civil engineering are in active operation, and there is a preparatory course of medicine which has long been conducted under the care of an eminent and experienced practitioner. A commercial school here has always borne a good reputation among business men, so that its graduates find no difficulty in obtaining employment, which is probably the best test of worth.

The Catholic religion is professed by the teachers and officers of the establishment, but non-Catholics have always availed themselves, in large numbers, of the educational advantages here offered.

SCIENCE HALL AND THE SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Science Hall at Notre Dame is a large structure, in the Romanesque style of architecture, 131 feet long by 104 feet broad, and contains upwards of 30 large rooms. The school of mechanical engineering occupies the basement and consists of a central room, or hall 50x46, flanked on either side by a number of laboratories and workshops, 12 in number, all for the mechanic arts. Next to this is the spacious metallurgical laboratory of the school of mines.

Connecting with the school of mechanical engineering is a large, airy, well-lighted room devoted to electrical engineering. Among a number of other things here we noticed a 100-light Edison dynamo presented to the Notre Dame Science Hall by the Edison Electric Light Company. This furnishes light for the Academy of Music, close by, and for the various laboratories, lecture-rooms and cabinets of science hall. It is also used for experimental work when very strong currents are required. Besides the Edison, there is a Vandepoel dynamo of smaller size, and one of the Maxim type, which supply electric currents for ordinary work in the physical and chemical laboratories and lecture rooms. The power for running these dynamos is generated by an Armington & Sims high-speed automatic engine, donated to Science Hall by the Armington & Sims Engine Company, of Providence, R. I. Connected with Notre Dame there are also a gymnasium, wellequipped for the physical training of its students, and a musical college for the education of those who seek its benefits in the cultivation of this important art. The literary societies offer the usual advantages of such institutions, and their halls and libraries are equipped for use. ful work.

The college course at Notre Dame is equal to that of the most favored classical college, and the college bears throughout the Northwest an enviable reputation for the thorough training which the students receive within its walls. As a Christian institution, built and maintained upon Catholic principles, it is fostered and maintained for the promotion of sound learning and for the glory of the church, and it offers to the young people of all denominations a valuable mental, moral, mechan. ical and manual training. It has exerted a strong influence in its generation and within its sphere.

FORT WAYNE COLLEGE.

At the third session of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Lafayette, Ind., in September, 1846, the Fort Wayne Female College was organized. The first session of the board of trustees was held informally on the 28th of September, 1846. They were regularly organized, however, under a charter June 19, 1847, and the corner stone of the college building laid on the 24th of the same month, Rev. Samuel Brenton delivering an address on the occasion.

Hon. A. C. Huestis was the first president, serving from September, 1847, to May, 1848, when he was succeeded by G. H. Rounds, who held the position until July 30, 1849. Upon his resignation the vacancy was filled by the appointment of Rev. Cyrus Nutt, who held the position until he resigned on September 3, 1850. Hon. A. C. Huestis was acting president until April 19, 1852. Rev. S. T. Gillett was president until September of the same year, when he was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Brenton, who held the position until August 4, 1855. Rev. Reuben D. Robinson was president from the last date mentioned until December 18, 1866, and then again for the five years succeeding March 20, 1872. Dr. Robinson was succeeded by Rev. W. F. Yocum, D. D., who served the college as president for eleven years, tendering his resignation June 14, 1888. The trustees at this meeting elected Rev. H. N. Herrick as president, who is still (August, 1889) serving in that capacity.

In the mean time the progress of the school was not the most satisfactory, but steps were taken, as occasion seemed to demand, to remedy existing deficiencies. On the 1st of March, 1849, the president laid before the board of trustees a communication from Rev. Samuel Brenton on the subject of a male department in connection with the college, which was referred to a special committee consisting of Messrs. Edsall and Williams. At a subsequent meeting of the board on the 28th of July, 1849, a resolution looking to the consummation of the above plan was laid on the table. In March, 1850, the faculty in a written request to the board asked the privilege of admitting male students at the commencement of the next term. This request was granted, and at a meeting of the board on the 17th of August, 1852, "it was resolved that, in the opinion of the board it is expedient to establish a college for the education of males at this place, to sustain the same relation to the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church that the Fort Wayne Female College does, and that we will co-operate with the North Indiana Conference and the friends of education in carrying into effect such a project."

On the 10th of October, 1855, the "Fort Wayne Female College" and the "Fort Wayne Collegiate Institute for Young Men" were consolidated, forming a new institution known as "Fort Wayne College."

The college has had a continued struggle for existence from its beginning until within the past few years. Rev. R. D. Robinson, D. D.,

who presided over the institution for seventeen years, and Rev. W. F. Yocum, D. D., who sustained the same relation to it for eleven years, are entitled to great credit for their faithful, conscientious, and persistent efforts in the interest of the school. They were, however, ably as sisted by such men as William Rockhill, Allen Hamilton, Joseph K. Edgerton, John M. Miller, George Breckenridge, and many others.

At a meeting of the National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., September 11 to 14, 1886, the following action was taken:

FORT WAYNE, IND., September 14, 1886. To the National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church :

DEAR BRETHREN: Your committee on education would respectfully recommend the following plan for the educational work of the associa tion:

First. That the efforts of the association shall be confined and directed to only one institution of learning at a time.

