THE FIRST FACULTY.

At the meeting of the sub-committee in Enon, Ohio, January 21st, 1852, a committee was appointed "to correspond with suitable persons to constitute the Faculty of the College." Here, for the first time, the idea was seriously entertained of inviting Hon. Horace Mann to become its President. Correspondence was opened with him, and in June following it was announced that he would accept the position.

At a meeting in Yellow Springs, September 15, 1852, the committee on a Faculty made their report, and the election took place. Horace Mann was elected President, and C. S. Pennell, and Miss R. M. Pennell, of Massachusetts, Rev. Thomas Holmes, of N. H., Rev. W. H. Doherty and Ira W. Allen, of N. Y., colleagues on the Faculty, and A. L. McKinney, of Indiana, Principal of the Preparatory Department.

HORACE MANN AND HIS COLLEAGUES.

When the offer of the Presidency of Antioch was made to Mr. Mann, he had completed his historical twelve years' work, as Secretary of the Board of Education in Massachusetts, in which he had inaugurated and carried so far forward the reforms in common schools, of which he is the acknowledged father. He was now just entering upon his second term as representative in Congress, to which he had been elected as the successor of John Quincy Adams. He had already found that the Congress of the United States, especially under the influences that then predominated, was not a field of reform so receptive and hopeful as was found in connection with the education of the young. Besides, his high and uncompromising moral and humanitarian views, which made him so thoroughly anti-slavery, did not comport with the conservative spirit of the times, even as it prevailed in the most respectable districts of Eastern Massachusetts. When, therefore, the opportunity was opened to him to be put at the head of what promised to be a large and liberal institution in the southwestern part of Ohio, it seemed to him a providential opening, where he might spend the remainder of his days in his chosen work. He saw the opportunity to

sow the good seed, in which he had so much confidence, in the fresh and fruitful soil of the West, where there was promise and prophesy of a rich harvest of results, which should perpetuate themselves throughout that fast-unfolding portion of our nation, in all succeeding time.

The peculiarities of the new institution which attracted him, in addition to its location, favorable for an extensive influence, were:

First-The non-sectarian character which it promised to

have.

Second-The offering of all its privileges equally to both

sexes.

Third-The sympathy and enthusiastic support which was tendered him from the founders and friends of the Institution.

On accepting the position, Mr. Mann devoted himself heart and soul to his work.

Professor and Miss Pennell were relatives of Mr. Mann, who had already become distinguished as teachers in High and Normal Schools in Massachusetts. Mr. Mann had signified his wish that, if he should accept the Presidency, they might be associated with him, in order that his colleagues might not all be strangers to him, and that he might have Some who he knew would understand him and his aims and methods, to assist him in inaugurating his work.

Prof. Doherty was a graduate of the Royal Belfast College, Ireland, a ripe scholar, especially in moral and metaphysical studies, and belles lettres, and an eloquent preacher. He had been a Presbyterian minister in Camber, County Down, Ireland. He was, at the time of his appointment, pastor of the Unitarian Society in Rochester, New York, but a member of a Christian Conference in Western New York.

The other members appointed on the Faculty belonged to the denomination which founded the school, and were persons of liberal education and experience as teachers. Prof. Holmes was a graduate of Oberlin, Prof. Allen of Hamilton, N. Y. and Prof. McKinney of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Indiana.

THE FIRST FACULTY MEETING.

This was held at Mr. Mann's residence, in West Newton, Mass., about the first of November, 1852, the members from the Western States coming to Massachusetts for that purpose. Mr. Mann describes it as unexpectedly harmonious in views and opinions.

At this meeting a division of labor among the several members was agreed upon, and three additional Professorships were projected. for which there were no appointees.

The Faculty and their Professorships were arranged and published as follows:

FACULTY.

Hon. Horace Mann, LL. D., President, and Professor of Political Economy, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Constitutional Law and Natural Theology.

Rev. W. H. Doherty, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and Belles-Lettres.

Ira W. Allen, A. M., Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering.

Rev. Thomas Holmes, A. M., Professor of Greek Language and Literature.

