGE RE-CREATION— 1869-1880 131
Clerk of the Synod of Tennessee during the last four
years of his life. His early death in 1891 was a
calamity to the College. In 1912 friends established
a Crawford Self-Help Fund in his memory.
The writer recited for five years to these four
earliest post-bellum professors, and, as he recalls their
scholarly equipment and methods, he is at once proud
and personally thankful that the renascent Mary ville
of the Seventies could boast such an able and thorough-
going faculty.
In the spring of 1869, there were enough funds
pledged by the new friends of the College to warrant
the Directors in ordering, as they
Anderson, ^jj ^^^ erection, on the new cam-
Baldwin, and - , ^ ^, . 1 . u^u 1
Memorial Halls P^^^ of what they styled the col-
lege edifice," a three-story brick
building to be called Anderson Hall. It was to cost
about twenty-five thousand dollars — more than two
and a half times what the former main building, its
prototype, had cost. The new president, who had just
arrived, took charge of the work, and within eighteen
months had the satisfaction of seeing Anderson Hall
completed. An epochal event it was when the college
classrooms were transferred from the weather-beaten
little one-story building on Church Street to the un-
precedented grandeur of the spacious and substantial
building on College Hill !
But even greater days were coming, for more money
had been promised, and two dormitories were decided
upon. In 1870 Memorial and Baldwin Halls were be-
gun ; both of them were completed in time for use in
132 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
1 87 1. Memorial Hall commemorated in its name the
union of the Old and New School Presbyterian
Churches, while Baldwin Hall was named for John
Center Baldwin, the first large giver to Maryville, who
contributed the princely sum of $25,400 to the erection
of the new buildings. Unlike Anderson Hall, these
halls were frame buildings, but right stately they
seemed to those who had been living amid ruins only a
few months before. They provided, besides accommo-
dations for a college boarding hall, rooms for one hun-
dred and thirty students, a larger number than was
ever enrolled before the War. When the three build-
ings in imposing line crowned College Hill, the old
friends of Maryville rejoiced at the surpassing miracle
that met their eyes.
In 1865, ruin and desolation; now in 1871, six years
later, a spacious and beautiful campus, adorned with
three large and shapely buildings
t7^^! ?iF^ ^ that had cost fifty thousand dol-
TJplifted Beyond , . , 1 • , ; 1 r
j£qp^)) lars, and behmd them the profes-
sor's residence at the edge of the
woods. In 1867, at the end of the first year, there was
a college department of two students — one Sophomore
and one Junior; and forty-three preparatory depart-
ment students. In 1871, at the end of the fifth year, a
class of five promising young men graduated ; the col-
lege department numbered seventeen, while the pre-
paratory department and the young women's depart-
ment together numbered eighty-three, making a total
of an even hundred. The College was already in
equipment immeasurably in advance of the old College
COLLEGE RE-CREATION— 1869-1880 133
that the Civil War had destroyed; and even in at-
tendance the record was already equal to the best
record of ante-bellum days. The realization was
already better than the wildest day-dreamer had dared
to dream ! It seemed to the old friends of Maryville,
"thus high uplifted beyond hope," that the millennium
had dawned upon the College.
Two years later, when the writer entered the Col-
lege, he found that the students felt that they were citi-
zens of no mean city. Did we not
S^®<?^°y!®^ ^^ have three great three-story build-
CoUes'e *^^^' *^^ central, cupola-crowned one
having cost almost as much as the
entire property of the College amounted to in the old
days? Did we not have a president, two professors,
three lady teachers, one graduate tutor, namely,
Thomas Theron Alexander, and two student teachers,
Edgar Elmore and Monroe Goddard? And did we
not enroll the unprecedented number of one hundred
and thirty-one students ? And did we not have a brick
walk all the way from Memorial to Baldwin, where
there was a boarding hall with fifteen boarders, and
where there were also several basement kitchens in
which, as in similar kitchens in Memorial, the students
"bached" to the prejudice of their health and to the
benefit of their pocketbooks? And did we not have
six recitation rooms, and two society halls, and a chapel
forty feet by fifty in size, lighted by big chandeliers of
oil lamps ? And was not our baseball team the cham-
pion of Blount County; and could not the boys jump
over most of the cedars on the hill, if there were any
134 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
special motive to do so? And were not our rooms
heated by stoves, and did not our axes make a merry
ringing after three o'clock at the wood-piles back of
the dormitories ?
And were we not as well off as most of the colleges
in Tennessee, and better off than most, for that mat-
ter? Do not waste your pity on
nttte"''*^ ^^^ us! We needed no one's sym-
pathy ; we were happy as kings and
queens. What! pity, for example, a lad who, after
his lessons were prepared on a winter night, could sit
in his cosy room in Memorial Hall, and, as the wind
whistled around the corner, could hear the fire of hick-
ory roaring up the stovepipe, and could in such an
Elysium read Scott and Shakespeare ; or, when warm
weather had come again, could do his share in run-
ning up, on the ball grounds, a score of thirty or forty
tallies — those were the days when baseball achieved
something! — against the Crooked Creek team; or, in
any season, in the old chapel, when the benches had
been piled up in the comer, could play the classic game
of "Snap" with as pretty girls as ever played havoc
with masculine hearts ! Pity, indeed ! Rather pity your-
self for what you missed by not being there !
Thus the new-old College had settled down again to
its work. The young people of East Tennessee were
more in number, and also more
A Decade of anxious to get the education that
Numencal Plenty , *" . ^ , ^
was now havmg a greater value
placed upon it than in former days; and they rallied in
large numbers to the advantages afforded them at so
Dr. Nathan Bachman, Father of the February Meetings.
9C e •
COLLEGE RE-CREATION— 1869-1880 135
modest a cost by the new college on the hill. In 1880,
fourteen years after the reopening, the total enroll-
ment had increased until it amounted to two hundred
students, of whom thirty-four were enrolled in the
college department. Almost all the two hundred were
from Blount County and the counties immediately con-
tiguous. Evidently the immediate clientage of the
school were eager for what Maryville was established
to afford.
The Seventies were years of unremitting toil, as the
college people tried to make inadequate resources do
the great work that was crying to
I m 1.1 J5 be done. Those were also years of
and Trouble" . ^ 1 1 i- .
care and trouble as new adjust-
ments were being made in the life of the nation, and
as men, not as yet recovered from the poverty caused
by the War, were suddenly plunged into the economic
disturbances that were nation-wide in their extent and
heart-racking in their effects. Lines of anxiety were
graven in the faces of those who were responsible for
the administration of the College. Men grew old
rapidly during those trying days.
The permanent endowment of the College in 1880
amounted to only thirteen thousand dollars. The Col-
lege was also in debt, principally to
And of Sore ^ j^^ poorly paid professors, to the
Financial Famine ^^^ -^ ^^ ^, j j n
extent of ten thousand dollars.
The panic of 1873 and the stringency that followed
had cut off for several years about three thousand dol-
lars annually which Mr. Thaw and Mr. Dodge had
been contributing. The debt was carried mainly by
136 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
one of the professors. At last the hard times were
relieved, and it was possible for the institution to in-
augurate a movement toward the securing of an en-
dowment. When the period of re-creation that we are
considering closed, the College was confronting the
need and the opportunity to take steps for the relief
of the financial famine that had been afflicting the in-
stitution.
In the early "days of creation" of the College, as
we have seen, Dr. Anderson had to wrestle with the
problems of securing for the school
^^li^^ °^i"^^% its teachers, students, local habita-
Problems Revived i r i ^ . . r
tion, and food and raiment, and of
developing in the students both intellectual culture and
moral character. All these problems presented them-
selves again in this period of "college re-creation,"
and demanded solution at the hands of the little band
of brave men who were the agents in the re-creation.
The solution of these problems was made easier by
the new friends that had arisen to help the College do
its work ; while their solution was rendered more diffi-
cult by the great increase in the attendance. There
were many more to provide for than in the earlier
days. The embarrassment caused by growth — a usual
experience in post-bellum Maryville — was at once both
welcome and distressing.
Right manfully did the men of Maryville do their
duty during these trying days of re-creation. Had
not the refounder and his colleagues proved themselves
the lineal and worthy descendants by apostolic suc-
cession of the self-sacrificing founder of the College,
COLLEGE RE-CREATION— i86sh-i88o 137
the successes of later days could never have been real-
ized. Their desperate and valorous trench defensive
of those days of battle has made possible the victorious
offensive of these later days. Or, to revert to the
metaphor with which this chapter opened, the re-cre-
ators of those days of beginnings have made possible
the developed college plant which many now are pro-
nouncing "very good." All honor to the faithful band !
their works follow them, and enrich us.
CHAPTER III
College Endowment — 1880- 1884
The little cojnpany of men who were bearing the
burdens of Maryville in those days found their load
n X.- -D J a crushing^ one. Heavy, indeed, is
Cmshmff Burdens , ., -i. r / r ,
the responsibility for the successful
carrying forward of a business where financial capital
and financial guarantors are both lacking. To be zeal-
ously ambitious for the attainment of the very best
results in education and yet to lack the financial ability
necessary to attain those results is to be weighted
down with continuous and grievous disappointment.
To see, every day, actual students and prospective stu-
dents in need and to be unable for lack of resources to
follow the warm and strong impulses of the heart in
helping them, loads no small burden on the heart.
To have debt saddling itself, like the Old Man of the
Sea, on the shoulders of the college that one loves, and,
at the same time, to see unavoidable general expenses
running up rapidly and necessarily as the result of
the embarrassing growth of the institution is, indeed,
to feel the weight of a crushing burden. It would
require a Samson Agonistes to wrestle successfully
with such problems, and truly Atlantean shoulders to
sustain such burdens.
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COLLEGE ENDOWMENT— 1880-1884 139
As these weighty burdens of the College were rest-
ing, to an especial degree, upon the shoulders of the
^ second founder of the College, and
V^T^^^^'* ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ staggering under
them, but yet manfully supporting
them, we are reminded of Victor Hugo's description
of a deed of heroism on the part of Jean Valjean. It
was at the town hall of Toulon, where repairs were
being made. Through some one's carelessness, a cary-
atid supporting a wall was about to fall, when Jean
Valjean, the servant of duty, sprang forward and took
the pillar's place and upheld both caryatid and beam
until the workmen could brace the beam and replace
the pillar and thus avert the threatened catastrophe.
So, during those days of crushing burdens, Professor
Lamar was a Maryville Jean Valjean staggering, but
staying under the swaying architrave.
In the fall of 1880, realizing that a permanent en-
dowment must be secured or the College must break
down under its increasing load, the
S?u™^^* Directors of the College and the
Synod of Tennessee united in com-
missioning Professor Lamar as their special financial
agent to attempt the securing of an endowment of one
hundred thousand dollars. The amount to be sought
was several times greater than the entire property of
ante-bellum days; but so was the number of students
enrolled several times greater than in those days ; and
so were the broadening opportunities of the new era
that was beginning to dawn on the country.
In November, 1880, Professor Lamar went to New
I40 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
York, and began the difficult task of attempting to
interest strangers in a school they had never seen and
that was located beyond the range
of^Stral^ of their especial interests. That
was before the days of large
and generous giving to colleges. The task to be at-
tempted seemed an impossible one, and, at best, it
required grit and grace to persist in it. Hardly, how-
ever, had the professor gotten well into the campaign,
when, in December, he was summoned home by the
fatal illness of his only child. He buried the little
boy; and resolute even under this heart-breaking sor-
row, he returned in January, 1881, to New York, and
took up again his really appalling task.
Within a month the three generous and never-to-be-
forgotten friends who had been contributing for many
years to the annual expenses of the institution, made
subscriptions aggregating sixty-five thousand dollars:
William E. Dodge subscribing $25,000; William Thaw,
$20,000 ; and Preserved Smith, $20,000.
These remarkably liberal subscriptions greatly
cheered the friends of Maryville. But these three
donors were already interested in the College ; and new
friends were hard to make. It was still a long way to
the completion of the one hundred thousand dollar
fund.
As is often the case with those that are successful
in securing large sums of money for benevolent enter-
prises. Professor Lamar found the task of soliciting
help a most distasteful one, and one even positively
obnoxious to his retiring and modest nature. But he
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT— 1880-1884 141
persisted in his work most conscientiously, in the face
of numberless disappointments. As has been said,
that was before the day of gener-
Drfemf °^* ous giving to colleges, and it was
almost impossible to make any
headway. During the endowment campaign, which
ended on the last day of the year 1883, the professor
spent fifteen months in active service on the field.
Often the task seemed a hopeless one, and hope de-
ferred made the heart sick. As the Directors after-
ward said of this crisis : 'The College hung in dread-
ful suspense between life and death." On the first
of November, 1883, Professor Lamar returned to New
York for the final effort. On the nineteenth of the
same month, Professor Alexander Bartlett died sud-
denly at Maryville. But while the workers fall, the
work must go on.
During the final month, as, indeed, throughout the
entire campaign, Professor Lamar received invaluable
support and assistance from the
Ine Final three principal donors to the fund,
and from Rev. Drs. Thomas S.
Hastings, Henry Kendall, Edward D. Morris, and
Henry A. Nelson. On December 31, 1883, the last
day of grace for the conditional subscription, Profes-
sor Lamar sat in great anxiety in Dr. Kendall's office
in New York City. Mr. Smith had increased his sub-
scription to $25,000; Mr. Dodge had died, but his
family were ready to pay his subscription of $25,000;
Dr. Sylvester Willard had subscribed $5,000; the
Maryville alumni and the friends in Tennessee, $5,000 ;
142 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the West Presbyterian Church of New York, $4,000;
and the Marquand Estate, $1,000. The total of the
subscriptions was $90,000, and ''the last stone had been
turned." While Professor Lamar sat there, having
done all that man could do, telegrams were handed him
that announced the consummation of his toils and
prayers; they were from Mr. Thaw and Dr. Willard,
each subscribing an additional $5,000, in order to com-
plete the one hundred thousand dollar endowment!
The good friends whose names have here been recited
had lifted the swaying walls back to their place off the
shoulders of the heavy-laden man of Maryville.
So long as Maryville shall continue, the names of
the donors who kept it alive when otherwise it would
have died, and who then gave it its
William Thaw fi^st substantial endowment, should
Dod 7'^^'^ ^' be held in grateful remembrance.
Let their names, together with
those of Professor Lamar and his associates, stand
first on the bead-roll of the post-bellum worthies that
shall be forever honored on Founders' Day.
Mr. William Thaw, of Pittsburgh, might well be
termed the dean of these early donors. As early as
October 14, 1867, he sent his first gift of $1,000, which,
two days later, was expended, together with a note for
$691.50, in purchase of the new campus to which the
College was now to be removed. The following year
he contributed $3,000, and from that time onward until
his death, in 1889, twenty-two years later, he contrib-
uted often and liberally to the College. And he gave
much more than mere money. When he passed away.
%t
WIti-tAM THAW
, VV>i.t.(AM £.DOt>&£
K;^
PR£SeftveO SM*TH
Rebuilders of Maryville College.
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT— 1880-1884 143
the Directors said of him : "In his death the College
has lost one of its greatest benefactors and wisest
counsellors. He gave in money the generous sum of
more than $60,000, but the value of his advice, hearty
interest, and constant encouragement through all these
years of struggle can not be estimated. Under the
providence of God, Maryville College is what it is
to-day, and will be what it hopes to become in the
future, largely through him."
Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York, gave almost
the only contribution that Professor Lamar received
during his first trip taken in the interests of the Col-
lege, in 1866; and a few years later he joined Mr.
Thaw in making the annual contributions to the cur-
rent expenses of the College which kept the institution
alive in those days of no endowment. During thirteen
years he gave the College the sum of ten thousand five
hundred dollars. In 1881 he made the subscription
that started the endowment campaign, very enthusi-
astically promising twenty-five thousand dollars, or
one quarter of the entire amount sought. With his
own hand he wrote the following subscription in Pro-
fessor Lamar's book, saying that he hoped it would also
lead others to give : "Having been for the past fifteen
years contributing to the annual expenses of Maryville
College, and having watched with deep interest the
self-denying efforts and success of its teachers, and
being convinced that the time has come when it should
have a permanent enlargement, I hereby subscribe the
sum opposite my name (twenty-five thousand dollars),
144 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
provided that during the year the amount is made up
to a hundred thousand."
Mr. Preserved Smith, a substantial business man of
Dayton, Ohio, had already put a provision in his will
that Maryville should receive from
Preserved Smith ^-^ ^^^^^^ ^^e sum of $20,000. He
and Sylvester , 1 j 1 1 • d.
Willard M.D. ^^^* however, pledged this $20,000
to be paid whenever the entire
$100,000 should be pledged. Later on in the campaign
he increased his pledge to $25,000. Mr. Smith was
the only one of the quartette of principal donors to
the endowment fund who ever visited the College ; but
all of them became very intimately and sympathetically
acquainted with the history and management of the
institution.
The fourth donor was Sylvester Willard, M.D., a
prominent and wealthy physician of Auburn, N. Y.
As we have seen, he subscribed $10,000 to the endow-
ment. He took an especial pleasure in the fact that
his final investment of $5,000 secured $95,000 addi-
tional to the College.
These four gentlemen, who in so decisive and far-
reaching a way proved their faith in the present and
future of Maryville College, were all of them ap-
proaching the end of life, and desired to place Mary-
ville on a safe basis for the future. By contributing
the large sums they gave, they effected their purpose.
Before the decade had closed during which the endow-
ment was subscribed and paid, not only these four gen-
erous friends, but also Professor Lamar, through
whom they made their gifts, had all passed into the
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT— 1880-1884 i45
eternal life. And their fruitful investments in Mary-
ville and in Maryville's youth are every year yielding
to the world — who can compute how many rich re-
turns ?
A stupendous victory was the securing of the endow-
ment! An additional annual income of six thousand
dollars was now assured. And a
A Decisive r •. 1
«.. - new sense of security and per-
manence came with the endowment.
There could be no doubt now that Maryville had come
back to stay and to advance throughout the future.
A great amount at any time, one hundred thousand
dollars meant far more in those days of re-creation and
beginnings than in these later days of national pros-
perity and of college expansion. It was an epoch-
marking event. Well did Dr. Carson W. Adams con-
gratulate our Jean Valjean upon his great service to
Maryville: "I rejoice with you over your great suc-
cess. Will, patience, perseverance, and faith do ac-
complish great things. You are the second father of
the College. Your name must in all the future be
coupled with that of Dr. Anderson. What a witness
to the power of quiet, persistent energy over fuss and
feathers, your success is !''
A significant item in the final report of the endow-
ment campaign is that which states that the expenses
of Professor Lamar during his fif-
Bnt Won at ^^^^ months of work for the fund
Great Cost , , , , i
amounted to only seven hundred
dollars. An inexpensive victory, then, was it? A no-
table victory, indeed, it was, but it was vastly expen-
146 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
sive ; it was won by the loss of the leader. For many
years Professor Lamar's health had been somewhat
feeble, but now he began to decline rapidly. His work
in the classroom closed at the commencement of 1886.
For ten months he was confined to his room, his vital
forces slowly ebbing away. On Sabbath morning,
March 20, 1887, his earthly service closed. The reso-
lutions adopted by the Directors said of him: "By
his death the College lost its greatest friend, this Board
its wisest counsellor, and the entire community one of
its best and most useful citizens." His body sleeps in
the quiet of the college cemetery at the border of the
woodland. The inscription on his monument says that
he was "for thirty years a professor in Maryville Col-
lege, his most enduring monument."
Soon after the death of Professor Lamar, Mr. Thaw
led in the movement for the erection of a library to
be a memorial of the departed pro-
SemoriSs' fessor. Toward this Lamar Me-
morial Library building Mr. Thaw
contributed three thousand dollars, and Mrs. William
E. Dodge and Mrs. Dr. Sylvester Willard one thou-
sand dollars each; while the brothers and sisters of
Professor Lamar added a beautiful memorial window
costing five hundred dollars. A very appropriate me-
morial was this brick building with its inside finishing
of oak, for this man with his ''heart of oak." It is,
doubtless, what he himself would have chosen. The
writer had spent some months in classifying the books
of the college library and had arranged them on new
shelving in the largest available room in Anderson
The Lamar Memorials — Hospital and Library.
C O C C t
C t< C CC c
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT— 1880-1884 147
Hall. Professor Lamar was greatly pleased with what
had been done, and upon his last visit to the library
told the writer that as soon as he improved in health
he would make a trip to secure funds for a library
building. But others had to erect the building.
Twenty-one years later, Mrs. Lamar, at an expendi-
ture of six thousand dollars, erected the Ralph Max
Lamar Memorial Hospital as a memorial of the little
boy who died during the endowment campaign. Thus
both father and son have their fitting memorials on
the college hill.
The chief memorial of Professor Lamar, however,
as his monument declares, was found in Maryville
pi,- * College — in Maryville's great cam-
M^ al ^^^' ^^^ ^^"^ buildings, its endow-*
ment of $113,000, and its enroll-
ment, at the time of his death, of nearly three hun-
dred students. Others had contributed largely and
efficiently to this greater Maryville, but to him more
than to others Providence had allotted the responsible
and arduous task of reviving the College and of financ-
ing it in its mighty struggle for existence during those
years of want and uncertainty. He did not live to
enjoy very long the larger days that he had done so
much to bring about; but, dying, he left a memorial
to his heroic career that had in it the potency of an
ever-widening useful service to God and man.
CHAPTER IV
College Evolution — 1884-1901
The progress during the next fifteen years was very
steady and gratifying. It was, on the one hand, the
^ , ,. ^ , result of the excellent work done
Evolution Caused u .1 t j j. -i-
by Endowment ^^ *^^ hard-to.ling management;
and, on the other hand, it was the
natural outworking of the new resources afforded by
the hundred thousand dollars of endowment and by
the Fayerweather bequest, of which fund mention will
soon be made. What had been hoped for in the way
of increased attendance was realized. The College
attracted to it a large body of students, and grew to
proportions and to an importance hitherto unknown in
its history; and yet it did all this in that quiet and
unostentatious way that has always characterized the
advance of Maryville. It was a natural and healthy
evolution, and not a forced and unnatural hothouse
growth. In 1880 the attendance was two hundred;
by 1890, it was three hundred; and by 1900, it was
four hundred.
This growth in numbers was occasioned by the
growth of the courses of study and of the teaching
force and of other advantages to the student body that
had been made possible by the increased capital of the
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COLLEGE EVOLUTION— 1884-1901 149
College. In 1884 there were, all told, four professors
and four assistants. In 1901 there were five profes-
sors, four acting professors, seven
tire time to teaching, two stu-
dent assistants, and one matron, besides two man-
agers of the Cooperative Boarding Club. The changes
in courses offered were principally changes in the num-
ber and variety of courses, but there were also im-
portant changes in the methods of their presentation.