Second. That such benefactions shall be continued until such institution be placed on a firm financial basis, and be thereby made permanently an honor to the association thus fostering it.

Third. That the institution selected shall be required, before receiving any aid from the association, to adopt in a legal manner, in consideration of such aid, resolutions, or other suitable binding action, providing: That special rates and facilities shall be granted to all students who are local preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or the children of such, and also to all students who may be preparing themselves for missionary work.

Fourth. That all funds of the association not otherwise specifically appropriated or designated by the donors thereof shall belong to the educational fund, and be used for the purpose of aiding such institution, under the direction of the educational committee.

Fifth. That the educational committee be authorized and directed to prepare and adopt plans for collections in aid of the educational fund. And your committee further report that they have received a communication from the board of trustees of the Fort Wayne College, which they append hereto.

Your committee have inquired into the status of the college and find that the trustees of the Fort Wayne College are a legally organized body under the laws of the State of Indiana, and under a special charter granting unusual privileges.

They also learn that the local preachers of the North Indiana Conference, acting upon the recommendation of your association offered at its last annual session, have organized and agreed to raise $3,000 for the college, as their part of your aid thereto. Of this sum $795.65 has already been secured.

And your committee, in view of these facts, and the statements in said communication from the board of trustees, also in view of the action your body heretofore had, and that said college is the first applicant, therefore and in consideration of its central location, its healthy Christian work and influences, and the promising field of its operations, we recommend that the Fort Wayne College be selected by the association to be the recipient of its benefactions, and be declared to be under its patronage.

GEO. W. MOONEY,
W. B. CHADWICK,
LEWIS H. COLE,

CHAUNCEY SHAFFER,

Com. Advisory.

The following is the letter of the trustees to the association referred to above:

Messrs. G. W. Mooney, W. B. Chadwick, and C. H. Harding, educational committee, and Messrs. Chauncey Shaffer and L. H. Cole, advisory committee thereto, of the National Association of Local Preachers, M. E. Church.

DEAR BRETHREN: In view of the favorable action taken by your association in behalf of the Fort Wayne College, at its session in Brooklyn in 1885, we feel emboldened to present our institution again to your consideration.

We have adopted resolutions providing for special rates and facilities for students who are local preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also for the children of local preachers, and for students who are preparing themselves for missionary work.

In the event of your

We desire your endorsement as an association. aid to the extent of the endowment of a chair in our college, we suggest that it be named in a manner to become a permanent record of your munificence and practical aid to the cause of education. Should your association be enabled, in the providence of God, to do more than this, we would meet it in a corresponding spirit, and give you an equitable representation upon the board of trustees. You would then be joint owners with us of our college, for the legal title is The Trustees of the Fort Wayne College.

Very respectfully,

D. C. WOOLPORT,

Secretary.

H. C. HARTMAN,
Vice President.

Favorable action was taken by this association at subsequent meetings and at the annual meeting of the trustees and visitors held June 19 and 20, 1889, propositions were made by the representatives of this association that they would furnish the college certain needed financial

aid provided the name of the institution was changed to William Taylor College or University as might be hereafter determined upon. The proposition was accepted, the proper committees appointed looking to the proposed change, and at the present time, August, 1889, the preliminary steps have been taken and the change is apparently an assured fact.

The institution has numbered among its faculty some excellent teachers, and the grade of its college work has been on a par with that of the usual preparatory training schools.

The following represents the faculty and the departments of Fort Wayne College:

FACULTY.

C. B. Stemen, A. M., M. D., LL. D., Dean, 25 Broadway, Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery.

William P. Whery, M. D., M. R., C. P., Secretary, 26 Madison street,
Professor of Diseases of Women and Obstetrics.

George W. McCaskey, A. M., M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of
Medicine and Clinical Diseases of the Chest and Nervous System.
Joseph L. Gilbert, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Charles R. Dryer, A. B., M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology.
I. Ellis Lyons, A. M., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics.

Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology.
George B. Stemen, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Walter W. Barnett, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.

Alpheus P. Buchman, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children.

Neal Hardy, M. D., Professor of Physiology.

H. D. Wood, A. M., M. D., Professor of Abdominal Surgery.
Vesta M. W. Swarts, M. D., Lecturer on Dermatology.
R. W. Thrift, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Gynecology.
James S. Gregg, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Surgery.

MOORE'S HILL COLLEGE.

Moore's Hill College is situated at Moore's Hill, in Dearborn County, southeastern Indiana. It was founded in 1854. In December, 1853, a meeting of citizens in that vicinity was held to consider the question of establishing a seminary or college at that place. Among those present and taking a prominent part in the initial steps of the enterprise were Rev. T. G. Beharell, D. D., John C. Moore, Dr. H. G. Bowers, Joseph McCreary, and others. At this meeting a committee was appointed to solicit contributions, and instructed to report at a subsequent meeting. At a meeting held shortly after this, in December, 1853, the amounts contributed were reported and were considered sufficient to justify the further prosecution of the enterprise. The necessary steps toward incorporation were taken, and in the following January, 1854, the institution was duly incorporated.