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1864 1914 
 
 COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 Central Wesleyan College 
 
 WARRENTON, MISSOURI 
 
 May- June, 1914 
 
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 Edited by the following Committee of the Faculty: 
 O. E.KRIEGE H. VOSHOLL J. H. FRICK F. MUNZ ALB. EBELING 
 
 WARRENTON, MISSOURI 
 
 BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 1914 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 [Articles appear in the order named below] 
 
 Historical and Biographical Sketches 
 
 Historical Statement. 
 
 Quincy Days. 
 
 War Times. 
 
 Mt. Pleasant Days. 
 
 Fires and Tornadoes. 
 
 Humor and Pathos. 
 
 C. W. C. als deutsche Hoehschule. 
 
 Das Theologische Seminar. 
 
 Central Wesleyan Influence. 
 
 Donors and Patrons. 
 
 The Semi-Centennial Campaign. 
 
 Departed Leaders. 
 
 Rev. Philip Kuhl. 
 
 Dr. H. A. Koch. 
 
 Rev. John Schlagenhauf. 
 
 Rev. Rudolph Havighorst. 
 
 Dr. J. L. Kessler. 
 
 Dr. Geo. B. Addicks. 
 
 Central Wesleyan College of To-day 
 
 Central Wesleyan of the Present. 
 Board of Trustees. 
 Committees and Officers. 
 
 The Faculty. 
 
 Officers of the Faculty. 
 
 Summary of Students. 
 
 Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration 
 
 Program of Commencement and 
 
 Anniversary Exercises. 
 The College and the Community. 
 The Place of the Church College. 
 Institutions Sending Greetings. 
 
 Institutions Represented by 
 
 Delegates. 
 
 Various Organizations repre- 
 sented. 
 
 Official Boards and Papers Send- 
 ing Greetings. 
 
VIEWS NEAR WARRENTON 
 
 Geology Class 
 
 Big Charrette 
 Canyon, Big Charrette Lunch Time 
 
 Devil's Den 
 
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Historical Statement 
 
 By O E. Kriege. 
 
 riSEI HE month of June 1914 will complete fifty years of uninterrupt- 
 L^fcJ ed service for the educational institution at Warrenton, Mo., 
 Km|R»l and sixty years of service if the career of its fore-runner in 
 " JH3L' Quincy, Illinois, be included. 
 
 The beginnings of these schools of learning date back to 
 1852 when a company of German Methodist ministers met in Winches- 
 ter, 111., and determined to form a German American college in order to 
 establish better educational advantages for their children and to rear 
 an educated ministry. This plan, however, was abandoned and in 1854 
 these German ministers united with their English brethren in founding 
 the "English and German College" in Quincy, Illinois. For nine years 
 the school struggled with financial and other difficulties and finally the 
 English department succumbed. Through the indomitable energy of 
 Rev. H. A. Koch the German Department maintained itself until June 
 1864. No records of these first ten years of educational work of German 
 Methodists are extant though they must have been very fruitful years 
 as many German Methodist ministers received their training in the 
 Quincy School. Rev. John Walther was the first principal and Prof. 
 J. M. Eull taught for several years, but the soul of the school was the 
 Rev. Hermann A. Koch. 
 
 After the dissolution of the English college it became necessary to 
 devise plans for the German department if it was not to perish. The 
 new burden imposed upon the church by the ravages of the Civil war, 
 that of caring for children whose fathers had been slain on the battle- 
 field, suggested a feasable plan to the church. At a convention of 
 German Methodist ministers and laymen in Quincy, Illinois, in March 
 1864 it was decided to found the "Western Orphan Asylum and Educa- 
 tional Institute" in Warrenton, Mo., in the heart of a German com- 
 munity. The Truesdale estate in Warrenton, consisting of 932 acres, 
 was purchased May 19, 1864, for $15,000. The funds were raised after- 
 wards by collections. The property was deeded to an independent cor- 
 poration consisting of Philip Kuhl, George Boeshenz, George Cramp, 
 Henry Borgman, Herman Schaper, Friedrich Drunert, Peter Hausam, 
 Friedrich Niedringhaus and John Sutter, all of the State of Missouri; 
 Andrew Eisenmayer, Peter Hinners, Henry F. Koeneke, of Illinois, 
 Constantin Steinley of Kansas, Henry Fiegenbaum of Iowa and Henry 
 Roth of Minnesota. 
 
 After the organization of the Southwest German Conference in 
 Saint Louis, Mo., September 29, 1864, the above men transferred their 
 rights to the estate to the conference and were elected as the first 
 Board of Trustees of the new institution. Rev. Phillip Kuhl was elect- 
 ed President of the corporation, Rev. George Boeshenz, Superintendent 
 of the Orphan Asylum, and Rev. H. A. Koch Principal of the Education- 
 al Institute. 
 
The Truesdale estate comprised the greater part of what is now 
 Warrenton and Truesdale. The large plantation house was used for 
 the new institution, and a two story frame building 28x60 was erected 
 for school purposes. The "Institute" was opened October 3, 1864. A 
 charter was granted by the Legislature in February 1865. The attend- 
 ance the first year was 179 which included many of the 51 orphan 
 children, received into the Asylum. Besides three-year classical and 
 scientific courses the school provided a Normal, a Commercial and a 
 Primary department. Rev. H. A. Koch, the Principal was Professor of 
 German Language and Literature. Prof. Van Dusen and four others 
 were assistants. The Educational Institute rapidly grew in importance. 
 The "Depot" and the "Red Building" had been moved on the campus 
 from Truesdale and added to the college group. The courses of study 
 were extended. In March 1870 the name of the corporation was legally 
 changed to "Central Wesleyan College and Orphan Asylum. ' The first 
 class was graduated in 1870, Wm. Balcke of Davenport, la., and John 
 
 Ladies' Home College Building Jubilee Chapel 
 
 Idealized Grouping of Buildings. Only the College Building Remains. 
 
 H. Frick of Liberty, Mo., receiving A.B. degrees. In 1872 Rev. Phillip 
 Kuhl resigned as president of the dual institution and Dr. H. A. Koch 
 was elected to succeed him. 
 
 A new and better college building now became the crying need. 
 Through the efforts of Rev. Phillip Kuhl and Rev. J. R. Wilhelmi 
 $10,500 were secured for this purpose in Warren County, and Dr. Koch 
 and Rev. M. Roeder collected enough more in the patronizing Confer- 
 ence to erect a three story brick building at a cost of $20,000. It was 
 dedicated November 14, 1875. The building still in use, contained a 
 chapel for the local congregation in addition to a number of recitation 
 rooms. The old frame college building, familiarly known as the 
 "Green Building" was converted into a Ladies' Dormitory. About this 
 time the Orphan Asylum engaged a teacher for the Orphan children and 
 the Primary Department was discontinued by the College. 
 
 The endowment of the College was begun in 1875 when Mr. Louis 
 Kessler of Ballwin, Mo., gave the sum of $10,000 upon the condition 
 that an additional sum of $15,000 be raised by others. The financial 
 agent Rev. M. Roeder, followed in 1877 by Rev. Charles Heidel, sue- 
 
ceeded in raising the required sum. The largest contribution, $6,000, 
 was made by Mr. W. Schrader of St. Louis and in his honor the fund 
 thus collected was named "Schrader Chair of Theology." Mr Kessler's 
 gift founded the "Kessler Chair of German Language and Literature." 
 
 At midnight May 8, 1882, a tornado burst upon Warrenton and 
 almost laid the college buildings in ruins*. But the school went on 
 without interruption and not a student left on account of the calamity. 
 The professors and the pastor, Rev. Wm. Schutz, solicited contributions 
 from friends far and near and the amount needed to repair the damages, 
 $6,000, was soon secured. About this time a three room cottage was 
 erected to be used as a students' home or as a hospital in case of 
 an emergency. Further gifts were received for the endowment fund 
 from Mary Wehmer, John Niebuhr, the Niedringhaus Brothers, and 
 others, so that in 1881 the productive funds of the college amounted to 
 $33,000. 
 
 For twenty years the school and the Orphan Asylum had continued 
 as a dual institution managed by one Board of Trustees. It now seemed 
 mutually advantageous to separate the College from the Asylum. This 
 separation was legally accomplished in June 1884 after an equitable 
 division of property had been made. The official title of the college, 
 as given in the new charter, was "Central Wesleyan College" and of 
 the Asylum "Central Wesleyan Orphan Home." 
 
 Since then each institution has carried on its special work under its 
 own Board of Trustees and in its own plant. A beautiful new Ladies' 
 Home with a dining room capacity for 125 was erected in 1884 at a 
 cost of $12,000 and the "Green Building" was transformed into a boys' 
 dormitory. At this time Messrs F. G. and W. F. Niedringhaus founded 
 the "Niedringhaus Chair of Historical and Practical Theology" byi a gift 
 of $15,000. In 1886 a beautiful brick church known as "Jubilee Chapel" 
 was erected, the funds having been collected in the patronizing Confer- 
 ences. The large room in the college building vacated by the congrega- 
 tion was converted into class rooms. In June 1889 the college celebrat- 
 ed its 25th anniversary and the alumni and Trustee Board decided to 
 raise a jubilee fund of $25,000 for endowment purposes. Prof. Kessler 
 was relieved of class room work and after several years succeeded in 
 collecting this sum, thus bringing the funds of the college up to $70,000. 
 
 During commencement in 1893 the beautiful Ladies' Home was 
 destroyed by fire and an even greater calamity befell the school in the 
 tragic death of Dr. J. L. Kessler, who was injured during the fire and 
 died a few days later. The destruction of the Ladies' Home marks an 
 epoch in the history of the College. Within a few years a group of 
 new pressed brick college buildings replaced the frame structures of for- 
 mer days. The present plant consists of the following buildings in the 
 order of their erection, all of brick and harmonious in style: 
 
 1. The Main College Building erected in 1874 but remodeled in 
 more recent years. 
 
 2. Kessler Hall erected in 1893 and named in honor of the beloved 
 Dr. J. L. Kessler. Here are located the Chapel and the departments of 
 music and art. Rev. Chas Heidel and Prof. Geo B. Addicks collected 
 
the funds necessary for the erection of Kessler Memorial Hall and the 
 new Ladies' Home, two modern brick buildings costing $26,000. 
 
 3. The Ladies' Home erected in 1893 was remodeled in 1910. It 
 contains rooms for fifty ladies and a dining room seating 150 persons 
 
 4. Andrew Eisenmayer Hall, a three story dormitory for men 
 erected in 1900. The funds were secured by President Addicks, Rev. J. 
 F. Froeschle, the Field Agent, and others, the largest gift coming from 
 the family of Andrew Eisenmayer. After the completion of this build- 
 ing the old "Green Building" was torn down and removed and the 
 "Red Building" was transformed into a Gymnasium. 
 
 5. Niedringhaus Memorial Hall, a Science Hall and Gymnasium. 
 The building which cost $20,000, was opened in May 1909. It replaced 
 the "Red Building" destroyed by fire in 1908. It is named in honor of 
 Mr. W. F. Niedringhaus who bequeathed $10,000 for this purpose. 
 
 6. The Annex, a very important adjunct to the Ladies' Home, was 
 erected in 1910 at a cost of $8,000. It contains the laundry and pro- 
 vision rooms and eight living rooms. 
 
 The Ladies' Home 
 
 The Green Building 
 
 7. The Steam Heating Plant originally erected in 1900 was rebuilt 
 during the fall of 1912 at an expense of $10,000. 
 
 8. The New College Church dedicated April 20, 1913, replaced the 
 "Jubilee Chapel" built in 1887. It is used by the College for lectures, 
 concerts, and Commencement exercises and contains the pipe organ 
 owned jointly by the College and Congregation. All these buildings are 
 conveniently grouped in the heart of Warrenton, on either side of the 
 historic Boone's Lick Road. The campus of twenty-three acres con- 
 tains beautiful shade trees and ample playgrounds for the students. 
 
 The personnel of the faculty has likewise seen important changes 
 within the last two decades. Dr. J. L. Kessler, energetic and optimistic, 
 beloved by all, met his tragic death in 1893. He was succeeded by Dr. 
 J. L. Nuelsen, who labored here with marked success for five years, 
 when he was transferred to Berea and later to the Episcopacy. Dr. H. 
 A. Koch, after forty years of unremitting toil in the interest of educa- 
 
tion, resigned the presidency in 1895, and a year later in broken health 
 he retired to private life. He died in 1897. His memory is revered by 
 multitudes of former students far and near. Dr. Geo. B. Addicks, 
 elected a professor in 1890, and president in 1895, in touch with modern 
 times, introduced Central Wesleyan College to ever widening circles. 
 His death in 1910 removed a man of unusual culture of mind and heart 
 from among us. Since the founding of the school there have been 218 
 Professors and Assistants on the teaching staff, the number varying 
 from 5 the first year to 28 at the present time. The attendance has 
 increased from 179 in i864-'65 to 358 in I9i3-'i4. 
 
 Other changes of no less significance have taken place in recent 
 years. They are of an intensive rather than of an extensive nature. 
 Recitation periods were lengthened from 45 to 60 minutes. Permanent 
 records were adopted. The semester division was introduced. The 
 academy course was lengthened to four years. Graduation from the 
 Academy now requires 16 units; from the College 128 semester hours. 
 The number of elective studies was increased and the grouping of 
 studies by majors adopted. An approved Summer School was establish- 
 ed, largely through the efforts of Prof. Vosholl, which has constantly 
 grown in usefulness. In 1910 the College was elected to membership in 
 the Missouri College Union. It is also ranked as a "Class A" college 
 by the University Senate of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which 
 indicates its rank among the colleges of the Church and State. In 1912 
 Central Wesleyan was admitted to the Intercollegiate Oratorical Asso- 
 ciation and in 1913 to the Missouri Valley Athletic Association. 
 
 The certificate privilege which was conferred on the College in 1912 
 means much to graduates of Central Wesleyan for they may secure 
 life certificates without examination and many States accept these cer- 
 tificates without question. The library and laboratories have received 
 fine additions and have become the workshops of busy students. The 
 growing importance of the Alumni was recognized by the revised char- 
 ter of 1913, which permits the Alumni to elect three members 
 of the Board of Trustees. The union with the German College of Mt. 
 Pleasant, Iowa, which was consummated in June 1909 unified and accen- 
 tuated the educational interests of the connection. 
 
 Most recent additions to the 
 funds of the school are the Addison 
 H. Brown scholarship of $5,ooo, the 
 Ammann Fund of $15,000, and a be- 
 quest of $4,000 from the estate of 
 Mrs. Addison H. Brown. The semi- 
 centennial campaign for $150,000 is 
 well under way and bids fair to 
 reach the goal by January 1, 1916. 
 Most noteworthy was the response 
 of the college community and the 
 citizens of Warrenton. who to- 
 gether subscribed $25,000 for a 
 "Greater Home College." A gift of 
 $10,000 from the heirs of Mr. Henry Block of Peoria, 111., was received 
 just recently. 
 
 Gymnasium (Old Red Building) 
 
Quincy Days. 
 
 By J. H. Frick. 
 