The first new chair established as the result of the
Lamar endowment was that of the English Language
and Literature, to which chair the writer was called
in 1884. The next new chair was that of the Natural
Sciences in 1887, which was divided, in 1899, into the
chairs of Chemistry and Biology. In 1889 the first
post-bellum required Bible study was conducted by the
-writer. In 1892 Dr. Barnes became the first Principal
of the Preparatory Department. In 1899 the Expres-
sion Department began its useful career. And there
were many other important improvements made in the
already established courses and departments.
Following Dr. Bartletfs resignation in 1887, there
were, as there had been before his election to the
presidency, two years during which
Faci™^^ ^^^ College was administered by a
Chairman of the Faculty. Profes-
sor Edgar A. Elmore served during the year 1887-
1888, resigning at the close of that year to reenter the
pastorate. He had been a member of the faculty for
four years. His valuable services to the College did
ISO A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
not, however, cease with the termination of his mem-
bership in the faculty. From 1897 until his removal
from Knoxville to Chattanooga in 1900 he served on
the Executive Committee of the Directors of the Col-
lege; and in 1906 he was elected to succeed Rev. Wil-
liam H. Lyle, D.D., as Chairman* of the Directors.
Dr. Lyle, an alumnus of the class of 1861, was always
one of the most loyal champions of Maryville, and
served as a director for forty years, and as Chairman
of the Directors for fifteen years. He died on August
II, 1905. In the year 1888-1889 Rev. James E.
Rogers, Ph.D., was Chairman of the Faculty. He
resigned at the end of the year to enter Y. M. C. A.
work.
On January 17, 1889, Rev. Samuel Ward Boardman,
D.D., LL.D., then of New Jersey, was elected to the
presidency of the institution. In
Dr. Boardman, the February he visited the College and
Fourth President ^ . 1 1 , • r
took part m a remarkable series of
February meetings. He entered upon the presidency
in the fall of 1889, and from that time until his resig-
nation, in 1 901, his heart was in the work that he had
at the very beginning found to be so congenial to his
earnest nature. Born in Pittsford, Vermont, in 1830,
and educated in Middlebury College and in Andover
Theological Seminary, he had spent most of his life
in the pastorate in New York and New Jersey, al-
though he had served for two years as Professor of
Rhetoric and English Literature and Intellectual Phil-
osophy in Middlebury College. His work of instruc-
tion at Maryville was principally in psychology and
Dr. Samuel Ward Boardman, Fourth President.
COLLEGE EVOLUTION— 1884-1901 151
philosophy. He found himself in deep sympathy with
the character-forming ideals of Maryville, and used
every endeavor toward the conserving and realizing
of those ideals.
Dr. Boardman had been a neighbor of Sylvester
Willard, M.D.^, in Auburn, New York, for many years ;
and the interest of the Willard
Wmard Memorial, f ^^^.j^ f oHowed him in his removal
to Maryville, where, as we have
seen, Dr. Willard already had made an investment.
As a further token of interest in the College and
especially in its new president, and as a memorial of
Dr. Willard, Mrs. Jane F. Willard contributed eleven
thousand dollars to erect the very comfortable and
commodious brick residence that serves as the home
of the president of the College. It occupies one of
the best of the many attractive sites on the campus,
and commands excellent views of the Cumberlands
sixty miles to the west and of the Great Smokies
forty miles to the east. The building was first oc-
cupied by Dr. Boardman in December, 1890.
There befell the College at this epoch a transcendent
providence which gave the institution an impetus for-
ward that contributed greatly to its
The Fayerweather reputation and efficiency. Mr.
Providence, t-. • 1 t> tt xu uu
1891-1907 Daniel B. Fayerweather, a wealthy
leather merchant of New York,
counselled by Rev. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D., who
had been acquainted with Professor Lamar during
his endowment campaign, included Maryville in a list
of twenty colleges, to which he bequeathed most of
152 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
his estate. The property was in litigation for four-
teen years, but during this weary period it grew im-
mensely in value, in spite of the court expenses.
Large amounts were paid the College from time to
time during the years, until, by the date of the final
settlement, at the end of sixteen years, instead of
the $100,000 originally bequeathed, the College had
received the magnificent sum of $216,572 from the
estate.
This godsend came to the College unheralded and
unexpected, and yet proved to be larger in amount
than was all the property that the
siiTe^'^'^^'^^^ institution had owned up to that
time. The rapid growth of the Col-
lege occasioned by the securing of the Lamar en-
dowment could not have been properly met had not
this most opportune windfall come to the institution.
Fortunately, the bequest was unrestricted in its pro-
visions, and so the fund could be used in erecting
buildings, in meeting current expenses, or in forming
endowment. The Directors were very judicious in
the expenditure of the fund made available by the
bequest, and wisely assigned a large part of it to the
permanent endowment fund. Considerable amounts
were invested in equipment and permanent improve-
ments, while smaller sums were, from time to time,
assigned to the current expense fund.
The Fayerweather fund made possible certain ad-
ditions to the college plant that were necessary, and
that yet could not otherwise have been provided. In
1892 an annex, forty feet by ninety, nearly doubling
COLLEGE EVOLUTION— 1884-1901 153
the capacity of the original building, was added to An-
derson Hall, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars.
This structure provided many new
Its Aia to recitation rooms and nearly doubled
f CFlUailGIlt
Improvement* ^^^ size of the chapel. It was
called the Fayerweather Annex.
In 1892 a careful topographical survey of the cam-
pus was made by a civil engineer, and a map of the
grounds was drafted. The locations of the buildings
erected since that time have been decided upon with
reference to this map. In 1893 the many stoves and
the furnace that had heated the buildings were sup-
planted by the installation of a general heating plant.
In the same year electric light was first used in the
college buildings. At first it was secured from the
Maryville plant; but in 1901 the College installed
its own electric light plant. In 1901 also the laun-
dry building was erected.
The overflow of students at Baldwin Hall made it
necessary in several successive years to rent residences
in town to be used as annexes for the accommodation
of the young women that were crowded out of the
hall. This, however, was not a satisfactory arrange-
ment, and so in 1895 an annex containing a large
dining hall, forty feet by seventy-five, and twenty-
four additional dormitory rooms, was added to Bald-
win Hall. The $2,000 that this annex cost was se-
cured by Dr. Boardman in a trip to the East, and the
addition was named 'The Boardman Annex." The
continued growth of the Cooperative Club and the
continued increase of students made necessary in
154 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
1904 an extension of this annex, measuring forty
feet by forty-five, and adding twelve more rooms, and
extending the dining room until it was one hundred
and twenty feet long.
In 1898 the beautiful and commodious two-story
Fayerweather Science Hall was erected at a cost of
only twelve thousand dollars. Like
sSTHir ™°«t °f Maryville's buildings, it
was well worth twice the cost. A
gas plant was also installed, and laboratory equip-
ment for chemistry, biology, physics, geology, and
psychology was purchased at the cost of about ten
thousand dollars. All these and other permanent im-
provements were made possible by the munificent
Fayerweather bequest. The bequest relieved the pres-
ent* and assured the future of the College. It was of
incalculable benefit.
In 1888 there came to Maryville College a seven-
teen-year-old Japanese boy in search of an American
education. He spent the following
atmg m 1895. He possessed a truly
marvelous natural endowment of initiative, adaptation,
and energy. For example, he turned his talents to
many varieties of work, from cooking to lecturing,
in earning his own expenses. It was not long until he
had won for himself the unquestioned position of
student leader in the College. Although he had a
Shintoist father and a Buddhist mother, both of whom
were hostile to Christianity, and who had thrown
him on his own resources when he became a Christian,
Kin Takahashi : "Let Us Rise Up and Build."
COLLEGE EVOLUTION— 1884-1901 155
he early developed into one of the most effective lead-
ers among the Christian young men of the College.
He was a born organizer in religious activities as
elsewhere.
A leader in athletics, he was Maryville's first foot-
ball captain. Although he was only five feet two
inches tall and weighed only one hundred and twenty-
three pounds, he led his team to many a victory. Mil-
ton's description of the emmet would well apply to
him : 'In small room, large heart enclosed." It was
before the days of athletic coaches, but he marshalled
his team in his room and worked out before them the
theory of his plays, illustrating them by moving grains
of corn on the diagram of a gridiron outlined on his
table. He was also accustomed to offer a prayer
with his team just before they went out on the field.
He believed in preparedness.
For several years a news-gatherer for local papers,
he himself issued occasional college publications, en-
titled College Days, which reflected great credit
upon his editorial ability. The movement for a stu-
dents' self-help work fund was originated by him. He
knew no such thing as defeat. When what seemed
defeat befell his enterprises, he would smile and say:
"Well, boys, we'll try again," and that time he would
usually make his "touch-down." The boys called him
"Kentucky Hossie," and, in accord with his name, he
pranced his way to victory.
His most notable service to the College was the
building of the Gymnasium and Y. M. C. A. Hall. He
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was vitally interested in both athletics and character,
and so he decided that he would show his gratitude to
the College by securing a head-
Bartlett quarters for athletics and religion.
l^Qg ' ' me, and the Christian Church in
America has done so much for
my country, that I, as a Japanese, want to do some-
thing to show my gratitude." He began the campaign
for the building in March, 1894, more than a year
before he graduated. By the time of his graduation
he had collected some money; and in June, 1895, he
began to make the brick for the buflding by student
labor. The college boys under his leadership made
more than three hundred thousand good bricks at a
cost of only $1,300. Farmers near by gave the wood to
burn the three kilns.
During the fall and winter he devoted himself, with-
out salary, to the task of soliciting funds for the build-
ing; and in the summer of 1896 he was able to lay
the foundation. He spent another year in the field,
and was then able to erect the walls of the building.
During the two years so generously given to his alma
mater, he had secured subscriptions for more than
$7,000, $2,500 of which amount was subscribed by
Mrs. Nettie F. McCormick. Thus assured that the
building would certainly be completed, he returned to
his native land to take up his life-work. Here he en-
gaged with great success in the Y. M. C. A. work in
Tokio; but ere long his health broke down.
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Bartlett Hall, and in 1899 the CoHege appropriated
$4,000 of the Fayerweather fund to complete it. About
$9,000 was contributed by Kin's subscribers and others,
and the building was entirely occupied by 1901. In
191 1 Mrs. Elizabeth R. Voorhees contributed $3,000,
which was used in greatly improving the building and
in enlarging its equipment. Although the building
cost only $16,000, it also is worth twice that sum. It
is a worthy monument to the Christian love and grati-
tude and zeal of its founder.
The writer turns aside from the story of the Col-
lege long enough to say that the life of Kin Takahashi
was not only romantic but in the
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broke down m health he went to
Hirao to live with his relatives. There he suffered
for long months and very acutely. Finally, he im-
proved somewhat. He could no longer endure his
enforced inaction. He wrote a friend : "I determined
to die, if need be, doing something for Christ, and
so I formed a class of four boys in my bedroom. At
first I was to teach one hour, and then give a short
talk each day. But the boys usually stayed for hours
discussing the subjects I introduced. As the mem-
bers of the class increased in number, I organized a
literary society, and taught them how to speak and
debate after the dear old Maryville style. The popu-
larity of the society immensely increased." The num-
ber of its members so multiplied that there was not
room in the house for them.
Kin's physician forbade so much work; so Kin or-
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ganized a "regular middle" school with nine teachers.
The school opened the second year with one hundred
and sixteen pupils, representing all parts of the prov-
ince. A missionary whom Kin invited to visit the
school found an audience of one thousand persons
gathered at a public entertainment that Kin had
planned.
In the midst of excruciating suffering Kin expressed
his Christian confidence that "all things work together
for good to them that love God" ; and he planned on
and toiled on. In the early morning of May 7, 1902,
he passed away while asleep. The missionary whom
Kin had asked to conduct his funeral found — and the
town was not a large one — three hundred of the prin-
cipal people gathered at the home, while the streets
were lined by hundreds, and on the hillside about the
grave an audience of one thousand was awaiting the
procession. Yes, Kin was a hero; he fought a good
fight ; he kept the faith ; and, doubtless, now he wears
a crown.
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CHAPTER V
College Expansion — 1901-1919
In May, 1901, the writer was elected president of
the College, and was formally inaugurated on Octo-
ber 21. As a fifteen-year-old lad,
2f:^^S^^^.\*'^? he entered the Senior Preparatory
Fifth President ^. ^ t,, -h • ^.u ^
Class at Maryville in the autumn
of 1873, and graduated from the College in 1878. He
spent the years 1879- 1882 as a student in Lane Theo-
logical Seminary; and the years 1882-1884 in Mexico
as a missionary. Bom in Homs, Syria, of foreign-
missionary parents, he had planned to spend his life
in the foreign field. Repeated attacks of coast fever
in Mexico, however, so undermined his health as both
to send him back home in March, 1884, and to make
it impossible for him to secure reappointment. In
May, 1884, he was elected professor of the English
Language and Literature, and of the Spanish Lan-
guage, in Maryville College; and in June, 1891, he was
appointed dean of the College Department.
The healthful evolution of the College as recounted
in the preceding chapter was both encouraging and
embarrassing. The endowment secured by Professor
Lamar and that contributed by Mr. Fayerweather were
needed by the College in order to be able to administer
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adequately the work already in existence. But the im-
petus they gave to the further development of the
institution called for a still further and correspond-
ing enlargement of the endowment
foB^Slce^^'' and of the plant. The rapid evolu-
tion of the seventeen years, begin-
ning with 1884, now rendered absolutely necessary a
consequent expansion on no small scale. The swarming
students of Maryville uttered a plaint similar to that
which the sons of the prophets made to Elisha: ''Be-
hold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too
strait for us." There must be expansion, enlarge-
ment, and increased facilities in view of increased
demands. The duty of the hour was not one to be de-
cided upon ; it was rather one simply to be recognized
and acted upon. In Milton's phrase, "War hath de-
termined us."
The endowments of 1884 and of the Payer weather
bequest had now been assimilated thoroughly into the
life of the College; but the rapid
The President growth of the student body and the
Enters the Field ^^ , , 11
greater demands now bemg made
of all colleges as to the increased number of courses
to be offered and the greater amount of specialization
to be provided for, made further endowment and
equipment a most urgent need. So the new president
was forced by the logic of events to take up the work
of funds-finder that Professor Lamar had laid down
in 1884. While teaching during two-thirds of the col-
lege year, he now spent one-third of each year in the
field attempting to enlist new friends to take part with
Dr. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, Fifth President.
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 161
Maryville in its ministry of education. The collec-
tions of the first two years were employed in removing
two or three deficits that had accumulated. It was
decided that no more money should be drawn from
the Fayerweather fund for current expenses. This re-
quired rigid adherence to a budget, and necessitated
delay in expansion until the money for expansion had
been secured. As a result of the carrying out of this
policy, there have been no deficits to deal with in the
annual reports.
A year after the president took the field in behalf
of the current and permanent funds of the College,
Miss Margaret E. Henry also en-
Miss Henry Seeks ^^j.^j the field in the interests of
Scholarships, 1903 , , , . - 1 r 1, 1 1
scholarship and self-help work
funds, with which to help worthy and needy young
people secure an education. Her enlistment in this
work was the result of one of the many happy sug-
gestions of Dean Waller that contributed so much to
the prosperity of the College. Miss Henry was an
alumna of the institution and thoroughly imbued with
its spirit. Loyal in every nerve of her being, she
entered upon the untried task with fear and trembling.
Her success, however, was very remarkable. During
the three months she was in the field the first year she
secured $1,500 in gifts to her cause; and the amount
she obtained from year to year steadily increased until,
in 1916, It amounted to more than $15,000.
During the thirteen years of her service as Scholar-
ship Secretary, Miss Henry collected for the College
the sum of $122,692 in cash. Of this magnificent
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amount $103,353 was contributed to current work and
scholarship funds; $13,250 to permanent work and
scholarship funds ; $2,698 to the salary of the college
nurse; $1,636 to hospital endowment; $605 to the cur-
rent agriculture fund ; and $1,150 to hospital and other
equipment.
Most of Miss Henry's life was spent in Maryville
College. After leaving college she was a teacher until
^ ^ .„. , , 1882, when she went to Japan as a
Her Brilliant and r • • • 01
Beneficent Life ^""'^'^ missionary. She was a
kinswoman of Robert Moffat, the
great missionary of Africa. She was injured in a
storm at sea, and after about a year was compelled
to return to her native country. After a partial re-
covery she again began her work as teacher. In 1890
she entered the service of her alma mater, in which
service she continued until what seemed to be her un-
timely death on July 7, 1916. One of the most ef-
ficient and inspiring of teachers, she built up the schol-
arship and moulded the character of many hundreds
of students.
Miss Henry's marvelous ^success as field secretary
was due principally to five elements of strength: (i)
Her genuine and transparent sincerity and intense
earnestness. (2) Her deep and enthusiastic love for
Maryville, the mountains, and the Maryville students,
and her absolutely unselfish loyalty to their interests.
(3) Her unceasing prayer fulness and her abiding faith
in God's leadership in even the details of her cam-
paigns. (4) Her natural and heart-winning eloquence.
Many of her hearers in many States have agreed in
Margaret E. Henry, the Students' Champion.
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declaring her the most winning and effective woman
speaker they had ever heard. An ancestor of hers
was a brother of the great Patrick Henry of Virginia ;
and her eloquence was certainly worthy of that great
Virginian. (5) Her remarkable social qualities. Al-
most every day she was the guest of some home; and
so engaging and winning was her personality that her
hosts became her warm and enduring friends, and
for her they eagerly exerted their influence even year
after year.
The record of Miss Henry's life of distinguished
usefulness is one of Maryville's imperishable treas-
ures. Happy is the institution that can number among
its faithful builders so devoted and brilliant a toiler
as was our *'Miss Margaret."
The first large gift of the period of expansion was
that of one hundred thousand dollars made on New
Year's Day, 1905, by Mr. Ralph
'^l ^r<??oo AAA Voorhees and his wife, Mrs. Eliza-
Gift of $100,000, , ^, T3 Tr 1 r XT T
j^QQg beth R. Voorhees, of New Jersey.
This gift illustrates for the field of
liberalit} the truth of Shakespeare's words regarding
mercy :
"It is twice blessed;
It blesses him who gives, and him who takes."
This grei t benefaction was given on the annuity plan,
and by January, 19 16, there had already been paid the
donors, at five per cent on their gift, the sum of $50,-
000, without any delay or expense or tax. The fact
that the College clears six per cent on its investments
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enabled it to appropriate $15,000 of this gift toward
the erection of the sorely needed chapel. The sum
of $85,000, then, is invested in the endowment fund,
while $15,000 is invested in the Voorhees Chapel.
Thus, even during the lifetime of one of the donors,
large benefits have been derived by both donors and
donees.
The chapel room provided on the second floor of An-
derson Hall became entirely too small during the period
of ''evolution," and, as we have
Voorhees Chapel ^^^^ lengthened, when the
and Music Hall, ^ ' , a , .,
IQQQ 1^ ayerweather Annex was built,
until it was forty feet by ninety in
dimensions. By 1905 the number of students in at-
tendance had increased to six hundred ; and the long,
narrow, and low-ceilinged room was entirely inade-
quate to accommodate so large a body. Ventilation
was difficult, and proper acoustics was an impossi-
bility. As is the rule at Maryville, the need of the
new chapel was imperative before it was met. The
$15,000 taken from the Voorhees gift, and $10,000
contributed later on by Mrs. Voorhees, and other
amounts added by other generous friends enabled the
College to erect at a cost of $34,000 the large and at-
tractive building called "The Elizabeth R. Voorhees
Chapel."
The building has in its spacious auditorium a seat-
ing capacity of nearly a thousand; while in the base-
ment it contains seventeen well-lighted rooms, where
the Music Department has found an abiding place
where it can live on good terms with its neighbors;
Ralph Voorhees, Donor.
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and here, too, is a large room where the Y. W. C. A.
has planted its lodge. To the rear of the auditorium
are the rooms used by the Department of Expression.
The building commands the admiration of all visitors,
and is a delight to all the students and teachers. Its
usefulness is a daily and manifold one. A thrilling
sight it would be, indeed, that Isaac Anderson would
witness were he permitted to see the eight hundred
students and the half a hundred teachers and officers
gathered at chapel in these closing days of the first
century of Maryville's career.
By this time the College found itself again in a
most difficult position; its popularity had far outrun
its ability to meet the outlay de-
F5nd'or$m,000, '"^"'i"^. ^' \ consequence of that
jQQg popularity. Its multitudinous stu-
dent body had need of additional
instructors, dormitories, and general college equipment,
and the funds were inadequate to meet these crying
needs of the College. In 1905 the president published
a twelve-paged bulletin regarding ''Maryville College
— Its Field and Its Work," in which the immediate
needs of the College were enumerated. In 1907 the
day-dream that a "Forward Fund of $200,000" could
be secured to meet these needs came to the college au-
thorities so vividly and inspiringly that a definite cam-
paign was entered upon in an attempt to transmute
the dream into a reality. In 1906 Mr. Carnegie had
pledged toward additional buildings a gift of $25,000,
on condition that $50,000 be secured from other
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sources. This pledge provided a substantial beginning
for the Forward Fund.
In April, 1907, the General Education Board of
New York made an appropriation of $50,000 to the
College, upon the condition that a
scriptions be secured. This appro-
priation gave a great impetus to the Forward Fund.
It was one of the epochal events in the history of the
College. Mr. Cafnegie then very generously added a
second subscription of $25,000. A total subscription
of $100,000 had thus been secured. The near-panic
of 1907, however, intervened, and it was impossible
in that year to raise the second $100,000 of the fund.
The donors kindly extended the time limit to Decem-
ber 31, 1908, and the canvass was intermitted for the
time.
The campaign was reopened in 1908, and, through
the orderings of Providence, was carried to a success-
ful issue. In order to meet certain of the conditions
laid down by some of the donors, it was necessary
to raise about $225,000, instead of the $200,000 first
proposed. A total valid subscription of $227,000 was
reached by the expiration of the time limit.
Among the larger gifts to the Forward Fund were
$20,000 from Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons; $20,000 from
^ ... Mr. John C. Martin ; $10,000 from
Generous Donors _, ..r-w o-i ^ r -i
Mrs. Wilham Thaw and family;
$7,500 from Mr. Louis H. Severance; $6,000 from
Mrs. Martha A. Lamar; and $5,000 each from Hon.
