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Professor of Ethics, and Librarian -- Rev. Louis Quinn, S. J. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Rev. T. O'Leary, S. J. Professor of Sciences, and Evidences of Religion - Rev. Thomas J. A. Freeman, S. J.

Professor of Mathematics and History-George A. Fargis, A. B.
Professor of Belles-Lettres - James P. Fagan, S. J.
Professor of Classics John C. Chester, S. J.

Professor of English Belles-Lettres and French-John C. Keveney, A. B.

Professor of Music and German - Adolph Peterson.

Professor of Painting and Drawing Stephen J. O'Shaughnessy. Instructor in Elocution - J. E. Frobisher.

Statistics of Attendance and Graduation at St. John's College, Fordham.

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MADISON UNIVERSITY.

This institution located in the village of Hamilton, Madison county, had its origin in a Seminary established by the "Baptist Education Society of the State of New York," for the education of young men for the Gospel ministry, May 26, 1820, and known for a long period as the " Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution." As this institution was open toward the end to students. without reference to their intention of entering the ministry, we have placed a notice of its organization with the Academic institutions in another part of this volume. Although strictly a Baptist Institute, it was open to young men of every denomination of Evangelical Christians. Applicants were required to present testimonials from the church to which they belonged, certifying the approbation of the church in their entering upon a course of preparation for the Gospel ministry.

The course of study was first arranged for four years. In 1831, it was extended to six years, and in 1833 to eight, including an Academic, a Collegiate and a Theological Department. As the institution had no right to confer degrees, an arrangement was made with the Columbian College in Washington, D. C., by which the degrees of "A. B." and " A. M." were conferred upon such young men as had satisfactorily completed the course of studies in the Collegiate department, and were recommended by the Faculty as suitable candidates for such honors.1

In 1840, its Trustees applied for a College charter, and the subject was reported favorably, but without further result. The application was renewed in 1843, and again failed, it was alleged for the want of a proper body to receive the charter. It was again attempted in 1846," and on the 26th of March of that year, a law was passed, entitled "An act to incorporate the Madison University." It named

1 Up to the date of the University charter, the "Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution" had sent out 184 Theological graduates, 229 Collegiate graduates and about 700 besides, who had pursued a partial course of study of from one to five years.

The degree of "Bachelor of Philosophy" was first conferred in 1856.

The Academic Department established in 1832, was afterwards known as the "Grammar School of Madison University," and is now "Colgate Academy." 2 Chap. 40, Laws of 1846.

3 Professor George W. Eaton, in an Historical address, notices an exceptional feature in this act of incorporation. He says:

twenty-seven Trustees,' defined their powers, and authorized the Baptist Education Society to make such absolute or conditional arrangement with them as it might deem proper, for the transfer of its property to the University. The corporation was subject to the general provisions of the Revised Statutes, so far as applicable, and the University was made subject to visitation by the Regents.

The location was expressly fixed at Hamilton, and this point was insisted upon in the question of removal as one of particular importance. The transition from the "Hamilton Literary Institution" to "Madison University," made in fact no great difference in the operation of the institution, which had already for thirteen years, embraced a full collegiate course.

But there presently arose a most formidable danger to the University, in what is historically known as the "Removal Controversy." It was proposed to transfer both the Collegiate and Theological departments to Rochester; but after an exciting and protracted struggle, in which an injunction from the courts was obtained by the friends of Hamilton, the question was finally settled by the separate establishment of Universities in Rochester. Several of the Professors and a large number of students went off, and for a time Madison University felt the effects of this struggle in diminished attendance and financial embarrassment; but it soon recovered, and the feeling then occasioned has long since died away. The denomination finds itself provided with two Colleges and two Theological Seminaries instead of one, and whatever rivalry may now exist, extends no further than such as may be honorably claimed in the way of superior facilities for a thorough education.'

"The Board of the Education Society, having charge of an institution expanded to the largest scope for literary and scientific acquisitions, apply to the State to create an independent corporation, invested with the amplest College powers, with a prospective but direct view of making it available in some way to their existing institution, and not for the creation of a new one.”

'The first Trustees were Friend Humphrey, Seneca B. Burchard, William Colgate, William L. Marcy, Palmer Townsend, William Cobb, Ira Harris, Henry Tower, Nathaniel Kendrick, Alvah Pierce, Bartholomew T. Welch, Edward Bright, Jr., William R. Williams, Robert Kelley, Harvey Edwards, Charles Walker, Smith Sheldon, Joseph Caldwell, John Munro, John N. Wilder, George Curtiss, Elisha Tucker, Pharcellus Church, James Edmunds, Joseph Trevor, Amos Graves and Alonzo Wheelock. They were a close corporation, filling the vacancies that occurred in their Board by their own election, and with the usual powers of a University corporation. Nine members were to form a quorum for the transaction of business.

