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Excerpt from Inauguration of William James Hutchins, President of Berea College, October the Twenty-Second, Nineteen Hundred Twenty
Berea College had its beginning in a District School, started in 1854. At that time the ridge, where the village and the campus with its buildings are now located, was a wilderness of trees and brush. A charter for an institution of higher education was drafted in 1858, with Reverend John G. Fee as President Of the Board of Trustees, Reverend J. A. R. Rogers as Principal, and John Hanson as Treasurer. The founders of the Institution were men of heroic mold. Mr. Fee, the son of a slave holder in northern Kentucky, was converted to the anti slavery cause While a student in Lane Theological Seminary. Disinherited by his father because of his views, he devoted his life to preaching the doc trine of impartial love. He was invited to locate at Berea by Cassius M. Clay, an advocate of emancipation. Here he gathered a little colony of sympathizers from both North and South, established a Union Church of which he was the pastor, and laid the plans for an institution of high er education. Mr. Rogers, the first principal, was a native of New Eng land and of Puritan descent. He was well educated, a skilful teacher, and ambitious to found a Christian college at some place where it was most needed. He came to Berea at the time when everything was in a formative stage and thus was a determining factor in the founding of the College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