John H. Converse, H. B. Silliman, M.D., Mr. Wm. J.
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 167
McCahan, Sr., and Mrs. Julia M. Turner. There were
hundreds of smaller gifts ; and almost every subscrip-
tion was paid promptly and in full by the time limit,
December 31, 1910. The Forward Fund was now an
additional force coursing in the life-blood of the insti-
tution.
It has been the good fortune of Maryville College to
have had associated in its faculty men and women
who have been faithful, efficient,
bervice^ of ^^^ j^^ every way zealous in its in-
Dean Waller ^/ . , .
terests. The writer pauses here in
his story to speak of one of these loyal servants of
Maryville whose life's work has but recently ended.
In the absence of the president during the Forward
Fund Campaign and during the ten months of his
'European tour following the completion of the Fund,
it was Dean Waller upon whom rested the responsi-
bility for the administration of the College.
Elmer Briton Waller was a member of the Class
of 1882 of Union College, and of the Class of 1887
of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1891 he was
elected professor of Mathematics in Maryville College,
to succeed Professor Crawford. He held this chair for
twenty-two years. In 1892 he was appointed secretary
of the faculty, and in 1905 he was elected dean of the
College. On account of his extraordinary business
ability his services were in great demand in all direc-
tions.
He left his impress upon the College in many ways.
It was he who planned and suggested the Cooperative
Boarding Club; who suggested that Miss Henry be
i68 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
sent out as a college representative; who founded
and for many years conducted the Maryville College
Monthly; and who brought it about that free medical
consultation be given the students at the hospital. His
program, like Dr. Anderson's, was "to do good on the
largest possible scale." On March 29, 1913, while still
in the fullness of his powers, for he was only fifty-
four years old, his sudden death removed him from
the work in which he seemed so indispensable a factor.
The financial interests of the College had grown
to such proportions that in 1901 it was decided that
it was not wise longer to postpone
^^^^V^^ ^^ the appointment of a treasurer and
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busmess manager that should de-
vote his entire time to caring for the business interests
of the institution.
John P. Hooke, Esq., was the first treasurer after
the War, and, although he served without salary, he
rendered valuable services, especially in collecting the
scattered fragments left by the Civil War. His term
of office extended from 1865 to 1884, or nineteen years.
Professor Lamar served at the same time as assistant
treasurer, and, as we have seen, he was also, part of
the time, financial agent.
Major William A. McTeer was elected treasurer in
May, 1884, to succeed Mr. Hooke, and served for
seventeen years, or until 1901. He was in charge of
the receipts, investments, and expenditures connected
with the funds contained in both the Lamar endow-
ment and the Fayerweather bequest. Professor Craw-
ford served as assistant treasurer from 1887 to his
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 169
death in 1891 ; and then Professor Wilson succeeded to
the office. Major McTeer rendered the College invalu-
able and efficient service ; and during the first six years
of his treasurership practically contributed his services
without salary, for he received only a mere pittance.
Mr, McTeer and Dr. C. A. Duncan began to serve as
directors in 1872. Some of the greatest contributions
to Maryville have been in service and not in money.
In 1901 Major Benjamin Cunningham was elected
treasurer and business manager. He was the first
to give his entire time to the office,
ir^'^^T , and even then he hardly found time
Cunningliam ^ ^ ^u 1 \ r 1
to do the large amount of work
required by the big school. No corporation could have
been served with more whole-souled devotion than
Maryville was served by its treasurer. And he was
the soul of honor. When the accountant reached the
end of his thorough examination of the finances of the
College after the sudden death of Major Cunningham
in 1914, he reported that he had found every dollar
accounted for, and every security in its place. The
Major devoted all his great business ability to the
service of the College, and spared no toil in advancing
its interests.
"Major Ben/' as the college people lovingly called
him, fell mortally ill at his post of duty on the first
day of a new term. A week later his life's work
closed. His four sons established a scholarship of
$1,000 in his memory; but his best memorial is his
record of thirteen years of able administration and
official probity.
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The first building completed after the Forward
Fund was secured was the "Ralph Max Lamar Me-
morial Hospital." It has already
Carnegie and ^^^^ spoken of. It was dedicated
Pearsons Halls ^. '^ t-. ^t ,-
on May 4, 1910. Pearsons Hall, a
substantial brick building, erected in 1910 by Dr. Daniel
K. Pearsons, has, on the ground floor, the larger and
more convenient home demanded by the Cooperative
Boarding Club that had time and again outgrown its
quarters in Baldwin Hall, and that now would take
no denial of its demand. The second floor contains
a parlor, halls for the young women's literary socie-
ties, and dormitory rooms for thirty-four young
women. The addition of a third story is spoken of
later.
Carnegie Hall, the largest and most costly building
on the hill, contained suites of rooms for two fam-
ilies of professors and rooms for one hundred and
twenty-five young men. A beautiful and comfortable
building, it had every room occupied from the week
of its opening and throughout its history. It cost
fifty thousand dollars, and was the pride of the hill
and also one of the best dormitories in the South.
It was occupied at the opening of the fall term in 1910,
but was not dedicated until in January, 191 1. Its de-
struction by fire, and its rebuilding larger and better
than before are spoken of elsewhere.
The beginning of the required study of the Bible
in the post-bellum College took place in 1888, when all
the students were required to attend a weekly hour
conducted by Professor Wilson in the outlining of th^
FA^iRWEATHER HALL
A Group of Views in 1916.
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 171
Old Testament Sacred History. The next two years
Dr. Boardman conducted weekly general classes in
The Life of Christ and other topics. The following
year, 1891, however, a required
XT. ^ ^^ ? ^? and common hour was set aside for
the Cumculimi ^., , . , ,, , „ ,
Bible study by all the college and
preparatory classes, and all the professors and teach-
ers conducted Bible classes at that hour. This method
prevailed with much but varying success for sixteen
years.
In 1907 by a current contribution made by Mr. John
C. Martin, of New York, a Bible Training Depart-
ment was established, and Rev.
De^artmen?^ Clinton Hancock Gillingham was
appointed Professor of Old Testa-
ment History and Literature, and Rev. Hubert Samuel
Lyle, Professor of New Testament History and Litera-
ture. To these especially equipped professors all the
Bible teaching of the institution was committed.
In 1909 Mr. Martin contributed $20,000 to the en-
dowment of the Bible Training Department upon the
John C. Martin Foundation; and the Directors of
the College set aside $20,000 from the Fayerweather
fund to make a total fund of $40,000 with which to
sustain the department.
A three years' course was established for those who
should elect it. The requirement for all students for
graduation was made three terms of direct Bible study
and two of religious courses in theism and ethics.
Five such courses were deemed a fair proportion of
the total thirty-six courses required for graduation.
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The instruction in the department was made as
scholarly and disciplinary as is that in any other
course offered by the College, and the new depart-
ment forthwith took as honored a position as was
that held by the long-established and traditional courses
of study. As one of the pioneer Bible Training de-
partments offered by colleges, the department has been
of service in blazing the way for other colleges in
the development of their Bible work.
The intellectual stimulus of the study of God's
thoughts and ways and works as recorded and dis-
cussed in God's book has been great and gratifying;
while besides this good result, there have been seen
the movings of the Spirit of God illuminating the
truths of the Word, and creating the noble moral
character which Maryville has always held to be the
chiefest object to be sought in any true education.
Some students take the extensive three years' course in
the Bible Training Department, but all students take
required work every year, and this reaching of all
students is deemed the chief mission of the depart-
ment.
By 1913 an anonymous friend had contributed (i)
an endowment of $14,000 for a Home Economics De-
partment; (2) $12,000 to make
Tne llome ample quarters for the department
Economics u 1 • u v u^ a 4.\ - a
Department, 1913 ^y P^acmg a well-lighted third
story on the Fayerweather Science
Hall; and, (3) in addition, sufficient funds to install
the best of equipment for the department. The new
department immediately sprang into great popularity*
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 173
Its remarkable reception demonstrated the strong de-
mand that there is in the new Southland for what will
make better homes and better health. The donor of
the Home Economics Department is also contributing
further sums on the annuity plan, which siims will
ultimately be added to the productive endowment of
the department.
The other demand of the South and of the mountain
region of the South — the demand for instruction in
better farming — must also be met by Maryville, as
it is planned that it shall be, in connection with the
Centennial Forward Fund, by the raising of which
the College hopes to celebrate its hundredth anniver-
sary.
The Teachers' Department has long had its complete
course of study, but, like the Bible Training Depart-
ment, is most useful in touching
Growth of Other practically all the students of the
Departments : . . - . , .
institution during their passage
through high school and college. A very large per-
centage of Maryville's students become teachers. They
are found in all parts of the United States, especially
in the Southern Appalachian region, and in the South-
west and West, and are employed in elementary
schools, high schools, and colleges. A six years' teach-
ers' course is offered, for which a certificate is given;
and in the regular course an Education Group of
studies leads to the degree of B.A.
The Music Department was begun in the fall of
1 87 1, and has had a continuous existence since that
time. Its development has been most rapid during
174 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the last few years. The standards have been steadily
raised, and the conditions for graduation have been
made of such a character as to give the graduates a
high rating when entering the great conservatories.
Several teachers are now kept busy in directing the
large number of students enrolled in this department.
In the Department of Expression, which was
founded in 1899, ^ similar steady, and of late years
rapid, development has taken place. In 19 16 the scope
of the work was widened, and the department was
styled "The Department of Expression and Public
Speaking." A three years' course of instruction is
given, and diplomas are awarded. The methods em-
ployed have been very sane and practical, and the
department is upon a substantial basis.
The Department of Art had for thirteen years as
instructor Rev. Thomas Campbell, who died in 1914.
It has been useful, and, doubtless, will share in the
expansion that is coming to all departments of the
College.
The reasons the College has not maintained a busi-
ness department have been the fact that the buildings
have not been large enough to care for more students
than already apply for entrance ; and the fact that the
College prefers long-term students in order to the bet-
ter development of character, which is the chief end
of its efforts.
More room was required for the young women.
The architects approved a plan for the raising of the
roof of Pearsons Hall in order to add twenty-five
rooms to the capacity of the building and thus to pro-
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vide for fifty more young women. Dr. Pearsons, then
in his ninety-second and last year of life, strongly ap-
proved the plan, and expressed
pSxsons^and himself as feeling "sick" that he
Science 1912-1913 ^^^^^ ^^^ build the proposed third
story, too, as he had built the
rest of the hall; but by this time he had carried
out his life plan and had given away all his money.
Mr. Louis H. Severance saw the plans, also ap-
proved them, gave the $13,000 needed to erect the third
story and otherwise improve the enlarged structure;
and, as the then anonymous giver of the third story,
he sent to Dr. Pearsons, through Maryville's president,
his congratulations on his life of great usefulness, and
the assurance of his satisfaction in being able to com-
plete the building as a token of his admiration for
him.
The third-story annex to Pearsons Hall was erected
in the summer of 1912. The following summer the
third story of Fayerweather Hall was added, as has
been related, to provide quarters for the "Home Eco-
nomics Department." In each case the roof was jacked
up intact, and the new story was built under the roof
without any injury being done to the rest of the struc-
ture. Indeed, in both cases, the buildings, when en-
larged, were as strong as before, and much more sym-
metrical and imposing.
According to the original plans of Kin Takahashi's
Bartlett Hall— the Gymnasium and Y. M. C. A. Build-
ing— a swimming pool fifteen feet by forty was pro-
vided for; but there was not money enough to build
176 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
it. From time to time the matter was discussed as to
whether the pool should not now be built. But it could
wait, while necessities could not
pS^1^19?5^''^ wait. So twenty years went by
' after Kin had his plans drawn.
At last, however, the students took the matter in
hand, as Kin had done two decades before, and they
offered to raise $1,500 toward the expense of building
the pool, if the College would build it. The generous
offer was accepted, the $1,500 was raised by the stu-
dents, and, at a cost of $10,000, the building was
erected. It was opened for use in the fall of 191 5. In-
stead of being in the basement of the gymnasium, how-
ever, the pool is located under a roof of its own, and
adjoins Bartlett Hall. The pool itself is twenty-five
feet by seventy-five, while the building is fifty-eight
feet by one hundred and ten. The pool contributes
largely to the health and happiness of the students.
On April 12, 1916, the only serious fire occurring
in the history of the College visited the institution.
Carnegie Hall was totally de-
S^11^1916^^^^ stroyed. The origin of the fire is
' unknown. The loss was a stagger-
ing one to the college authorities, especially as they
were just entering upon a campaign to raise a Cen-
tennial Forward Fund of Three Hundred Thousand
Dollars, an undertaking in itself large enough to stag-
ger them. The people of the town very generously
opened their homes to the homeless students. The
problem of replacing the building, however, was still
to solve. The insurance amounted to thirty thousand
COLLEGE EXPANSION— 1901-1919 177
dollars, but it would cost at least fifty-five thousand
dollars to replace the building.
On May 4 the Chamber of Commerce of Maryville
took up the matter of the Carnegie fire, and after en-
thusiastic addresses by Rev. J. S. Jones and others,
appointed a committee of sixty leading business men
to attempt to raise the needed twenty-five thousand
dollar rebuilding fund in Blount County. This com-
mittee designated Monday, May 22, as "Maryville
and Blount County Day," and called upon the town
and county to rally for the support of their "chief as-
set," Maryville College. The day was a rainy one,
but in spite of this fact the college faculty and stu-
dents paraded through the streets, carrying appropri-
ate banners. Meanwhile the committee of the Cham-
ber of Commerce was visiting the business men and
securing from them subscriptions for the building of
a ''bigger and better Carnegie." The members of the
faculty had already subscribed $5,000; including this
amount, by the close of the day, a total of $17,400 had
been subscribed. The committee continued its work,
as opportunity offered, and had no doubt that by the
time of the completion of the building, at least the
proposed $25,000 would be subscribed.
In their vote of thanks to the donors of this re-
building fund, the Directors said : "The directors deem
this rallying to the help of the College in the time of
its crisis as one of the most notable and inspiring
events in the hundred years of its history. . . . The
magnificent uprising of the people in behalf of what
they recognize as their own college has profoundly
178 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
touched and encouraged those who are bearing the
administrative burdens of the institution."
The reconstruction of the building was begun in
June, and its completion in December was promised.
The new Carnegie Hall is a greatly enlarged and im-
proved building, and will accommodate, besides two
professors' families, two hundred and thirty-eight stu-
dents. Thus, out of an apparently crushing blow there
has come the rallying of the home county to the finan-
cial support of its College, and, at the same time,
almost the doubling of the capacity of the dormitory.
As this volume goes to press, in 1916, the college
authorities are entering upon the third post-bellum
campaign for increased endowment
The Centennial ^^^ equipment. The Lamar $100,-
Forward Fund, ^ , ^ ^ . r 00
1916-1919 ^^^ endowment campaign of 1880-
1884 and the Forward Fund $200,-
<xx) campaign of 1907- 1908 are now being followed
by a campaign for a Centennial Forward Fund of
$325,000, during the closing years of the first century
of Maryville. The Carnegie fire made necessary the
increase of the sum to be sought from $300,000 to
$325,000. The endowments and equipment secured
heretofore are at work rendering their beneficent ser-
vice ; but they are insufiicient to provide for the neces-
sary expenses of the big school, and are entirely in-
sufficient to make possible the expansion in many and
important lines that is providentially called for. At
least the amount aimed at must be secured or the
progress of the College will be seriously impeded.
Indeed, as those familiar with what it costs to finance
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a college in these days would insist, a Centennial
Fund of $500,000 is needed in order to enable the
College to enter upon its second century adequately
equipped to fulfill its duty to its teachers and students.
But the College is accustomed to economy and self-
denial, and so it limits its request to the $325,000
which it can not do without; but it can not but pray
that another unexpected fund, Fayerweatherlike, may
come to enable the College adequately to fulfill its great
mission. A faithful steward in the least and in the
past, it covets the opportunity to prove its faithful-
ness in greater things in the future. When the his-
tory of the campaign for this fund is written, it is
hoped that it will record the securing of the Centennial
Forward Fund by the Commencement Day of 1919.
Then will Maryville begin the new century with abil-
ity more nearly commensurate with its opportunity.
Early in 1916 the General Education Board appro-
priated the sum of $75,000 toward the proposed Cen-
tennial Fund of $300,000, to be
The General jj ^^ condition that the entire
Education Board f . , i . , . -^ ,
Aeain 1916 fund be secured within a specified
time. Not only is this conditional
appropriation a great gift in itself considered, for
it is one-fourth of the entire amount sought, but it
is also a notable tribute to the standards and work
of Maryville. And this is especially true in view of
the fact that this is the Board's second appropriation
to the College. The deep gratitude of all friends of
the institution is due to the General Education Board
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for these epoch-making grants made to Maryville in
its times of need, opportunity, and crisis.
The College is a living organism, and so is growing
all the time. The problem before the management
has not been how to inject life into
Se^ E?Ssifn ^^^ College, for it, like its Lord, has
life in itself; but it has been how
to prevent inadequate alimentation from starving it
and stunting its growth. It has all the time been,
nolens volens, confined to plain living, even very plain
living; but through the kind orderings of Providence
and of his agents, the wants of the College have, when
acute, been met, even if sparingly, before actual starva-
tion has come. Given a college with lofty, ennobling,
and altruistic ideals; with a home in picturesque and
healthful East Tennessee; with students from Amer-
ica's best heritage; and with a teaching force of
earnest-minded men and women who seek their stu-
dents' well-being; and Maryville's wonderful growth
is after all not to be so very greatly wondered at; its
philosophy is revealed.
CHAPTER VI
Maryville's College Standards
The motive that founded the Southern and West-
ern Theological Seminary was one that made it certain
that the institution would by its
Invofve?Hi li ^^'^ "^^"""^ ^'P°"'^ ^"^ '"^'"*^^"
Standards ^^^^ educational standards. That
motive was the determination to
supply a thoroughly educated ministry. It was a mo-
tive that historically had everywhere belonged to the
Presbyterian Church that founded the school. That
motive had been strong amid the hills of heather in
old Scotia, and it survived its journey over the seas
and into the New World, and even into the mountains
of the Southwest. High standards were insisted upon
by Isaac Anderson's pedagogues in old Rockbridge
County in the country school and in Liberty Hall Acad-
emy; and Dr. Anderson established similar standards
at Maryville.
There was no theological seminary in all the South-
west, but the dominies of the frontier were familiar
with the constitution of the seven-year-old Princeton
and with the courses of study that were deemed by
the educated to be essential for the best preparation
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i82 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
for the gospel ministry ; and so in the constitution that
they drew up there was every evidence that they
could be trusted at least to aim high. The constitu-
tion they adopted for the Seminary
eminary contains thirty-two articles, and the
Constitution , , ^ . . . , . ,
Kevealed Them thorough course it provided for has
already been spoken of. Three
years of nine and a half months each were required
to complete the course. Article 29 provided : **Before
young men can enter this seminary they shall produce
a diploma from some college or submit to be examined
by the professors on a course of literature." And
the college curriculum that grew up apace was a long
and worthy one, outHned after the pattern of the best
Eastern colleges. Catalogs do not seem to have been
printed until the Fifties, but, when they do appear,
the courses they record are evidently modeled after
those of the best institutions in our land.
All the regular professors of the institution before
the War were, as would be expected of a school that
had been founded as a theological
nte- e um seminary, men who had been
Professors
Embodied Them trained for the ministry. There
were a few tutors, but they also
were generally either ministers or those preparing for
the ministry. All the professors — Anderson, Hardin^
Eagleton, Hoyt, MacCracken, Pope, Craig, Robinson,
and Lamar — were men who had met the high educa-
tional requirements of the Presbyterian church, and
so were among the best educated men of their section.
As members of the faculty of the College, they up-
MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS 183
held and embodied the highest standards that existed
in those days in the section in which they lived.
The first post-bellum catalog consisted of only four
small pages, but it outlined a curriculum that was some-
what in advance of the ante-bel-
Curriculum of j^^ curriculum. Professor Lamar
1866 Advanced , , . ., . , . .,
rpj^^jj^ used as his guides in making the
course of study the best of the
smaller Eastern colleges. He probably prepared the
copy in his unsightly recitation room in the dilapi-
dated college building ; but tumble-down walls can not
limit noble aspirations. Maryville's ideals have al-
ways been in advance of its present conditions ; but it
makes a business of realizing those ideals as speedily as
possible.
The second post-bellum catalog, of sixteen pages,
outlined a very creditable classical college course and
a thorough three-year preparatory
SllT^ A^^ce^ ''''''^^^' ^'''^' '"^ addition, an English
department for those unable to take
the higher work; and so, throughout the years, the
annual catalogs record a steady advance in the edu-
cational standards of the institution. The College
has not been the last to lay the old aside, nor the first
to adopt the new. It has been conservative but always
progressive.
Before the War, as we have seen, all the regular
professors were Presbyterian ministers; and for
twenty-five years after the War the majority of the
faculty were still chosen men that had been trained
i84 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
for the gospel ministry. This fact ensured for the
students of Maryville the best-educated men of the
section, men who had enjoyed not only a college edu-
cation, but also an additional course
m a theological seminary. The
culture thus attained was, probably, broader than was
then the rule in the smaller colleges.
During the past quarter century, as the courses of
study have been broadened and multiplied, and the
new order of things has called for specialists, the
College has used all the means within its power to
secure thoroughly trained instructors for its various
chairs. It has encouraged its professors to take espe-
cial university preparation, and has shared with them
the expense of that training. It has been fortunate in
attracting to its chairs men and women of high scholar-
ship and teaching ability, who have remained with the
College in spite of inadequate salaries, because they
have found a deep satisfaction in the altruistic policy of
the College and have enjoyed working with the ear-
nest body of students in attendance upon the College.
It has been the settled policy of the College to use
whatever additional ability has been placed in its pos-
session through added resources, in
lege as much nearer to the ideals
entertained as the new funds would allow. The three
special epochs of advance in endowment — the periods
of the coming of the Lamar endowment, the Fayer-
weather bequest, and the Forward Fund — can be iden-
Another Group of Views in 1916.
m, p «« ' f ^
MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS 185
tified in the catalogs by the evidences there found of
the advanced and improved standards that closely fol-
lowed the reception of those funds. New chairs are
established, tutors are replaced by professors, and there
is manifest a greater variety in the courses offered —
the result of the vigor infused as the new lifeblood
begins to circulate in the veins and arteries of the insti-
tution.