*While this struggle was pending, an act was passed, April 3, 1848 (chap. 165),

The following account of this Institution is given in a work entitled Public Service of New York, published in 1882:1

"This University is located in a beautiful village near the geographical center of the State, and near the center of a network of railways, which give easy communication with every part of the State. In its several forms it is sixty-one years old, having been opened as a theological school in 1820, organized as a Seminary, College and Academy in 1834, and chartered as a University in 1846. As a University it at once appropriated the patronage, faculty, classes, alumni, and whatever of property and other resources there then were in the "Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution." Its early patronage was drawn not from New York only, but from Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. The sect that founded it was, at the time, weak in educational advantages, but energetic and diffusive. It looked to this school as its great hope, and on it concentrated its best offerings and fervent prayers. This school was strictly indigenous, springing up from the smallest of beginnings, brought from no foreign land, borrowing its type from none then existing. It grew under the pressure of an outward need and an inward zeal, and became the expression of a denominational sentiment. Free in its benefits to all, it yet acknowledged its chief allegiance to those representative Baptists who founded it. The times that gave birth to that enterprise were eventful. The French power in the North had been broken by the combined arms of England and the Colonies; the Colonies had become independent States, and now the second war with England had closed with the Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814. The country was stimulated by a new sense of freedom, and the American idea of independence and undisputed sovereignty in the western world was, for the first time, having full scope. Emigration was flowing west of the Hudson and carrying New England education, religion and thrift over this State and, through it, into Western States. One of these tides moved down the beautiful valley of Chenango, and towns, villages, schools and churches sprang up along its course. The Baptists had no College in the State of New York, nor had they any schools for common education or for the education of the ministry. And while no convention was called, and there was no general concert of action, almost unconsciously the work began to grow.

In 1817, thirteen men met. They each gave one dollar, and these

authorizing a change of location to Syracuse, Rochester or Utica, unless those interested in Hamilton raised $50,000 as an endowment before the second Tuesday of August next, or gave a bond of $100,000 for the raising of that amount within one year. See Memorial, praying for the repeal of this act, Senate Doc. 37, 1842, Remonstrance against repeal, Senate Doc. 52, 1849, and Report on the bill relating to Madison University, Assem. Doc. 111, 1848.

1 Vol. III, p. 309.

thirteen dollars were the beginning of an endowment. Soon Dr. Baldwin, of Boston, and thirty others gave two hundred and thirtyeight volumes, and this was the beginning of the library. A room was secured, and this was the beginning of the College buildings. Two students came in poverty, Wade and Kincaid, and these were the beginning of generations of students. Such beginnings did not seem auspicious, but faith gave superhuman energy. This energy, vitalized by the idea that Baptists must have an institution that could furnish a complete education, gave unexpected development and growth. The Alumni, most of whom have graduated from some one of the courses Academical, Scientific, Collegiate or Theological, number about two thousand six hundred.

The first two students, Rev. Jonathan Wade, D. D., Rev. Eugenio Kincaid, D. D., and eighty others went out as foreign missionaries; twenty-one are counted as Presidents of Colleges, eightyeight Professors and Principals, sixty-three as Authors, Legislators and Congressmen. The Alumni are found in all the professions, but the largest number are ministers of the Gospel. One hundred and thirty have been honored with the Doctorate from different Colleges and Universities.

The three schools have graduated about as follows: From the Theological Seminary, 700; from the College or University, 850; from the Academy or Grammar School, 1,050. The annual average of male students in attendance is about as follows: In the Theological Seminary, 38; in Colgate Academy, 102; in the College or University, 100. One man only lives who can represent all of the decades of student life in the institution - Kincaid, the first student of the first class organized. The first class that took the full College course of four years, and graduated in 1836, numbered twentysix, ten of whom are still alive, and eight of these now living have been honored with the Doctorate. This class entered fifty years ago. There have been four Presidents. Dr. Nathaniel Kendrick, the first, died September 11, 1848, being seventy-two years old. He was elected in 1836, but was virtually President during the twentyeight years of his connection with the institution. He was easily "Primus inter pares," and of natural right presided everywhere. His influence was as far-reaching as his name. He had a commanding presence, a clear voice, an earnest look, and was truly eloquent. Standing by Dr. Kendrick is Rev. Professor Daniel Hascall, who came to Hamilton in 1812, and settled as Pastor of the Baptist church. To him is accredited the original idea of a Seminary in Hamilton. Dr. Kendrick, in 1816, became Pastor of the church at Eaton. These two men supplemented each other and harmonized in every good work. In 1820 when the school was opened, Hascall became Professor of Languages, and Kendrick of Theology. Hascall continued eighteen years and resigned, and Kendrick remained till his death. Along with these men we find Hon. Jonathan Olmstead, Judge Samuel Payne, Deacon William Colgate, Hon. Seneca

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