C. S. Pennell, A. M., Professor of Latin Language and Literature.

Miss R. M. Pennell, Professor of Physical Geography, Drawing, Natural History, Civil History and Didactics. Professor of Chemistry, and Theory and

Practice of Agriculture.

*

Professor of Mineralogy and Geology. Professor of Modern Languages.

Rev. A. L. McKinney, Principal of Preparatory School. A curriculum of study for the undergraduate course was here adopted and published as follows:

† Prof. Allen went to Europe, and remaimed till September, 1854. In his absence the chair was filled by Miss Julia A. Hitchcock, afterwards Mrs. Fay.

H. A. Warriner, M. D., was appointed by the Faculty in October, 1854, and assigned to the work of the two Professorships, but spent about two years in Germany before entering on his duties.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

FIRST TERM. Algebra-Loomis's. Latin-Lincoln's selections from Livy, first three books, with Latin Composition. Greek-Anabasis, first four books, with Greek Composition. Elective Studies-Drawing and Designing.

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SECOND TERM. English Language and Elocution. ometry continued-Loomis's. Greek Homer's Iliad, first five books, with Greek Composition. Electire-Jahn's Hebrew Commonweath, and Sismondi's Decline and Fall of Rome, for the first thousand years after Christ.

THIRD TERM. Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical— Loomis's. Human Physiology, alternating with Latin and Greek. Latin-Livy continued, twenty-first book. Horace, Schmitz and Zumpt's edition. Odes commenced. Latin Composition continued. Greek-Xenophon's Memorabilia, and Greek Composition continued. Elective-Botany, Gray's Botanical Text-Book.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

FIRST TERM. Mensuration, Surveying and Navigation. Latin-Horace's Art of Poetry, Satires and Epistles. Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. Elective-Didactics or Theory and Art of Teaching; Potter and Emerson's School and Schoolmaster, Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching.

SECOND TERM. Analytical Geometry-Loomis's. LatinCicero, DeSenectute and DeAmicitia, Greek-Longinus on the Sublime. Elective-Hallam's Middle Ages, and Bancroft's United States.

THIRD TERM. Differential and Integral Calculus, or the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles of the Greek Testament, at the option of the student. Latin-Germania and Agricola of Tacitus (Tyler's edition preferred), and one play of Plautus or Terence. French-Pronunciation, Grammar and Translation. Elective-Didactics, or the Theory and Art of Teaching continued.

*Studies which, by permission of the Faculty, may be pursued, instead of one of the regular exercises for the term.

JUNIOR CLASS.

FIRST TERM. Physical Geography -Guyot and Mrs. Somerville's. Chemistry. Natural Philosophy-Mechanics. Elective-French continued, with Conversation and Compo

sition.

SECOND TERM. Civil Engineering, Chemistry as applied to Agriculture and the Arts. German-Pronunciation, Grammar and Translation. Elective-French continued.

THIRD TERM. Logic and Belles-Lettres. Zoology-Agassiz and Gould's. Natural Philosophy-Physics. ElectiveGerman continued, with Conversation and Composition.

SENIOR CLASS.

FIRST TERM. Political Economy, Astronomy, Geology and Mineralogy.

SECOND TERM. Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, Logic and Belles-Lettres, Evidences of Christianity, History of Civilization-Guizot. Natural Theology.

THIRD TERM. Constitutional Law, Moral Philosophy. "Rhetorical Exercises and English Compositions will be required, weekly, during the whole course.

"Lectures, during the whole course, will be given by the Professors in their respective departments.

"There will be extensive and daily oral instruction. Teaching from text-books alone is like administering the same prescription to all the patients in a hospital ward; but oral instruction is mingling the cup of healing for each individual case."

For admission to the Freshman Class the following requisites were prescribed :

"English Grammar; Outlines of Ancient and Modern Geography; History; Miss Peabody's Polish-American System of Chronology, or Worcester's Elements. Arithmetic Alge bra, Loomis's Elements, or its equivalent. GeometryLoomis's first five books, or first four of Davies' Legendre. Latin–Bullions' Grammar, Reader, Caesar's Commentaries (two books); Virgil's Eneid, first six books, with Prosody and