For example, as has been stated, the chair of English
Language and Literature was established the year the
Lamar endowment was received ; and the introduction
and multiplication of electives and the establishment
of the group system synchronized with the coming in
of the Fayerweather fund ; while an increased number
of chairs of science, and new Bible and Social Science
and Education courses and many other additions to the
curriculum were the outgrowth of the Forward Fund.
The College has always looked upon added resources
as imposing new responsibilities for the broadening
of opportunities and the elevation of standards.
Maryville adopted the three full years' preparatory
course when the College was reopened in 1866, and it
consistently required what in more
iour Years recent usage has been called twelve
Course ^^^^^ ^^^ admittance to the Fresh-
man Class. Its requirements for
entrance were such as Williams, Dartmouth, Bowdoin,
Lafayette, and other colleges of their type specified in
their catalogs.
For several years before 1909, Maryville was very
desirous of providing a four years' preparatory course.
i86 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
and was preparing for the establishment of such a
course. In 1909 the College found itself financially able
to provide it, and so it both established the four years'
course, and raised its requirements for admission to
the Freshman Class to fifteen units. It had expected to
be a leader in this movement, and was, indeed, one
of the first in the section to adopt this higher standard ;
but it was none too soon, for the general movement
in the South for higher standards was already well
on its way. But, although not leading the way, the Col-
lege had the satisfaction of knowing that it was at
least accompanying the leaders of the general advance.
The standardization of the preparatory courses also
greatly interested the management, and they gave
prompt and appropriate attention to the matter.
In accordance with the custom prevalent in most of
the colleges up to a very recent date, the preparatory
students in the earlier days and un-
Separation of ^jj ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
f !r6D8xa1/0!rv and
College ^^^^ °^ being started in their pre-
paratory courses of study by the
professors of the college department, and of sharing
their expert guidance. But, as the number of students
in both departments increased, it became impossible
for the college men to spare any time for the prepara-
tory department; and it became almost as physically
necessary as it was soundly politic to adopt here also
the decision of recent pedagogy, and entirely to sep-
arate the two departments. For several years, at
Maryville, the separation had been practically com-
plete, when in 191 3 the catalog printed in different lists
MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS 187
the names of the teachers of the collefge and prepara-
tory departments.
Maryville College has had from the first as its
primary object the providing of such an education
to the young people of the great
Prf arator ^^ ^^^ Southwest, or principally of the
Department Southern Appalachians, as would
prepare them for useful leadership.
In order to prepare such leaders it has thus far been
necessary, on account of the inadequacy of the public-
school system in many parts of the Southern moun-
tains, to provide a preparatory department. As the
public schools have been improving, the several grades
that were once found necessary were in succession
dropped until now only the four preparatory or high-
school years are offered below the college department.
As yet it is deemed unwise to eliminate this pre-
paratory department lest the College fail to realize the
very purpose for which it was founded — the throwing
of its light into the more destitute parts of the section
which it is appointed to serve. It is through this
department that it especially serves the mountain re-
gion in which it occupies so central and strategic a
location. And it is the preparatory students especially
that return to their old homes to be the leaders of
their communities. The department has made great
contributions directly and indirectly to the cause of
general education throughout this mountain region.
The preparatory department maintains as high stand-
ards and does as efficient work as does any high
school in the State. All its teachers are at least col-
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lege graduates, while most of them have had some
university work. Student assistants are used only in
the laboratories or in exceptional
Department experienced teachers or graduates
of normal colleges. So long as the
department is necessary, it is Maryville's duty to main-
tain it in a high degree of excellence. In the favoring
college atmosphere, the able principals with which the
department has been favored have found it especially
easy to maintain in a very satisfactory way the high
standards that have been adopted for the department.
Especially gratifying, however, is the fact that the
department that has had by far the greatest develop-
ment and growth during the period
urowt 01 tne ^£ expansion, has been the college
Department department. In 1901, when there
were only twelve units required for
college entrance, there were only seventy students in
the college department; while in 1916, with the fifteen
units' requirement, there were 278 students in the
college department, and the Senior Class consisted of
forty-two students. The growth of the curriculum has
also been as steady and remarkable as has been the
growth in the number of students. It has tried to keep
apace with the demands of the times, and has had a
consistent and large development.
The standards upheld in the college department have
from the beginning been such as were dictated by a
desire to impart a sound and thorough scholarship.
There has never been any tendency toward introducing
MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS 189
any supposed short-cut roads to an education ; nor has
there been any labeling of the sensational or the shal-
low or the shoddy as being the
cSlfT^*^^*^^ marks of the true scholar. No
Department Tennessee institution has higher
requirements for entrance and
graduation. The alumni have uniformly maintained
a high standing as postgraduate students in universi-
ties, theological seminaries, and law and medical and
technical schools.
The college laboratories have been among the best
in the section, and their equipment has been added
to annually in accordance with the budget. If an
alumnus has not been a scholar, it has been himself
that was to blame for the failure. The college stand-
ards have been high, and the professors have labored
incessantly to maintain them. The Maryville diploma
is accepted in many States whose laws permit the
recognition of college diplomas, in lieu of an examina-
tion, for the issuing of certificates for high-school
teachers.
The catalog has never reported as courses of study
courses that were not actually provided. More often
has the catalog recorded a course
ineoretic after it has been given, than has it
Standards, Actual , . , r .
Standards announced it before it was given.
After the new courses have been
tried out, they have been inserted in the curriculum.
Maryville has always preferred to wait until it has
been certain it could offer a worthy new course, rather
than to make a public tender of a course of doubtful
I90 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
efficiency or of uncertain value. And so its published
theoretic standards have been its actually applied
standards.
The founders of the College, its presidents and facul-
ties, its directors, and its benefactors have held be-
fore them as the matter of supreme
Ke mgS' importance, as the principal object
of the College, the development of
a worthy and altruistic character on the part of its
students. With a view to this aim, the Committee on
Professors and Teachers has never recommended any
one for appointment on the teaching force of whose
positive Christian character it had not been assured.
When it has been disappointed, it has, as soon as prac-
ticable, corrected its mistake.
With a view to the development of the character
of the students, the discipline of the College has been
conducted by the faculty and its administrative officers
with great care and fidelity. The College has firmly
refused to allow practices, however popular they may
be elsewhere, when it has been convinced that such
practices would militate against the development of an
unselfish character. When thus persuaded of its duty
it has been inflexible. Nor has it suffered from its
strictness. After eliminating the unworthy, it has still
had so many students that it could hardly care for
them.
It goes without saying that had not the professors
and other teachers of the College faithfully supported
and loyally carried out the principles of the College as
those principles were established by its founder, this
MARYVILLE'S COLLEGE STANDARDS 191
book could not have been, as it is, "a story of altru-
ism." Maryville has been singularly successful in
drawing into its service a body of
themselves learned the lessons
of self-denial, altruism, and religion from the
Great Teacher. These lessons they have lived be-
fore their students, and so have imparted them by
example as well as by precept. This, in Maryville's
belief, is the supreme test of a teacher; and right
royally have the members of Maryville's faculty dem-
onstrated in this regard their character equipment for
teaching.
As to the regular schoolroom work, the writer, after
five years' life as a student under the Maryville teach-
ers, and now, after thirty-two years of association with
them in the faculty, takes peculiar pride in expressing
his belief that no other institution has been served
by a more diligent, conscientious, consistent, and faith-
ful body of teachers. They have admired the ideals
of Maryville and have been true to them. To their
unvarying fidelity, self-sacrificing devotion, and schol-
arly equipments and methods is due the wonderful suc-
cess of Maryville College. Uncompensated by suffi-
cient salaries, but compensated by the reward that
visits the heart when duty has been well done, they
are the dynamic forces that have made the College,
and that have made it thus great, and that, it is be-
lieved, will make it yet greater.
During the greater part of the career of the Col-
lege, it has been true that at least one-half of its di-
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rectors have been alumni of the institution. It is not
to be wondered at that these former students, having
imbibed "the Maryville spirit"
of SJdards^^"^^ themselves, should as directors loy-
ally support, con amove, the poli-
cies that were intended to maintain and develop the
historic standards of the institution. The Synod of Ten-
nessee has always been a very homogeneous body, and
those who have represented it in the directorate of
Maryville, whether former students or not, have
heartily approved of Maryville's standards of scholar-
ship and character, and have been remarkably agreed
in their support of them. The directors have not
often been men of financial wealth, but they have been
men of wealth of moral and religious principle, and
they have stood like a rock wall behind the faculty in
their efforts to uphold Mar)rville's traditional stand-
ards. The directors' attitude has uniformly been one
of helpfulness and not of criticism.
The student body itself, made up of earnest young
people, most of whom have had to work for their
education, have themselves aided
rf^St^aiidar^s^^^^ mightily in maintaining the high
intellectual and moral standards of
the College. The public opinion of the College sup-
ports firmly the historic ideals of the school. The
students are a body of clean young people who will
not tolerate among them the immoral and vicious.
They lend their support to the high moral and re-
ligious standards of the institution both by their per-
sonal conduct and by their public opinion.
I
CHAPTER VII
Maryville's Student Body
The original field that the College tried to occupy
was what at the beginning of the nineteenth century
was called "the great Southwest."
bout em ana ^^ ^^ h2Lye seen, the school was
Students christened "The Southern and
Western Theological Seminary."
And it was a large field that it occupied. Maryville
was never, even in its beginnings, planned as a mere
local institution. It practised dichotomy. It divided
the United States into two parts — its part and the other
part ; the Northern and Eastern sections being allotted
to Princeton Theological Seminary, while the rest of
the country was assigned to itself, as its name, "The
Southern and Western Theological Seminary," indi-
cated !
The boundaries of the South and the West were in
those days lost in indefinable frontiers and "Great
American Deserts"; and they have extended south-
ward and westward like a mirage until they have dis-
appeared in the Gulf and across the Mississippi and
in the Pacific Ocean. A large field in 1819, and a still
vaster one in 1919. Sixteen of the Southern and
Western States were represented in the student body
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194 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
of Maryville in 1916; and 713 of the 805 students of
that year were from these Southern and Western
States.
The great majority of the students of Maryville
have, of course, from the beginning come from the
Southern Appalachians, in the cen-
Monntain and ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ .^j^ ^^^ Col-
Valley Students . . uv u ^ \/r -u •
lege was established. Maryville is
located in the center of East Tennessee, and East Ten-
nessee lies equally distant from the West Virginia Ma-
son and Dixon's line on the north, and far Birmingham
on the southwesterly fringe of the Southern moun-
tains.
There are 251 coimties in the Southern Appalachian
region ; seventy of these counties had students in Mary-
ville in 1916; and the total of such students from
these Appalachian counties was six hundred and four.
And many of the students from other places are from
country districts that are not well supplied with schools.
Comparatively few of Maryville's students from any
section come from cities.
At the beginning and during the greater part of
the history of Maryville the majority of the students,
if not Mac's, were at any rate of
imSicS^^ Scotch-Irish descent. The ante-
Students bellum catalogs and most of the
later ones have recorded the same
names that appear in the directory of Londonderry,
Ireland. Most of these students have been able to
trace their lineage back to the North of Ireland. Their
ancestors came in the eighteenth century by the way
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of Philadelphia and Charleston. Many drifted South-
ward through the Shenandoah Valley.
Besides these Scotch-Irish students there have been
many of English, Welsh, Irish, German, and French
Huguenot descent. Of late a few of other European
races have been found in the roster of students; but
the student body has been made up of pure Americans
descending from these Old World emigrants, and
mainly from those coming from the British Isles. No
college need ask for a worthier clientage.
In ante-bellum times, while young women were
nominally not admitted to the College, some young
women did pursue and complete
* direction of members of the faculty.
Misses Minerva Cates and Martha Cates were two
of these ''annex'' students. In the second catalog
after the War, the one issued in 1867, the names of
four young women appear in the list of students; and
the statement is made that "young ladies qualified
to join any of the classes in the College are allowed
to avail themselves of its advantages." Miss Ella
Brown had the honor of being the first young woman
that matriculated.
In 1875 the first young women graduates were an-
nounced. Misses Ella and Emma Brown, Nannie Mc-
Ginley, and Linda Ted ford graduated in the Ladies'
Course; and Miss Mary Wilson, the sister of the
writer, graduated in the regular classical course, the
first young woman, it was said, to receive the B.A.
degree from a Tennessee college. The next year Miss
ig6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Mary Bartlett, the only daughter of President Bart-
lett, also received the B.A. degree.
**The Ladies' Course" was dropped in 1885, when
the introduction of alternative courses allowed such
adjustments as made it unnecessary to continue that
course.
The young women have always been in a minority
in the College ; but the introduction of the Home Eco-
nomics Department has brought their number up to
within about fifty of the enrollment of the young men.
The number of students coming from States out-
side of Tennessee was, of course, increased by both
the Lamar endowment and the
SStaS '"" Fayerweather bequest. In 190.
the number of such students had
reached forty-seven, hailing from eighteen States.
During the period of expansion beginning with that
year, the number of such extra-Tennessee students
has steadily and rapidly increased, until in 1916 it
amounted to two hundred and seventy students com-
ing from thirty-one States.
The causes of this extraordinary movement of stu-
dents from all over the land to this modest College
in the hill country of East Tennessee are three in
number : ( i ) the fact that Maryville is located in one
of the most healthful sections of the United States,
making it possible for students from the cold North
and from the hot South both to ensure good health
and to secure an education at the same time; (2)
the excellent educational advantages offered by Mary-
ville at a cost that makes it possible for those unable
t
MARYVILLFS STUDENT BODY 197
to pay the higher cost of a college education in the
vicinity of their homes, to secure the education at
Maryville that is denied them nearer home; and (3)
the uncompromising and high standards of moral and
religious character always maintained at Maryville,
leading parents from even across the continent to
send their children there in order that they may be
under its influence while in the formative years of
youth. The students pour into Maryville without the
assistance of special solicitors or of a large amount
of advertising; most of them having learned of the
College from former students of the institution, al-
ways its willing sponsors.
There has come to the students through this national
enrollment an increased national spirit, and an added
general culture that is both rapid and pervasive in its
working. Students from all sections of our country
meet students from all other sections; and the result
of their college comradeship is a breadth of mind
and sympathy and appreciation and Americanism that
is gratifyingly free from both sectionalism and provin-
cialism.
The fact that the clientage of the College is made
up, on the one hand, of church people of the various
denominations who still believe in
P^S* ^^^^ *^^ old-fashioned home training
that moulds character ; and, on the
other hand, of the young people of the Southern
mountain region who have determined to secure an
education and to that end make a yearlong business of
their efforts to secure it, brings it about that Mary-
198 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
ville gathers within its walls an exceptionally earnest
body of young people. Many of them have some defi-
nite vocation in mind before entering, and lend all
their energies toward adequate preparation for it.
'The Maryville spirit" is so unselfish and all-per-
vasive that even those who do not enter the especially
altruistic professions and occupations are largely domi-
nated in their field of labor, whatever it may be, by
an earnest desire to be serviceable to their fellow men.
There were sixty-seven children of ministers in at-
tendance during the year 191S-1916. Indeed, most
of the students come from Christian homes.
For a hundred years, by far the greater number of
Maryville's students have had to work their way
through school, at least in part;
Self-Reliant and ^^^ ^^ ^j^j^ ^^^j^ ^^ j^^^^ ^^^^^^^
Industrious . . . , 1 .
their vacations and whatever time
they could spare during the college year. The sum-
mer correspondence brings to the registrar an ava-
lanche of inquiries regarding the opportunities for
self-help aflforded at the College. During recent col-
lege years, at least one-half the entire number enrolled
have earned part of their expenses by work done on
the grounds, in the buildings, in the laboratories, or in
the Cooperative Club.
It is the rule and not the exception that the students
should spend their vacations in earning money to meet
the expenses of the college year. The industrial and
agricultural activities in the South now aflford em-
ployment to many ; while even the Western wheat fields
attract a goodly number. Laziness is not a natural
MARYVILLE^S STUDENT BODY 199
product of Maryville life; the students are by inheri-
tance and training industrious and self-reliant.
The students of Maryville come principally from
virile and vigorous and virtuous families of untainted
blood and strong physique. Lithe-
CllaSiukd ^""^ ^'"^^^^ ^"""^ well-muscled, they face
life with a physical endowment of
rare value. Most of them have grown up in the South-
ern mountain region, one of the world's most invigor-
ating health resorts. And their bodies have been
kept free from vice, so that they are fit homes for the
clean souls that tenant them. A manly and womanly
student body, indeed — a perennial happiness and in-
spiration to their teachers and friends.
Maryville has never permitted the organization of
fraternities or sororities, lest they might interfere with
_., « • X. the development of that altruism
literary Societies ., ^ . , , . ^1 .^ 1 ,
that IS looked upon as the vital ele-
ment in "the Maryville spirit." It has, however,
earnestly encouraged the literary societies, which have
always been among the most influential and most use-
ful of its student organizations.
In the ante-bellum days the principal literary socie-
ties were the Beth-Hacma (house of wisdom), the
Beth-Hacma ve Berith (house of wisdom and cove-
nant), and the Sophirodelphian. As would be in-
ferred from the Hebrew names, these societies were or-
ganized in the days of the theological seminary. The
Beth-Hacma and the Sophirodelphian were in exist-
ence as early as 1829 ; and the Beth-Hacma ve Berith
as early as 1834. They were not reorganized after
200 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
the Civil War. The Beth-Hacma ve Berith had a
small frame building on the southern edge of the old
college lot ; but this building also was destroyed in war
times.
The post-bellum societies have been, for the young
men: the Animi Cultus, organized in 1867, and its
successor, the Alpha Sigma, in 1882; and the Athe-
nian, in 1868; and, for the young women: the Baino-
nian, in 1875; and the Theta Epsilon, in 1894. The
young men's societies are divided into college and pre-
paratory sections. The halls of all of these societies
were in the third story of Anderson Hall and its an-
nex, until the erection of Pearsons Hall, when the
young women's societies removed to their new quar-
ters on the second floor of that building. In 1870
there was also organized the Adelphic Union Literary
Society, a union composed of the existing literary so-
cieties. For many years an annual exhibition of the
"A. U. L. S.," consisting of a debate, orations, and
essays, was held on an evening of commencement
week. Nowadays an annual banquet is held on the
last Friday night of the college year. The appropri-
ate motto of the Adelphic Union is, **Bonum Unius,
Bonum Omnium."
The literary societies were long in the habit of ap-
pointing ''editors," who read from manuscript, at a
public meeting of the society, what
Student ^^g ^^ijgj ^ '^paper." These pa-
pers were composed of essays,
poems, editorials, college news, and sometimes world
news, generally spiced with wit and humor. This
MARYVILLE'S STUDENT BODY 201
was an ante-bellum custom somewhat modified. The
catalog of 1854 tells of two manuscript magazines,
The Literary Casket and The Repository, that were
prepared by the students of the composition classes.
The first printed student publication was a little
monthly magazine called The Maryville Student,
edited, printed, and published in 1875-1876 by John
A. Silsby and Samuel T. Wilson, who were partners
in a job printing office in Memorial Hall. The second
printed student publication was a monthly magazine
entitled The Adelphic Mirror, published by the Adel-
phic Union Literary Society in 1884-1885. A few
bound sets of both of these magazines have been pre-
served as mementos.
The Maryville College Monthly was founded by
Professor Waller in 1898, and was conducted by him-
self as editor-in-chief, assisted by representatives of
the various student organizations. It was a very use-
ful publication. In 1907 he transferred its manage-
ment to the students, who conducted it in magazine
form until the year 1915-1916, when it was published
as a weekly and under the name The Highland Echo.
The Senior Class of 1906 was the first that pub-
lished a college annual. It was called TPie Chilhow-
ean. As the years went by, the publication grew
in size and in the amount of the work put into it,
until in its beauty and comprehensiveness it has be-
come worthy of any institution in our country. Be-
ginning with the year 191 6- 191 7, its publication, by
mutual agreement, was transferred to the Junior
Class.
202 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Maryville's Y. M. C. A. was one of the pioneer col-
lege Y. M. C. A.'s in the world. Its organization grew
out of the first college February
FoLd^l877 ' meeting, in 1877. Although those
' who organized it had never been
members of a Y. M. C. A., and knew of the existence
of no other college Y. M. C. A., it seemed to them that
the Association would be of service in promoting the
Maryville College religious life, and so they estab-
lished it. John A. Silsby, in a conversation with James
B. Porter, suggested its organization, and together
these men went to the room of Samuel T. Wilson, and
there the organization was fully decided upon. The
details of the organization were worked out by a com-
mittee appointed at a meeting in the chapel held on
March 2, 1877. The three students referred to were
also the first presidents : J. B. Porter, in 1877 ; S. T.
Wilson, in 1877-1878; and J. A. Silsby, in 1878-1879.
They afterwards also all became foreign missionaries.
Of the fifteen charter members, eleven later on en-
tered the ministry, and five of them became foreign
missionaries.
The service of the Y. M. C. A. to the College and
to its students has been uninterrupted and invaluable.
At first, without a building of its own, it met in the
society halls, and in the chapel, and in a room of its
own ; but it finally secured, through the leadership of
Kin Takahashi, the erection of Bartlett Hall, one of
the best college Y. M. C. A. buildings in the South.
From that beautiful building as its headquarters, it
has touched with beneficent effect every college activ-
MARYVILLE'S STUDENT BODY 203
ity. Its membership in 1916 numbered two hundred
and twenty-five. It conducts the college lyceum course
as one of its "side lines."
The Y. W. C A. was first organized in 1884-1885,
but failed to keep up its organization in the years that
immediately followed. On April
V^^\7^\2'q^'' 22, 1888, however, under the
Founded, 1884 , ' .- r ^r- tt 1 tv/t t j
leadership of Miss Helen M. Lord,
who was then a teacher in the institution, the Associa-
tion was reorganized ; and from that time onward has
been one of the permanent and most helpful organiza-
tions of the College. Its meetings were held in Baldwin
parlors until the erection of Voorhees Chapel, since
which time it has had a large room of its own in the
basement of that building.
So useful an organization deserves better quarters,
and, doubtless, before many years, it will be provided
with what it needs and merits. In connection with
both the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., the usual
Bible and Mission Study classes, and many other ac-
tivities that are now the accepted policy of the best
organizations of the kind, are systematically carried
forward.
It was to be expected that a college that had grown
out of a theological seminary should from the first
be a field in which the students
Other Organized ^^^j^ naturally take part in
Religious Work .-. . , 1 ^u .^i- \.u •
religious work both within the in-
stitution itself and within the community by which it
is surrounded. The students take part in the church
work of Maryville and of the surrounding country;
204 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
and now that Maryville is rapidly developing into a
city, they are finding and entering an even broader
field for social and Christian service.
