timulate scientific research and to assist in collecting material for use a the laboratories.

The reading room and lecture association, organized in 1873, provides well-selected list of newspapers and magazines and secures each year course of lectures and musical entertainments. The Young Men's Christian Association maintains an active and efficient organization. There is also an oratorical association, maintaining connection with State nd interstate organizations of the same kind.

A monthly magazine, the Denison Collegian, has been maintained ›y the students since 1867. It is under control of the Franklin and Calliopean literary societies. An earlier venture in this line, the Denionian, 1857-58, perished for lack of financial support. The Adytum, ublished by the Greek-letter societies, has appeared twice. It was projected as an annual, but the difficulty of securing financial support has prevented its regular appearance.

There is an active local interest in athletic sports and an annual field day" has been held for some years. The records made have been unusually good, notwithstanding the lack of regular athletic trainng. Intercollegiate athletics have received very little attention.

It is to be regretted that the limit of space does not permit biographical sketches of a number of the men who have been most active in the upbuilding of Denison University. A slight tribute has already been given to the work of Presidents Pratt and Talbot. Next to these men, in the early history of the school, should be mentioned Dr. John Stevens. As editor of the Baptist Weekly Journal of the Mississippi Valley, he gave vigorous support to the enterprise in its infancy. As a member of the faculty from 1838 to 1843, and again from 1859 to 1875, he was a tower of strength. From 1875 until his death in 1877 he was 'emeritus professor of Latin. Among the prominent members of the board, Allen Darrow, D. Shepardson, D. D., E. E. Barney, T. W. Ewart, E. Thresher, M. E. Gray, J. M. Hoyt, W. P. Huffman, and L. G. Leonard are only a few of those whose liberal gifts and earnest personal attention deserve recognition at length. Very few schools have been blessed with a board so ready to sacrifice time and money to the work.

No extended history of the University has been published, and many important facts can be found only in the records kept by the officers of the board. The records of the Ohio Baptist Education Society and the Ohio Baptist State Convention also contain valuable material, though one is compelled to regret, in consulting them, that, in the early days, the importance of a full and lucid record was underestimated. Lack £ of time forbids a complete bibliography, but the following authorities may be worthy of mention:

Annual catalogues of the university; general catalogues, 1878, 1881, ₫ 1885, and 1888; plan for the endowment of Granville College, Granville, 1853; Financial Condition of Denison University from its Origin, December, 1831, to the Present Time, October, 1863, by Rev. S. Talbot,

president; Financial History of Denison University, published by order of the board, 1879; The History of Granville, Licking County, Ohio, by Rev. Henry Bushnell, Columbus, 1889; History of Licking County, Ohio, Newark, Ohio, 1881; A History of Education in the State of Ohio, Columbus, 1876; Cathcart's Baptist Encyclopedia, Philadelphia, 1883; files of Baptist Weekly Journal of the Mississippi Valley, 1831-34, and the Cross and Journal of the Mississippi Valley, 1834-42; files of Journal and Messenger, Denison Collegian, and Granville Times; bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison Uni versity; annual reports of finance committee; Memoir of Ebeneze Thresher, pages 76-93, by Rev. H. F. Colby, D. D., Dayton, 1886.

The founding of Buchtel College, in the city of Akron, is due to a movement which originated with the Universalist Church of the State of Ohio. In the year 1867 the Ohio State Convention of Universalists, composed of the clergy of the State and representatives from all its parishes, heard a report from its committee on education in favor of establishing a seminary for the education of the young of both At the next annual session of the convention, in June, 1868, a plan for the establishment of an academy was presented by Rev. Andrew Willson and unanimously adopted. This plan was not, however, carried out, and in 1869 the convention reconsidered its former resolution and authorized the board of trustees and committee on education to take the necessary steps for the organization of a college.

sexes.

The board of the convention then consisted of Rev. J. S. Cantwell, Rev. Andrew Willson, Rev. H. L. Canfield, Rev. J. W. Henly, and O. F. Haymaker, esq., and the committee on education of Rev. E. L. Rexford, Rev. M. Crossley, and Rev. B. F. Eaton.

