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Historical Address 
 
 delivered at tne 
 
 INAUGURATION of 
 HERBERT McCOMB MOORE 
 
 as President of 
 
 Lake Forest University 
 November 4, 1921 
 
 ©y JAMES G: K. McCLURE 
 
 President of ^^cCormick Tneological Seminary 
 
Lake Forest College Bulletin No. 17 
 
 Published monthly by authority of the Board of 
 Trustees of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois 
 
 Entered as second class matter, April 18, 1921, at 
 the Post Office at Lake Forest, Illinois, under the 
 Act of August 24, 1912. Accepted for mailing at 
 special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, 
 Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized May 6, 1921 
 
 
Over one of the gateways of Harvard University is a 
 tablet on which are inscribed the reasons why Harvard was 
 originated. One of the reasons is that a godly ministry of 
 the Gospel might be perpetuated. That reason had come 
 across the Atlantic from the beginnings of Oxford and Cam- 
 bridge Universities in England. It was later to appear in 
 the hearts of those who started Yale. Still later, as the star 
 of empire wended its way to the west, it was to appear in 
 Illinois. About the year 1853, earnest Presbyterians in 
 Chicago felt that there should be a theological seminary 
 of their denominational type somewhere in the vicinity of 
 the city. The Northwest was developing rapidly. Other 
 needs, commercial and social, were receiving attention. Re- 
 ligious needs should not be slighted. Efforts to plant a Sem- 
 inary at Galena did not appeal to Chicago men. In 1855, 
 an offer by a man of Cincinnati to give ^40,000 to endow a 
 Presbyterian college near Chicago stimulated thought into 
 active effort. Accordingly investigation was made for a 
 site. South, west and north the land was examined. Lake 
 Forest, beautiful, with its woods, ravines and bluff, suf- 
 ficiently near and sufficiently far, was chosen. Then, Feb. 
 28, 1856, the articles of incorporation of the Lake Forest 
 Association were drawn up. Their preamble read : "Encour- 
 aged by the offer of a benevolent individual to make a large 
 donation for the purpose of founding an institution of 
 learning of a high order, to be located somewhere between 
 the city of Chicago and Waukegan, on the shore of Lake 
 Michigan," the subscribers agreed to aid in such enterprise 
 by providing necessary amounts for the institution of learn- 
 ing and for other institutions to be associated with it on 
 the same general basis. 
 
 The original project was to purchase at Lake Forest '/" 
 
 1300 acres from those who had small holdings, "50 being 
 set apart for the institutions of learning, 30 for the college, 
 10 for the academy and 10 for a female seminary," the re- 
 mainder to be sold for the benefit of the association or to be 
 assigned for park purposes. In order to obtain the desired 
 1300 acres, it became necessary to buy adjoining lots. 
 2300 acres all told were thus bought, the price generally 
 
being $25 an acre, though in some cases $100 an acre was 
 paid. 
 
 Then landscape gardeners, animated by the ambition 
 to make Lake Forest a place of rare attractiveness, laid out 
 Lake Forest's winding streets. Soon bridges began to ap- 
 pear, and homes to be erected. All was shaping for the in- 
 stitutions of learning. The last wild deer was seen along 
 its principal street in 1859, though prairie chickens contin- 
 ued on the edges of Lake Forest until toward 1878. 
 
 But, propitious as the future seemed, delay ensued. The 
 benevolent individual with his $40,000 offer, turned out tc 
 be a whiskey distiller, who had made the offer in a spirit 
 of penance, and who found himself unable to carry out 
 his offer. The high-minded Presbyterians were somewhat 
 disgusted with the whole transaction, and enthusiasm 
 waned. However, Sylvester Lind, a Chicago Scotchman, 
 came forward and offered $100,000 for theological and other 
 education, on condition that the Association raise $100,000 
 for building and improvements. Thereupon a charter was 
 secured from the State Legislature, incorporating "The 
 Lind University," Feb. 13, 1857. 
 