The student organization for the February meet-
ings is usually very complete and effective; not only
is it productive of immediate and wonderful results
in the meetings, but it also trains workers for the
future.
The Student Volunteer Band for Foreign Missions
was organized in the fall of 1894, in the days of Kin
Takahashi; and serves not only to develop its own
members, but also to arouse interest in foreign mis-
sions among all the students, and to enlist some as
volunteers. There have been more than fifty Mary-
ville students since 1877 who have gone abroad as for-
eign missionaries.
A Ministerial Association, consisting of candidates
for the ministry, has, since its organization in Febru-
ary, 1 90 1, rendered valuable service on the hill and in
the community at large. Its membership in 1916 was
forty.
The chief athletics on the hill until 1889 was base-
ball. Football was then introduced by Kin Takahashi,
... . the first game being played with a
Knoxville team. Basketball made
its debut in 1901. The first field day with its track
athletics was held on April 28, 1893. Tennis was
played on the hill for the first time in 1884.
The students soon felt the need, upon the intro-
duction of intercollegiate athletics, of an organization
for the proper conduct of all athletic matters. The
MARYVILLE'S STUDENT BODY 205
first Athletic Association was formed in November,
1890, with John Q. Diirfey as President; E. L. Savage,
Vice President; J. E. Love, Secretary; and Frank
Marston, Treasurer. This association conducted the
college athletics during the following twelve years.
In the fall of 1902 the Association was reorganized
on the basis of a greatly improved constitution. A
council composed of representatives of the faculty,
the students, and Maryville business men directs all
the athletic events of the College.
The fact that the town of Maryville has hitherto
been too small and its people have been too busy and
most of the students too limited in means to provide
the necessary gate receipts adequately to finance inter-
collegiate athletics, has made the burden of the Athletic
Board of Control and of the managers of the teams
a very heavy one. But the members of the teams have,
in spite of this embarrassing handicap, fought for the
honor of their College as pertinaciously and loyally as
if they had all the financial backing they could desire.
Doubtless, before long, some friend or friends will
build the much-needed stadium, and thereby contrib-
ute largely to the solution of the financial problem.
And the directors and the faculty, appreciating the
clean athletics supported by the student body, will
be made very happy in the happiness that this bene-
faction will bring the well-nigh one thousand students
whom it will annually benefit.
The extensive and beautiful campus, the gymnasium
and swimming pool, the outdoor track athletics, the
opportunities for outdoor remunerative work, the
2o6 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
college local athletic leagues, and the intercollegiate
contests conspire to make the hill, during recreation
hours, the most attractive of places to the students.
The spirit controlling the athletics of the institution
has, uniformly, been manly and honorable; and fair
play and gentlemanly conduct have, as a rule, char-
acterized the College in its intercollegiate sports. And
so the athletics of the hill has contributed much to
the development of the students and to the general
welfare of the institution.
The campus of two hundred and fifty acres, with its
twin forests of deciduous and evergreen trees, the
white lines of county turnpikes stretching away in all
directions, and the hilly countryside adjoining the
campus on the east and south, present every facility
to be desired for pleasure walks and cross-country
runs ; while the glorious mountain heaps that begin to
rise only six miles from the campus limits and that
extend eastward for much more than a hundred miles
of Appalachian grandeur, afford an almost incom-
parably attractive region for "hikes'* in pursuit of
health and happiness ; and never to be forgotten are
the joys of the long tramp across "Chilhowee's lofty
mountains" and up the mighty slopes of the Great
Bald and along the rugged crests of the Smokies as far
as where grim old Thunderhead dreams in his Olym-
pian seclusion.
The students have formed various other organi-
zations along the lines of their special interests, and
have secured profit and pleasure from them. Among
these organizations may be mentioned the Law Club,
MARYVILLE'S STUDENT BODY 207
the Medical Club, the Intercollegiate Prohibition As-
sociation, and the Equal Suffrage League. The regu-
. ,. .^. lar ore^anizations of the various
Other Activities „ . .1
college and preparatory classes pro-
vide for two class social functions a year; while the
Senior Class provides for several such functions. Stu-
dents also form organizations for special scientific,
linguistic, literary, and religious study. There is no
lack of initiative in such matters. The national char-
acter of Maryville's field is illustrated by the many
State Clubs, representing all sections of our country ;
while the cosmopolitan field is suggested by the For-
eign Club.
fc It is the fortune of most schools to arouse a fervent
Bfcollege patriotism that is both enthusiastic and endur-
■isprit-de-Corps 1"^-. MaryviUe boasts a veiy loyal
^■T bociety of Alumni; and, mdeed, a
very loyal body of old students, for thousands have re-
ceived the benefits of a partial course of study at the
hands of MaryviUe that were unable to complete the
entire course of study. Wherever MaryviUe men and
women are found, they are zealous champions of their
alma mater. They are the uncommissioned agents who
send the ever-swelling tide of new students to the old
College.
Surely, too, this is as it should be ; for not only have
they the ties that would bind them to any school where
their youthful memories cluster, but many of them
have the additional ties of a gratitude that recognizes
that, had it not been for Maryville's marvelous suc-
cess in keeping the expenses low and the standards
2o8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
high, and then its generosity in affording scholarship
aid and opportunities to earn part of even the low ex-
penses, they could never have had a college education
or any part of it. And there, too, is the additional
debt of gratitude for high moral ideals and stalwart
religious character received from the College. No
wonder Maryville's old students insist with loving ur-
gency that "there is but one Maryville in the whole
world."
The College, in company with many other colleges,
did without college colors for many long years; but
about 1890 a committee of students
SongTand Ydls ^"^ P''^^^^^"^^ ^^'^'''^ '^^ '^^^"^'-
ful combination of orange and gar-
net as the official college colors. So far as is known,
no one has ever criticized them, though thousands have
worked hard that they might be honored.
The first Maryville college song that gained any cur-
rency was written by Professor John W. Ritchie, and
set to music by Miss Leila M. Ferine, then a teacher of
music in the College. The words are as follows :
Where Chilhowee's lofty mountains
Pierce the Southern blue.
Proudly stands our Alma Mater,
Noble, grand, and true.
Chorus. Orange-garnet, float forever.
Ensign of our hill!
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to Maryville!
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As thy hilltop crowned with cedars,
Ever green appears,
So thy memVy fresh shall linger
Through life's smiles and tears.
Lift the chorus, wake the echoes.
Make the welkin ring!
Hail the queen of all the highlands !
Loud her praises sing !
This song, and a very popular one by Professor E.
W. Hall, entitled ''Dear Old Maryville/' and another
written by Rev. George P. Beard, entitled "Our Mary-
ville,'' are found with other college songs in the '*Mary-
ville College Song Book," published by Professor E.
W. Hall.
The college yell, adopted at the same time as were
the college colors, is as follows : "How-ee-how ! Chil-
how-ee! Maryville, Maryville, Tennessee! Hoo-rah!
hoo-rah! /Maryville, Maryville, 'Rah! 'rah! 'rah!"
Milton, unhappily, was speaking of a very different
battle cry, but his words describe rather accurately
this college yell as it sounds forth on some "foughten
field" of intercollegiate athletics :
Their liveliest pledge
Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
Their surest signal!
k
CHAPTER VIII
Maryville's Helping Hand
Maryville College may very properly be defined
as a study in how to help people get a college education
who otherwise could not secure it.
aryvi e as j^g historic mission has been to
Foimded to Help , . , ,
carry an education to those that are
hungry for it, but that are in danger of not being given
it by others. In its early days it was called "the poor
man's college" ; and it has never yet reached the day
when it was not especially proud of its service to the
humble. It has ever rejoiced in helping those whose
chief riches have consisted in their youthful ambitions
and their future possibilities.
Maryville College was the means devised by some
pioneer Scotch-Irishmen who loved their fellow men,
by which they hoped to train up leaders in education
and religion for the democracy of the Southwest. To
this end the institution was founded, and with this
purpose in view students were invited to its portals
and were aided as they pursued their studies within its
classic halls.
Long before it had become a fad of modern efficiency
in business, economy of administration had been a mat-
ter of vital interest and daily practice at Maryville.
2IO
MARYVILLE'S HELPING HAND 211
The aphorisms of Poor Richard were not novelties to
the directorate of Maryville, but were tried and tested
rules of its historic policy. "A
been the thought in the self-deny-
ing frugality of a century ; but that thought has always
carried with it the purpose that the economized penny
should make it easier for some young person to earn
an education.
Stern self-sacrifice and unremitting toil have been
the willing price that Maryville's faculty have paid in
order that their students should be helped on their way
to the royal treasure of a college education. The sal-
aries of the faculty and the cost of the management of
the institution have been sternly and rigidly kept down
to the lowest possible figure in the budget, in order that
the cost of the student's education might not rise be-
yond his ability. The only just criticism of Maryville
in this regard would be found in the fact that, in order
to assist in this altruistic economy of administration,
many of the management have through laborious years
done an amount of work that should have been shared
with others; and have thus prematurely burned up
with excessive toil many priceless years of life that
otherwise should have been their pleasant portion.
Poor Richard insisted, "Many a little makes a
mickle" ; and further, '^Beware of little expenses." The
lifelong effort at Maryville has been
Helps by General ^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^U ^f ^^^ ^^^^g.
Inexpensiveness ^ ,. , , ,
sary expenses so very little that the
sum of them shall not be beyond the reach of the in-
212 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
dustrious young people of village and country and of
mountain and valley. The attempt made has not been
merely to offer a ''leader*' so cheap as to attract cus-
tomers, but rather to make all the necessary expenses
so low that a condition would be created that would
challenge all ambitious young people possessed of
health and hands and head and heart to pay the pos-
sible price and to enter into their intellectual heritage,
and to become educated men and women.
The estimate of the year's expenses as given in the
bulletins of the registrar's office is, in fact, an inven-
tory of bargains that are available on the way to an
education. And this condition of affairs is not a nec-
essary or inevitable one, for the increased financial
strength of institutions of learning has by no means
generally reduced the cost of an education to the stu-
dent. Maryville could easily change its clientage by
changing its charges for tuition and the like; but it
has no desire to change its clientage; indeed its pur-
pose still is to help those that need help as they strug-
gle out of the democracy of no means or moderate
means into the aristocracy of learning and leadership.
Very happily it is also true that the general sentiment
of the student body at Maryville is in favor of the
elimination of needless expenditures, and is against
the silly waste of money that has been satirized as the
spirit of "keeping up with Lizzie."
The reason for the low rate of tuition charged by
the College is not far to seek on the part of those who
have read the preceding chapters with their account
of the original design of the institution, and of its
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unswerving loyalty to that original mission. In order
to help worthy but needy youth get an education it was
imperative that the rates of tuition
Sitioii^Cha7es ^^^^^^ ^^ merely nominal; other-
wise the doors would be barred
agairist them. And so Maryville has never charged
more for tuition than many schools have charged for
an incidental fee. It has coveted for itself the privilege
of doing what many other institutions did not care
to do or could not do — lead into a college education
a host of those strong and able young people of the
Southern Appalachians and elsewhere who lack only
one condition of an education — money; and what the
College has coveted it has attained.
In ante-bellum years the tuition charges were
usually about $25 a year; but in many cases, because
there was nothing else to do in the absence of scholar-
ships, students' tuition bills were cancelled by the un-
paid professors notwithstanding the fact that their
meager salaries came principally from the small tui-
tions collected. In post-bellum years, the tuition be-
gan as $20, and for a time was only $10 and was then
called an incidental fee ; but during the period of ex-
pansion it has thus far been $18 a year. This amount,
however, is collected of all, every student paying the
entire amount in cash. The total sum collected for
ordinary tuition in 1915-1916 amounted to $11,788;
for special tuition, laboratories, and incidentals,
$8,858. The tuition though small is indispensable to
the carrying out of the budget.
The reason the tuition rates have not been raised in
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these more prosperous times is the fact that the num-
ber of those young people knocking at the doors of the
College in these latest years who are nobly ambitious
for an education and yet are financially unable to pay
what most colleges of the grade of Maryville charge,
is far greater than ever and is rapidly increasing.
Maryville is so unwilling to desert its century-long
clientage that it has adhered to its traditional low tui-
tion rates, even in face of the fact that some students
who are able to pay larger rates may thus pay less than
they should.
The chief expense at college is the cost of board,
and if that can be kept low, the principal problem in
student aid is solved. In the early
the cost of board was always low,
and once, as we have seen, went as low as ten dollars
a year, or one dollar a month! In the Fifties, board
in the Students' Commons was eighty cents a week;
and in private families, and, later, in the College Com-
mons, from $1.50 to $2.00 a week.
When the boarding hall was opened at Baldwin Hall
in March, 1871, board was offered at $2.00 a week.
This continued to be the rate until the Cooperative
Club was organized. Convenient brick-floored kitch-
ens, furnished with cooking-stoves and tables, were
also provided, free, in the basements of Baldwin and
Memorial Halls, in which students could board them-
selves. For twenty years these kitchens were the chief
boarding places of the students. All the "bachers"
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saved money, but some of them lost their health, by
this economy.
In 1892 the faculty organized the Cooperative
Boarding Qub, with a view to providing good food
well cooked as cheap as the self-boarding clubs could
do so. The regular boarding department was merged
into the Club. By the second year the kitchens were
deserted, and the Club had entered upon its very suc-
cessful career, one hundred and thirty-five students
securing board that year for less than $1.20 a week.
The first manager of the Club, Mrs. Mary A. Wil-
son, had had experience in the management of hotels ;
but best of all she had the spirit of Christian service,
and conducted the Club with as altruistic a motive as
she would have exemplified if she had gone on a for-
eign mission. After having made the Club probably
the best of its kind in the South, she resigned her
position on account of her advancing age. A few
years later, however, in an emergency she volunteered,
though over seventy years of age, to take up the work
for another year. Her friends warned her that she
would endanger her life by carrying so heavy a bur-
den. Her brave answer was: *'Well, I could not
die in a better cause." The burden did prove too
great, and during the year she died at her post of duty.
She left some of her small savings to the College, but
her best legacy was the admirable system that she
established in the management of the Club — a system
which her successors in office, trained under her, have
continued with great success.
The Qub provided excellent board for more than
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five hundred young men and young women, in 1916,
at cost — $1.90 a week. It also furnished a hundred
young women the opportunity of earning $3.25 toward
their $7.60 a month board bill. The health of the new
students is usually improved by the good food served
by the best of cooks with variety and regularity. A
"balanced ration" is provided. The faculty built more
wisely than they thought when they founded the Club,
for not only did they improve the health of the stu-
dents, but they made it possible for many thousands
to attend college who without the advantages of the
Club would never have been able to do so.
The College could easily make the Club a source of
revenue by raising the cost of board, but in doing so,
it would depart from the policy of a century, and
exclude many of its neediest clientage, and this it has
no temptation to do. It is rather planning to utilize
the agricultural department in improving the Club so
as to keep the cost at its historic low rates. An en-
dowment sufficient to pay the salaries of the managers
would insure the possibility of keeping the rates low
in spite of the general increase in the cost of food-
stuffs. A far-reaching benefaction this would be.
Many students find employment during the college
year in the buildings as janitors and caretakers. Many
laboratory assistants are made
^dSorMfSp "ecessary by the large classes of
the various science departments.
As stated heretofore, a hundred young women find in
connection with the Cooperative Club opportunities to
earn about thirty dollars of their year's board bill of
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seventy dollars. Thus the College affords within the
walls of its buildings opportunities of work that ex-
tend throughout every day of the college year and
are not affected by rain or wintry weather.
In the early days of the seminary farm, the students
found the best possible outdoors work to which they
devoted a certain part of every
?utL?s^SdSe^l ^''^' ^"^ '"^''^ '^''^''^ years, the
self-help work fund has afforded
similar opportunities of work in the open. This fund,
begun in 1893 with a contribution of $477 by twenty-
one friends, and greatly expanded through the efforts
of Miss Henry, has of late years enabled the College
to offer three or four or more dollars of work a month
to any student desiring such work. During the two
recreation hours in the afternoon, and on Saturdays,
many students find it possible to earn as much as one-
half their board bill. The work consists of every kind
of service needed about a large school and a large
campus. Work on the lawns, the walks, the streets,
the new buildings, the old buildings, on the pipe-line
trenches, in the woods, and especially, in coming days,
in connection with the agricultural department, is
practically endless in quantity, and gives at once physi-
cal health and financial help to the eager workmen.
In 1888 Miss Sarah B. Hills, of New York, con-
tributed six hundred dollars for the establishment of
a text-book loan library for the
TextioJk?^^^^^ ^^^^^^ "^^ ^^^ students. Members
of the faculty contributed their
services to the conduct and management of this book
2i8 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
room, for more than twenty years without compensa-
tion and since then at a mere nominal compensation;
and so efficiently has the room been managed that the
library has grown with the growth of the school and
with the multiplication of courses until at its inven-
tory in 1916 it contained 8,905 books valued at $4,215.
The books are neatly covered and thoroughly disin-
fected every term. The library has received only
about three hundred dollars in donations since its
foundation; but its modest rentals, fixed at one-fifth
the retail cost of a book, supplemented by the receipts
from the stationery business, have not merely supplied
the many thousands of students during the past thirty
years with books at an insignificant rental, but have
accumulated so valuable a library as provides all the
books needed by eight hundred students during three
terms a year. It annually saves the students thousands
of dollars.
Many business men who owe their financial success
in life largely to opportune loans that were made them
in their days of lack of capital,
T -ci Its j^^g^ j^^ especially interested in an-
loan Funds . re fiv/r -n 1 i.
other effort Maryville has begun m
behalf of the students. Maryville's father of the
February Meetings, Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D., out
of the savings of the modest offerings made him in
his work as an evangelist, set aside two thousand dol-
lars to help Maryville help the young people who were
out of money but wanted more education and were
anxious to pay for it out of their future earning power.
Several oth^r funds — the Angier fund of five thousand
MARYVILLE'S HELPING HAND 219
dollars and the Margaret E. Henry fund of one
thousand dollars — have been given for the same pur-
pose. As a result a considerable number of Juniors
and Seniors have been enabled to complete their work
by the timely loans made them from these funds, and
then after graduation have returned the loans to be
loaned again to other needy students. An endless
chain, this, to which no one can take exception.
Those who have not themselves tested the difficulty
of earning a dollar in a section where for most of
Helps by Its the past century a farm hand
Permanent earned less than half a dollar a
Scholarships day, can hardly realize how large
a sum even the eighteen dollars required for the tui-
tion bills appears, and how substantial seems a scholar-
ship of even eighteen dollars. It is more than a farm
hand can ordinarily clear in a month.
The first endowment fund to help Maryville stu-
dents meet their college expenses was a contribution
of $1,500 made by Rev. James G. Craighead, D.D. ;
while the second — the largest such fund yet given the
College — $6,300, was contributed by Rev. Carson W.
Adams, D.D., specifically to help in paying tuition.
During the period of expansion these scholarship and
self-help funds have been added to until, in 1916, they
aggregated, aside from the loan funds, more than
$50,000, and the list fills two pages of the catalog.
The interest received from these funds is appropri-
ated by the Faculty Committee on Scholarships to such
students as it deems most worthy and most in need,
without regard to or even inquiry as to the denomina-
220 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
tional affiliation of the applicant. The amounts ap-
propriated, when worked out or received as gifts from
these funds, have enabled hosts of students to remain
in College, when, unaided, their lack of resources
would have made it impossible for them to complete
the year.
It is hoped that during the Centennial Fund Cam-
paign large additions of permanent scholarships may
be made. Especially is it fervently hoped that the
efforts to raise a fund of $100,000 to serve as a per-
manent memorial of Miss Henry may be crowned with
success. Miss Henry often spoke of her dreams that
some day so large a permanent work and scholarship
fund should be secured that it would be unnecessary
to go out to canvass for current scholarships. She
raised $12,000 during the last year of her life for such
current funds — the interest on $200,000 at six per
cent. A worthy memorial of a great life would $100,-
000 be, bringing in $6,000 a year to the students of
the College, and perpetuating the life-work of their
great champion. Individuals, women's clubs, Sabbath
schools and their classes, D.A.R. chapters, and other
friends of education and of the mountains and of Miss
Henry may well take part in these double memorials
and in Miss Henry's labor of love.
There are always very many students in attendance
who can expect little or no help
Helps by Its f^.^^ home, and who, for that rea-
Current n j ^ ^u •
Scholarships ^^^^ ^^^ compelled to earn their
own way through college. To such
self-supporting students, it is good news, indeed, that
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tells of an institution where during the progress of
the school year itself the opportunity is given those
that need it to earn at least half their board bill ; and
in cases where their earnings during the three months
of vacation are still inadequate to meet the college
bills, it is also good news when they hear that an appro-
priation from the current scholarship funds, collected
heretofore by Miss Henry and hereafter by her suc-
cessors, may be approved by the Scholarship Commit-
tee to enable them to pay the moderate tuition bill, and,
in cases of special need and merit, even a large amount
of their expenses. This good news makes very happy
hearts, and it nerves willing hands to make every en-
deavor to secure the education thus put within their
reach.
Maryville delights in helping those that are helping
themselves, and that need only a little help to enable
them to avail themselves of Maryville's rare facilities
to make leaders out of them. The Scholarship Com-
mittee makes grants only after careful and conscien-
tious consideration of each case; and seeks to avoid
the remotest tendency toward lessening a wholesome
self-respect and industry on the part of the student.
It seeks to relieve only that penury that threatens to
deprive a worthy young man or young woman of a
needed training for leadership. The grant of the
scholarship is intended to stimulate the spirit of self-
support and not to stifle it.
Fortunately the delightful mountain climate of
East Tennessee, the good food provided by the Co-
operative Club, the pure water piped to the College
222 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
from the Mcllvaine spring, and the healthful exercise
afforded by the work on the "chain gang," as the boys
facetiously call their out-of-doors
S^the^HeaUh ^ ^^J^ ^^^^^' ^"^ ^^ *^ gymnasium
drill and the indoors and outdoors
athletic sports, unite to contribute so largely to the
development and conservation of the students' health
that there is not very much need of physicians and of
hospitals.
However, among so many hundreds of students,
there must be provision made for the sick, and the
College has made that provision. As the number of
students increased of late years, hospital rooms were
fitted up at the president's residence and in Baldwin
Hall. Then Mrs. Lamar's generous gift provided, in
1909, the Ralph Max Lamar Memorial Hospital with
its eleven wards and the other appointments of a well-
equipped hospital. In this hospital ever since its open-
ing, a clinic with free medical consultation and pre-
scription has been provided the students on alternate
days. Beginning with 191 3, a regular, trained nurse
has also had charge of the hospital and has had the
oversight of the health of the students, and has con-
tributed greatly to their physical welfare. The health
of the college people has been admirably conserved by
all these provisions in its behalf.
