Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

human science has done iLs utmost and when we have thought the young worthy of honor, yet still we must recommend them to the Scriptures in order to complete their wisdom, regulate their conduct Lhrough life and guide them to happiness forever. " The Act of 1787 proYiding for the government of the Northwest Territory stated that Section 16 in every township should be given to schools, and Section 29 should be used for the purpose of religion. The preamble read: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged." "Of the 119 colleges first founded east of the Mississippi river, 104 were Christian colleges." "All the ew England colleges were born of the Christian impulse and on the theory that the Christian church owed a duty to society in the matter of education. " - President W. 0. Thompson. THE PRODUCT OF THE COLLEGE STATESME "It costs something to have colleges, but it costs infinitely more not to have them. American democracy would not rest secure as it does today if hundreds of leaders had not devoted to the country , the fruits of their college training." 1\Iore than half the signers of the Declaration of Independence were college graduates. Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania. George Washington was Chancellor of the College of William and Mary. The leading trustee of Hampden-Sidney College was Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson was both the graduate of a Christian college and the founder of a university Among other early graduates of distinction were HamiltQn, Marshall, fonroe, James Otis, John Hancock, Samuel and John Adams. Daniel ·Webster stirred the Supreme Court of the United States as it has seldom been stirred in his famous plea for Dartmouth College. Before the Civil war, Stonewall Jackson was the head of a school and at its close Robert E. Lee accepted the presidency of a college. No man knew better than Abraham Lincoln the value of education and in 1862 he signed the "Land-grant Bill," which virtually created fifty colleges in the West. ''He fixed my destiny in life,'' saidThomasJefferson of,VilliarnSmall, a rncmber of the faculty of "William and Mary college. - 15 -