especially significant. The pioneers who founded the young college lived entirely within the "Western Reserve," and perhaps it is safe to say that more than a majority of them had come directly from Connecticut itself. Yale influences, therefore, were predominant, particularly in matters educational, and we are not surprised to find that the campus presented a striking resemblance to that of old Yale, and that several of the buildings were called by names originally used in New Haven. Like the older institution, also, the new college was begun in a modest manner by men whose purses were scant, but whose desire for the education of their sons was broad and large.

Upon the old, musty and time-worn pages of the book in which are recorded the early gifts to the college, the first name is that of Rev. Caleb Pitkin, who subscribed thirty dollars in cash and forty acres of land valued at thirty dollars. Mr. Pitkin was one of the most active in obtaining a charter for the college and in securing a location for the institution at Hudson. The subscriptions for securing a location, of which Mr. Pitkin's name heads the list, amounted to $6,632.40. They include a rather curious collection. Mr. Eben Maxfield's gift of a sleigh of the value of thirty dollars can scarcely have been for equipment, for it is doubtful if the college was a pur

veyor of such sinful amusements as his gift would suggest; though there might be ground for the supposition that Mr. Silas Babcock's gift often hoes," valued at five dollars, was for a worthy purpose, as also that of Mr. Eliphat Phelps of "five ditto," valued at two dollars and a half. Rev. Elizur Wright made the first donation of books, in 1823, to the amount of $111.75. In 1825 Rev. William Hanford's gift consisted of a "remission of damages by road" to the extent of sixty dollars.

Two years later "two individuals" took time by the forelock and donated two clocks worth thirty dollars, upon the theory, no doubt,

that time is money. The first subscription of more than a thousand dollars was made in 1825 by Mr. David Hudson, and there were very few subscriptions of more than that sum before the college removed to Cleveland. In 1837 Heman Oviatt of Hudson gave ten thousand dollars, which was paid in land. In the same year Rebecca Kinsman gave six thousand dollars, also paid in land, and General Simon Perkins gave five thousand dollars.

In 1878 the question of removing the college from Hudson to Cleveland was raised, and a committee of the trustees was appointed to take the matter under consideration. In March, 1880, through a

member of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Amasa Stone of Cleveland proposed to give the college five hundred thousand dollars provided it should be removed to Cleveland, occupy some suitable site to be donated by the citizens, and change its name to "Adelbert College of Western Reserve University." The new name was to be a memorial to Mr. Stone's only son, Adelbert, who had been drowned while a student at Yale. Mr. Stone proposed further, that of the sum offered by him one hundred and fifty thousand dollars should be expended in buildings, and the remainder added to the permanent funds of the college. The committee weighed the comparative advantages of city

and country situation, and especially the opportunities for growth and development in the new environment. Moreover, an investigation showed that in the fifty years from its foundation to 1876 the college had received in gifts some three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, two hundred thousand dollars of which had been given for current expenses. The remainder constituted the college endowment, ,and included the funds used in establishing the Handy, Hurlbut, Oviatt and Perkins professorships. Mr. Stone's offer would exactly treble the endowment, in addition to providing a modern equipment. The committee, therefore, recommended the acceptance of the propo

sition, and the trustees voted, on September 20th of the same year, to make the change whenever the conditions were fulfilled. On March 19, 1881, the trustees voted that the conditions had been complied with, that the removal should be made, and that the buildings and campus at Hudson should be used for a preparatory department.

In accordance with this decision, in September, 1882, the college opened its doors on the new campus of twenty-two acres, situated in the midst of the great park system of Cleveland. On this campus two buildings had been erected, one containing rooms for the work of instruction, with offices, chapel, library and museum; the other,

apartments for sixty students. The ensuing eighteen years have proved the wisdom of the change, as shown by the increase of students and of endowment funds. In 1883 the sum of one hundred thousand dollars was added to the funds of the college by the will of Mr. Stone. In 1888 the gymnasium was erected and equipped by the gifts of numerous friends. During the same year fifty thousand dollars was received to found the Haydn Professorship. In 1894 Mr. Samuel Mather built and furnished the Physical Laboratory. In the following year Mr. Henry R. Hatch presented the library building bearing his name, and in 1898 added the wings as provided in the original designs. In 1897

Eldred Hall, a building for the use of the Young Men's Christian Association, was erected through the gift of the late Henry B. Eldred. In 1899 the Biological Laboratory, to which several friends have contributed, was completed. By the will of Daniel B. Fayerweather, of New York City, who died in 1890, the college has received an additional endowment fund of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

At the present time Adelbert College has an endowment of about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and buildings which have cost about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

But the removal to Cleveland made possible not only larger growth

for the college, but also the development of a university. In 1884 the Cleveland medical college, which had been, from the time of its opening in 1844, more or less closely associated with the college at Hudson, was made an integral department of the University. It now possesses buildings and endowment to the amount of four hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For the first years of residence in Cleveland the college was open to women on the same terms as to men; but the wisdom of this method was questionable, and in 1888 the trustees established the "College for Women" as an independent department of the University, holding