It is the glory of our American system of popular
education that it provides for all young people an equal
opportunity for a good education. Maryville College,
although not connected with the public school system,
was founded for the people, and is administered for
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the people, be their financial condition never so strait-
ened. This chapter of Maryville's history has told of
some of the ways in which the Col-
Helps by an ^^^^ ^^^ extended its helping hand
Altruism *^ ^^^ students; but these '"helps"
are not the only evidences of
the altruistic spirit of the College. That spirit
pervades the entire institution and every department
of it. Even after their graduation, the College tries
to help its students; in their behalf, without charge,
the Faculty's Committee on Recommendations carries
on an extensive correspondence, serving especially
those students who are planning to become teachers.
One of the students, after several years' experience at
Maryville, said : "I never saw anything like it ! Every
one here seems to be trying to help the other fellow !'*
CHAPTER IX
Maryville's Manhood Product
Maryville, like all serious-minded schools, views as
its mission the making of serviceable men and women
"D -w 1. J for the world's work. It counts
Brawn Mannood . ,. , . , - , . ^ ,
itself happy in the fact that it finds
provided as a basis for its work of development young
men and young women of strong physique. The stu-
dents come principally from the mountains and the
country districts and from wholesome homes in vil-
lages and small towns, and bring with them bodies
of good bone and blood and brawn. They represent
the best and healthiest physical manhood and woman-
hood products of our country. And in these days of
the Cooperative Club, the Work Fund, the gymnasium,
the swimming pool, and outdoor athletics, the stu-
dents gain in physical power and vigor during their
college days. A good basis this, for the making of
men and women.
The College deems itself also fortunate in the
amount of brain, as well as brawn, that its students
■D • v 1. J bring with them as a rich part of
Brain Mannood , .^ - ., ,
their family patrimony and race
endowment. The Southern mountaineers have been
credited by some physiologists that have made a spe-
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cial study of them, as having a brain of somewhat
larger conformation than just ordinary mortals have!
But virhatever may be physiologically true of the gray
matter of the material brain, there can be no dis-
counting of the lively native intelligence of Mary-
ville's clientage.
The thorough methods of instruction and the high
standards of scholarship maintained by the College
seek to train into symmetry and efficiency this rich
mental endowment of its students. The institution is
aided in its endeavors by the cooperation of the young
people, who keep their brains untainted by vice, and
employ their best endeavor to develop and discipline
their intellectual powers. The efficiency the alumni
have shown in their distinguished service to the world,
and the respect they have won from their fellow labor-
ers in many fields of service, are sufficient evidence
that they have very largely realized their ambition to
utilize the capital with which nature has endowed
them.
Superior to either brawn or brain manhood is, of
course, character manhood; and this best of all types
of manhood Maryville seeks to
^J^®*^^ build up in happy union with the
subordinate and yet invaluable
types that have been mentioned. The effort is made
to develop such a character in the student as shall
command his own self-respect, the regard of his fel-
low men, and the approval of his God.
Maryville believes that a man should be so sincere
and genuine that his reputed three characters — "that
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which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which
he thinks he has" — shall after all be blended in one
individual and kingly character. It has no sympathy
with the assertion of some educators' that they are
charged only with the intellectual training of their
students ; and that they have no responsibility for their
moral training. It rather deems its work a sad failure
if it fails to implant in its students noble moral ideals
that control their lives. And its success in develop-
ing worthy character has been most gratifying through-
out its century of efforts to that end.
To have the most symmetrical character there must
be freedom from habits that would impair either man-
hood or manly influence. From the
SntS^^^^*'''^ beginning, a hundred years ago, all
of Maryville's professors have
been leaders in the temperance movement. Before the
Washingtonian movement, they were total abstainers.
Professor Darius Hoyt, in the early Thirties, was edi-
tor of a Maryville temperance weekly paper; and at
that early date the students had their temperance so-
ciety. Dr. Anderson nearly a century ago used unfer-
mented wine in the celebration of the sacrament. The
entire influence of the College was thrown against
dissipation, and there never was a day when drinking
was tolerated among its students.
Since the War, the united influence of the College
has been thrown against the tobacco habit, no teacher
being employed who uses tobacco, and no student be-
ing allowed to use it on the college campus or being
MARYVILLE'S MANHOOD PRODUCT 22y
permitted to room in the dormitories if he ttses it.
Very few of the alumni use tobacco.
Every year special instruction is given the students
regarding the social evil; and the single standard of
Christian morality is held up for their adoption. Danc-
ing is not permitted. Abstinence from these things is
looked upon as not merely a negative but a positive
contribution to character building.
Character, however, is, of course, infinitely more
positive than negative. The ''thou shalt not's'' are
outranked by the "thou shalt's."
SitiS^^^"'^^ "Thou Shalt love the Lord thy
God, and thy neighbor as thy-
self" is the supreme commandment. In a man's will-
ing response to it is found his true character. It fol-
lows, then, that the chief duty and the noblest service
of Maryville College is to develop positive character.
And, accordingly, to the development of that force-
ful moral character all the energies of the institution
are directed.
Religion and philanthropy equip man for the use
and the enjoyment of life, and panoply him for the
immortal life that is his glorious heritage. By every
means within its power, then, Maryville endeav-
ors to recommend to the immortals under its tuition
these high sanctities.
In the discussion of the services rendered by Dr.
Anderson, it was pointed out that it was he that first
vitalized and developed what has been known among
the old students as ''the Maryville spirit''; and that
the four chief elements of that spirit are breadth of
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sympathy, thorough scholarship, manly religion, and
unselfish service. These four elements all contribute
mightily to the making of the
St'^S"^ Maryville man; and, though the
type produced has differed some-
what in its appearance, just as the costumes worn at
different periods of the century have differed, the real
vital thing itself — the spirit — has been nearly identical
throughout the ten decades. What we may call cos-
mopolitan breadth of vision and sympathy on the one
hand, and thorough scholarship on the other, have had
their efficient influence in making the manhood product
of Maryville. The other two elements of *'the Mary-
ville spirit," manly religion and unselfish service, play
so vital a part in the making of the Maryville man,
that the institution deems it the chief end of its exist-
ence to develop them.
In its efforts toward the development of this posi-
tive character in its students, the College has mani-
fested a character of its own that
y^^tf^^^f ^^s been of a very persistent and
Century consistent type. This character
has surrounded the school with en-
during and now historic moral traditions and a relig-
ious atmosphere that have been a tonic to all within
the radius of its influence.
All the five presidential administrations have agreed
in this earnest purpose and characteristic endeavor.
As by a kind of apostolic succession, this program of
the institution's life and work has been handed down
unchanged from hand to hand. During the century,
Dr. Edgar A. Elmore, Chairman of the
Directors.
c c c
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methods of instruction and the character of the equip-
ment have, in the advance of education and in the
increased financial strength of the College, greatly im-
proved. It is also believed that the moral program
and performance of the College have not deteriorated
during the hundred years since Dr. Anderson an-
nounced the program and began to carry it out into
performance. Indeed, the impetus of a century has,
it is trusted, been of avail in improving even this part
of the work of the College. But, in its essence, ''the
Maryville spirit" is the same throughout the past hun-
dred years. It has been much the same in the teachers
and in the students.
The College has always been very deliberate and
cautious in the choosing of its teachers; for if the
character and the accepted mission
med^eiMng "^ ' ^°"^S^ ^'' *° ^' perpetuated,
Force ^^^^ must be perpetuated in the
persons of the teachers who make
up the successive faculties. Without vigilance in the
selection of its teachers, it would be easy to metamor-
phose in a few short years the whole spirit of even
Maryville College, distinctive, historic, consistent, and
typical as that spirit has persisted.
It has been the glory of Maryville, however, that the
members of its faculties have been men and women
of a deeply earnest purpose, who have looked upon
life as a mission of helpfulness to others, and who
have, among their many ambitions, placed highest of
all the ambition to be used of God in training his sons
and daughters for their divinely appointed and phil-
230 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
anthropic mission. It has been the practice of these
teachers to say "Come !'' — not "Go !" — in their efforts
to lead their students to walk the paths of virtue, re-
ligion, and social service. And the results of their la-
bors have been happy results. "Like priest, like people,"
should be thus rewritten for Maryville's use: "Like
teacher, like student." And this is true common sense,
true psychology, true pedagogy, and true religion.
Manhood must be reverent to be at its best. The
rash spirit of youth that would "rush in where angels
fear to tread," must be better in-
Colle f ®^^^^^* structed before it can be discreet
Atmosphere ^^^ ^^^^* ^^^ ^^ ^^^ college pro-
gram seeks every day of the col-
lege year to inculcate the wholesome spirit of reverent
humility in the presence of "the high and lofty One
who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy."
The daily chapel exercises, conducted not as mere
routine by the professors in succession; the Bible-
school and church services of the Sabbath, which all
attend ; the historic Tuesday evening conference meet-
ing attended voluntarily by hundreds of students, and
directed by the teachers and the student organizations ;
the Bible Training Department with its reverent and
scholarly investigation of the word of God as the law
of life ; and even the regulations enforced in the disci-
pline of the school — all conspire to create and develop
that spirit of reverence which cannot be absent when
true character is present. Thus Maryville's character
product has, normally, a large element of godly rever-
ence permeating it.
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The culmination of the yearlong efforts of Mary-
ville to build the best possible manhood product is
reached in the February Meetings. Believing most
heartily that the cleanest, truest.
Meetings acter is that which results from
the fear and love of God and from
loyalty to his v^ord and church and will, the College
seeks most earnestly and persistently to lead every
student to enter definitely and heartily into the service
of God and his church.
In ante-bellum days Dr. Anderson, as pastor of
the New Providence Church in Maryville, usually
held a special series of services every year, in the bene-
fits of which the students shared, and in which he
trained them to be what are now called "personal
workers." For the first ten years after the War, the
College continued to share in the town meetings. In
the course of time, however, the institution grew to
such size that it became expedient for it to have its
own meetings. Out of this fact grew "the February
Meetings."
The first February Meetings were held in the old
chapel on the second floor of Anderson Hall in 1877.
Rev. .Nathan Bachman, D.D., one
Unique flStory °^ Maryville's greatest benefactors,
conducted the services. In these
initial meetings many decided to live the Christian life,
including the present president of the College and his
wife, and the lamented Miss Margaret E. Henry,
These first meetings, moreover, were immensely im-
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portant in that they determined for the future the
character of the succeeding meetings. Dr. Bachman
was an apostle of love and gentleness and loyalty and
vision. He appealed dispassionately but earnestly and
most wisely to the manliness and the womanliness of
the students. Like Goldsmith's village preacher, he
sought to allure to brighter worlds and lead the way;
but sought first to lead the young people to nobility of
character through the transforming power of religion,
and to usefulness of service through enlistment under
the Great Leader.
On this same rational and unobjectionable plan has
the work since then been carried on. Those who had
expected to find ground for criticism in the meetings
have become their warmest friends when they have
seen them and have witnessed the vast good they have
accomplished. Few of the many thousands who have
attended them have found any fault in them; while
most of the thousands have referred to them through-
out succeeding years with profound respect and grati-
tude.
The quiet, elevated, and biblical methods employed
by Dr. Bachman have been continued with wonder-
ful and increasing success by the
SVhe"^ ^^^^ ""^^^^ ^^^"^^^^ ""^ ^^^ meetings. It
Leaders ^^^ been the policy of the College,
so far as possible, to have each
leader take charge every four years. Dr. Bachman
conducted the meetings eight times; Dr. Elmore has
been leader seven times; and Dr. Trimble, five times.
The services usually begin on the first Sabbath of
MARYVILLE'S MANHOOD PRODUCT 233
February, and continue about twelve days; a forty
minutes' service being held at chapel attended by all
the students, and a service each night attended by the
great majority of the students.
The object of the twenty-four earnest and thought-
laden addresses is to bring the young people face to
face with their Lord and Master so
With Their ^j^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^i the Invisible
Vision Godward . .1 • 1 . j ., j
and their unseen duty and thus de-
cide to enter the service of God. Surely no more sub-
lime privilege and task could be given a college than
is that which Maryville feels has been given to it —
the opportunity to implant humble piety and reverent
religion in the hearts and lives of young people.
'Tear God" is a message that our young Americans
must hear and heed if they are to remain clean-bodied
and pure-hearted, and if they are to have the motive
and passion for righteousness that will make them
regenerators of our body politic. The College makes
no apology for shortening somewhat the assignments
of work during twelve February days in order that
the young people may have leisure in which to turn
their gaze upward and to come to an understanding
with the Infinite.
The February Meetings, however, turn the serious
attention of the students manward as well as Godward.
A clarion call to service is sounded
TT- • Tur^^^ J every day. The proclamation of
Vision Manward .. u ^u u ^ / ^ r r
the brotherhood of man and of fra-
ternity in the common Savior thrills the young people
with the challenge of Christian and social service in a
234 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
lifelong crusade. Great numbers have been aroused in
these meetings to dedicate themselves to the service of
their fellow men.
The religion that Maryville champions is one that
refuses monkish selfishness and seclusion and seeks
Christlike self-sacrifice and service. Surely a series
of meetings that annually sends forth many with high
resolves to spend and be spent for others, and that has
sent many hundreds to careers of great usefulness, is
the glory of the school that provides them.
A new vision of life's meaning and possibilities
dawns upon the student as he has his horizon broad-
ened until it touches earth's remot-
AM With Their ^^^ bounds and extends beyond to
Transforming , , ,, , . r ^ i.
Ideals ^"^ boundless domain of God s pur-
poses for his life. He feels "the
expulsive power of a new aflFection'' that drives out
the low and the mean, and he experiences the trans-
forming power of a lofty purpose.
These ideals annually transform many lives. Bad
habits are abandoned; good habits are formed or
strengthened; discipline is simplified; and scholarship
is improved. "Now, professor, I shall go to work,"
said a young man, who had been one of the most
careless of students; and he steadily fulfilled his new
purpose until he graduated a scholarly man, and be-
came a leader of men for righteousness, and not long
since the remarkably successful leader of one of the
February Meetings.
The religious forces, it goes without saying, are
strengthened by the campaign. Prayer and the word
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of God win such victories as to command a new re-
spect even from the most careless. Remembrance of
the Sabbath day and reverence for God's name gain
a new control of hearts. The moral tone of the Col-
lege is greatly improved. February days transform
ideals, and these ideals transform all later life.
Yes, these ideals become life purposes. College life
is enriched by them; but, better yet, in the case of
very many, all later life is trans-
Life^Pu ^^Ses formed by them. Conscience gains
the kingly place of honor and rules
the conduct. Many decide that their life-work shall be
an altogether altruistic one, and they spend the rest of
their days carrying out, at home and in foreign lands,
the purpose formed in the heart-searching, clarion-
calling February days.
The goodly army of Maryville altruists who in home
and foreign mission fields are toiling for their fellow
men are, many of them, living out the purposes formed
during those days of decision. And the host who do
not go into a vocation that is definitely devoted to the
service of others, carry with them into their life-work,
whatever it may be, the high resolve to make life count
for others as well as for themselves.
The February Meetings, the culmination of every
year's campaign for character building, make the great-
est contribution of the year toward Maryville's output
of "manhood product."
CHAPTER X
Maryville's Second Century
The history of the first century of the College has
contained two books of Genesis instead of one, for
. the Civil War almost annihilated
TheKisf^^^ the College. And yet every decade
Century: ^^ ^^^ century has made some per-
manent contribution to the inheri-
tance of the institution. And, in spite of the fact that
the College has never yet had enough buildings and
endowment to enable it to live comfortably, this heri-
tage from other days is a rich one.
A valuable part of this heritage is its geographical
location. What more could be desired in this respect ?
/- V T X- In the heart of the romantic South-
(1) Location A. 1 1 . . , .
ern Appalachian region, with its
five millions of mountaineers; in the heart of "the
Switzerland of America" — East Tennessee, "secluded
land of gentle hills and mountains grand" ; in the broad
county of Blount, with thirty-three per cent of its pop-
ulation of scholastic age ; in the beautiful county town
of Maryville; and in the parklike campus of two hun-
dred and fifty acres; — surely no more healthful, at-
tractive, or strategic location could have been found
in the wide, wide world. And in the days of the New-
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MARYVILLE'S SECOND CENTURY 237
est South and of the Panama Canal, the course of em-
pire is setting this way more rapidly than ever.
The school has suffered from poverty, and its career
has been far from placid, but its history has been a
heroic one. The men of Maryville have been weak in
,^. _-. , salary and support; but they have
(2) History , • u^ • -r- a
been mighty m sacrince and ser-
vice. Some imperfect outline of the work of
these men has been given in this book. And the
story of the Academies, the Log Colleges, the Theo-
logical Seminary, the Ante-bellum College, and the
Post-bellum College, crowded with evidences of un-
selfish devotion to the cause of education and of the
people, has been handed down as part of the precious
heritage with which Maryville of the new century is
endowed. And it is a record full of divine providence,
human faithfulness, and college usefulness. It is more
precious than rubies.
Another part of the heritage received from the past
is the character of the College. As this narrative has
.^. p, . shown, the founder of the College
gave it its worthy character at its
very beginning; and his successors have striven to
preserve it untarnished, to be handed down in turn to
their successors. How well they have succeeded may
also be gathered from the pages of this book — pages
that tell a "story of altruism." This college character
is worth more than all the financial capital of the
school ; it is what has made Maryville beloved of true
men and women, and highly favored of God. And it
has come down to the second century as an invaluable
238 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
legacy purchased at a great cost of devotion and sacri-
fice.
The past century has contributed at least four price-
less boons that unite to form the rich heritage it has
^4^ M'ssion handed down to the second cen-
tury. Mention has been made of
three of these boons — its location, its history, and its
character; the fourth is as priceless as these; it is its
mission. From the beginning there has been no un-
certainty as to what was sought; the accepted mission
of the College has been the making of Christian lead-
ership for the world's work. Like Paul, it can say:
*'This one thing I do.'' Possessed itself of the assur-
ance of its own mission, it has sought to make its stu-
dents men and women of a mission. And the greater
includes the less; that which more secular institu-
tions make their chief purpose — the development of
sound scholarship — Maryville seeks with all its might
and main to do at least as well as they : but it is not
content with this achievement; it seeks to superadd to
the very best scholarship the very best heart culture
and moral and religious character.
If the Hebrews had a jubilee at the end of every
fifty years of their history, the Maryvillians clearly
owe for the past hundred years
A Double Jubilee ^^ q^^, providences a double jubi-
for the Great Past! , t- , r i^i- ,
lee. ror the patent of nobility that
was won for the College by the valiant deeds of loyal
men and true; for the twenty-five quadrenniums of
college generations; for the ten times ten commence-
ment days with their students faring away from the
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college halls to carry the teachings of Maryville to the
ends of the earth; for the two half century periods
embracing the Old South and the New South, and
merging now into the Newest South with its new
heavens of kindly promise and new earth of generous
prosperity; for a total history full of the providences
of God and the faithful service of men, let the trum-
pets sound forth a jubilee, yes, a double jubilee!
While we give thanks for the past with its rich
heritage, let us salute the future with its richer prom-
ise. The old king is dead; long
All Hail to the Hye the new king! The past was
Greater Future! , r . -n ^ r
great ; the future will be far great-
er. The property equipment, the endowment, the
departments, the curricula, the faculty, the student
body, and, above all, the usefulness of the institution
— all will be increased in the greater future. Nor is
it difficult to believe this cheery horoscope of coming
days; for has not the story we have been telling so
accustomed us to growth and development, and evolu-
tion and expansion, that we should be surprised — ^not
by an advance but — by a retrograde movement ? There
are to be great achievements in the future for Mary-
ville; then all hail to the greater Maryville of the
future !
What shall be the policy for the new century? In
the case of men of purpose, high ideals, industry, and
enthusiasm, it is not difficult for
The Policy for the ^^^^^ ^j^^^ j^^^^ ^1^^^^ best to pre-
Second Century: .. ^ ^, . r ^ r Z
diet their future course of action;
for it will be controlled largely by the principles that
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240 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
have decided the conduct of the past. This is also
true of colleges. Whatever changes are introduced
into the policy of Maryville College will be dictated
largely by the lessons learned in the school of experi-
ence. Even schools go to school; and Maryville's
future will grow out of the lessons it has learned in
the past in their application to the new requirements
of new conditions.
There are some respects in which a proper ambition
may be satisfied even with equaling the attainments
of the past. If the daughter
(1) Try to m as merely equal the moral worth and
•p^^ beauty of character of her mother,
her friends will often agree that
she has done nobly indeed; and if the Maryville of
the second century succeeds in emulating and equaling
the moral worth and integrity and unselfishness of the
Maryville of the first century, its friends may well be
satisfied; for a glorious record in these respects has
the College had in its self-denying past. Let Mary-
ville even live up to its moral and religious traditions,
in this materialistic and self-centered age, and it will,
indeed, do well. But it purposes to be true to its
worthy past, and hopes to take no backward steo in its
onward march.
In some important respects, however, Maryville's
second century will be made far better than was the
first. As each succeeding decade after its refounding
marked great improvements and expansion in many
directions over what was registered the decade before,
it is to be expected that the history of the College will
MARYVILLE'S SECOND CENTURY 241
again be one of new advance and success and useful-
ness. The dreams of the founder and refounder have
already become realities; and the
(^; Aim J<ar management will enter the new
in the Past century with the confidence born
of the assured achievements of the
past, and with the determination to seek the far
better things that they are justified in expecting. There
is no tendency on their part to spare endeavor toward
the realization of what is possible for Maryville.
One of the desiderata to be realized in the second
century will be the coming of the day when Maryville
can be only a college. As yet the
Be a^CoikgT^"^ preparatory department is a neces-
sity, and its elimination at present
would be a grave injury to the cause of education in
this section ; it, evidently, has additional years of use-
fulness before it for all four of its years, and then
other years of usefulness for its two upper years ; but
when the high-school system of the Southern Ap-
palachians has been developed sufficiently to care for
the young people of the region, it will be the carry-
ing out of an old program that will take place when the
preparatory department shall be exscinded, and the
College shall be only a college.
The foundations of the College are already so ex-
tensive and its continued enlargement so certain that
there is not the shadow of a possi-
CoUe^ ^^^^® bility of the institution's ever tak-
ing the rank of a Junior College.