In view of the near approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the Universalist Church of the United States, it was desired to make the new college the centennial offering of Ohio.

Accordingly, at a joint meeting of the above mentioned board and committee, held in November, 1869, Rev. H. F. Miller, of Indiana, was invited to become their financial secretary, to supervise and direct the raising of the money necessary for buildings and endowment. Mr. Miller accepted the invitation and entered upon the duties of his office in January, 1870.

Petitions from several places, praying for the location of the college, were received and considered by the board; finally at a joint meeting held in Columbus, February 16, 1870, the location was fixed in Akron on condition that the citizens of Summit County legally secure $60,000 to the State Convention of Universalists. In pursuance of this offer a prompt and vigorous effort was made at Akron to secure the location of the college in that city. John R. Buchtel led off with a subscription of $25,000 for the endowment fund and $6,000 for the building. He was followed by others, so that on the 31st day of May, 1870, the financial secretary was able to report to the board of trustees and committee on education that the $60,000 necessary to secure the location of the col

lege at Akron had been subscribed. This body, then in joint meeting, on the above-mentioned day, passed a resolution locating the college, which was then called the "Universalist Centenary School of Ohio," in the city of Akron, and named as "corporators," to act in conjunction, with itself, Rev. H. F. Miller, Rev. Millard Spaulding, Rev. George Messenger, Heury Blandy, esq., and the following resident freeholders of Summit County: John R. Buchtel, Hon. N. D. Tibbals, E. P. Green, esq., Col. George T. Perkins, James A. Lantz, and George Steese, esq. The steps prescribed by the laws of the State of Ohio for the organi zation of the corporation were then taken, and articles of association were drawn up and adopted. The association, which took the name of "Buchtel College" and organized "for the establishment and maintenance of a college of learning for both sexes, to be under the control of the Ohio State Convention of Universalists," was composed of John R. Buchtel, Rev. J. S. Cantwell, George T. Perkins, Henry Blandy, Rev. George Messenger, Rev. B. F. Eaton, N. D. Tibbals, Rev. J. W. Henly, E. P. Green, O. F. Haymaker, Rev. Millard Spaulding, James A. Lautz, and George Steese. It was made the duty of these to elect a board of eighteen trustees, five of whom should always be resident freeholders of Summit County, and who should be directors of the college, with power to make all necessary by-laws, erect suitable buildings, etc.

It was provided that after the first election of trustees by the corporators, the Ohio State Convention of Universalists should at each annual session nominate at least fifteen persons whom they may think to be suitable for the office of trustees, and that the acting trustees should," from the persons so nominated, make all elections and fill all vacancies. The first board elected was composed as follows: For 3 years, John R. Buchtel, president; H. Blandy, Phillip Wieland, J. D. Auger, E. P. Green, George T. Perkins; for 2 years, Rev. H. L. Canfield, Rev. E. L. Rexford, Gen. James Pierce, J. F. Seiberling, Rev. J. S. Cantwell, Hon. N. D. Tibbals; for 1 year, O. F. Haymaker, S. M. Burnham, secretary, J. P. Cochrane, Charles Foster, Rev. George Messenger, Avery Spicer. George W. Crouse, not a member of the board, was appointed treasurer. As early as the next meeting of the board, December 28, 1870, it was voted that the financial secretary be authorized to make contracts for perpetual scholarships at $1,000, and a committee was ap pointed to prescribe a form of contract for such scholarships. It was not, however, until November 19, 1872, that the report of this committee was made to the board, when the form of contract presented was adopted. According to this form, the donor agrees to pay at his decease the sum of $1,000 to found and secure for himself and heirs a perpetual scholarship in Buchtel College, and agrees to pay interest annually on this sum, at a rate per cent. to be agreed upon when the contract is signed. This rate of interest has generally been fixed at 6 per cent.

The privileges of these scholarships were limited by action of the board to the regular courses in the college and preparatory department,