 HE German Educational work in the west had its beginning 
 in the English and German College at Quincy, Illinois. Rev 
 Jesse Hale Moore was the President. The faculty consisted 
 of four professors and three assistants. In 1854 school open- 
 ed in the basement of the Vernon Street M. E. Church. 
 Wm. Koeneke and J. A. Reitz were the first students matriculated. Rev. 
 John Walther was Professor of Theology and Mr. Marks Professor 
 of German. The German classes met in the basement of the the Ger- 
 man M. E. Church, on Jersey Street. Later Prof. Marks was succeed- 
 ed by Prof. Bandele, and he by Prof. Blaufusz; John Schlagenhauf and 
 J. P. Miller were college janitors. Rev. J. R. Jaquess, D.D., succeeded 
 Dr. Moore in the Presidency; and both these men later became gen- 
 erals in the Union army. Rev. Walther, for the second year, made 
 arrangements to give free board tc the German theologs — that is they 
 were to board round from house to house. This arrangement did not 
 appeal to Koeneke, the Ex-Secretary of Governor Bissel, and he had a 
 talk with President Jaquess who appointed him collector of tuition 
 and thus gave him a chance to earn his board and room rent. When in 
 1857 Dr. H. A. Koch was appointed head of the German Department, 
 he kept a boarding department, in connection with his family, one mile 
 out of town. They carried their noon lunch to school by turns, in a 
 big basket. Each student had to work one hour a day in the garden or 
 around the premises. They say the Doctor made them put in full 
 time too. Once they left two rows of potatoes implanted to go to see 
 a regiment of soldiers mustered in, and for this neglect they had to 
 suffer in the classroom. They slept in a large room in hammocks in 
 three tiers, one above another. One student boasted that he could 
 speak three languages, — English, German, and Low German. So they 
 dubbed him "Doctor B." Another played the role of a very superior 
 person until worsted in a debate by Wm. Wilkening from the back- 
 woods of Missouri. The question was: "Resolved that Martin Luther 
 was a greater man than John Wesley." Wilkening had the affirmative 
 and says he studied as he never studied before in order to win over 
 his high-toned antagonist. When Rev. Walther afterwards became 
 Presiding Elder, he culled the school of its more advanced students 
 when he needed men for his appointments. Dr. Koch remonstrated 
 with him for taking away the young men before graduation. He replied — 
 "Hermann, I tell you, when God wants a man for his work, he gets 
 him, even it he has to snatch him from the gallows." 
 
 After the erection of a college building, the English and German 
 College bid fair to prove a success, and who can say it was not a suc- 
 cess? The following ministers, later in the German conferences, 
 received their training at Quincy: Wm. Koeneke, Chas. Heidel, J. A. 
 Reitz, John Schlagenhauf, Jacob Tanner, J. P. Miller, Rev. Schatz, Rev. 
 
Koelle, P. J. May, M. Dewein, John Baumgarten, J. R. Irmscher, H. 
 Flottmann, C. W. Floreth, George Enzeroth, H. Naumann, Wm. 
 Schwind, John Sandmeyer, Fred Unland, Wm. Wilkening, H. Schutz and 
 others. Hon. H. A. S'choppenhorst and Aug. H. Bothe were students 
 from Warren County, Missouri. 
 
 But the Civil War brought on a sea of financial difficulties for the 
 dual college. The English Department closed in 1863, and the German 
 school was transferred to Warrenton, Missouri, in 1864. 
 
 Rev. Philip Kuhl Dr. H. A. Koch 
 
 First President of the Corporation First Principal and President 
 
 War Times 
 
 By J. H. Frick. 
 
 HE Civil War was still in progress when The Western Edu- 
 cational Institute opened in Warrenton, Missouri, October 3, 
 1864. It was about this time when "Old Pap Price" made 
 his last raid into the state. Guerillas who were spreading 
 consternation in the counties north of the river, burned the 
 Court House at Danville in Montgomery county. Our students were 
 often called out with the citizens to help guard the town. It is told of 
 one student that while on guard he became alarmed and cocked his 
 musket, but finding no occasion to shoot, he had to call on another 
 guard to help him let down the hammer of his gun. 
 
 One day a party of union troops came into Warrenton and scattered 
 about to get something to eat. They thought the group of buildings 
 just east of town a good place to get some "grub." They found the 
 kitchen of the College Boarding Department and began ordering the 
 cooks to get them something to eat and "be quick about it." Prof. 
 
Van Dusen came to the rescue — "What do you want?" he said. "This is 
 no nigger plantation; This is an Orphan Asylum! Get out!" They got. 
 
 Soon after the opening of school Christ Hildebrandt, a patriotic 
 student from Freeport, 111., procured tall sycamore poles from the 
 Charrette bottoms, spliced them together for a flag pole and from the 
 top flung "Old Glory" to the breeze. This is said to have been the first 
 time the flag of our country was displayed on the College Campus. 
 
 Love of country and love of the Stars and Stripes has ever been 
 one of the strong characteristics of the students of Central Wesleyan 
 College. So may it ever be, and as the years roll on, may their actions 
 tend to keep our country in righteous paths and her flag a harbinger 
 of peace and good will to all the world. 
 
 The war occasionally produced a little ripple. One day Dr. Koch 
 and some students were coming up from St. Louis, it is said, when the 
 engineer and train crew became alarmed and stopped the train before 
 reaching Warrenton, leaving the passengers to foot it the rest of the 
 way. The report says nothing as to the distance they walked. 
 
 A number of the students had been Union soldiers, and continued to 
 wear their uniforms while attending college. Some wore an empty 
 sleeve or showed in other ways their maimed condition. Joe Burger 
 was one of these and could tell the boys war stories till their hair 
 fairly stood on end. Lieutenant Hummel, who had lost a leg, lived in 
 Truesdale. Captain Grenzenberg, now of Cincinnati, Ohio, spent a part 
 of a school year with us and occupied a room in the old Red Building. 
 After the Confederates had been defeated at Westport, now Kansas 
 City, two brigades of General A. J. Smith's army passed through War- 
 renton, and camped in Truesdale over night, on their way to Nashville, 
 Tenn. One of these soldiers was Theodore Reuter, now one of our 
 Trustees, and Mary Huegely, who afterwards became his wife, was 
 attending college at the time and saw the troops marching by. 
 
 At one time several of our patrons, Samuel Weber,Henry Weberjohn 
 Irminger and J. H. Frick, after being captured at the battle of Glasgow, 
 Missouri, were on a train which stopped at Truesdale for breakfast, while 
 returning home as paroled prisoners. J. H. Frick heard his comrade 
 remark something about "Unsere Anstalt" being located here, but little 
 did he dream that this "Anstalt" was destined to become his "Alma 
 Mater" and that he would here find his life's work. 
 
Prof. John H. Frick Rev. William Balcke 
 
 THE FIRST TWO GRADUATES 
 
 Mount Pleasant Days 
 
 By Friedrich Munz. 
 
 OST of our German conferences have rejoiced in the posses- 
 sion of only one educational institution; the Saint Louis 
 Conference however, had for many years the burden of two. 
 But no man can force Providence, and our fathers, who in 
 1872 were the founders of the German College in Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa, no doubt followed the divine leading. Mt. Pleasant — 
 what a beautiful name! In reality there was no "mount" in the 
 immediate vicinity, but the town in itself was what the name suggested 
 — "pleasant" and attractive. Long before the Civil War, Iowa Wes- 
 leyan had been in existence, and its influence could be felt and seen 
 in the whole life of the growing community. Dollars and sense do not 
 always travel together; but sometimes they do, and never more than 
 when the combination meets in the founding and upbuilding of a col- 
 lege or university. It was thought a capital idea, as the German 
 Church would always be more or less a missionary enterprise, to unite 
 the German College with the comparatively strong American institu- 
 tion. The men who carried the burden of those years were Rev. 
 Rudolph Havighorst, Rev. Henry Schutz, Hon. D. C. Smith, for many 
 years the President of the Trustee board, and G. W. Marquardt, who 
 was the faithful treasurer from 1873 to 1908. 
 
 If there is a divinity that shapes our ends, then it watches not only 
 over the chattering, clamoring, fighting sparrow but also over the 
 friendless, helpless young German student. Fortunate winds must have 
 filled the sails of my ship when it landed me on the banks of the 
 Mississippi in the beautiful state of Iowa. "De size ob de gravestone 
 doan tell how big de man was." Rev. Henry Naumann, the presiding 
 
elder at the time, was one of those few who have a great heart in 
 y magnificent body. He alwa>s had an eye for young men, and before 
 I knew what was happening I was on my way to German College in 
 Mt. Pleasant. The school was then no doubt at the height of its 
 development. Rev. William Balcke, A.M., was at the head of the insti- 
 tution. Dr. E. C. Magaret, the poet laureate of German Methodism, 
 was the master in German literature. Young, magnetic, polished, Geo. 
 B. Addicks, always a friend of young people, was laying the foundation 
 for his lifelong work as an educator, John L. Tiemann, who died appar- 
 ently too young, was our fine musician, and happy were the many 
 hours that we spent together. Students gathered from far Minnesota, 
 from the Sunflower State and from the quiet hills of Missouri; Metho- 
 dists and Mennonites, boys and girls in the bloom of youth, who are 
 now doing their share of the world's work in all walks of life. There 
 was more study than play in those times. We took not only a mouth- 
 ful of education, but a square meal. When one of us went through col- 
 lege, the college had been through him. We cannot sing of "The old 
 caken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, the moss covered bucket," 
 because- there was no bucket, but not one of us will forget the famous 
 college-pump, old fashioned, but always overflowing with the purest 
 crystal water. We still see in imagination how the door of the stately 
 mansion opened exactly at the same minute every day and through the 
 garden gate stepped grey-bearded Senator Harlan, the war-minister of 
 Lincoln's cabinet, carrying the inseparable umbrella under his arm. 
 But times move, and so do men. Dr. Schlagenhauf gave his time and 
 energy to the College from 1885 to 1891. The dignified Dr. George A. 
 Mulfinger followed him. It fell to the lot of the writer to steer the 
 school through the hard times of 1893 to 1897. In spite of the financial 
 depression there was always more than enough in the treasury. Rev. 
 E. Schuette with one year was followed by Dr. Edwin Havighorst, who 
 held the reins till 1908. Dr. H. G. Leist continued until 1909. 
 
 A school must not be judged solely by imposing buildings or a 
 splendid endowment; its real strength is the teaching force. There is 
 no doubt that men like the efficient W. G. Baab, the prolific and fluent 
 Karl Stiefel, the energetic and many-sided Gustav Becker, the practical, 
 scholarly H. G. Leist ranked among the foremost in our whole German 
 work. It is true the College itself could never boast of large numbers 
 in the enrollment of students, but it always did more work than its 
 official catalogue reported. We instructed the students of two institutions. 
 Our boys and girls enjoyed free of charge all the privileges of the effi- 
 cient staff and extensive plant of Iowa Wesleyan. Our endowment, 
 somewhat over $30,000, was sufficient to carry on the work; but the 
 Conference had the conviction, that one school was enough and the time 
 came for a happy union. No one will find fault with us, who think with 
 grateful hearts of the good old days of Mount Pleasant. The golden 
 age never leaves the world; it still exists and shall exist, till love, health, 
 and poetry are no more, — but only for the young. 
 
GEO. B. ADDICKS, D.D. 
 
 Second President of the College. 
 For many years a tireless worker 
 for the school. 
 
 JOHN L. KESSLER, Ph.D. 
 
 who died from injuries received at 
 the burning of the Ladies' Home 
 in June, 1893. 
 
 Fires and Tornado 
 
 By J. H. Frick. 
 
 UR school has been tried by fire and tornado and each time 
 it has risen Phoenix like out of the wreck of ashes, stronger 
 and better than before. 
 
 On the night of May 8, 1882, while all lay in peaceful 
 slumber, a tornado burst upon the college buildings and cam- 
 pus and left a wreck in its path. The lives of Prof. Sauer and family 
 and four students, one of whom, Rev Aug Buelteman, is now our pas- 
 tor, were mercifully spared. The Professors and Rev. Wm. Schutz went 
 out among the people who willingly contributed $6,000.00 to repair the 
 damage done. 
 
 During the commencement of 1893 while the valedictorean was de- 
 livering his oration, the cry of Fire! Fire! put a sudden termination to 
 the exercises' as all rushed out to find the beautiful Ladies' Home in 
 flames. All efforts to save the building failed, and saddest of all, our 
 beloved Prof. J. L. Kessler, while fighting the fire, received injuries 
 which resulted in death by tetanus nine days afterwards. In place of 
 this building two others, more substantial, were erected. But the loss 
 of Dr. Kessler, we all felt, could never be replaced. But his influence, 
 for the school he loved, is still bearing fruit in the lives of his students. 
 One by one the old buildings after they had well served their pur- 
 pose were torn down or removed. The old Orphan Asylum, the Green 
 Building, the Little Red Depot, which served as the President's resi- 
 dence, all disappeared and in 1908 only the "Red Building" which had 
 served as a chapel, school rooms, students' rooms and gymnasium was 
 left as a lone reminder of the early days. Again the cry of fire alarmed 
 the community and in a short time the "Red Building" was a glowing 
 heap of ashes. In its stead the stately "Niedringhaus Memorial Build- 
 ing" now serves as a Gymnasium, Museum, Science room, and Labora- 
 tories. A loyal constituency each time helped turn the calamity into a 
 blessing and give the school new facilities. 
 
THE COLLEGE BUILDING— after t! e Tcrnado of May 8, 1882 
 
 
 RUINS OF THE LADIES' HOME— after the Fire in June, 1893 
 
Humor and Pathos 
 
 By J. H. Frick. 
 
 OLLEGE life has its humor and its pathos, its lights and its 
 shadows. Many of the boys and girls, when they first enter 
 college, have seen but little of the world and are easily impos- 
 ed upon. It so happened that Louis E., a verdant youth 
 from the backwoods of Missouri, was made game of by some of the 
 smart Alecs. He bore their gibes patiently for a time, but when patience 
 had ceased to be a virtue, he asked the advice of Prof. R. "If they don't 
 let you alone, thrash them," said the professor. "Do you think that will 
 help?" asked the verdant Louis, while a look of relief and quiet de- 
 termination shone from his eyes. During chapel the next morning 
 there was the usual annoyance by one of his tormentors who sat behind 
 him. But immediately after chapel things took a sudden turn. In front 
 of the college door Louis had a frightened youth by the throat, and 
 his fist came into play with a "By golly" to give it vim and an encour- 
 aging "Give it to him" from a couple of teachers. A thorough cure was 
 effected. 
 
 In the Preparatory Department when Prof. F. undertook to correct 
 a refractory Truesdale lad, said lad bolted from the room and went fly- 
 ing down the street. The teacher went after laddie, his long linen coat 
 flying in the wind, overhauled the boy, and brought him back amid the 
 shouts of students who witnessed the race. 
 
 While the Goethenia Literary Society held its meetings in the chapel 
 of the Old Red Building, the members were some-times annoyed by 
 youngsters throwing rocks against the door. J. H. Hilmes and another 
 gave chase one night, caught the culprit in the railroad cut ; and brought 
 him back a prisoner, and compelled him to remain a quiet spectator of 
 the debate then in progress. 
 