The new century will strengthen it and expand it
242 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
mightily, but it will not narrow its field or scope. It
will always be "a whole college."
Maryville does not aspire to do the work or bear
the name of a university. It has various departments,
/c\ A J -M- 1.- ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ different
but tfollT''^ ''^°^^' ""^^^ ''' management; it
fears that they might interfere with
the efficiency of its efforts to unify and strengthen its
character-forming influences. To be the kind of col-
lege that its ambitions propose as their ideal will re-
quire all its present possessions and powers, and will
utilize all the added resources that the future will bring
to it.
Another ideal of the second century of Maryville
will be to seek to be not only a college, a whole col-
lege, and nothing but a college, but
possible college. Maryville be-
lieves that nothing is too good for its young men and
young women, and it will be content with no lower
aspiration for them than to provide them the best
possible college.
If friends continue to be raised up for it, as they
have been so remarkably raised up during the past
century, the College will approximate every passing
year more nearly to the ideal it holds before it. Very
modest Maryville has always been; it has not cried
aloud in the streets; but very ambitious it has also
been ; it has wanted its sons to be as plants grown up
in their youth, and its daughters to be as corner-stones,
polished after the similitude of a palace. It wishes
MARYVILLE'S SECOND CENTURY 243
to be the best possible college so as to be able to give
the best possible training for its young people. It
seeks to be fit to survive, and then hopes to share in
the survival of the fittest. Witness, the chorus of
the college song:
Orange-garnet, float forever,
Ensign of our hill.
Maryville still has its constituency of the earlier
days; it also has an additional constituency of large
dimensions. In 1916 it had 287
the Needs^ff Its students, or about one-third of its
Constitnency enrollment, from Blount County;
248, or about one-third, from for-
ty-seven other counties of Tennessee; and 270, or
about one-third, from thirty-one other States and
countries.
This large constituency is calling for many forms
of education. Of recent years it has especially urged
the establishment of vocational courses. In 191 3 the
Home Economics Department met part of this de-
mand, and immediately became greatly popular. As
this book goes to press, a modest agricultural depart-
ment is being introduced in compliance with the in-
sistent demand of the times and of the students. The
young men want to learn to be better farmers, and the
school-teachers wish to prepare themselves for the
intelligent presentation of agriculture to their young
people. The forty acres especially available for this
department, in the campus of two hundred and fifty
244 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
acres, is admirably adapted to the purposes of the de-
partment. Maryville is in duty bound to the great
farming region in which it is located, to provide some
elementary and normal training in agriculture for its
students. This it can do without trespassing on the
field occupied by the State agricultural colleges, and
without impairing in any degree the work of its other
departments.
The opportunities for work afforded the students
are now mainly for unskilled manual labor. There is
needed, in addition, a manual training department in
which the student may be trained in a few forms of
skilled manual labor. For any clientage this is valu-
able, but for Maryville's students, accustomed to work
and eager for trained skill, it is especially valuable.
This want of the students will surely be provided early
in the new century.
Maryville is anxious to be of more direct service
to its community and county and section than it has
been able to be in the past. It is hoped that it may be
enabled to employ a large enough force to do the col-
lege work efficiently and yet to allow extension work
to be carried on in the interest of thousands of neigh-
bors of the institution who can not be students within
its walls. For thirteen years (1916) the Mountain
Workers of the Presbyterian Church have held an
annual Conference in the College in June, and thus
several States have been served. Maryville wishes
to be enabled to render far more of this kind of exten-
sion service during the second century than it has thus
Carnegie Hall Burned in April, 1916; Rebuilt by December, 1916
"A Bigger and Better Maryville."
MARYVILLE'S SECOND CENTURY 245
far been able to render. Strategically located in a
large town and near a large city and yet in rural East
Tennessee, it desires to contribute more directly than
heretofore to the solution, within its field, of the coun-
try and city problems which its students consider in
their social science classroom.
The glory of Maryville has ever been, as has been
reiterated, the historic "Maryville spirit'' of cosmo-
politan breadth of sympathy,
(8) In the thorough scholarship, manly relig-
"MarvTiUe ^^"' ^^^ unselfish service; and the
Spirit" achievements that have grown out
of that distinguishing spirit. It is
unthinkable that a spirit that has persisted and even
developed in power for a hundred years shall deterio-
rate or be lost in a new century that has, if possible,
even a greater need of its qualities than had its pred-
ecessor. The College must gain in its second century
a victory even more difficult, but also more honorable,
than was its mighty victory over the adversity of its
first century, namely, a victory over the seductions of
prosperity. What Maryville men of the first century
have even died for, let the Maryville men of the second
century live for, in the highest and truest and worthi-
est way. The holy heritage of the past is a sacred
charge, to be guarded in the same noble way as in
other days it was won. Let the men of Maryville toil
not for self — for that spirit belongs to the breed of
baser sort — and let them not strive merely to make
Maryville more popular, but rather let them use every
endeavor to make their students efficient and Chris-
246 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
tian and greatly useful. Then will a greater and bet-
ter MaryviUe of the second century be the logical and
worthy successor of the great and good MaryviUe of
the first century.
The ever-available criterion of "the MaryviUe spirit"
will, however, continue to be the spirit of the Great
Teacher himself. Let future facul-
<^) Always in the ^^^ ^^^ f^^^^^ directors sit, as did
Spint of the ., . . , r r
Great Teacher ^"^^^ predecessors, at the feet of
the great Galilean until they are
imbued with his spirit. Then, and then only, will they
be able to train their students and to administer the
affairs of their College in a way that will be worthy
of Maryville's history and of Maryville's Lord. Then
will "the MaryviUe spirit" be beyond all question the
right spirit.
At the inauguration of Dr. Anderson, a hundred
years ago, the founder of MaryviUe told of the provi-
dences that had helped in the opening of the new insti-
tution. He said : "Hitherto the Lord has helped us,
and to his name we raise our grateful Ebenezers."
At the beginning of the second century of the service
of the College, we echo his words and raise our "grate-
ful Ebenezers."
On the same occasion MaryvUle's founder uttered
the following words that have been the Magna Charta
of the institution he estabHshed:
The Purpose of the ^L^t the directors and managers of
Second Century . . , . . . ° ^,
this sacred institution propose the
glory of God and the advancement of that kingdom
purchased by the blood of his only begotten Son as
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their sole object, and they need not fear what man
can do."
Upon the threshold of the second century, the fifth
president of the old College would echo these noble
words of Isaac Anderson as, in his view, expressing
accurately the desire and purpose of the present ''direc-
tors and managers" of Maryville; and he would also
propose them as a sacramentum to be taken by all the
Maryville men of the future, to the end that they may
worthily continue what was most worthily begun.
Then will these other words uttered by Dr. Anderson
sound out for them the same cheer that resounded in
them a hundred years ago :
"Let this object be pursued with meekness and per-
severing fidelity, leaving the event with the great Head
of the Church, and we need not tremble for the issue."
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APPENDIX
I. GENERAL COLLEGE OFFICIALS, 1819-1919
Entered Presidents Vacated
Office Office
1819 Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D 1857
1857 Rev. John J. Robinson, D.D 1861
1869.... Rev. Peter Mason Bartlett, D.D., LLD 1887
1889 Rev. Samuel Ward Boardman, D.D., LLD 1901
1901 Rev. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, D.D
Chairmen of Faculty
1866 Rev. Thomas Jefferson Lamar, M.A 1869
1887. . . . Rev. Edgar Alonzo Elmore, D.D 1888
1888. . . . Rev. James Elcana Rogers, D.D 1889
Deans
1891 Rev. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, D.D 1901
1905 Rev. Elmer Briton Waller, M.A 1913
1914. . . . Prof. Jasper Converse Barnes, Ph.D
1819
1857
186s
1869
1890
1906
Chairmen of the Directors
.Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D 1857
.Rev. John J. Robinson, D.D 1861
.Rev. Thomas Jefferson Lamar, M.A 1869
. Rev. Peter Mason Bartlett, D.D 1887
.Rev. William Harris Lyle, D.D 1905
.Rev. Edgar Alonzo Elmore, D.D
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Recorders of the Directors
Entered Vacated
Office Office
1824 Rev. Robert Hardin, D.D
1826. ...Rev. William Eagleton, D.D
1827. . . .Samuel Pride, M.D 1861
1865.... Rev. Ralph Erskine Tedford 1876
1876 Rev. Gideon Stebbins White Crawford 1891
1891 Major Benjamin Cunningham 1914
1914 Frederick Lowry Proffitt
1900
1903
1891
1900
1897
1913
1897
1891
1900
1891
1897
1906
1910
Executive Committee of the Directors
. Rev. John McKnitt Alexander
.Hon. Thomas Nelson Brown
.Major Benjamin Cunningham 1900
. Rev. William Robert Dawson, D.D
. Rev. Edgar Alonzo Elmore, D.D 1900
.Hon. Moses Houston Gamble
.Alexander Russell McBath, Esq 1900
.John Calvin McQung 1897
. Rev. James Humphreys McConnell 1903
. Hon. William Anderson McTeer
. Col. John Beaman Minnis 1903
.Rev. John Morville Richmond, D.D 1910
.Prof. Elmer Briton Waller 1913
Treasurers
1819 James Berry, Esq 1833
1833. . . .Gen. William Wallace 1864
1865. ...John P. Hooke, Esq 1884
1884 Hon. William Anderson McTeer 1900
1900 Major Benjamin Cunningham 1914
1914 Frederick Lowry Proffitt
Assistant Treasurers
1865. . . . Prof. Thomas Jefferson Lamar 1887
1887.... Prof. Gideon Stebbins White Crawford 1891
1891 Prof. Samuel Tyndale Wilson 1900
APPENDIX 351
II. POST-BELLUM TEACHERS
I. PXISIDKNTS, DkANS, REGISTRARS, PRINCIPAL*, AND PRO-
FESSORS
Mrs. Jane Bancroft Smith Alexander, M.A., Instructor in
French, German, and Latin, 1883- 1885; Latin and French,
1892-1893; French and German, 1904-1905; History, 1905-1908;
English Language and Literature, 1908-1913; Professor of
English Literature, 1913-
Jasper Converse Barnes, Ph.D., Principal of the Prepara-
tory Department, and Professor of the Science and Art of
Teaching, 1892-1903; Principal, and Professor of Psychology
and Political Science, 1903-1904; Professor of Psychology and
Political Science, 1904- ; Dean, 191 3-
Rev. Alexander Bartlett, M.A., Professor of the Latin Lan-
guage and Literature, 1867-1883. Died, November 19, 1883.
Rev. Peter Mason Bartlett, D.D., LL.D., President, and
Professor of Mental and Moral Science, 1869- 1887.
Henry Jewell Bassett, M.A., Associate Professor of Latin,
1905-1906; Professor of Latin, 1906- ; Secretary of the
Faculty, 1913- ; absent on leave in Italy, 1915-1916.
Rev. James Bassett, M.A., Professor of English Literature,
1890-1891.
Henry C. Biddle, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, 1899-1901 ;
absent on leave, 1900- 1901.
Rev. Samuel Ward Boardman, D.D., LL.D., President, and
Professor of Mental and Moral Science, 1889-1901 ; Emeritus
Professor of Mental and Moral Science, 1901-
Mary Ellen Caldwell, B.A., Instructor in Latin and Mathe-
matics, 1891-1892; Matron, 1893-1897; 1904- ; Dean of
Women, 1913- ; Field Scholarship Secretary, 1916-
Arthur Wallace Calhoun, M.A., Professor of Social Science,
1913-1914; Professor of Social Science and Greek, 1914-1915.
William A. Cate, M.S., Principal of the Normal Depart-
ment, 1879-1880; Professor of the Science and Art of Teach-
ing, 1880-1888; Professor of the Natural Sciences, and of the
Science and Art of Teaching, 1888-1892.
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Rev. Gideon Stebbins White Crawford, M.A., Instructor in
Languages and Mathematics, 1874-1875; Professor of Mathe-
matics, 1875-1891; Registrar, 1888-1891. Died, February 3,
1891.
Major Benjamin Cunningham, Registrar, 1900-1907.
Edmund Wayne Davis, M. A., Professor of Greek,
1915-
Horace Lee Ellis, M.A., Instructor in English, 1898-1900;
Principal of the Preparatory Department, and Professor of
Education, 1914-
Edgar Alonzo Elmore, M.A., Professor of the Latin Lan-
guage and Literature, 1884- 1887; Chairman of the Faculty,
Professor of the Latin Language, and Instructor in Mental
and Moral Science, 1887-1888.
George S. Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of the Natural Sciences,
1892- 1899.
William Ruthven Flint, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and
Physics, 1910-1911.
Isaac Allison Gaines, M.A., Acting Professor of the Eng-
lish Language and Literature, 1898-1899.
Hon. Moses Houston Gamble, M.A., Instructor in English
Branches, 1903-1906; Principal of the Preparatory Depart-
ment, 1906-1908.
Rev. Qinton Hancock Gillingham, M.A., Registrar, 1907-
; Professor of Old Testament History and Literature,
1907-1911; Acting Principal of the Preparatory Department,
1910-1911; Professor of the English Bible, and Head of the
Bible Training Department, 191 1-
Albert Franklin Gilman, B.S., M.A., Professor of Chemis-
try and Physics, 1900- 1906.
Rev. Herman A. Goff, M.A., Instructor in Greek and Eng-
lish, 1891-1893; Professor of Elocution and Modern Lan-
guages, 1893-1898; Professor in the Department of Mathe-
matics, Registrar, and Librarian, 1898- 1900.
Susan Allen Green, M.A., Professor of Biology and
Geology, 1906-1912; Professor of Biology, 1912-
Margaret Eliza Henry, B.A., Instructor in English and Ger-
APPENDIX 253
man, 1890-1894; Instructor in English Branches, 1894-1915;
Scholarship Secretary, 1903- 1916. Died, July 7, 1916.
Rev. Charles Kimball Hoyt, D.D., Professor of the Eng-
lish Language, Spring of 191S-
Rev. Th^^ W. Hughes, M.A., Professor of Mathematics,
1867-1869. ^^%
Mary Eliiabeth Kennedy, M.A., Professor of Biology and
Geology, 1902- 1906.
George Alan Knapp, M.A., Professor of Mathematics and
Physics, 1914-
Rev. Thomas Jefferson Lamar, M.A., Professor of Sacred
Literature, 1857-1866; Professor of Languages, 1866-1867;
Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, and of
Sacred Literature, 1867-1887. Died, March 20, 1887.
Henrietta Mills Lord, M.A., Instructor in French and Ger-
man, 1900-1904; absent on leave in Germany, 1904-1905; Pro-
fessor of French and German, 1905- 1909.
Rev. Hubert Samuel Lyle, M.A., Professor of New Testa-
ment History and Literature, 1907-1911.
Phoebus Wood Lyon, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric, Logic,
and English Literature, 1905-1914. Died, November 13, 1914.
Francis Mitchell McClenahan, M.A., Professor of Chemis-
try and Physics, 1906-1910, 1911-1912; Professor of Chemis-
try and Geology, 1912- . Absent on leave, 1916-1917.
Rev. Charles Marston, M.A., Instructor in the English Lan-
guage and Literature, 1895-1896; Professor of English Litera-
ture, 1901-1905; Librarian, 1904-1905.
Charles Hodge Mathes, M.A., Professor of Greek and His-
tory, 1903-1905; Professor of Greek, 1905-1911.
Alfred Stuart Myers, M.A., Professor of Rhetoric and Pub-
lic Speaking, 1915-1916.
Rev. John Grant Newman, M.A., Professor of the Latin
Language and Literature, 1893-1903.
John Wesley Perkins, M.A., Professor of German and
French, 1914-1916.
Frederick Lowry Proffitt, B.A., Instructor in Mathematics
and Physics, 1908-1911; Principal of the Preparatory Depart-
254 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
ment, and Professor of Education, 1911-1914. Resigned,
January 14, 1914, to accept Treasurership.
Paul Rodney Radcliffe, B.A., Principal of the Preparatory
Department, 1908-1910.
Gaines Sawtell Roberts, M.A., Instructor in Latin, 1888-
1891 ; Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, 1891-
1892. Died, July 14, 1892.
Rev. James Elcana Rogers, Ph.D., Tutor, 1878-1879; Pro-
fessor of the Natural Sciences, and of the French and Ger-
man Languages, 1887-1888; Chairman of the Faculty, and
Professor of the Ancient and Modern Languages, 1888- 1889,
Herman Ferdinand Schnirel, B.A., Instructor in German
and French, 1909-1910; Professor of German and French,
1910-1912.
Rev. Solomon Zook Sharp, M.A., Professor of German,
and in charge of the Normal Department, 1875-1878.
James Houston McCallon Sherrill, M.A., Instructor in
Greek, 1888-1891 ; Professor of the Greek Language and Lit-
erature, 1892-1902.
Edgar Howard Sturtevant, Ph.D., Professor of Greek, 1902-
1903.
Rev. Elmer Briton Waller, M.A., Professor of Mathe-
matics, 1891-1913; Secretary of the Faculty, 1892-1913; Dean,
1905-1913. Died, March 29, 1913.
Rev. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, D.D., Professor of the Eng-
lish Language and Literature, and of the Spanish Language,
1884-1915; Librarian, 1885-1898; Registrar, 1891-1898; Dean,
1891-1901; President, 1901-
2. Associate Professors
Amanda Laughlin Andrews, Ph.B., French and German,
1897-1900; absent on leave in Germany, 1 900-1 901 ; fall term
of 1901.
Cora Cecilia Bartlett, B.A., Greek and Mathematics, 1880-
1882.
Henri G. Behoteguy, B.A., French and German, 1885-1887.
APPENDIX 255
Robert Bartlett Elmore, B.A., Latin, 1903-1905.
Mary Lettie Evans, B.A., Instructor in Greek and Latin,
1883-1887; Associate Professor of Greek, 1887-1888.
William Langel Johnson, Ph.B., Social Science and History,
1915-
Annabel Person, B.A., Greek, 1911-1914.
Mary Emma Renich, M.A., Physics and Mathematics, 1912-
1914.
John Woodside Ritchie, B.A., Biology, 1899- 1901.
Edward George Seel, B.A., German and French, 1913-1914.
Rev. John Silsby, M.A., Mathematics, 1876- 1878.
3. Instructors
Annie E. Alden, M.A., French and Botany, 1872-1873.
Eva Alexander, B.A., English and Bible, 1914-1915.
Mary Victoria Alexander, B.A., English and Bible, 1908-
; absent on leave in Columbia University, 1914-1915.
Thomas Theron Alexander, B.A., Tutor, 1873-1874.
Nageeb Joseph Arbeely, French, 1879- 1882.
Lula K. Armstrong, M.A., Preparatory Branches, 1905-1908.
Jennie M. Badgley, French and Latin, 1873- 1875.
Louise Marie Barnes, English Branches, 1902-1903.
Mary Eliza Bartlett, B.A., French and English, 1877-1878;
and 1881-1882.
Nellie Eugenia Bartlett, B.A., English, 1878-1879.
Hon. David Joseph Brittain, B.A,, History, 1910-
Mabel Broady, B.A., English, 1913-1915.
Nancy Lee Broady, B.A., English, 1912-1913.
Mary Gaines Carnahan, B.A., Spanish, 1908-1909.
Alice Isabella Clemens, B.A., English, 1909-
Mary E. Clute, English, 1874-1877.
William Robert Dawson, B.A., Greek, Latin, and English,
1886-1887.
Mme. Adele Marie Dennee, Brevet Superieur, The Sor-
bonne, German and French, 1914-
Anna DeVries, Ph.B., German and French, 1911-1914.
256 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Calvin Alexander Duncan, B.A., Tutor, 1871-1873. Elected
Professor of Greek in 1887, but declined the appointment.
Carl Hopkins Elmore, B.A., Preparatory Branches, 1898-
1899.
Anna Ethel Fanson, B.A., Latin, 1913-
Frank Marion Gill, Preparatory Branches, 1893- 1906.
Alice Armitage Gillingham, Assistant Scholarship Secretary,
1910-1916; Corresponding Scholarship Secretary, 1916-
Arta Hope, Preparatory Branches, 1905-1906.
Joseph Franklin Iddins, Supt. P. I., English, 1900-1903.
Almira Elizabeth Jewell, B.A., Mathematics, 1911-1912;
Latin, 1912-1915; Mathematics, 1915-
Robert Calison Jones, B.A., Preparatory Branches, 1895-
1896.
Esther Mary Kell, B.A., Mathematics, 1913-1914.
Helen M. Lord, English, 1879-1880; 1882-1883; 1887-1894.
Harvey Boyd McCall, B.A., Preparatory Branches, 1906-
1909.
Gideon Stebbins White McCampbell, B.A., Latin and
Mathematics, 1883- 1884.
Nellie Pearl McCampbell, B.A., Latin, 1910-
James McDonald, B.A., Latin, 1890-1891.
Florence Keokee McManigal, B.A., English, 1908-1909.
Died, October 16, 1909.
Eula Anna Magill, B.A., Preparatory Branches, 1909-1910.
Olga Alexandra Marshall, B.A., Latin, 1912-1913; Secretary
to the Treasurer and the Registrar, 1912-1914; Assistant Reg-
istrar, 1914-
Mayme Rebecca Maxey, B.A., Biology, 1914-195.
George Winfield Middleton, B.A., Physics and Mathematics,
1911-1912.
Jonathan Houston Newman, B.A., English Branches, 1901-
1902.
Margaret Cecelia Peeler, Ph.B., History, 1914-1915.
Ida Emma Schnirel, BA., German and French, 1910-1911.
Mrs. Martha Wellman Schnirel, German, 1909-1910.
John Alfred Silsby, Mathematics, 1882-1883.
APPENDIX 257
Kate S. Slack, Bookkeeping and History, 1871-1873.
Virginia Estelle Snodgrass, B.A., Latin, 1908-1913.
Hugh Cowan Souder, B.A., Mathematics and Bookkeeping,
1906- 1908.
Mrs. Mary L. Taylor, Assistant Teacher, 1870-1871.
Edgar Roy Walker, B.A., Mathematics, 1909-1915; Mathe-
matics and Physics, 1915-
Robert Pierce Walker, B.A., Preparatory Branches, 1896-
1898; 1899-1902.
Emma Gilchrist Waller, B.A., English and History, 1909-
1910.
John LeRoy Warfel, Penmanship, Bookkeeping, and Type-
writing, 1889-1895; 1896-1898.
4. Department of Music
Charles McCallon Alexander, Vocal and Band Music, 1888-
1891.
Mrs. Florence A. Bartlett, Piano, Organ, Guitar, and Voice,
1872-1887.