 The prospect was most cheering. The affairs of the As- 
 sociation were in admirable condition. Lands were being 
 sold and all sorts of developing plans were in mind. But 
 the financial panic of 1858 came. It crippled Mr. Lind, so 
 that he could not carry out his promise, nor were others in 
 Chicago able to provide generous gifts, and still in 1858 
 the Academy started, and in 1869 Ferry Hall, and in 1876 
 the College, the Rev. Robert W. Patterson, Aug. 10, 1875, 
 becoming the President of "Lake Forest University," as 
 the title had been changed to be, Feb. 16, 1865. Since that 
 time over 4,000 students have matriculated in the Academy, 
 over 4200 in Ferry Hall, and over 2500 in the College. 
 
 The origin of Lake Forest University as a general an- 
 ticipation and as a definite fact was religious. The whole 
 project was born in hearts devoted to the will of God. The 
 procedures of forming the Lake Forest Association were 
 held in the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and were 
 attended by earnest prayer. The appeal to the subscribers 
 was largely on the religious ground. The persons who came 
 here to plant home? were outstandingly religious. 
 
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When the product of the Association appeared, the 
 Academy was the headquarters of the religious life of the 
 community until, years later, a church building was erect- 
 ed. Ferry Hall, named from the Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, of 
 Fairhaven, Michigan, whose bequest established Ferry Hall 
 was intended to crown intellectual training with spiritual 
 grace. The College started with high purposes of contribut- 
 ing to the religious welfare of the Northwest, its bell sum- 
 moning the entire Lake Forest community to Sunday wor- 
 ship until 1887. The raison d'etre of this institution is re- 
 ligious. 
 
 Lake Forest has had in its administrative and teaching 
 forces many characters of outstanding worth. Coming as 
 I did into connection with Lake Forest in 1881, and enter- 
 ing immediately into close relationship to all its life, I have 
 known and had touch with every one of the heads of the 
 Academy, of Ferry Hall and of the College, and not only 
 the heads have I known but I have also known the men and 
 women who as friends and supporters have carried the 
 responsibility of this institution from the very beginning. 
 That responsibility has required much skill, devotion and 
 patience. Starting as it did, when the financial affairs of 
 Chicago and of the nation were seriously embarrassed, it 
 started without the provision of a sufficient endowment. 
 Two groups — they might be called parties so distinct and 
 opposed were they — existed at the outset, and continued to 
 exist for many years; one group believed that nothing 
 should be done in initiating the college movement until an 
 endowment was secured adequate to the necessary expense 
 account. The other group believed that the College should 
 be set in operation in the expectation that its annual needs 
 would be provided, and that little by little an endowment 
 would be built up. Each group had its own view of trusting 
 God in the matter ; what was trust to one was presumption 
 to the other. The opinions of the second group prevailed. 
 If the attitude of the first group had dominated, it is very 
 doubtful if the college would have been born. Suffice it to 
 say that, though collegiate education requires much money 
 to make it answer to its ends, sufficient money has been ob- 
 tained to meet the annual expenditures, and besides an en- 
 dowment has been gradually acquired of so worthy an 
 
amount as to place Lake Forest on a foundation that is sure 
 and potential. This endowment has some distinguishing 
 provisions, as for instance the Bross Fund, a Fund which 
 is broad, large and stimulating, and which is bound as time 
 goes on to make contributions to scholarship that will com- 
 mand the attention of the leading minds and the leading in- 
 stitutions of the world. 
 