 Occasionally in our dormitories things disappeared. At such times 
 a watch was set and when the erring one was caught a trial was organ- 
 ized by the students. A judge, jury, attorneys, and sheriff were select- 
 ed. The accused was confronted by the witnesses and duly tried. Often 
 the chief actors in such a trial became attorneys and judges in after 
 life, some eminent in the pulpit and on the platform. But when an 
 erring student has to be returned to his home by the Faculty their 
 hearts bleed for parents and friends of the one under the shadow. But 
 their hearts are gladdened by young men who are doing their best to 
 hold the student body to a high standard of truth, honesty, and moral- 
 ity. Such students have a fine missionary field among the more 
 thoughtless and careless of their fellows, to do telling work for the 
 Master, and need not wait till after graduation to do great things in 
 life's busy battle for right and righteousness. 
 
 Our telescope is used mostly at night to view the moon, planets 
 stars, comets, and nebulae. But during a time when there was an excur- 
 sion which brought many visitors it was used to show sun spots and 
 
far off terrestial objects as well. After visitors had departed, a student 
 was showing distant objects to orphan boys, one of whom was 
 greatly impressed with the power of the instrument. In all seriousness 
 he said: "Now turn it on Germany, John, I want to see my grand- 
 mother." 
 
 On a few rare occasions death has invaded our college community 
 and cast a shadow of gloom over student body and Faculty. One such 
 occasion took place when several students were scuffling in good natur- 
 ed play in Mr. Schowengerdt's yard. One of them, Pepperling by name, 
 suddenly fell to the ground and expired, his death being caused by 
 heart failure. 
 
 Dr. H. A. Koch, who for 30 years was President of the school, 
 was a tireless worker in his office and school room. He found that to 
 preserve his health he must take physical exercise. This he did in his 
 garden or on the college campus. He took great pride in keeping the 
 campus clean and could be seen daily, after school hours, with his 
 wheelbarrow gathering up leaves, waste paper, and all kinds of unsight- 
 ly trash and carting it away. Strangers sometimes asked "Who is that 
 old man with the wheelbarrow?" Students and teachers rather resented 
 having their President seen at so menial a task and often the wheel- 
 barrow would disappear to be found later in some unwonted place. 
 One morning it was found in the bell tower. Of the four students who 
 put it there one is now a college professor, one a merchant, and the 
 other two are ministers of the gospel. One of the professors, in a 
 faculty meeting, remonstrated with the good Doctor, saying: "A ten 
 dollar a day man should not be doing work worth only a dollar a day." 
 His reply was: "I must have physical exercise and I do it to preserve 
 my health." The years of severe mental toil at last broke down the 
 toiler, and brought on the end of a noble life. 
 
 Eddie, a son of one of the professors, was having a hard time learn- 
 ing the catechism in German. He was discouraged and wanted to drop 
 it. His mother said "No, you must not, We promised when you were 
 baptized that you should be taught the catechism." "Well I'll be 
 switched," exclaimed Eddie. "If I make such a promise for any of my 
 kids." "You can't get them baptized then" replied his mother. His 
 brother Johnnie thought he saw a way out of the difficulty and said he 
 could get a Squire to baptize them. Might it not have been better to 
 have allowed him to learn the catechism in English? 
 
 A professor noticed that the theologs going and coming from 
 their classes in an opposite room were rather a lively set and often 
 engaged in good natured strife and scrimmage. Jokingly he said: 
 "Professor Stroeter, why do your theologs have so much strife among 
 themselves?" Quickly came the reply, "Oh, that's easy to explain. 
 They belong to the church militant." 
 
 Oliver, who boarded with a private family, returned to his room 
 at 11:00 a. m. as his class was excused. He lighted his lamp and sat 
 down to study just as he did evenings. Habit makes us do some funny 
 things. 
 
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 au§gegangen ift. (Stma an 300 aftibe ^rebtger, bie auf einfieimifdjem 
 
COLLEGE BUILDING 
 
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 bor un§ liegenben Snfunft fitr bie neue 3eit unb bie nenen @efdjlea> 
 ter ebenfo mirffam madje mie in bem berfloffenen balben SaWimtbert. 
 
Central Wesleyan Influence 
 
 By A. W. Ebeling. 
 
 EGEND has it that when Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, who 
 are well-known to all students of Roman History on account ot 
 their remarkable achievements in making life for their less 
 favored fellowmen more tolerable, was asked to show her most 
 precious treasures, she led forth her two boys with the 
 words, "These are my jewels." This statement was not prompted 
 simply by the sentimental feeling that pervades the bosom of every 
 proud mother but it was the expression of a truth. It has rung down 
 through the ages and their lives substantiated their mother s fond words. 
 In truth, men and women, noble in character, active in self-sacrificing 
 service and ever true to their well-grounded convictions, are the 
 greatest treasures that parents, nations, or schools could wish to pos- 
 sess. Central Wesleyan College is blest with an army of just such 
 deserving sons and daughters, alumni and alumnae, who completed the 
 one or the other course, or those that spent some of their school days 
 within her halls and it is but meet that some attention be called to 
 them and to the influence that their alma mater is exerting through 
 their life of service to their fellowmen. 
 
 A half century has come and gone since God put it into the hearts ot 
 good men and women to found a Christian institution of learning in the 
 German division of the Methodist Church in the great Mississippi Val- 
 ley not far from the center of the land of the brave and the free. It 
 was no small undertaking on the part of the founders, for our country 
 was then in the midst of the throes of a fierce and bloody civil war, 
 which threatened to rend in twain the fairest republic of the ages. It 
 cost many a sacrifice, it often seemed doomed to failure, but the results 
 achieved are abundant evidence that the founders builded well and the 
 venture was so profitable that it will prove a benison for untold ages. 
 Good men and women were trained and a good man like a good deed 
 never dies. With the consummation of the union of the German Col- 
 lege at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and Central Wesleyan, at Warrenton, 
 the endeavor to furnish trained Christian leaders gained a new impetus 
 and the future promises that the second half century shall see. only aug- 
 mented good accomplished. 
 
 The alumni list of the college comprises 692 names, 520 men and 
 172 women. Sixty of those that received diplomas have presented their 
 credentials at the court of eternal justice. Their work here is done, 
 dare we say yonder it is just begun? We have not the figures that tell 
 us the exact number of the non-graduates that spent longer or shorter 
 periods in our college but we are sure that they number over 10,000. 
 They too have gone forth in the struggle that besets a life of service 
 and in most cases it proved or is proving a continual Anabasis and not 
 a Catabasis as was the case in part of the wanderings that are describ- 
 ed by the historian of old when he writes about the numerical prototype 
 
of our ten thousand. There is no quarter of the earth that has not been 
 reached by the one or the other of those that once frequented the halls 
 of Central Wesleyan and in some measure they have been influencing 
 their environments as they were influenced while in training for life's 
 busy day. 
 
 Of the alumni, 237 entered that calling that proclaims the glad 
 tidings of Jesus, tidings of redemption and release, the Christian min- 
 istry. Of the non-graduates great numbers have taken up the same cal- 
 ling. Can we estimate the influence Central Wesleyan College is exert- 
 ing through their faithful work? One has risen to be a bishop in the 
 church, some have served acceptably as presiding elders or as we now 
 designate them district superintendents in the same church, some are 
 preaching as professors or as presidents of colleges, some preach 
 through the press, while the greater number are or have been worthy 
 occupants of the pulpits of churches ranking all the way from Gothic 
 grandeur to sod-house simplicity. Some of these eked out their life of 
 usefulness in service never once complaining of the mere pittance they 
 received as remuneration. It was their meat and bread to do their Fath- 
 er's bidding. Others have been more favored by fortune but they too 
 looked to a better heritage than dollars and cents. The importance of 
 their calling and the greatness of the cause appealed to them and they 
 ministered. Many an erring soul has been pointed to its real goal 
 through their ministrations. 
 
 Fifteen of the graduates and a number of the other former students 
 have followed the call to the uttermost ends of the earth to bring the 
 Gospel to those outside of the pale of Christian lands. The denizens 
 of Darkest Africa, the swarthy Hindu, the valiant Japanese, the followers 
 of the sage of China, the brown Filipino, and the dweller on the Malay 
 Peninsula have heard the message of the gentle Nazerene as it fell from 
 the lips of those who were once in our midst. Some spent a life of ser- 
 vice there among heathenism and now their bodies rest in the land that 
 saw their labors to await that day when from the ends of the earth they 
 shall be gathered at the call of their Master to receive his commenda- 
 tion. Some are just now in the midst of a glorious work and we are 
 sure that the coming years shall see more and more of our strongest 
 and best students, who have caught the world vision while here in 
 school, doing the work of a missionary in some heathen land or among 
 those that are submerged in dire distress and darkness in our own land. 
 
 Healing the sick has always been a close companion to guiding the 
 soul aright and medicine has 40 of the alumni as its followers, besides 
 the many that were too eager to heal to take time to complete a college 
 course. We find them 'n hospitals or in private practice everywhere 
 alleviating suffering, ofttimes exposing themselves to dangers manifold, 
 but always ready and willing to save life if possible. Some are deacon- 
 esses or trained nurses bent not only on doing a work that taxes to the 
 utmost the strongest man but combining therewith the gentle touch of 
 woman's hand which is often more soothing than the best selected 
 medicament. Some of the number that have studied medicine are 
 lecturers in medical schools and others write for medical journals. 
 
Twenty-nine alumni and many of the others adopted Blackstone as 
 their patron saint and are contributing not a little to enable right tc 
 gain sway even though we are told that Justice is blind and that the 
 modern purpose of law is to prevent the influential criminial's getting 
 his just deserts. In spite of the uncertainty surrounding our institution 
 of justice, we do not hesitate to put confidence in our lawyer boys who 
 by the training received here can resolve "To be lawyers for Jesus 
 Christ" and by their work prove their assertion. Some of the number 
 have entered that much-maligned field, politics, and there we see them 
 standing for clean politics, a thing of necessity in these days* and an 
 honorable vocation for public-spirited men. They do not stand for 
 mere pelf or what is still worse low down pilfering or as it is termed 
 graft. A governor, several congressmen, a number of members of state 
 legislatures, judges' of various courts, and many other public officials 
 have been chosen from among those that were in our college halls. 
 
 Business claimed the attention of 115 of the list of graduates and 
 many others are found in bank, store, or office ready to serve those that 
 need their assistance in making money, that very useful servant but 
 cruel master of mankind, do its legitimate work, or in securing the 
 necessities of life from the busy marts of the world. Some have gained 
 quite a competence and they are more and more awakening to the 
 fact that a competence, if it deserves to be called so, ought to make 
 them willing and competent to do good work. 
 
 Next follow us to the farm, to the work-bench, or to some other 
 place where man earns his daily bread by the sweat of his' brow and 
 see how many that were once enrolled in Central Wesleyan as stu 
 dents are now honest tillers of the soil or skilled or unskilled laborers. 
 They are ever on the alert to make Mother Earth yield her substance 
 for the teeming millions of her children or to perfect appliances that 
 shall add to the sum total of human happiness. Were their days spent 
 in college spent there in vain? No. A broader vision of life is their 
 heritage and the influence of their alma mater is being shed abroad as a 
 benediction in their surroundings. They are the first to be aligned on 
 the side of everything that makes for the general uplift and they 
 take a live interest in all the questions that agitate the minds of wide- 
 awake men and women in these days of progress. 
 
 A number of our former students and alumni have entered journal- 
 ism and they are not wielding the pen in vain. The press is mightier 
 than the sword in these days of peace and many an editorial well-fitted 
 to enlighten and then to enthuse for the good has been penned by those 
 that got their training in expressing themselves in clear sentences in 
 Central Wesleyan. Others have become authors and their productions 
 are also of an order that is a blessing and not a curse for the reader. 
 One hundred thirty-five of the alumni have entered the profession 
 that teaches the young idea how to shoot. But they are not content 
 merely to teach it to shoot, nay, they aim to lead it in shooting in the 
 right direction so that its owner shall not present a one-sided or gnarled 
 appearance but a well-balanced trinity, body, mind, and spirit. Then 
 think of the many non-graduates that have spent years in the school- 
 
room. Who can calculate the influence of the teachers that have gone 
 forth from our midst? Surely a host shall rise to call them blessed. 
 Many of our present students are the pupils of our students of former 
 days and they are here because of an influence emanating from their 
 teacher. We find our students as teachers today in all ranks, some 
 bear sway in the little red schoolhouse, some lead the pupils in the 
 grades, some superintend city school systems, some teach classes in 
 music or have charge of conservatories of that art, some teach in col- 
 leges over the broad expanse of our land, while still others lecture or do 
 research work in the universities. All are training the rising generation 
 for lives of greater usefulness. 
 
 One hundred eight of our graduates, we are told, are in that greatest 
 human, but God-planned institution, the home. Think of it. What does 
 it mean? Wasted time and money as some pessimists would say, or 
 does it mean that they are contributing something toward making home 
 approach more nearly to the ideal? Has their training while at col- 
 lege added anything to their ability to make a home in the higher sense 
 of the word? The home is the very foundation upon which civilization 
 rests. Some one has said that civilization is much more a game of 
 hearts than a game of brains, but a Christian education such as is acquired 
 in a Christian college is a thing not only of the head but also of the 
 heart. So we are sure that the students that have gone out from here 
 to make the home are none the worse for having been here but are the 
 better prepared for their heaven-bestowed task. Their home will stand 
 for all that is best and will indeed deserve the words of the poet when 
 he says, "There's no place like home." Some of the 108 as well as many 
 of the others were engaged in the study of music while here and those 
 that did not become teachers of this noble art have, no doubt, often 
 had opportunity to prove that music has charms to soothe the savage 
 breast and the knowing of music has added to their value as home- 
 builders. None of them were losers in life's battles because they were 
 in college, but they were and are leaders — shall we call them uncrowned 
 queens? 
 
 Readers think of the inestimable influence of the more than 10,000 
 students that have at some time or other frequented the halls of 
 Central Wesleyan College. Try to form a true conception of how much 
 of their influence is due to the training received here. What of it? Let 
 us here and now resolve that with the blessing of God Central Wes- 
 leyan's influence shall be continually augmented as the years roll by. 
 Let us also remember that the blessing from above can only be bestow- 
 ed if we do our part in helping the cause of Christian education as our 
 College endeavors to foster it. Let us do and dare and give ourselves 
 and of our substance to help the cause along. 
 
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 Donors and Patrons 
 
 By J. H. Frick. 
 
 HE success of any school in securing financial aid and new 
 students depends largely upon the good will and co-opera- 
 tion of its former students and alumni. A former student, 
 while attending a German University, induced his father to 
 come to the help of the young institution of learning, where 
 he had received his inspiration to higher things, by endowing a chair of 
 German Language and Literature with the sum of $10,000.00. This fath- 
 er was Mr. Louis Kessler and the son was our beloved Dr. J. L. Kess- 
 ler. Mr. Wm. S'chrader, of St. Louis, was the next to give a larger 
 donation of $6000.00, which formed the nucleus of the Schrader Profes- 
 sorship of Theology. He said: "I earned this money at the anvil and I 
 give it in memory of my daughter. Das ist heiliges Geld." Two indus* 
 trious German brothers, F. G. and W. F. Niedringhaus in the early 
 days, established a modest tin shop in St. Louis. By the inventive genius 
 of the one and the fine business ability of the other their little tin shop 
 grew into a great manufactory — The Niedringhaus Granite Ware Com- 
 pany. Recognizing the importance of the growing school, these noble 
 Christian business men after a great number of generous benefactions 
 permanently endowed the "Niedringhaus Professorship of Historical 
 and Practical Theology." Wm. F. Niedringhaus shortly before his 
 death bequeathed an additional $10,000.00 for our Gymnasium which 
 bears his name. 
 
