Seventy-Five Significant Years; The Story of Knox College. 1837-1912 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...movement of our time, when I say that our educational system needs, in order to completeness, just those features and characteristics which the college has furnished in the past. The college, as we know it, is a distinctively American institution. It has grown up to meet needs peculiar to our national life and to our political principles. It has no exact parallel in foreign countries. The feature which differentiates it from the university is its essential idea or aim. The aim of the college is to perfect the man, the aim of the university is to fit him for his vocation in life. The one prepares him to live, the other to earn a living. The difference is radical and the institutions developed under the influence of these two ideas or aims must be essentially unlike." To these ideals and principles as the controlling policy of Knox College, President McClelland has strenuously and persistently adhered throughout his administration. And the more recent trend of thought and sentiment in the minds of the leading educators of the country has fully justified his position. Our president received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Oberlin College. He also studied for a year at Oberlin Theological Seminary, another year at Union Theological Seminary, and still another at Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1880. He was married in August of that same year to Miss Harriet C. Day, of Denmark, Iowa, and very soon thereafter entered upon the duties of a professor in the chair of philosophy in Tabor College, Iowa. After eleven years of service there he was called to the presidency of Pacific University in Oregon in 1891, receiving from Tabor College the honorary degree of D. D. in recognition of those years of service in that institution. ...