 Inasmuch as I have been so intimately associated with 
 the life of the University in its different departments for 
 so many years, serving as Trustee since 1889, acquainted 
 with scores of the teachers and their work, knowing inti- 
 mately hundreds of the students and their homes, it would 
 be natural for me today, were I to allow myself to do so, 
 to speak the names of many of those, teachers and students 
 alike, whose memory is a benediction, but time does not per- 
 mit me to do so. However, I cannot forbear the assertion 
 that the faithfulness, the dutifulness and the generosity of 
 those who have through the years constituted the Boards 
 of Trust of this institution have been to me one of the 
 greatest inspirations of my life. They have carried details, 
 contributed time and poured out gifts in a splendidly help- 
 ful way. They have answered to the leadership of the Uni- 
 versity with sustained fidelity and bountifulness. Again 
 and again they have not been able to see far into the years ; 
 it appeared almost as though they faced a blind alley. But 
 they have held in their hearts the assurance that the insti- 
 tution would eventually have a large and beneficent future, 
 and they have believed that successors to themselves would 
 be raised up who would continue and would develop its 
 life. 
 
 There is one name, however, that should be mentioned if 
 any attempt is made to state in few words the history of this 
 institution — the name of Mrs. Charles B. Farwell. She is 
 indeed the mother of the College, and the foster mother of 
 the Academy and Ferry Hall. It was she who, herself an 
 educated New England woman, craved liberal education for 
 the youth of the Northwest. She desired that women as well 
 as men should have the privileges of such education. As 
 yet, in 1875, college co-education was almost untried in 
 the United States. She inspired the starting of the College ; 
 she saw that co-education became one of its features; she 
 
watched over the Academy, and Ferry Hall, and she set in 
 movement the methods and the means whereby the institu- 
 tion as a whole was operated and its expenses met. The 
 University as such would not have been begun without her 
 compulsion, nor would it have continued without her sup- 
 port, and the support she obtained in her home and else- 
 where for it. Her name should be held in everlasting re- 
 membrance in the annals of Lake Forest University. 
 
 Nor can I omit to speak of the sacrifice and the sacri- 
 fices that have entered into the labors incident to the life 
 of this institution. It has been my high privilege to know 
 the motives that in so many instances have lain back in the 
 hearts of those charged with the administration of the 
 Academy, Ferry Hall and the College — pure, noble, disin- 
 terested motives. To know, too, the ideals that have filled 
 the spirit of the teaching staffs — ideals of consecration, 
 hopefulness and devotion; to know also the cost at which 
 these motives and these ideals have been sustained. One 
 of the memories I love to cherish is the memory of the 
 life-blood that has been put into the mortar that holds the 
 stones of this University together — life-blood indeed costly 
 to the individual, that was precious in the sight of God, 
 and that speaks better things than any amount of silver 
 or gold could speak of the purpose and the worth of these 
 departments. 
 
 And the result has been that during these years there 
 has been capable instruction given here — instruction adapt- 
 ed to the individual and to his place and age in world-his- 
 tory. The men and women today laboring in every part of 
 the United States and in every foreign land are a product 
 of which we all may be sacredly proud. They are worth- 
 while men and women ; they are contributors to the advance 
 of humanity, and they are what they are largely by reason 
 of the spirit that was wrought into them while they were 
 here. 
 
 The influence exerted by this institution on the im- 
 mediate community has been markedly beneficial. At the 
 beginning the community life centered largely in these edu- 
 cational interests. With the increase of the population of 
 the community and with the increase of all sorts of physi- 
 cal relaxations, social amenities and material luxuries, these 
 
educational interests have not relatively held so prominent 
 a position; but through all the years and today the pres- 
 ence of these schools has been a steadying, balancing, sober- 
 ing power. It has been a summons from intoxicating pleas- 
 ure to thoughtfulness. Here are these young people, the 
 hope of the world, being prepared for real life! What a 
 responsibility their presence involves! Here are these 
 teachers, with limited salaries, but with rich culture 
 and lofty characters. Immediately material wealth is 
 seen to be not the all nor the best of existence; nor is 
 gaiety the end of being, nor is social recognition the supreme 
 reward. Plain living and high thinking have helped to 
 stabilize this place, and have counteracted the tendencies 
 to dizziness and disaster, which always imperil the upper 
 altitudes of social and financial success. These institutions 
 have paid back more to this community than they have re- 
 ceived from it, and paid back in better coin. They have 
 been the conservators of money, not its dissipators. Not 
 one family has lost by the benefactions it has made, but 
 the rather has enriched itself through these gifts. These 
 educational institutions gave rise to the existence of this 
 place; they are the sources of all its attractiveness for 
 residence. In a word they are the "mother" of every safe 
 and beautiful feature, and to such a mother recognition and 
 gratitude and appreciation well become each and every per- 
 son who dwells here. 
 