 The Andrew Eisenmayer family donated a handsome sum for the 
 erection of Eisenmayer Hall. Mrs. C. Ammann of Decatur, 111., gave 
 the sum of $15,000.00 to assist in the education of needy students who 
 are preparing for the ministry. Mrs. Addison Brown, recently deceas- 
 ed, gave $5,000 to establish the "Brown Memorial Scholarship." She 
 also left a further sum for the education of students preparing for the 
 ministry. These ladies were both fine business women as well as noble 
 Christians ?nd have left these funds to continue the work dear to their 
 hearts. As we go to press announcement is made of a gift of $10,000 
 from the heirs of Mr. Henry Block of Peoria, 111., who thereby carry 
 out the benevolent intentions of the deceased. 
 
 A host of others have made contributions to various funds, and 
 these donors, living or departed, deserve the lasting gratitude of all 
 friends of Central Wesleyan College. May the investments made by 
 these noble Christian men and women bear the richest fruits, receive 
 the blessings of the Divine Master, and, as the years roll on, continue 
 to fulfill his command to spread the light of the Gospel throughout the 
 world. 
 
 Loyal sons and daughters of C. W. C, cheer up. These benefactions 
 are the fruits of your labors; they have come from you or through 
 your loving influence for your "Alma Mater." Continue to be her 
 "Epistles to all men," which shall challenge the admiration of the 
 work of Christian education done in Central Wesleyan College. Pre- 
 paring young men and women to do the world's work in church and 
 state is the noblest work and sends out influences which shall bless and 
 gladden the land. Your Alma Mater now stands in the front rank 
 among the Christian Colleges of our State. Keep her there by finding 
 many more Donors and Patrons. 
 
The Semi-Centennial Campaign 
 
 By. J. E. Tuschhoff. 
 
 HE Semi-Centennial Campaign was begun in June 1910 by the 
 action of the Trustees and the co-operation of the Alumni 
 Association. It was inaugurated to mark the completion of 
 fifty years of service as an educational institution in June 
 1914, and to place the college on a good foundation to begin 
 its second fifty years of work. It was unanimously agreed that $150,000 
 would be necessary to liquidate the present indebtedness, adequately 
 increase the endowment and to erect a much needed new college build- 
 ing, all of which are necessary to meet the requirements of church and 
 state for the next decade. The President, Dr. O. E. Kriege, was excused 
 from his class room duties in June 1910 for the ensuing year, so that 
 he might devote his time to raising funds for the college. After a year 
 of hard and successful work the trustees agreed that the president 
 resume his duties in the class room and office and that a financial agent 
 be appointed who could devote his entire time to looking after 
 the interests of the school. Rev. J. E. Tuschhoff, pastor at Mt. Vernon, 
 Mo., was elected to this position in June 1911, with the official title of 
 Field Secretary of Central Wesleyan College. He was instructed to 
 get in touch with the various congregations of the patronizing confer- 
 ences as well as all patrons, friends and former students of the united 
 colleges and solicit their support for the great forward movement for 
 Central Wesleyan. 
 
 From June 1910 till June 1913 about $25,000.00 was secured in dona- 
 tions, bequests and subscriptions. In view of the fact that 1914 is the 
 fiftieth anniversary of Central Wesleyan and that the raising of $150,000 
 is imperative to maintain a first class college the trustees resolved in 
 June 1913 that President Kriege be again relieved of his class room 
 duties in order to prosecute the work in the field. 
 
 The financial campaign for a Greater Central Wesleyan is well 
 under way. President Kriege and Field Secretary Tuschhoff have been 
 pushing the work vigorously for the past year. Treasurer H. Zimmer- 
 mann has also been actively engaged in this enterprise. Publicity and 
 organization are two essential elements of success. Realizing this, 
 special campaign literature was prepared and generously distributed. 
 The patronizing conferences were visited in the interest of the cam- 
 paign. The various districts each set from $15,000 to $30,000 as their 
 goal and organized for work. The Quincy District was the first to 
 engage in active co-operation with college officials by setting $30,000.00 
 as its goal. The canvass was begun in October 1913 and satisfactory 
 progress has been made. The work will be resumed as soon as possible. 
 The Warrenton campaign was inaugurated in the closing days of 
 November at a banquet to the citizens in the college dining rooms. 
 Dr.John W. Hancher, Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education, 
 was present to assist in organizing the workers and launching the 
 
campaign. After the citizens had agreed that their share of the $150,000 
 should be $25,000. Dr. Hancher offered to assume the last $1,000 provid- 
 ing the balance, $24,000, be pledged by January 31, 1914. A thorough 
 canvass of Warrenton and Truesdale was taken up at once. The Presi- 
 dent, the Field Secretary and the Treasurer were at work constantly 
 and the citizens organized a "Boosters' Club" to help promote the cam- 
 paign. The college Faculty assumed $4,629 and the students pledged 
 $3,424. The balance was made up by the citizens of Warrenton and 
 Truesdale. At midnight on January 31st, 1914, the following message 
 was wired to Dr. Hancher: "Your conditions met, the victory won. 
 Twenty-four thousand pledged." To this Dr. Hancher replied: "My 
 Dear Dr. Kriege: I want to congratulate you and all concerned upon 
 the splendid achievement of $25,000 from Warrenton. When I remem- 
 ber that no man living in Warrenton is credited with owning $100,000 
 worth of property and that not ten are credited with having $35,000 
 worth, it is the more remarkable. I shall be happy to stand good for 
 the conditional pledge I made which you met by close of business on 
 January 31st, as per your wire. Please send me two copies of your 
 blank subscriptions that I may make the proper pledge over my signa- 
 ture and have a copy for my own files. Kindly congratulate Central 
 Wesleyan and the people of Warrenton for me and this office, and tell 
 them we hold them in highest regard for rendering a really great and 
 sacrificial service. Long live Central Wesleyan and Warrenton, and the 
 good Father's blessings be upon you and all of you always." 
 
 At the annual alumni banquet in St. Louis January 30, 1914, the 
 Alumni Association, representing the former students of Warrenton 
 and Mt. Pleasant now residing in St. Louis and near-by cities, voted 
 that $25,000.00 should be the amount to be raised by this organization. 
 This work was taken up March 6th and very encouraging progress has 
 been made. It is hoped that the canvass may be completed and the 
 goal reached by the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary in June. 
 
 Plans are also being laid for a systematic canvass of Warren Coun- 
 ty to raise $25,000. This campaign is to be taken up in June and car- 
 ried on during the summer months. Later on the other districts of the 
 patronizing conferences will be visited and the work prosecuted until 
 the goal set for each district and the entire amount for Greater Central 
 Wesleyan shall have been reached. 
 
 A great celebration is hoped for in June, one that will not only be 
 a demonstration of what has been done during the past fifty years but 
 one where many valuable donations will be announced by former students 
 and friends of the college. Central Wesleyan now meets the requirements 
 of church and State for a first class college. The University Senate has 
 definitely ranked Central Wesleyan as a class "A" college. The campaign 
 for $150,000 is on in order that the college may meet the new require- 
 ments by January 1st, 1916. Can the half way mark be reached by the 
 fiftieth anniversary celebration in June? Progress is made by work 
 only. Heaven never helps a man who will not act. Now is the time for 
 every man with a forward look to get his shoulder to the wheel and 
 push. Keeping everlastingly at it wins. If YOU Plan and Pray for 
 and GIVE to Central Wesleyan, success will be assured. 
 
Departed Leaders 
 
 Rev. Philip Kuhl 
 
 By H. Vosholl. 
 
 APA Kuhl, as he was affectionately called in his later years, 
 came to America in 1834, at the age of 20. For several years he 
 was engaged in railroad surveying and a brilliant future seem- 
 ed to beckon him. In 1837 however he located on a farm near 
 Beardstown, Illinois. But the Lord had other work for him, 
 and in 1844 he entered the ministry. For many years he filled the office 
 of presiding elder (superintendent) most acceptably. From 1864 to 
 1872 he was president of the Western Educational Institute and 
 Orphan Asylum. He died at Burlington, Iowa, June 28, 1887. 
 
 Father Kuhl was a strong preacher and a fine revivalist. When he 
 became roused, with mighty voice and prophetic earnestness he pro- 
 claimed the wrath of God and the love of the Savior. He was a splen- 
 did executive officer, and as presiding elder he organized societies and 
 built churches in the middle west. He was beloved by the preachers 
 and by the people. 
 
 His executive powers showed especially while he was at the head 
 of the infant Orphan Asylum and Western Educational Institute. He 
 was wise to plan and energetic to carry out. The children loved him, 
 the students admired him, and the teachers reverenced him. Wherever 
 he went he exerted a mighty influence for the school and for the church. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Dr. H. A. Koch 
 
 By H. Vosholl. 
 
 HE troublous times of 1848 brought Herman A. Koch at the age 
 of twenty to the United States. He was a farmer near Cali- 
 fornia, Mo., a teacher in St. Louis, then a preacher, and in 
 1855 he became the principal of the German Department of 
 the English-German school at Quincy, 111. When the Western 
 Educational Institute was organized at Warrenton, Mo., in 1864. Prof. 
 Koch became the principal. Then, after having for a time served as the 
 head of both the Orphan Asylum and Central Wesleyan College, he 
 became president of the College alone in which position he continued 
 until 1895. 
 
 Dr. Koch in his day taught German and Theology and many other 
 subjects, but his strength was in Latin and Greek. He was of an 
 intensely practical character and hence the vocabulary, the forms, the 
 constructions, and the wise sayings of the ancients appealed to him 
 
more than beauty of diction, depth of feeling, or the "tine frenzy" of 
 the poets. 
 
 As an administrative officer Doctor Koch was noticeable for eco- 
 nomical management. In his day the church and the students were 
 poor, and cnly by close attention to the pennies was it possible to 
 maintain and develop the College. Time was an equally precious poses- 
 sion to the Doctor and he was never known to be idle. He read, he 
 studied, he wrote, he hoed, he raked: he was busy either mentally or 
 physically. With an energy that seemed inexhaustible he performed the 
 thousand duties of his various offices. To his students he often seemed 
 severe, but no one was more genuinely solicitous for their welfare tfran 
 Dr. Koch. To the idle, the careless, the indifferent he was a righteous 
 judge; but to the earnest, ambitious, hard-working young man he was a 
 sympathising friend and father. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Rev. John Schlagenhauf, D.D. 
 
 By Friedrich Munz. 
 
 ENTLEMAN, is not one man as good as another?" "Uv coorse 
 he is," shouted an excited Irishman, "and a great deal better." 
 If the good old Doctor could have heard this witty answer, 
 he would have smiled most heartily. We are all equals, but 
 seme are better, no doubt. And such a one was Dr. Schlagen- 
 hauf. Happy the young man who, in his formative period finds a teach- 
 er, to whom he can look up. In spite of all the progress we have made, 
 we lack personalities, characters. Under the leveling chisel and plane 
 of our modern educational methods we are losing a great deal of our 
 own individual strength and godgiven originality. Instead of a voice we 
 hear only an echo; substance gives way to the shadow. It was my good 
 fortune to come in close contact with Dr. Schlagenhauf as a student 
 and as a colleague. As a young man of eighteen he had crossed the 
 Atlantic, and became one of the students in our seminary in Quincy, 
 Illinois. Nearly all the boys of those early years in Quincy have by 
 this time completed their journey to the great beyond. Dr. Schlagen- 
 hauf had served with success some of the largest congregations of the 
 Saint Louis German Conference and had been a successful Presiding 
 Elder, when he came in the height of its intellectual moral and religi- 
 ous powers to the presidency of the German College of Mount Pleasant, 
 Iowa. In the classroom his mind worked with lightning rapidity; his 
 definitions were clear-cut like a diamond; his humor enlivened like a ray 
 of sunshine many a cloudy and misty day. In the pulpit he could make 
 a biblical problem, a doctrinal point as clear as crystal. He was a born 
 teacher. His illustrations were apt, full of life, direct to the point, very 
 often gleaming with a kindly humor. He was too practical to be a 
 mystic. His whole make-up was certainly not sentimental; clear, cold 
 reason was predominant. Holiness was for him sanctified common 
 
sense. "I can preach much better," so he told us, — "with a five dollar 
 goldpiece in my pocket than with the consciousness of having an empty 
 pocketbook." He served the college from 1885 to 1891. His path is a 
 shining light, and he went from the land of shadows into the land of 
 realities. 
 
 Rev. Rudolph Havighorst 
 
 By Friedrich Munz. 
 
 EV. Rudolph Havighorst received deep religious impressions as 
 a boy under the influence of the state church in Germany. In 
 the fall of 1846 he dared to cross the ocean and landed in 
 New Orleans. A few years later he found salvation and 
 entered the ranks of the active ministry in the Southwest 
 German Conference. He threw in his lot from the beginning with the 
 German College in Mount Pleasant and served as minister and finan- 
 cial agent from 1878 till 1884. Three of his sons are graduates of Mount 
 Pleasant and are active in the ministry. Dr. C. R. Havighorst is an 
 influential minister in the Ohio conference; Dr. Edwin S. Havighorst, 
 who served the college for ten years as its president, is at present pas- 
 tor of our first church in Kansas City, Mo., and Trustee of Central 
 Wesleyan College. Freeman S. Havighorst was active in ministerial 
 and educational work. Miss Emily Havighorst, for some years in 
 charge of the music department in Mount Pleasant, is with her husband, 
 Rev. Muenster in the English work. For 42 years father Havighorst 
 labored and worked, and went to his reward after a beautiful sunset, 
 when his son was still the President of the institution for which he 
 prayed and toiled for nearly four decades. 
 
 Dr. J. L. Kessler 
 
 By H. Vosholl. 
 
 R. J. L. Kessler was born in 1848 on a farm near Ballwin, Mo. 
 Here, as so often on the farm, he early developed a sense 
 of responsibility. At the age of sixteen he entered Central 
 Wesleyan College. In 1872 he graduated with honor from 
 Ohio Wesleyan. Next we find him at the Universities of 
 Halle and Berlin. Putting aside flattering calls to professorships in 
 various colleges, he entered the ministry, and in 1876 joined the St. 
 Louis German Conference. Two years later he came to Central Wes- 
 leyan College to which he gave his best years — first as professor of 
 German, then as professor of theology, and later as financial agent — 
 and finally in 1893 he gave his life in an endeavor to save the Ladies' 
 Home from the flames. 
 
