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bodies by wbich they were first called into being. It was not confined, however, to 

 this object; but like the venerable seminaries of learning just named aimed to be a 

 nursery of liberal education in its most general form. In such character it had pui-sued 

 its course, with no inconsiderable efficiency and success, througli a period of seventeen 

 years; when through the arrangement which has been mentioned its history a.s a sepa- 

 rate institution was brought to a close by its removal to Lancaster. It became merged 

 thus in what is now known as Franklin and Marshall College. 



The Act providing for the amalgamation of the two Colleges was passed by the Legis- 

 lature of Pennsylvania, in April, 1850. Certain terms or specitications were to be ful- 

 filled, however, before the new charter could go into effect; so that the first meeting of 

 the Board of Trustees created by it did not take place uutil January, 18."j;j. The regu- 

 lar course of collegiate instruction began in ]\Iay following, and the o]KMiing of the Col- 

 lege was formally solemnized by a public celebration, held in Fulton Hall, on the even- 

 ing of the 7th of June. 



Until April, 18o0, the exercises of the Institution wei-c conducted in the old Franklin 

 College Hall on Lime street. Efficient measures, however, had been takeu toward the 

 erection of better accommodations. A fund of twenty-five thousand dollars, raised for 

 the purpose in the city and county of Lancaster, was devoted to the purchase of a fine 

 tract of ground, on the west side of the town, and the erection of a main central edifice 

 for College use. The dedication of the new building took place, with appropriate cere- 

 monies, on the 16th of May 1856. 



To this were added soon after the chaste, beautiful and commodious Halls of tlie two 

 Literary Societies of the College, holding the relation of wings to the main edifice — ^the 

 Goethean on the South and the Diagnothian on the North. They were fonnally opened 

 on Tuesday, the 28th of July, 1857. The value of these buildings altogether may be 

 estimated now at about fifty thousand dollars. 



The prosperity of the institution was seriously affected, of cour.se, by the war; al- 

 though it has been steadily gaining strength all along, and has now a better endow- 

 ment than ever before. Of late a new movement has been made in its favor on the 

 part of the Church, which cannot fail, if it is properly carried througli, to add greatly 

 to its importance and force. This contemplates the creation of an additional endow- 

 ment for it of not less than a hundred thousand dollars, and the removal of the Re- 

 formed Theological Seminary at the same time from IMercersburg to Lancaster, where 

 the two institutions then are to stand in conjunction again as of old on the .same 

 ground. Should these measures be crowned with success, we may expect soon to see 

 the whole College land taken up with other buildings, which will add materially to the 

 effect of its present partial improvement. 



The Faculty of the Institution, as it now stands, is composed as follows: Rev. Joirx 

 W. Nevin, D. D., President and Professor of Mental Science, Ethics, Aeathetics, and 

 the Philosophy of History; William M. Nevix, Esq. A. 31., Professor of Ancient Lan- 

 guages a7id Belles Lettres; Rev. Theodore Appel, A. M., Professor of MathematicJi, 

 Physics and Astronomy; Chakles H. Budd, A. M., M. D., Professor of Natural Sci- 

 ence and Chemistry; John S. Stahr, A. B., Adjunct Professor of History and the Ger- 

 man Language; David M. Wolf, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Languages and Math- 

 ematics; John L. Atlee, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. 



In this scheme of instruction, it will be observed, the College holds itself strictly to 

 the old idea of a classical and liberal education, without regard to what has become .so 

 largely in different quarters at the present time, the popular demand for practical and 

 business studies. This it does, not as undervaluing these studies in their right place, 

 but from the sense of having a work to perform in which they are not proiwrly em- 

 braced. There are no so-called scientific, technical, or professional courses in the in- 

 stitution; no optional or select courses, leaving it with the student to suit his .studies to 

 Ms own taste. The College, in this respect, is neither a Nonnal School, nor a Polj-teoh- 