Mary Barnett Boggs, Piano, 1913-1915.
Martha Elizabeth Caldwell, Violin, 1915-1916.
Gwendolyn Qark, Mus. B., Piano, Voice, and Theory, 1900
1901.
Agnes Brown Clemens, B.L., Piano and Organ, 1890-1897.
Emma Churchill Columbia, Piano, Theory, and Mandolin,
1902- 1905.
Edna Elizabeth Dawson, B.A., Piano, 1913-
Laura Belle Hale, Piano and Harmony, 1912-1914; Piano
and Harmony, and Head of the Department of Music,
1914-
Rev. Edwin William Hall, Chorister, and Instructor in
Vocal and Band Music, 1905-1914; with Bible, 1909-1912.
Charles WiUiam Henry, B.A., Band Music, 1903-1904.
Flora Henry, B.L., Piano and Organ, 1893-1895.
Louise Stevens Hershey, Voice, 1904-1905.
Emma C. Hill, Piano, Organ, and Voice, 1871-1872.
258 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Joan McDougall, Piano, 1905-1912.
Helen lanthe Minnis, B.L., Piano, Voice, and Theory,
1901-1902.
Inez Monfort, Voice and Piano, 1906-1907; Voice, History
of Music, and Theory, 1907- 1914.
Lena Frances Pardue, Piano, 1916-
Leila M. Perine, Mus.B., Piano and Organ, 1897-1899.
Mary Kate Rankin, B.A., Piano, 1913-
Zanna Staater, Voice, 1914-
Margaret Sutton Sugg, Piano, 1915-1916.
Mrs. Mary E. Tedford, Piano, Organ, and Guitar, 1887-1899.
Anice Whitney, Mus.B., Piano and Organ, 1899- 1900.
Amy Catherine Wilson, M.E.L., Piano, Voice, and Organ,
1902-1906.
5. Department of Expression
Irene Bewley, 1906-1907.
Hope Buxton, 1916-
Mrs. Nancy Gardner Gillingham, B.A., 1907-1908.
Mrs. Agnes Geneva Oilman, B.A., 1901-1904.
Wanda Cozine Keller, 1911-1912.
Mae Susong, B.A., 1903-1904.
Mrs. Nita Eckles West, B.A., B.O., Expression, 1899-1901;
1904-1912; 1914-1915; Head of the Department of Expres-
sion and Public Speaking, 1915-
Edna Edith Zimmerman, Ph.B., 1912-1914; (Mrs. E. E. Z.
Walker) 1915-1916.
6. Department of Art
Rev. Thomas Campbell, M.A., Painting and Drawing, 1893-
1894; 1902-1914. Died, March 7, 1914.
John Collins, Penmanship, Drawing, and French, 1873- 1876.
Grace M. Sawyer, Painting and Drawing, 1890-1891.
Anna Belle Smith, Painting and Drawing, 1914-1915; Head
of the Department of Art, 1915-
APPENDIX 259
7. Department of Home Economics
Blaine Irving Lewis, Tailoring, 1914-
Helena Mabel Ryland, B.A., B.S., Head of the Department
of Home Economics, 1913-
Mae Darthula Smith, 1915-1916.
Naomi Elizabeth Trent, 1916-
81 Department op Agriculture
Arthur Samuel Kiefer, B.S. in Agriculture and Horticul-
ture, 1916-
0. Matrons and Proctors
Mary Ellen Caldwell, BA., 1893-1897; 1904-
Mrs. Jessie R. Qemmons, 1900-1901.
Mrs. Nellie Bartlett Cort, B.A., 1901-1904.
Sarah Jane Gamble, 1914-1915.
Margaret Eliza Henry, 1890- 1893.
Mrs. Anna M. Hull, 1897-1898.
Emma Agnes Jackson, 191 5-
Hortense Mary Kingsbury, 1896-1899.
Nellie Pearl McCampbell, B.A., 1912-1914; 1916-
Eula Erskine McCurry, 1915-
Rev. Arno Moore, 1910-
Mrs. Mary E. Pierce, 1887- 1890.
Frederick Lowry Proffitt, B.A., 1910-1912.
Mrs. Helen H. Sanford, 1898-1900.
Phronia Small, 1894-1895.
Elfleda Carter Smith, 1903- 1904.
Mrs. Lida Pryor Snodgrass, 1907- 191 j.
Edgar Roy Walker, B.A., 1910-
10. Librarians
Rev. Herman A. Goff, MA., 1896-1900.
Rev. Charles Marston, MA., 1904-1905.
26o A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Elfleda Carter Smith, 1903- 1904.
Mrs. Lida Pryor Snodgrass, 1905-
Rev. Samuel Tyndale Wilson, D.D., 1885-1898.
11. Physical Directors
Lester Everett Bond, 1911-1915.
Thomas Guthrie Brown, B.A. (and Mathematics), 1902-
1905.
William Dean Chadwick, B.A. (and Mathematics), 1905-
1906.
Frank Warren Qeeland, 1901-1902.
Alice Isabella Clemens, 1907-1908.
Elinor Crum, 1916-
Reid Stuart Dickson, B.A. (and Latin), 1906-1908.
Viola Ruth Dudley, 1916-
Homer Byron Prater, 1915-
Arthur Samuel Kiefer, B.S., 191S-
Nellie Maud McMurray, 1909-1910.
Arda Nita Martin, 1915-1916.
Arthur Evan Mitchell, B.A., 1910-1911.
William Ernest Scott, Ph.B. (and English), 1904-1905.
Zechariah Jay Stanley, B.A. (and History), 1914-1915.
Catherine Sherbrooke Sugg, 1915-1916.
Homer George Weisbecker, 1915-
George Edmund Williams, 1912-1914.
Nellie Mae Wilson, 1914-1915.
12. Commandants
Clinton Hancock Gillingham, 1904- 1905.
Percy Hamilton Johnson, 1906-1908.
Charles Hodge Mathes, M.A., 1905-1906.
Capt. Joseph Benjamin Pate, 1902-1904.
13. Hospital
Mrs. William P. Barnhill, Matron, 1909-1913.
Isabel Margaret MacLachlan, R.N., Nurse, 1913-1915.
APPENDIX 261
Mrs. Bessie Moore, Matron, 1914-1916.
Henri Frances Postlethwaite, R.N., Nurse, 1915-
14. Cooperative Boarding Club
Sarah Frances Coulter, Assistant Manager, 1906-1907 ; Man-
ager, 1907-
Emmie Laura Darby, Assistant Manager, 1911-1913.
Lulu Graham Darby, Assistant Manager, 1913-
Hortense Mary Kingsbury, Assistant Manager, 1895-1911.
Lura Jane Lyle, B.L., Assistant Manager, 1914-1915.
Mrs. Harmonia Virginia Magill, Manager, 1902-1906.
Robert McCorkle Magill, Bookkeeper, 1910-1914. Died,
March 25, 1914.
Edgar Roy Walker, B.A., Secretary-Treasurer, 1914-
Mrs. Mary Allen Wilson, First Manager, 1892-1902; 1906-
1907. Died, January 17, 1907.
IIL THE FEBRUARY MEETINGS
Date Leader Decisions
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1889
1890
1891
1892
. Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D No record
. Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D No record
. Rev. Donald McDonald 41
.Rev. Donald McDonald No record
. Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D No record
. Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D 50
. Rev. John M. Davies, D.D No record
.Rev. William J. Trimble, D.D No record
. Rev. Edgar A. Elmore No record
.Rev. Samuel W. Boardman, D.D 50
.Rev. Samuel W. Boardman, D.D No record
.No meeting on account of sickness.
.Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 72
262 A CENTURY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
Date Leader Decisions
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900,
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
191S
1916
...Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D 59
. . . Rev. William J. Trimble, D.D 60
. . . Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 31
..Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D No record
. . Rev. Donald McDonald 41
, . . Rev. William J. Trimble, D.D 28
. . Rev. Solomon C. Dickey, D.D No record
, . .Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 42
. . Rev. William R. Dawson and the Synodical
Quartet 35
. . Rev. William J. Trimble, D.D 12
. .Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D 54
. .Rev. Walter A. Holcomb 80
. .Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 40
, . .Rev. E. A. Cameron 87
. .Rev. Nathan Bachman, D.D 85
. . Rev. William B. Holmes, D.D 74
. . Rev. Joseph P. Calhoun, D.D 74
. . Rev. William T. Rodgers, D.D 76
. .Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 70
. . Rev. William Thaw Bartlett 113
, . . Rev. Joseph M. Broady 90
..Revs. George C. Mahy, D.D., and Joseph
Wilson Cochran, D.D 60
..Rev. Edgar A. Elmore, D.D 89
..Rev. William Thaw Bartlett 8i
INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES
Note. — ^For other topics see the Table of Contents. For the lists of offlolals,
poet-bellnm teachers, and leaders of the February Meetings, see the Appendix.
A. B. C. F. M.. 31
Adams. Carson W., 145. 219
Adelphic Mirror, 201
Adelphlc Union Literary Society, 200.
201
Agricultural Department, 173, 217, 243,
244 259
Alexander: Chas. M., 257; T. T., 133. 255
Alpha Sigma Literary Society. 200
Alumni Association. 65. 141, 207
Anderson Burial Ground. 18, 19
Anderson: Flora. 65. 66; Isaac, Sr.. 13;
James, 15; James A., vll; Margaret,
15; Mary, 15: Nancy McCampbell,
13, 14, 17, 18: Robert M., 14. 15; Sam-
uel, 14. 15; WUllam, 13. 14, 17, 18;
Wmiam E., 14, 15
Anderson HaU. 127. 131, 132, 133. 146.
152, 153. 200
Anderson, Isaac, v. Part I, Chapters II-
X, 119, 121. 123. 165. 168. 181. 182.
226. 227. 229. 231. 246. 247, 249
Andover Seminary. 39, 42, 150
Angler Fund. 218
Anlml Cultus Literary Society, 200
Art Department, 174, 258
Athenian Literary Society, 200
Athletic Association. 204, 205
Atlanta ConstUution, 108
Bachman. Nathan. 218. 231. 232. 261,
262
Balnonlan Llter^y Society, 200
Balch. Hezeklah. 10
Baldwin Hall. 131. 132. 13S. 153, 154,
170 214 222
Baldwin, John C, 126, 132
Barnes. Jasper C, 149. 249, 251
Bartlett: Alexander, 125, 127, 130, 141,
251; Mary, 196, 255
Bartlett Hall, 155, 156, 157, 175, 176,
202
Bartlett. P. Mason, 125, 128. 129. 130.
149, 249, 251
Beard. Geo. P., 209
Beecher: John W.. 49, 69, 60; Willis J.,
49
Berry, James. 91. 250
Beth-Hacma Literary Society, 98, 199
B«th-Hacma ve Berlth Literary Society,
99, 100. aoo
Bible Trahilng Department, 149, 170.
171, 172. 173. 230
Blackburn: Gideon, 10, 20, 20, 30. 44.
104; James H., 30
Blount College. 20
Blount County. 26. 88. 135, 177, 178.
236. 243
Boardlng-Houses. 58. 96. 97. 126. 131.214
Boardman Annex. 153
Boardman. Samuel W., 150. 151. 153,
171. 249. 251. 261
Boston Recorder, 95
Brick CoUege, 99, 100. 117. 122. 126
Brick Seminary. 95, 96, 97, 117
Brown: Ella, 195; Emma. 195; Samuel.
17. 21; Thomas. 54. 87. 88. 90
Brown House, Little, 46, 95
CaldweU: Isaac N.. 81; John M.. 81. 08
Carnegie. Andrew, 165, 166
Carnegie Hall, 170
Carnegie Hall, New, 176, 177. 178
Carrick, Samuel, 10, 12, 20
Gates: Charles T., Sr., 59; Martha, 195;
Minerva, 195; Reuben L., Sr., 59
Centennial Forward Fimd, 173. 176. 178.
179, 220
Chairmen of Directors, 249
Chairmen of Faculty, 149, 150. 240
Chamber of Commerce, 177
Cherokees. 44. 48. 67, 75, 88
ChUJumean, 201
Clubs and Organizations, 206, 207
Coffin. Charles, 10, 36. 44, 71
College Days, 155
Commandants. 260
Converse. John H.. 166
Cooperative Boarding Club. 149, 158.
167, 170, 198, 214, 215, 216, 221, 261
Country-Life Movement. 22, 23
Craig, John S.. 49. 50. 57. 74. 75. 76. 77.
78. 79. 87, 98, 106. 109. 182
Craighead. James G., 219
Crawford. G. S. W.. 122, 130. 131. 167.
168. 250. 252
Cunningham. BenJ.. 169, 250. 262
D. A. R.. 220
Deans, 159, 167, 249, 251
Directors. 59. 60, 64, 70, 73, 75, 99, 126.
131. 139. 141. 146. 162. 177. 192. 240.
260
263
264 INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES
Doak, Samuel, 10, 12
Dodge: WiUiam E.. 135. 140. 141. 142,
143: Mrs. WilUam E., 146
Dominie, 12, 15
Duncan, Calvin A., 122, 169, 256
Eagleton: Elijah M., 49, 88; William,
29. 30, 44. 71, 73. 74. 75, 92, 182, 250
East Tennessee, 18, 19, 25, 48. 70, 88,
120, 134, 180, 194, 221. 236
East Tennessee College, 44
East Tennessee Missionary Society. 32
Edwards of Virginia, 16, 17
Elmore, Edgar A., 133, 149, 150, 232,
249, 250, 252, 261. 262
Emmons, Dr., 58
Eraklne, George M., 30
Eusebla Churcli, 20, 77
Executive Committee, 150, 250
Expression Department, 149, 165, 174,
258
Faculty, 47, 48, Part I. Chapter VII, 85,
86, 92, 93, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131,
149, 150, 180, Part II, Chapter VI,
229, 230, 249, 251-261
Farm, College, 59. 96, 97, 243, 244
Fayerweather Annex, 152, 153, 164
Fayerweather Bequest, 148, 151, 152,
153, 154, 159, 160. 161, 171. 179, 184.
185, 196
Fayerweather, Daniel B., 151
Fayerweather Science Hall, 154, 172, 175
February Meetings, 129, 150, 204. 231,
232, 233, 234, 235, 261. 262
Federal Troops, 96, 117
Forward Fund, 165. 166. 167. 170, 178,
184, 185
Frame College. 97, 98, 99
Gallaher, James, 39, 41, 44
General Assembly, 37, 38. 88
General Education Board. 166, 179, 180
Gillespie, James, 62, 79, 100, 101
Gilllngham, C. H., vU, 171, 252, 260
Goddard: J. A., 122; Monroe, 133
Graham, WUliam, 16
Grassy Valley, 18. 19, 20, 21. 22. 27. 94
Greeneville College, 44
HaU, Edwin W., 209, 257
Hardin, Robert, 36. 44. 46. 73. 74, 104.
105, 182. 250
Harris, Samuel, 21
Harvard CoUege, 33, 34, 74
Hastings, T. S., 141
Henderson, Robert, 44
Henry: Margaret E., 161, 162, 163, 167,
217, 219, 221, 231. 252, 253. 259; Pat-
rick, 163: Wm. H., 83, 102
Henry Memorial, Margaret E.. 220
Highland Echo, 201
HUla Library. 217. 218
Hitchcock, Roswell D., 161
HolUe. N. H.. 36. 49
Home Economics Department. 172. 173.
175, 196. 243, 259
Hooke, John P., 168, 250
Hospital Officials, 260. 261
Houston, Sam, 27, 28
Hoyt: Ard, 75; Darius, 75. 182. 226
Instructors. 255-257
Jackson. Grcn. Andrew, 87
Jones. Rev. J. S., 177
Kendall, Henry, 141
Knox County, 18, 26, 77. 82
Knox, John, 10. 11, 32
KnoxvUle Register, 33
Lamar Endowment, Part II. Chapter
III, 149, 159, 160, 178, 184. 185, 196
Lamar Hospital, Ralph Max, 147. 170.
222, 260, 261
Lamar Library, 146, 147, 259, 260
Lamar: Thomas J., v, 27, 79, 80, 89, 90.
96, 101. 102, 107, 109, Part II, Chap-
ters I-III, 168, 182, 183. 249. 260.
253; Mrs. Martha A., vll. 121, 147,
222
Lane Seminary, 130, 159
Lebanon-in-the-Forkfl, 20. 27
Lexington Presbytery. 17. 124
Liberty Hall Academy. 11. 16, 16, 181
Librarians. 259, 260
Log CoUege, 21, 22, 94
Londonderry, 13, 14, 122. 194
Lord, Helen M.. 203, 266
Lyle: Hubert S., 171, 253; Wm. H., 160,
249
McCahan. Wm. J., Sr., 167
McCampbell: Bennet, 15; Flora, 65. 66;
James, 13; John, 21, 25, 41. 44. 46, 105;
Mary Shannon, 13, 14; Nancy. 13, 14;
William, 15; William A., 49, 88
McCormlck, Mrs. Nettie F., 166
MacCracken: H. M., 76; Samuel, 76. 182
McCully. John, 59
McGhee. Alexander, 58
McGinley. Nannie, 195
McTeer, W. A., vll, 168, 169. 260
Mann, Horace. 32 /
Manual Labor. 59, 60, 61, 217
Manual Training Department, 244
Martin, John C. 166, 171, 172
Maryvllle. 20, 26. 27, 40, 41. 44, 68, 97.
99, 103, 104. 106, 177, 194, 196, 236
Marjrville Academy, 27, 29, 94
Maryville College Monthly, 168. 201
Maryvllle Female Institute, 77
Maryville Intelligencer, 75
MaryHlle Student, 201
Mather, Cotton. 34
Matrons, 259
Maynard, Horace, 119
Meek, Daniel, 80
Memorial HaU. 131, 132, 133. 134, 201.
214
INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES 26s
Memoir of Dr. Isaac Anderson, 79
MlnJsterial Association, 204
Mlnnls: John B., 81, 250; WUllam, 49,
105, 106
Mississippi Presbytery, 42
Missouri Presbytery, 42
Morris, Edward D., 141
Mountain Workers' Conference, 244
Music Department, 164, 173, 174, 257,
258
Nelson: David, 44; Henry A., 141; Thos.
H..44
New Providence Church (Tenn.). 26, 63,
72, 76, 77, 81, 82, 95, 100, 117, 231
New Providence Church (Va.). 12, 16
Patrick, HUary, 49
Patton, John E., 100
Pearson, Abel. 29, 44, 105
Pearsons, Daniel K., 166, 170, 175
Pearsons Hall. 170, 174, 175, 200
Perlne, Miss Leila M.. 208, 258
Physical Directors, 260
Pope. Fielding. 76. 77, 78, 98, 182
Porter, James B., 202
Presbyterian Education Society, 60, 61,
62, 107
Presidents, 249
Princeton Seminary. 38. 39, 167. 181. 193
Principals, 251
Proctors, 259
Professors, 251-254
Professors, Associate, 254. 255
Proffltt, Fred. L., 250. 253, 254, 259
Ramsey. Samuel G., 12
Recommendations Committee, 223
Recorders of the Directors, 250
Registrars. 251
Reynolds, Gov., 21, 62
Ritchie, John W., 208. 255
Robbison, John J., 54. 62, 63, 65, 66, 79,
80. 81. 82, 83, 89, 90, 101. 102, 107.
• 109. 112. 182, 249 i%
Rockbridge ^County, Va., 11, 12, 13, 16.
18, 28, 65. 82, 181 '
Rogers. James E., 150, 249, 254
Sawtell. Ell N.. 36, 37, 49, 52. 59. 87, 97
Scholarship Committee, 219, 220
Scotch-Irish, 13. 18. 29. 65, 194. 195
Second Church, Knoxvllle. 72
Self-Help Work Fund, 216. 217, 224
Severance. Louis H., 166, 175
Shannons. 13
smiman. H. B., 166
Sllsby, John A., 201, 202. 256
Smith, Ell, 36
Smith Preserved, 140, 141, 144
Sophlrodelphlan Literary Society, 199
Southern Appalachians. 173, 187, 194,
197, 199, 206, 213, 224. 236, 241
Southern and Western Seminary. 40. 41,
42. 43, 45, 46, Part I, Chapters V-X.
181, 182, 193
South Hills. 101, 102
Southwest, Part I, Chapter I, 22, 36. 38.
39. 52, 71, 109, 173, 187, 193, 194
Stephenson, James W., 44
Stone Church. Old, 81, 100, 101
Student Volunteer Band, 204
Swimming Pool, 175, 176
Synod of Tennessee, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46,
51. 56. 57, 72, 73, 80, 88, 89, 99, 101.
102, 104, 106. 107, 119, 120, 131. 139,
192
Synod of Virginia, 42
Takahashl, Kin, 154. 155, 156, 157, 158.
175, 202, 204
Teachers' Department, 173
Tedford: C. E., 122; E. W., 122; J. P..
122; Linda, 195; Ralph E., 121, 250
Thaw: William, 126, 135, 140, 142, 143.
146; Mrs. Mary C, 166
Theta Epsllon Literary Society, 200
Treasurers and Assistants, 250
Trimble, Wm. J., 232, 261, 262
Tuesday Evening Conference, 129, 230
Turner, Mrs. Julia M., 167
Union Academy, 21, 22, 23, 27, 94
Union Presbytery, 20, 21, 30, 32, 40. 41.
71 75 89
Union Seminary (N. Y.), 79. 124, 129.
130
Union Seminary (Va.), 42
University of Tennessee. 44, 79
Voorhees Chapel, Elizabeth R.. 163, 164,
165, 203
Voorhees: Ralph, 163, 164, 165; Mrs.
Elizabeth R., 157, 163, 164. 165
Wallace: Jesse G., 75, 108; William, 91.
108. 250
Waller, Elmer B., 161, 167. 168. 201.
249. 250, 254
War of '12. 28, 29
War. Civil, vl, 83. 91, 96, 100, 102, 107.
108, 109. Ill, 112. 113, Part II, Chap-
ter I, 135
Washington Academy, 16
Washington Church. 20, 27, 82
West Tennessee Presbytery, 42
Wheeler's Raid, 115. 116
White, Gideon S., 65, 70
Whitefleld, George. 25, 94
WUlard Memorial, 151, 222
WlUard: Sylvester. 141, 142, 144, 161;
Mrs. Jane F., 146, 151
Wilson: Mrs. Mary A., 215, 261; Mary
T., 195
WUson, Samuel T.. v, vi, 159, 169, 170,
191, 201, 202. 231, 249, 250. 254. 260
Y. M. C. A., 155, 175. 202. 203
Y. W. C. A.. 165. 203
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