Prof. Kessler was a rare combination of sound scholarship, practical 
 common sense, and intense religious zeal. As few men, he said "I'll go 
 where you want me to go, dear Lord." Whatever he did he felt was the 
 Lord's work and therefore worthy of his undivided strength. Therefore 
 too he was ever hopeful — the most optimistic spirit co be found. He 
 knew neither discouragement nor defeat. 
 
 He was a rare man in that he was a growing man. New things, 
 new processes, new ideas appealed to him, and he was pleased, like a 
 boy, with an experience that enlarged his horizon. Ambition he had, 
 but it was for the church, for Central Wesleyan College, for the Master. 
 
 Dr. Kessler was a great teacher. He insisted that his pupils think. 
 He did not require much collateral reading, but he did require thorough- 
 ness. Chapters and books were analyzed, fundamental principles were 
 determined, and these learned and applied until they became a perma- 
 nent possession. His students became enthusiasts, and enjoyed being 
 up against a hard proposition. He inspired with high ideals — not only 
 by his direct teaching but by his own splendid personality. 
 
 Dr. George B. Addicks 
 
 By H. Vosholl. 
 
 R. Addicks was a farmer's son whose childhood was spent in 
 Rock Island County, Illinois. After receiving his A.B. degree 
 from Central Wesleyan College and teaching one year in the 
 Preparatory Department of his Alma Mater, he completed his 
 theological studies in Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 
 Illinois. Then he spent a few years in the German ministry after 
 which we find him the teacher of the German Language and Literature 
 in German College, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He returned to the ministry 
 and in 1890 was called to C. W. C. as Professor of Practical and His- 
 torical Theology. In 1895 he succeeded Dr. H. A. Koch as president in 
 which office he continued until his death, January 31, 1910. 
 
 Dr. Addicks was the young man's friend. Approachable, genial, 
 sympathetic — he won the hearty good will of the young people who 
 were entrusted to his charge. A president must enforce the discipline 
 of a school, and hence is often more respected and feared than loved. 
 Not so Dr. Addicks. He had a rare gift of winning the confidence and 
 high regard of the student notwithstanding his position. Often stu- 
 dents whom "he had on the carpet" were ever after his warmest friends. 
 They felt that he loved them and that his heart pleaded for them in 
 their peccadillos. Dr. Addicks was strong in revival services. His 
 appeals to the young men especially reached their wills and induced 
 them to say: "I will arise and go to my Father." He was an orator of 
 exceptional power; and his sermons on great occasions, his bacca- 
 laureate addresses, his oration on the death of President McKinley have 
 a lasting place in the memory of old C .W. C. boys and girls. Students 
 admired and loved him. 
 
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Central Wesleyan of the Present 
 
 By H. Vosholl. 
 
 ENTRAL Wesleyan College, as it is, fills the heart with grati- 
 tude for what God hath wrought. A half century ago there were 
 170 pupils of whom a fourth were orphans and most of the 
 others ready only for the work of elementary and grammar 
 grades. Now its halls are crowded with 358 earnest and ambi- 
 tious young men and women most of whom are doing work that could 
 not have been even attempted in 1865. At the same time 700 graduates 
 and 10,000 old students look with pride upon their Alma Mater. In 
 1865 four teachers; now seventeen professors and ten assistant teach- 
 ers. Then two frame buildings; now seven of brick, anyone of which 
 easily exceeds in capacity both of the original structures. Then no 
 endowment; now $170,000 with grounds and buildings worth $160,000. 
 The golden age is often said to lie in the past but in our early years 
 the very things we now take most pride in were entirely wanting. 
 There was no gymnasium, no laboratory, no library, no church. From 
 being unknown and unrecognized, C. W. C. has acquired a good name 
 not only in our own state but in many states, while her graduates are 
 active in various universities both as students and as teachers. The 
 old students are found in the halls of Congress, in the bishop's chair, 
 and on the judges' bench. They are doctors, lawyers, engineers, 
 teachers, preachers, and members of other important professions. 
 Everywhere they are doing a man's work. 
 
 Central Wesleyan College now maintains: the College of Liberal 
 Arts, recognized as a standard school by state and church authorities; 
 member of the Missouri College Union, having its own separate faculty 
 and soon to have its own separate building; The German Theological 
 Seminar}'- in which several hundred ministers have been educated; the 
 Academy offering a four years' course and manned by a special corps 
 of teachers; a successful School of Business; the largest Summer School 
 of any denominational college in the State; an Art Department and an 
 Oratory Department both of which are growing in importance; and a 
 Physical Culture Department giving two years systematic training in 
 the Gymnasium and promoting useful athletic games. 
 
 Central Wesleyan College has several noticeable characteristics. 
 Always it has emphasized thoroughness and the seriousness of life's 
 problems. The students come chiefly from the families of the middle 
 classes where life is not all play and where duty and responsibility are 
 still recognized as most important factors in life. From the beginning 
 music has received much attention. Piano, Violin, Voice, and harmony 
 courses are offered. In few schools are such splendid opportunities for 
 learning German found. A large percentage of the students are of 
 German-American parentage and hence there are many classes for 
 
OTTO E. KRIEGE, THE PRESENT PRESIDENT 
 
 studying the ''mother tongue" and in these classes German is the language 
 of instruction. The German section of the library is perhaps the most 
 complete of any college library in the State. Of course in all other 
 subjects the medium of instruction is the English Language. 
 
 Religious training and character building are stressed. The Church, 
 the Sunday School, the Epworth League, the Y. M. C. A. and the 
 Y. W. C. A. are strongly and efficiently supported. The spirit of the 
 Fathers, who organized the school, is still present and Central Wes- 
 leyan College stands for the best things in education and culture. 
 
Board of Trustees 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1914. 
 
 Rev. H. Zimmermann Warrentou, Mo. 
 
 Rev. Franz Piehler St. Louis ' Ma 
 
 Rev. F. W. Schlueter Quincy, 111. 
 
 Rev. A. L. Koeneke Pekin ' I1L 
 
 Mr. Phillip H. Walter (Alumni Trustee) Tulsa, Okla. 
 
 Mr. C. J. Jacoby, Alton > I1L 
 
 Mr. Theb. Reuter Nashville, 111. 
 
 Rev. H. A. Hohenwald Kansas City, Kans. 
 
 Rev. D. W. Smith Kansas City, Kans. 
 
 Mr. Marcus Timm Osceola, Neb. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1915. 
 
 Rev. H. J. Panwitt Decatur, 111. 
 
 Rev. E. C Magaret Belleville, 111. 
 
 Mr. W. C. Kriege Edwardsville, 111. 
 
 Rev. A. F. Ludwig Nashville, 111. 
 
 Mr. Geo. Boesch Burlington, la. 
 
 Rev. E. S'. Havighorst Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Mr. Fred Hessel Kearney, Mo. 
 
 Mr. Erwin Voss St. J 0Se P h > Ma 
 
 Judge A. D. Rodenberg, (Alumni Trustee) Centraha, 111. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1916. 
 
 Rev. J. C. Rapp, Belleville, 111 
 
 Rev. H. J. Diercks St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Rev. F. L. Mahle Peona ' I1L 
 
 Mr. C. Ammann Decatur, 111. 
 
 Mr. E. H. Winter, (Alumni Trustee) Warrenton, Mo. 
 
 Mr. F. G. Niedringhaus St. Louis > Mo 
 
 Rev M. Herrmann Lincoln, Nebr. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Buechner St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 Otto E. Kriege, President and ex-officio Advisory Member of the Board 
 of Trustees. 
 
 Committees and Officers 
 
 VISITING COMMITTEE 
 ST. LOUIS GERMAN CONFERENCE 
 
 Rev. F. W. Isler St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Rev. F. S. Eitelgeorge Emden, 111. 
 
 WEST GERMAN CONFERENCE. 
 
 Rev. John ■ Klein Wichita, Kans. 
 
 NORTH GERMAN CONFERENCE 
 
 Rev. L. W. Diederich Red Wing, Minn. 
 
 NORTHWEST GERMAN CONFERENCE 
 
 Rev. W. J. Loeck Howard, South Dak. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 Rev. Franz Piehler, President 
 
 Rev. F. L. Mahle, Vice-President. 
 
 Rev. D. W. Smith Secretary 
 
 Rev. H. Zimmermann Treasurer 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 Rev. D. W. Smith, President. Rev. Franz Piehler 
 
 Rev. H. Zimmermann. Mr. E. H. Winter. 
 
 Mr. C. J. Jacoby. President O. E. Kriege, ex-officio. 
 
 LOCAL FINANCE AND BUILDING COMMITTEE. 
 President, O. E. Kriege. Rev. J. E. Tuschhoff, Field Sec'y. 
 
 Rev. H. Zimmermann, Treasurer. E. H. Knehans. 
 
 Henry Vosholl. Friedrich Munz. 
 
 AUDITING COMMITTEE 
 Henry Vosholl. E. H. Knehans. 
 
 A. W. Ebeling. 
 
 THE PRESENT FACULTY 
 
 Henry Vosholl Charles J. Stueckemann 
 
 Friedrich Munz John H. Frick Albert Sauer 
 
 Charles L. Wellemeyer Eugene Weiffenbach 
 
THE PRESENT FACULTY 
 
 Frederick P. Gutekunst Albert W. Ebeling 
 
 John Helmers J C. Eisenberg Edward H. Knehans 
 
 Paul E. Hemke Frank O. Spohrer 
 
 THE PRESENT FACULTY 
 
 Mary Jane Plaehn John E. Tuschhoff, Field Secretary Ruth Zimmermann, Preceptress 
 
 Edith H. Kriege August Heck Rev. Henry Zimmermann, Treasurer 
 
The Faculty 
 
 OTTO E. KRIEGE, A.B., A.M., D.D. 
 
 President and Niedringhaus Professor. 
 
 HENRY VOSHOLL, A.B, A.M., 
 
 Professor of English. Principal of the Academy. 
 
 JOHN H. FRICK, A.B, A.M., 
 
 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 
 
 ALBERT SAUER, A.M., 
 
 Professor of French. 
 
 JOHN M. RINKEL, A.B, A.M., B.D, 
 
 Emeritus-Professor of German Language and Literature. 
 
 CHARLES J. STUECKEMANN, A.B, A.M., DD. 
 
 Schrader-Professor of Rhetoric and Sacred History. 
 
 CHARLES L. WELLEMEYER, A.B. 
 
 Professor of Latin and Greek. 
 ALBERT W. EBELING, B.S, M.D. 
 Professor of Natural Sciences. 
 EUGENE WEIFFENBACH, A.B., A.M., B.D, D.D, 
 Professor of Philosophy and Sociology. Dean of the College. 
 GOTTLIEB C. HOHN, A.B, A.M.* 
 Kessler-Professor of German Language and Literature. 
 FRIEDRICH MUNZ, A.M., D.D. 
 Professor of German Language and Literature. 
 JOHN HELMERS, A.B. 
 Professor of History. 
 MARY JANE PLAEHN, B.O. 
 Professor of Oratory and Physical Director for Women. 
 FRANK O. SPOHRER, B.Ped, B.S.Ed, 
 Professor of Education 
 EDWARD H. KNEHANS, Ph.B. 
 Principal of the School of Business. 
 PAUL E. HEMKE, A.B, 
 Professor of Mathematics and Physical Director for Men. 
 FREDERICK P. GUTEKUNST, A.B, 
 Professor of German and Stenography 
 EDITH H. KRIEGE, A.B. 
 Professor of Art. 
 J. C. EISENBERG, A.B, A.M., 
 Director of the Conservatory of Music. Piano, Organ, Voice. 
 AUGUST HECK, 
 Professor of Piano, Theory and History of Music. 
 CHARLES C. STADTMANN. 
 Leader of College Band. Teacher of Band Instruments. 
 
 *On leave of absence 1913-1914. 
 
ERWIN C. PAUSTIAN, 
 Leader of College Orchestra. Teacher of Violin. 
 RUTH ZIMMERMANN, 
 Preceptress. 
 ASSISTANTS. 
 EDNA STUECKEMANN, A.B. and FRED GRUBER, 
 Latin. 
 DORA JACOBI and ERNEST BUEHLER, 
 English. 
 CHARLES STADTMAN and OTTO HACKMANN, 
 Mathematics. 
 JOHN AYDELOTT, 
 
 Geography. 
 FEODOR KATTNER 
 
 Penmanship. 
 GOTTHILF WURST, 
 Physical Culture. 
 
 Officers of the Faculty 
 
 President 
 
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 S ztteIann;:....Supt. of Grounds and Buddings, and Treasurer 
 
 Henry Vosholl ; Registrar 
 
 Ch «- L - Wellemeyer •-•• ••— ^^ 
 
 J. E. Tuschhoff 
 
 Standing Committees of the Faculty. 
 Alumni- Prof. Frick, Prof. Helmers, and Rev. Tuschhoff. 
 Athletics: Prof. Weiffenbach, Prof. Hemke and Miss F-aehn 
 Censors: English, Prof Vosholl; German, Prof. Munz; Art Miss Knege. 
 Classification: Prof. Vosholl, Prof. Wellemeyer and Pro . Knege_ 
 Commemorative Volume: Prof. Kriege, Prof. Vosholl, Prof. Frick, Prof. 
 
 Munz, Prof. Ebeling. 
 Concerts: Prof. Munz and Prof. Eisenberg. 
 Degrees: Prof. Stueckemann and Prof. Wellemeyer. 
 Discipline: The President, the Dean, the Principal, the Superintendent. 
 Lectures: Prof. Prick and Prof. Ebeling. 
 
 Library: Prof. Vosholl, Prof. Stueckemann, and Prof. Sauer. 
 Publicity: Prof. Weiffenbach, Rev. Tuschhoff, Prof. Knehans. 
 Reading Room: Prof. Wellemeyer, Prof. Helmers and Prof. Spohrer. 
 Social Life: Rev. Zimmermann, Prof. Knehans, Prof. Gutekunst and 
 
 Miss Plaehn. 
 Society Advisors: Prof. Wellemeyer, Prof. Helmers, Prof. Gutekunst. 
 "Star" Editors: Prof. Ebeling and Pro& Munz. 
 Teachers' Employment Bureau: Prof. Spohrer, Prof. Vosholl, Prof. 
 
 Ebeling. 
 
Summary of Students 
 
 College of Liberal Arts 84 
 
 Academy 108 
 
 Normal and Preparatory ' 36 
 
 Summer School 82 
 
 School of Business 45 
 
 Art Department 31 
 
 Department of Oratory 42 
 
 Conservatory of Music 84 
 
 German Theological Seminary 34 
 
 Department of Physical Culture 130 
 
 Total 676 
 
 Deducting names duplicated 318 
 
 Total Number of Students 358 
 
 Distribution By States And Foreign Countries 
 
 China 2 Missouri 282 
 
 Germany 2 Nebraska 12 
 
 Siam I Oklahoma 4 
 
 Arkansas 1 Oregon 1 
 
 Iowa 3 Texas 3 
 
 Illinois 32 Washington 1 
 
 Kansas 9 
 
 Distribution Of Missouri Students By Counties. 
 