 The present status of this institution is admirable. It 
 is to be congratulated on its Board of Trust, most vigorously 
 constituted; on its Alumni constituency from each Depart- 
 ment, with their loyal allegiance ; on the record of its schol- 
 arly work, so extensively recognized ; on the spirit and pur- 
 pose of its newly-elected President; and on the general 
 feeling of safety and promise that fills this hour. 
 
 We dare to look forward to the future courageously. 
 Some lessons, I trust, have been well learned. One is that 
 high-spirited teaching, by instructors of reverential person- 
 al integrity, is an essential to the holding of students and 
 to the developing of the departments. In comparatively 
 small confines such as these are, the spirit as well as the 
 work of every instructor is speedily recognized. Beyond 
 being possessors of effective force and of intelligent ap- 
 
: rehension, the men and women of the Faculties must be 
 splendidly good. Character and ability, each and both, 
 L,re requisite to constructive and parmanent effort. 
 
 Another lesson is safe financing. Many a man can man- 
 age the business affairs of his own particular industry, 
 who cannot manage the business affairs of a complex edu- 
 cational institution. More wit is requisite in creating ex- 
 penses and providing for them in an instituton such as 
 this than in a factory or in a commercial house because of 
 the difficulty of figuring out and providing for the returns 
 on outlay. But wise financing is an absolute requisite in 
 this special community in order to secure and preserve 
 the material cooperation of the community. Such safe 
 financing is a possibility ; besides, as a necessity it is won- 
 derfully stirring, stimulating and healthy. Given six 
 successive years of such financing and gifts will begin to 
 pour in upon this Institution, and will continue to flow to it. 
 
 Then, there is a third requisite, namely, wise administra- 
 tion. The most remarkable feature in the life of this insti- 
 tution, in my judgment, has been the response of the 
 Trustees to leadership. In all the years of its history, it has 
 been its leadership that has determined its condition. The 
 one person for whom special prayer should be offered today 
 and always is the President of this institution. He is the 
 man who must find the way, educationally and financially 
 alike, must find the best way, the safe way, the advancing 
 way, and must guide and lead his Trustees and his teachers 
 into that way. There may be institutions where presidents 
 are mere figure heads, mannikins, worked by Trustees and 
 faculties, but this is not one of such. The welfare of this 
 College lies preeminently on its President, and I rejoice to 
 say that the new President knows and accepts this fact. As 
 goes the President, so goes Lake Forest. 
 
 One additional feature is requisite — the religious at- 
 mosphere. It seems odd to call a religious atmosphere a 
 business asset, but such it is here; it is dollars and cents, 
 it is a balance-sheet to the credit. That atmosphere need not 
 be exclusive. It may and should recognize every expression 
 of religious life whatever its name, so long as it tends to 
 produce Christlikeness. Nor need it be an incubus ; it may 
 and should be like the coming in of light, like wings to the 
 
bird, like a song of inspiration and cheer. It should be as 
 natural as walking and eating, as teaching and playing; 
 but it should be present. Teachers should fill their lungs and 
 hearts and minds with it. Pupils should test their lives 
 and the hopes of the world by it. It is the most beautiful 
 and helpful and joyous of all possible experiences, and every 
 one should be given opportunity to delight himself in it. 
 Perpetuate such an atmosphere, and you perpetuate Lake 
 Forest. Perpetuate such an atmosphere and the centuries 
 will find Lake Forest a fountain head of blessings for all 
 God's earth. 
 

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