 Benton I Jefferson 1 
 
 Cape Girardeau 2 Morgan 3 
 
 Clay 4 Osage 1 
 
 Clinton 1 Pettis 2 
 
 Crawford 1 Randolph 4 
 
 Franklin 4 Moniteau 2 
 
 Gasconade 5 Montgomery 52 
 
 Lafayette 5 St. Charles 20 
 
 Lawrence 7 St. Louis 3 
 
 Lincoln 22 Scotland 1 
 
 Jackson 1 Warren 151 
 
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Program of Commencement and 
 Anniversary Exercises 
 
 Program of the Commencement Exercises 
 
 Wednesday, May 27, 6:00 p. m., Faculty Reception to the Senior 
 
 Class, Church Parlors. 
 Dedication of the Senior Flag Pole, Friday, May 29, 5 : 1 o \.. m.. College 
 
 Campus, Presentation by Class of 1914; acceptance by President 
 Kriege. Address by Prof. Frick. 
 
 ANNIVERSARY OF THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. 
 Friday, May 29, 8:00 p. m., Kessler Hall. 
 
 PROGRAM. 
 
 Invocation Rev. J. H. Knehans. 
 
 Oration: "The Progress of Man", (Goethenia) Harvey Holt. 
 
 Reading: "Bobby Shaftoe" (Philomathia) Amanda Luelf 
 
 Violin Solo: "Thais" — Massenet, (Garfield) Herbert Kriege 
 
 Skizzie: "Der Rote Star"— A. Pilger, (Germania) 
 
 Fritz Nagenklaub, Albert Hueftle; Lochen Gutman, Anton Desch- 
 ner; Der Brillendoktor, Paul Bekeschus; De- Lehrer, J^hn Deschner 
 
 Oration: "Art in Life", (Philomathia) Ida Webermeier 
 
 Vocal Solo: "Crossing the Bar" — Dudley Buck, (Philo), Eliz. Brockman 
 
 Society Annual, (Garfield) Ira Chiles. 
 
 Debate: "Resolved that Labor Unions, on the whole, are beneficial to 
 Society." Affirmative, (Garfield), Eugene Gaebler, and Clarence 
 Aydelott. Negative, (Goethenia), Feodor Kattner and Charles 
 Stadtmann. 
 
 Music, mixed Quartet: "Last Night" — Half dan Kjerulf^ Edna Polster 
 and Malinda Hildenstein, (Philomathia), John Aydelott, (Goethe- 
 nia), and William Meyer, (Garfield). 
 
 Presentation of Diplomas Dr. Eugene WeifTenbach. 
 
 INDIVIDUAL TRACK MEET. 
 Saturday, May 30, 9:00 a. rru, Athletic Field. 
 First Prize Winners: Fred Buchholz and Herbert Kriege. 
 Second Prize Winners: Henry Schmidtke and Walter Warnke. 
 
 MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES. 
 Saturday, May 30, 1 : 00 p. m., City Cemetery. 
 
 Invocation Rev. D. S. Wahl, Edwardsville, 111. 
 
 Address for the G. A. R Dr. Albert Koeneke, Pekin, 111. 
 
 Address for deceased Orphan Children. ... Rev. H. Bruns^ Sedalia, Mo. 
 Address for deceased Ministers. .. .Rev. A. H. Bueltemann, Warrenton. 
 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. 
 Saturday, May 30, 8:00 p. m., College Church. 
 
 Song; Prayer by Rev. Benjamin Kuhler, Ainsworth, Nebraska. 
 
 Song The "Old Quartet." 
 
 Address Rev. Louis F. W. Lesemann, D.D., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Music by the "Old Quartet"; Benediction. 
 
 BACCALAUREATE SERVICE. 
 Sunday, May 31, 10:00 a. m., College Church. 
 
 Academic Procession. 
 Processional: "The Son of Man goes forth to War." 
 Song: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty", Rev J. Gisler. 
 Credo; Prayer by Rev. F. S. Eitelgeorge. 
 Anthem: "Rejoice in the Lord" — Schnecker. 
 Responsive Reading Rev. A. L. Koeneke; Gloria. 
 Second Lesson, Rev. John Klein; Offertory. 
 
 Baccalaureate Sermon Bishop Charles W. Smith, D.D., St. Louis. 
 
 Prayer, Rev. Wm. Koeneke; Song: "Coronation." Rev. John Kracher; 
 Doxology; Benediction. 
 
 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORPHAN HOME. 
 Program by the Orphan Children, College Church, Sunday May 31, at 
 2: 30 o'clock p. m. 
 
 SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE. 
 College Church, May 31, 8:00 p. m., Dr. Stueckemann, Presiding. 
 
 Song; Prayer by Rev. W. J. Loeck, Howard, South Dakota. 
 Anthem, "The Lord Reigneth" — Schnecker; Offertory. 
 Annual German Sermon. ... Rev. John Pluenneke, D.D., Brenham, Tex. 
 Anthem; Benediction. 
 
 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORPHAN HOME. 
 
 Monday, June 1, 10:00 a. m., College Church. 
 
 Addresses by Rev. F. H. Wippermann, Superintendent of the Home, and 
 
 Rev. A. J. Bucher, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 2: 30 p. m., Brief Addresses; Field Day Exercises. 
 
 ACADEMY GRADUATING EXERCISES. 
 
 Monday, June 1, 3:00 p. m., Kessler Hall. 
 
 PROGRAM. 
 
 Piano Duet, "Valse Brilliante." — Merz, Elizabeth S'chowengerdt and 
 
 Esther Buschmann. 
 
 Oration, "The Ideal and the Real", Oliver Gaebler 
 
 Reading, "The Man Without a Country", Hale, Mattie Bohmer 
 
 Trombone Solo, "When the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" — Ball, 
 
 William Meyer. 
 
 Essay, "The Life of a Country School Teacher" Anna Vieth 
 
 Original Story, "A Trip to the Panama Exposition". . .C. A. Stelzriede. 
 
 Violin Solo, "The Dying Poet"— Balfe Allen Brink 
 
 Class Prophecy P. J. Allwell 
 
 Male Quartet, "Dearest Mae", Wm. Meyer, Allen Brink, Oscar Kettel- 
 
 kamp and Otto Beck. 
 Presentation of Diplomas Prof. E. H. Knehans. 
 
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the College 
 
 Tuesday, June 2, 10: 00 a. m., Prof. Frick Presiding. 
 
 Vocal Solo, "Ave Maria" — Massenet Elizabeth Brockman. 
 
 Prayer Rev. Geo. W. Reitz, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 The College and The Public; Greetings. Responses in behalf of: 
 
 The City and Community, Mr. Edward H. Winter, Editor "The 
 Warrenton Banner," Warrenton, Mo. 
 
 The State, His Excellency, Governor Elliott W. Major, LL.D. 
 
 The Nation, the Honorable Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of 
 Representatives, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Vocal Solo, "Finland Love Song" — Bartlett Otto Hackmann 
 
 Greetings from Delegates from five German M. E. Colleges. 
 
 In the absence of the Hon. Champ Clark, and Gov. Major, Rev. C. W. 
 
 Tadlock of St. Louis delivered a masterful address on "The Purpose 
 
 of Education." 
 
 June 2, 2:00 p. m., Dr. Munz and Prof. Helmers Presiding. 
 
 Vocal Solo, "Ein Traum" — Grieg Edna S'tueckemann. 
 
 The College and the Churches; Greetings. Responses in behalf of: 
 German Methodism, Rev. J. A. Diekmann, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 St. Louis- German Conference, Rev. Wm. Koeneke, D.D., Warrenton 
 West German Conference, Rev. John Kracher, Humboldt, Nebr. 
 Missouri Conference, Rev. F. E. Day, D.D., St. Joseph, Mo. (Rep- 
 resented by Rev. H. J. Dueker, Green City, Mo.) 
 St. Louis Conference, Rev. Wm. Wirt King, D.D., St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 (Represented by Dr. B. F. Crissman, St. Louis, Mo.) 
 Missouri Conference, M. E. South, Rev. C. W. Tadlock, St. Louis. 
 Evangelical Synods, Rev. Wm. Jungk, D.D., Editor "Friedensbote," 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 Song, "All Through the Night" Olympic Glee Club 
 
 Band Concert, College Campus, 4:30 p. m. 
 
 Chorus Concert, College Church, 8:00 p. m. 
 
 Oratorio: "The Prodigal Son" — Sullivan. Prof. J. C. Eisenberg, Direc- 
 tor; Prof. August Heck, Accompanist. 
 
 Wednesday, June 3, 10:00 a. m., Prof. Vosholl Presiding. 
 
 Academic Procession, Alumni Marching by Classes. 
 
 Music, "Sextette from Lucia" — Donizetti Olympic Glee Club. 
 
 Prayer Rev. J. A. Mulfinger, D.D., Chicago, 111. 
 
 The College among the Schools of the State; Greetings. Responses in 
 
 behalf of: 
 
 Institutions of the State, Prof. Herman Almstedt, Ph.D., Columbia. 
 
 Department of Education, Prof. George Melcher, Jefferson City. 
 
 Missouri College Union, President Linn, Fayette, Mo. (Represent- 
 ed by Prof. Charles Bernard Flow.) 
 Music, "Hark, the Trumpet Calleth"— Buck Olympic Glee Club 
 
Wednesday, June 3, 2:00 p. m., Dr. Weiffenbach Presiding. 
 
 Music, "Moonlight on the Lake" — White Olympic Glee Club. 
 
 Prayer, Rev. J. A. Diekmann, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 The College among the Schools of the Church. Responses in behalf of* 
 Colleges of German Methodism, Prof. C. W. Hertzler, D.D. 
 
 Berea, Ohio. 
 Colleges of Methodism, President A. W. Harris, LL.D., North 
 
 western University, Evanston, 111. 
 Board of Education, M. E. Church, Rev. Thomas Nicholson, D.D. 
 Corresponding Secretary, New York. 
 
 Music, "Serenade" — Spicker Olympic Glee Club. 
 
 Ground Breaking for New College Building, 4:00 p. m. 
 Addresses by President Kriege and Dr. Thomas Nicholson. Prayer by 
 Dr. Wm. Koeneke. Brief sentiments by forty persons as each in 
 
 turn took the spade in hand. 
 
 Faculty Reception to Official Visitors, 4:30 to 6:00 p. m., in 
 
 Parlors of Ladies' Home; Refreshments in Dinnig Hall. 
 
 Alumni Banquet in Church Parlors at 6:00 p. m.^ O. A. Knehans, Esq., 
 
 St. Louis, Toastmaster. 
 
 Music College Orchestra 
 
 Responses for: 
 
 Sons of Central Wesleyan. . . Paul Ditzen, Esq, Kansas City, Kans. 
 Daughters of Central Wesleyan, Mrs. Chas. Schuettler, Farmington 
 Toasts by President Harris, Secretary Nicholson, Prof. Almstedt, Dr. 
 Wm. Koeneke, Rev. John Klein, Rev. H. E. Rompel, Judge Roden- 
 berg, Hon. Wm. Vosholl^ Mr. C. J. Jacoby. Mama Koch, Rev. E. S. 
 Havighorst, J. E. Tuschhoff, O. E. Kriege and others. 
 
 SENIOR CLASS DAY EXERCISES. 
 Thursday, June 4, 10:00 a. m., College Church, Dr. Ebeling Presiding. 
 
 Invocation Bishop William O. Shephard, D.D., Kansas City, Kans. 
 
 Oration, "The Enemy at Home" Edna Polster. 
 
 Piano Solo, "Impromptu" — Reinhold Eme Schultz. 
 
 Oration, "The Higher Conservation" Wesley Weihe. 
 
 Rede, "Sein, nicht Schein" Anna Rinkel. 
 
 Vocal Music, "Lovely Night" — Offenbach-Sherwood. .. Ladies' Quartet. 
 Mrs. Knehans, Miss Zimmerman Miss Stueckeman, Miss Kriege. . . 
 
 Oration, "A Curse in Disguise" A. W. Starkebaum. 
 
 Doxology; Benediction. 
 
 GRADUATING EXERCISES. 
 Thursday, June 4, 2 : 00 p. m., College Church. 
 
 Invocation Rev. Louis F. W. Leseman, D.D., Evanston, 111. 
 
 Vocal Solo, "My Redeemer and my Lord" — Buck Edith Kriege. 
 
 Commencement Oration, Bishop William O. S'hepard, D.D., Kansas 
 City, Kansas. 
 
 Vocal Solo, "Good-bye" — Tosti Adienne Eversmeyer. 
 
 Charge to Graduates; Conferring of Degrees President Kriege. 
 
 Doxology; Benediction. 
 
The College and the Community 
 
 Address by E. H. Winter, Editor of the Warrenton Banner 
 
 Worthy Alumni and Friends: — It would be a great pleasure for any 
 citizen of Warrenton to say a word of commendation for Central Wes- 
 leyan College, and it is indeed, a very great pleasure to me, being so 
 closely connected with the school, and owing so much to my Alma 
 Mater for what I am, or ever hope to be. 
 
 Two score and ten years ago, when a great Civil War had rent our 
 great and glorious country, our fathers were fired with the lofty pur- 
 pose of providing for their children an education under religious influen- 
 ces, and at the same time give them an opportunity to maintain the cor- 
 rect usage of the mother tongue. There was also need of an institution 
 to train young men to carry the Gospel to the many Germans who 
 were coming to our land of liberty and promise in the fifties and six- 
 ties. At that time many children were fatherless on account of the 
 ravages of the war, and there was also need to provide an institution to 
 care for them properly. After long and careful deliberation, it was 
 finally decided to establish such an institution in Warrenton, and on 
 October 3, 1864, the Western Orphan Asylum and Educational Institute 
 was opened for the young people of the church and of the community, 
 and it had as its head the beloved Dr. Herman A. Koch, who guided 
 the school safely through many stormy experiences. The decision to 
 establish the school here, has proven an invaluable blessing to War- 
 renton and Warren county, and also the surrounding counties. We as 
 a people believe in schools, and homes. The better the education, 
 the better the homes; and we might also say the better the homes, the 
 better the education. Because of our Alma Mater, Warrenton has been 
 doubly blessed; first with a large percentage of happy Christian homes, 
 and second with one of the five leading colleges of the state, and one 
 of the leading colleges of Methodism of the country. 
 
 It would be difficult, in so brief a period, to speak of all of the 
 many blessings and advantages which such an institution brings to a 
 community. It gives to the vicinity a tone of refinement, culture, intel- 
 ligence and a high moral standard, such as but few communities can 
 equal, and none surpass. The matter of the great financial benefit must 
 be passed over hurriedly, as any motive to have the college for that 
 purpose only, would be a selfish one, and if Central Wesleyan has 
 taught us anything, it has been to be open-hearted, and liberal. Of 
 the educational advantages, however, we have just reasons to boast. 
 In the Christian, intelligent, altruistic faculty, the best there is to be 
 learned in the best and largest schools of the land, is brought to our 
 own doors. There is scarcely a man on the entire faculty who has not 
 been trained in the largest universities, and some of them have spent 
 considerable time abroad, and they bring us the refinement and culture 
 of the schools of the older countries. Thus you will s'ee that the 
 knowledge of literature, art, music and the sciences of the entire world 
 
THE LADIES' DORMITORY 
 
 is brought to us through the members of our beloved faculty. In addition 
 to their finished education, all of them have had wide practical experience 
 in the problems and trials incident to human life everywhere, which 
 doubly fits them for the high and important position which they hold. 
 What a rare privilege we have, indeed in having such men active in 
 our midst as instructors of the youth of our community. It is a privil- 
 ege of which any community would be proud, and for which many com- 
 munities would be willing to pay large sums. 
 
 Central W.esleyan is fully accredited by the State Department of 
 Education, and is also fully recognized by the larger universities of the 
 state and also of the East. How fortunate we are to have a school in 
 our midst that trains its pupils in such a manner as will enable them to 
 go out into the world, and be recognized by educators everywhere with- 
 out question. A certificate from the Department of Education admits 
 the young people to the schools of the state as teachers, and to the best 
 universities of the East or West, without question, for further study. 
 
In many of the better schools of learning, even the mention of the 
 name, Central Wesleyan, will open hands and hearts, and at once give a 
 high standing in that school. Hundreds of boys and girls of our com- 
 munity have taken advantage of this rare opportunity which is offered 
 at their door, and are now among the leading instructors in this and ad- 
 joining states — some of them receiving recompense far in excess of 
 that received by their good teachers and instructors in their alma mater. 
 Such opportunities necessarily can come to but few communities in a 
 commonwealth, and I am here to tell you today that we as citizens of 
 Warrenton, are proud of this, and appreciate it to our full capacity to 
 appreciate a good thing. If any of our young people desire to be train- 
 ed in Literature and Art, Central Wesleyan provides the instruction and 
 training; should there be some who desire to be proficient in Historyj 
 the Sciences or kindred branches, the best teachers in the land in 
 schools of her class, are at their service in Central Wesleyan. If one 
 should have ambitions along commercial lines, here they can secure a 
 competent education which will enable them to go out and cope with 
 big business, and what is more; in addition to the necessary knowledge, 
 they will be endowed with a character and a spirit of fairness which 
 will make them most useful members of society. If the professions 
 should attract one or another, Central Wesleyan will lay for them a 
 foundation that will win for them a high and honorable position in 
 their chosen profession. In that fine art, music, which has thrilled the 
 hearts and souls of many of our people, the knowledge of the masters 
 of both Europe and America is at their services through the instruc- 
 tors in the Conservatory, which is surpassed by but few in the state. 
 And then, for those who aspire to the highest of all callings, the Chris- 
 tian ministry, where in the whole wide country is there better oppor- 
 tunity to qualify for the service of the Master, than right here at Cen- 
 tral Wesleyan College, where men are given Christian training and 
 characters, such as will move the world to higher and nobler planes. 
 Oh! its a blessed privilege we have here to educate our boys and girls 
 to become useful, valuable citizens in any vocation they may desire to 
 choose. 
 
 While we have appreciated, immensely, the educational advantage 
 of our college, it has meant much to us in other particulars. It is a 
 tremenduously fine education for us to have the sons and daughters of 
 the best families of a dozen states in the Central* West come to us each 
 year to make this their home. The best, the choicest girls and boys come, 
 and we have learned much from our association with them which has 
 tonded to make us better citizens. For a half century they have come 
 and gone, and their being here could not but exert an influence for 
 good upon us. We, who live here, and see them come and go, are glad 
 to see so many come here in the rough, and see them go away finely 
 polished, well trained, highly educated Christian men and women — 
 many of them jewels in their value to the communities in which they 
 may cast their lot, and almost all of them a power for good. One of 
 the first to come, and we are glad the opportunity has never come for 
 us to see him leave, sits at my left at this moment, and judging from 
 
EISENMAYER HALL 
 
 the appearance of his upper extremity, he is a very polished gentleman. 
 We have had the pleasure to know him as we know our own lives, and 
 can testify that he has a character which is far more finely polished 
 than his upper extremity. Prof. Frick ? the Grand Old Man — not only of 
 the College, but also of the entire community, and of all patrons of the 
 college. A mighty power for good he has been, and I am sure that 
 when the great book of reckoning in the world of eternal sunshine is 
 balanced, after he shall have crossed the dark valley, a host of lives, 
 whom his own life influenced for good, will be found to his credit. 
 The model as Christian men which he and his venerable Christian class 
 mate made in the early sixties, seems to have come down through the 
 ages, and influenced the hundreds of students who followed, and I like 
 to think that many, many, tried to emulate the noble example which 
 you, my noble sires, then gave, and are still giving. Priviliged? Why 
 we can hardly find words to express our appreciation of the students 
 who attend Central Wesleyan each year It would take the breath of 
 
a thousand citizens of Warrenton if the announcement were made on 
 commencement day, that this happy band would not return in Septem- 
 ber next. We have long since learned to love them. They have hal- 
 lowed these grounds far beyond our efforts to tell. Shady Lane, said 
 to have been established by Prof. Frick fifty years ago, and he still 
 travels' it with his sweetheart of yore, and we are sure he travels it 
 happier than in the days of yesteryear. Shady Lane, the Wabash 
 Bridge, Little Charrette, Big Charrette, Lost Creek, Hollmann's Cave, 
 Devil's Den Hollow, Devil's Boot, and many other places, almost made 
 sacred to students of C. W. C, have made our community famous, and 
 made it one of the most desirable places to live in the whole wide 
 world. It is true, not all the students have been saints. Here and 
 there have been black sheep, but we have learned to be patient with 
 them, and many times have been glad to see them climb to heights as 
 mountain tops, and characters as white as the eternal blanket which 
 covers them. We like to see the students come. They have meant much 
 to us, and we hope and pray that someone may say something, so that 
 someone may do something, that will make it possible for more to come 
 under the influence of Central Wesleyan. We like them in their plays 
 and their frolics; we like to hear them in their laughter and their 
 cheers; and we also like to see them in the hard struggles of student 
 life, as it is this that makes them bigger and better men and women. 
 
 As a community, we appreciate also the many advantages which 
 come to us by way of addresses and performances. We have been 
 enabled to hear the foremost speakers of pulpit and platform right 
 here at our own homes and at a cost that is insignificant, and frequent- 
 ly gratis. The master pianists, organists and singers, too, have come 
 to inspire us, and elevated us to higher and better standards. 
 
 In our appreciation of the college, it would be an injustice to close 
 without a word of commendation for the noble men and women who 
 are here devoting their lives in the training of young people. The 
 tremenduous power for good which the college exerts in the community 
 through its facutly, can not be overestimated, and we sincerely believe 
 outweighs all other benefits derived from it. We scarcely know what 
 we should say in appreciation of them and their beloved families. I 
 challenge anyone in this large audience to point out a single one of 
 the teaching force of Central Wesleyan, who is not a Christian gentle- 
 man or a Christian lady, of the highest, most ideal type. Intelligent, 
 pure of heart and principle, capable, dignified, and yet so lowly as to 
 stoop down to lift the most lowly in our midst to higher planes. How 
 many communities, in a class with our own, can boast of such men 
 and women as citizens? They enter into our community life with a 
 fervor and a spirit that is helpful and uplifting. One cannot help but 
 become a better citizen by constant association with them, and you 
 would be ashamed while in their presence to stoop even the slightest 
 degree below the highest level of a lady or gentleman. They rejoice 
 with us in our success and good fortunes; they weep with us in our 
 failures and sorrows. In how many homes in our county have they 
 not been the first to shed a sympathizing tear, and extend real sym- 
 
ORPHAN HOME 
 
 pathy and comfort. We, who are on the ground floor, are proud to 
 have in our midst such a force of teachers*, and we hope the Giver 
 of all good and perfect gifts may prolong their lives to extreme old 
 age, so that their tremendous power for good may continue for many, 
 many years to come. We can ill afford to lose even a single one of 
 them. 
 
 Our words of appreciation, we would have you believe, are not 
 idle thoughts. We believe as sincerely in what was said as we believe 
 in a great future for the college. This was at least partially indicated 
 recently when our little city subscribed the magnificient sum of $25,000, 
 $29 for every man, woman and child in Warrentofi, to make it a 
 greater Central Wesleyan, and my honest conviction is that the end 
 has not yet come. Of one thing we can assure you that our influence 
 and prayers are with you, and will not cease until Central Wesleyan is 
 made the grandest college, in point of usefulness, in the grand com- 
 monwealth of Missouri. 
 
The Place of the Church College 
 
 Address by Rev. C. W. Tadlock, D.D., 
 Pastor Centenary Church, M. E. South, St. Louis 
 
 I come to you to bear the greetings and good wishes of the church 
 which I represent. I count it no small honor to have a part in your 
 Semi-Centennial Celebration. It is altogether fitting that such a cele- 
 bration should be held, for it offers an opportunity for taking an inven- 
 tory of your educational possessions, looking over a long and splendid 
 record of work, and getting inspiration for a forward move. 
 
 I am sure that Christian people everywhere will rejoice with you 
 in the splendid progress you have made. I doubt if any denominational 
 college in the state can show a more substantial growth than Central 
 Wesleyan. Your standards have been raised and your courses of 
 study indicate that you are moving with the progressive spirit of the 
 age. Your work deserves the highest praise, and I am, indeed } happy 
 to be here, and to assure you that we rejoice with you for what you 
 have wrought for the great cause of Christian education, and to express 
 the hope that your college will gird herself with new power, and move 
 out of a noble past into a nobler future. 
 
 You have come to another mile-stone in the history of your col- 
 lege, and as you look back upon its record, and note how through the 
 years the dream of your fathers has taken form in the buildings' which 
 grace the campus, the different departments which have been added 
 from time to time, you and all of us should feel a profound gratitude 
 to God for the men who have made the institution possible. The build- 
 ings with their equipment represent much thought, effort and sacrifice, 
 and as you raise this mile-stone at the end of fifty years of splendid 
 history, you can say truthfully, "Hitherto the Lord hath led us." 
 
 As we look into the past, our hearts receive inspiration for pres- 
 ent duties. When we see the visions that led our fathers, when we 
 know their toils and sacrifices that they might establish here an insti- 
 tution of learning that would cast an intellectual and moral light upon 
 the pathway of the youth, our hearts feel something of the thrill of 
 their vision, and we are moved to build upon the foundation which they 
 have laid. In our busy life, when so many voices call us ? and when 
 the pressure of a complex and intense civilization is so great, we are 
 in danger of losing our past, and forgetting the great lessons of history. 
 This Semi-Centennial Celebration will have accomplished a great deal, 
 if it can direct your people to the scenes of a great past, if they can be 
 led back among those scenes where heroic souls wept and prayed and 
 toiled. The inspiration of their purpose will intensify every good pur- 
 pose of your heart, and create good sentiments, which are necessary 
 to the larger growth and development of the college. 
 
 I congratulate you to-day for the contribution your Church has 
 made to the general cause of Christian education. Your success makes 
 it easier for every other college. Every successful institution contrib- 
 
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 utes something to every other like institution. Therefore we feel in- 
 debted to you. You are by your success here proving to the world 
 the need and the value of a Christian college. 
 
 The Church has always been the friend of education, and has es- 
 tablished and fostered institutions of learning alongside of its temples 
 of worship Jesus' commission to His disciples had a three-fold aspect: 
 they were to preach, to teach, and to heal. The Church has always 
 preached its message of salvation to the multitudes. It has been slow 
 in carrying out the last part of the program, but to-day, at home and 
 in the foreign lands, our hospitals and relief stations indicate that the 
 Church has caught the meaning of Jesus' words, and is seeking to 
 carry out its mission of healing. There was a time when the Church 
 occupied the field of higher education almost alone. The oldest and 
 greatest universities in our land to-day were established by the Church. 
 But things have changed. The State has recognized its responsibilities 
 in this direction, and has developed a wonderful system of schools, 
 covering all grades and ages, and in a remarkably short lime. The 
 
state schools have the resources of the entire state back of them, and 
 this together with an organization that permeates every county and 
 school district in the state, and managed by well-trained men, has 
 made the state school an incomparable competitor. We should all feel 
 proud of our state institutions, for they are doing a marvelous service 
 in dispelling ignorance, and training the youth of our land for the re- 
 sponsibilities of citizenship. The system is linked together in such a 
 way that the boy or girl finds it easy to go from the public schools to 
 the High Schools, and then to the university. The denominational 
 school is, by reason of these conditions, passing through a crisis. 
 
 This much is to be said, however, the denominational college offers 
 the best means for passing from the High School to the university. 
 This is its distinctive field. The President of the State University has 
 said that he hoped the time would soon come when they would have 
 no course at the University below the Junior year. And this is as it 
 should be. I am thoroughly convinced that it is a mistake to take the 
 boy or girl out of the home and put them into university life at so early 
 an age. They need something just at that age that no university can 
 give. That the State has recognized this is evident from the fact that 
 educators are contemplating adding two more years to the high school 
 course, so that the boy may have the home influence during his fresh- 
 man and sophomore years. In some states, I am told, they have already 
 adopted this course. The college has a splendid future if she gets her- 
 self ready for her task ? but there must be adequate endowment and 
 equipment. The college that does not fortify herself at once will find 
 it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to do so after this change 
 has been made. 
 
 The value of the denominational college may be seen in the con- 
 tribution it has made to society. Harvard, William and Mary in Vir- 
 ginia, Yale in Connecticut, Princeton in New Jersey, Brown in Rhode 
 Island, and Columbia in New York were founded by religious denomi- 
 nations. It has been pointed out that one can easily imagine that many 
 of the great leaders of all good movements in the history of our nation 
 have been tramed in these schools. It would indeed be hard to esti- 
 mate the vast influence of the Christian college. The Church has had to 
 depend upon it for its ministers and leaders, and my observation has 
 been that the great reforms and forward movements have been led and 
 supported by men who were trained in Christian colleges. If our coun- 
 try needs anything it neevis a regeneration of its moral ideals. And how 
 is this to be unless it comes by way of the Church, The Christian 
 school, and the home? 
 
 President Wilson has well said: "I. cannot admit that a man estab- 
 lishes his right to call himself a college graduate by showing me his 
 diploma. The only way he can prove it is by showing that his eyes 
 are lifted to some horizon which other men, less instructed than he, 
 have been privileged to see: unless he carry fruit of the spirit, he has 
 not been bred where spirits are bred." These are sound words. The 
 highest mission of the college is to give vision and dynamic to one's 
 life. Not only the introduction of knowledge, but the introduction of 
 
THE COLLEGE CHURCH 
 
 ideals should be the function of the school. A college course ought to 
 contribute definitely and positively to the student's preparation for the 
 business of life. It has been said that the business of life is three- 
 fourths of the solving of problems, but the chemist's problems are not 
 all chemical, nor the lawyer s legal. Life is larger than any profession, 
 and every man is more than his professional title expresses. I have 
 studied with some care the causes which contributed to failure among 
 the men I have known, and in the majority of cases, I have found 
 that weakness in his moral life is the one great cause of a man's failure. 
 The Christian college is unique among all institutions of learning in 
 that it seeks to educate the heart and give moral purpose and moral 
 strength to the life. And that education is very inadequate that does 
 not ground the young life in the fundamental principles of morals and 
 religion. 
 
 In Germany one of the chief duties of the Kaiser is the training of 
 the young prince for the responsibilities which shall fall upon him 
 
when he is called upon to exercise soverign power. But in America the 
 people are sovereign. And the greatest responsibility that rests upon us 
 is the proper training of the young princes and princesses who are to 
 be the kings and queens of to-morrow. And the highest citizenship is 
 impossible without moral purpose. 
 
 Education has been denned as the gradual adjustment of the mind 
 to the possessions of the race. When we look over the splendid record 
 of our civilization, what passessions do we value most? Are not the 
 choicest treasures to be found in the realm of morals and religion? 
 If our nation becomes decadent, it will not be because of a lack of 
 intellectual training, but because of a dearth of moral ideals. We must 
 adjust the minds of the youth to their moral and religious inheritance, 
 for that is the inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled, and that 
 fadeth not away. 
 
 What a man sees depends altogether on what he is. One man 
 sees only a narrow circle of things: another man sees a circle that 
 runs around the heavens and goes down to the burning core of the 
 earth. The whole world to the biologist is teeming with life. The 
 artist sees it saurated and aflame with beauty. But to the spiritually- 
 minded every common bush is afire with God. One astronomer turns 
 his telescope toward the heavens and says: "I see no trace of God." 
 Another, looking through the same telescope exclaims: "Oh, God, I 
 am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee." We see what we see. We pour 
 ourselves into our world, and make it. The degree of a man's education, 
 therefore, is measured by the width, depth and delicacy of his apprecia- 
 tion. 
 
 Some one has said: "It is a law of dynamics that if the projectile 
 force be strong enough, and the momentum sufficiently sustained 
 even a small body may gain percussive impetus enough to split a 
 world in two." The Great Lakes flow along lazy and silent, but con- 
 densed at Niagara, they thunder like a perpetual cyclone. And the 
 functions of the Christian college is to put projectile force into human 
 lives^ to give to them purpose, and increased momentum, to gather up 
 the scattered forces of the mind, and so organize them and inspire them 
 that the man himself becomes an intellectual and moral Niagara. 
 
 I have had opportunity during the recent years, which have been 
 spent in educational centers, of observing the lives of a great many stu- 
 dents. And during these years I have found that students may be 
 divided into four classes: First, those who live in the zone of abandon- 
 ment. This includes all those who have no interest whatever in 
 religion. By reason of their training, or perhaps from other causes, 
 they have thrown it all aside, and they live and move and have their 
 being in the zone of absolute abandonment. They have put all thought 
 of God and religion out of their mind. It has no place in their interest 
 or in endeavor. Their whole thought and energy are given to things of 
 this life. Not a great many belong to this class, but there are a few. 
 
 There is a second class of students who live in the zone of indiffer- 
 ence. They are not openly bad, but are indifferently good. They do 
 not think seriously of the higher things of life, but are not averse to 
 
them. They lack conviction. They lack moral purpose. They are mere 
 drifters upon the high seas of life. Whence they came, whither they 
 are going, does not engage their thoughts. 
 
 There is a third class of students who live in the zone of super- 
 ficiality. Their hearts have been touched. They manifest some interest 
 in religion, and in those things which make for the higher life. But 
 sentiments and convictions in their lives are like the seed which fell 
 upon the stony ground; they give promise of stability and growth, but 
 soon dry up, and leave no permanent results in the life. 
 
 There is a fourth class of students who live and move and have 
 their being in the zone of great convictions. Their hearts have been 
 touched as well as their minds. All that is deepest in their lives has 
 been aroused. They believe something, and believe it with all their 
 mind and soul and strength. And to this class of students we will 
 have to look for leadership in all the affairs of life. It is the function 
 of the Christian college to lead the other three classes into this zone, 
 the zone of great and pronounced convictions^ where they are moved 
 by the highest ideals, where they receive moral purpose, where they 
 come to concentrate themselves to the higher service of which they 
 are capable. 
 
 Not long ago a stranger, who was watching a game of athletics 
 inquired of a student who was standing near as to the reason for the 
 unquestioned leadership of a young man in the university. The student 
 replied: "It is not because of his intellectual attainments, nor is it 
 because he is a great athlete; we follow him as a leader in this school 
 because he is the real thing." He was a young man of moral purpose 
 and highest ideals, who lived in the zone of great convictions. The 
 young life must be trained morally as well as intellectually. There 
 must be the power of self-control, the force which comes from above 
 that steadies the life in the midst of temptations and struggles which 
 come to all. 
 
 In order to properly train and equip the youth of our land there 
 must be a program adequate to meet the needs of their growing life. 
 On one occasion a student was showing a friend through a new Y. M. 
 C. A. building. He was pointing out to him its splendid equipment, its 
 various opportunities for amusement. After he had finished his story, 
 the friend remarked, "But can you get religion in this place?" The stu- 
 dent replied, "Well, I suppose so. But you are not exposed to it." 
 The great difficulty has been in all of our educational work that the 
 soul and mind of the student have not been exposed to the great Chris- 
 tian ideals, to the personality of Jesus Christ as the Savior of men. 
 
 Mr. Sedgwick Cooper, while visiting the schools of India, found 
 that the students in the government schools were very anxious for a 
 religious education. He attended a debate in which they discussed the 
 question of whether or not religious education should be introduced 
 into the government schools of India. He said that the entire body of 
 students rose to their feet and cheered the speaker, a Parsee student, 
 when he remarked that "we, as students in this government school, 
 are not satisfied merely to be turned out as intellectual experts. We 
 
demand an education in religion." This is really the deepest desire 
 of all young people. And the college that does not offer an adequate 
 training for the moral and religious life of the student is falling far 
 short of its highest mission. 
 
 Let me say a few words with reference to the value of your col- 
 lege to the town. The thing that puts your town on the map is Cen- 
 tral Wesleyan College. Every town has something unique and distinct, 
 some one thing that gives it a place among the towns of the state. 
 You cannot depend upon your factories, your wholesale houses, or 
 other great business institutions to give prestige and reputation to 
 your town. The college is the one thing that has made Warrenton 
 known far and wide, and as your college goes forward, your town will 
 go forward. It is the one great asset which you have. 
 
 I was indeed glad to learn that the citizens of this town contributed 
 the magnificient sum of twenty-five thousand dollars toward the en- 
 dowment of the college. This in itself speaks louder than words. The 
 college is to be congratulated on having such a loyal company of citi- 
 zens who believe in the college, and who believe strongly enough that 
 they are willing to give it the support it deserves. 
 
 You should emphasize your town as a place of residence. This is 
 a beautiful place, and a desirable home town. As the college goes for- 
 ward, men of means will locate here to educate their children. There- 
 fore, advertise your town as a beautiful place to live, to educate and 
 rear children. The college will help you as business men to promote 
 all of the interests of your little city. We have recently held a great 
 Pageant and Masque in the city of St. Louis. It was a tremendous 
 success. This was made possible by reason of the fact that everybody 
 worked for it in perfect harmony of co-operation, the rich and the 
 poor, the black and the white, all were interested in it and worked for 
 it. It is an illustration of what can be done when we all work together 
 for a common end. You are engaged now in a great campaign to 
 increase the endowment of your college. This will be no difficult task 
 if all of your people get the burden of it on their heart, and pull togeth- 
 er. Then you will more than succeed in your effort. 
 
 The secret of success in this kind of work is getting the interest 
 and the effort of all, those who are able to contribute in a large way, 
 and those who can give out of their small resources. Booker Washing- 
 ton, the negro educator, when he completed building a new building for 
 his work, sent out a leter to all of his people requesting them to make 
 some contribution for a larger school. He said one day an old colored 
 woman came into his office to present her gift; it was tied up in a 
 bandanna handkerchief^ and when she spread out her gift before him, 
 it was found to be a half dozen hen eggs. She said this was all 
 that she had to give, but it was in her heart to do something. When ar 
 incentive like this takes hold of your people, when they come to appre- 
 ciate the value and worth of your college, and get a vision of its mar- 
 velous future, and rally to its support with their gifts, both great and 
 small^ your task will become easy. The greater college you dream of 
 will become a realization, and as the college goes forward, adding to 
 
its departments, increasing its equipment here and there, your town will 
 receive untold benefits. 
 
 May the God of your fathers be with, (and help you face a new 
 half-century. May this splendid institution be the home of great ideals. 
 May your youth come to this campus and to these halls of learning and 
 find what Moses found on Mount Sinai; may their eyes be lifted to 
 some distant horizon; may their hearts be filled with a light that shall 
 shine through all the years. 
 
 THE NIEDRINGHAUS MEMORIAL BUILDING (Gymnasium) 
 
Institutions Represented by Delegates 
 
 Carleton College, Farmington, Mo., Mrs. Chas. Schuettler, A.B. 
 Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, Prof. C. W. Hertzler, D. D. 
 Blinn Memorial College, Brenham, Tex., Prof. John Pluenneke, D. D. 
 Central College, Fayette, Mo., Prof. Charles Bernard Flow. 
 Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa, Rev. W. T. Loeck, Alumnus. 
 Dorcas Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, Rev. J. A. Diekmann, D.D., Rector. 
 Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., Rev. Joseph M. M. 
 
 Gray, D.D., Alumnus* 
 Enterprise Normal Academy, Enterprise, Kans.. Prof. H. W. Steininger. 
 Garrrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111., Rev. Louis F. W. Lese- 
 
 mann, D.D., Alumnus. 
 Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., Bishop Chas W. Smith, D.D., Trustee. 
 Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., Rev. J. C. Handy, Alumnus* 
 Missouri State University, Columbia, Mo. Prof. Herman Almstedt, Ph.D. 
 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., President Abram Winegardner 
 
 Harris, LL.D. 
 St. Paul's College, St. Paul Park, Minn., Rev. L. W. Diedrich, A.B. 
 
 Alumnus and Trustee 
 Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo., Mr. Arthur Orville Wilson, A.B., Alumnus* 
 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Mr. J. Phillip Polster, Alumnus. 
 
 Representatives of Various Organizations 
 
 City and Community, Mr. E. H. Winter, Editor "Warrenton Banner." 
 
 State of Missouri, His Excellency, Gov. Elliott W. Major, LL.D.* 
 
 The Nation, The Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives* 
 
 German Methodism, Rev. J. A. Diekmann, D.D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles W. Smith, LL.D., St. 
 Louis, Mo.; Bishop William O. Shepard, LL.D., Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Board of Education, M. E. Church, Rev. Thomas Nicholson. D.D., 
 Coresponding Secretary of the Board. 
 
 Deaconess Work of Germany, Sister Sophia Hurter, Hamburg, Germany 
 
 Evangelical Synods, Rev. Wm. Theo. Jungk, D.D., Editor "Der Frie- 
 densbote", St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Missouri College Union Prof. Charles Bernard Flow, representing 
 President Linn. 
 
 Missouri Conference, Rev. H. J. Dueker, A.M., Green City, Mo. 
 
 Missouri Conference, (M. E. South), Rev. C. W. Tadlock, St. Louis. Mo. 
 
 St. Louis Conference, Rev. B. F. Crissman, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 St. Louis German Conference, Rev. Wm. Koeneke, D.D., Warrenton. 
 
 State Department of Education, Prof. George Melcher, Jefferson City. 
 
 State Educational Institutions, Prof. Herman Almstedt, Ph.D.. Colum- 
 bia, Mo. 
 
 West German Conference, Rev. John Kracher, Humboldt, Nebraska. 
 
 *Unavoidably detained. 
 
Institutions Sending Greetings 
 
 Allegheny Colleg*e, Meadsville, Pa., Pres. Wm. H. Crawford, LL.D. 
 American University, Washington, D. C, Chancellor Franklin E. E. 
 
 Hamilton, Ph.D. 
 Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, O., President Arthur Breslich, Ph.D. 
 Bever College, Bever, Pa., President Le Roy Weller, Ph.D. 
 Cazenoria Seminary, Cazenoria, N. Y., Prof. C. A. Martin, Sec'y. 
 Centenary College Institute, Hackettstown, N. J., President J. M. 
 
 Meeker, Ph.D. 
 Central College, Fayette, Mo., President Paul H. Linn, D,D. 
 Charles City College, Charles City, la., Acting Pres. W. F. Finke, D.D. 
 Christian University, Canton, Mo., Acting Pres., Herbert Garn, Ph.D. 
 Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S. Dak., Pres. W. Seaman, D.D. 
 Drew Seminary, Carmel, N. Y., President Robert J. Trevorrow, D.D. 
 Evanston Academy, (Northwestern Univ.) Evanston, 111., Principal N. 
 
 W. Helm, A.M. 
 Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111., Pres. Chas. M. Stuart, Ph.D. 
 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima N. Y., President LaFayette 
 
 Congdon, D.D. 
 Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., President Wm. W. Guth, Ph.D. 
 Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., President Samuel Kerfoot, D.D. 
 Hedding College, Abington, 111., President W. D. Agnew, D.D. 
 Iliff School of Theology, Denver Colo., President H. F. Rail, D.D. 
 Illinois Woman's College, Jacksonville, 111., Pres. Jos. R. Harker, D.D. 
 James Milliken University, Decatur, 111., President G. E. Fellows, Ph.D. 
 Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., President S. Plantz, 
 Maclay College of Theology, Los Angeles, Calif., 
 
 Healy, D.D. 
 Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Me., Principal 
 Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Mo., President Wm.H. Black, D.D. 
 Missouri Wesleyan College, Cameron, Mo., President H. R. DeBra, D.D. 
 Nebraska, Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebr., Chancellor C. A. 
 
 Fulmer, A.M. 
 Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., President Bernard Oetting, S.J. 
 Simpson College, Indianola, la., President Francis L. Strickland, D.D. 
 Southwest College, Winfield, Kans., President F. E. Mossmann, Ph.D. 
 State University of Iowa, President Thomas H. Macbride, Ph.D. 
 University of Denver, Denver, Colo., Chancellor H. A. Buchtel.LL.D. 
 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans., Secretary to the President. 
 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 111., President Edward J. 
 
 James, LL.D. 
 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Acting Chancellor, Frederic A. 
 
 Hall, Ph.D. 
 West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, W. Va., Acting Presi- 
 dent Thos. W. Haught. 
 Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., President B. C. 
 
 Conner, D. D. 
 
 
 D.D. 
 
 
 Dean 
 
 E. A. 
 
 Newton 
 
 Ph.D. 
 
Official Papers and Boards Sending 
 Congratulations. 
 
 Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, O., C. Golder, D.D., President. 
 
 Board of Conference Claimants, M. E. Church, Chicago, 111., Rev. Jos. 
 
 B. Hingeley, D.D. Secretary. 
 Board of Education, M. E. Church, New York, Rev. Jno. W. Hancher, 
 
 D.D., Assistant Secretary. 
 Carnegie Foundation, New York. 
 Central Office of the Epworth League, Chicago, Rev. Wm. F. Sheridan, 
 
 D.D., Secretary. 
 Central Christian Advocate, Kansas City, Rev. Claudius B. Spencer, 
 
 D.D., Editor. 
 Christian Advocate, New York, Rev. George P. Eckman, D.D., Editor. 
 General Education Board, New York, Mr. Wallace Buttrick, Secretary. 
 Northwestern Christian Advocate, Chicago, Rev. E. Robt. Zaring, 
 
 D.D., Editor. 
 
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