178 OHIO
HISTORY
MUSKINGUM COLLEGE
STUDENT REBELS IN THE "JAZZ AGE"
1. William Warren Sweet, Religion on the American Frontier, 1783-1840:
The
Presbyterians (New York, 1936), II, 69-70, 75-76, credits
Presbyterians with the most
important role in establishing
institutions of higher learning such as Muskingum Col-
lege on the frontier in order to develop
a trained clergy.
2. The Philadelphia Record, July 8, 1922.
3. Muskingum College, New Concord,
Ohio: Athletics. Muskingum College Bulletin,
Series XVIII, No. 6 (New Concord, August
1922), 36.
4. Hand Book of Information for
Faculty, Students and Prospective Students, Mus-
kingum College Bulletin, Series XXIII, No. 8 (September
1927), 3.
5. The Eighty-Fourth Annual Catalog
of Muskingum College: Announcements for
the Year 1921-1922 with List of
Students in Attendance 1920-1921, Muskingum
College
Bulletin, Series XVII, Nos. 2-3 (June 1921), 16.
6. Robert W. Evans, onetime chief
librarian at the college, called attention to Judge
David Findley's will in the Record of
Wills, Book D, 1843-1854, p. 336, located in
the Muskingum County Probate Court,
Zanesville, Ohio.
7. Persons connected with the college in
1959 still remembered the conductors
announcing train arrivals in New Concord.
8. For a biography and eulogy see R. J.
Miller, A Christian Educator: John Knox
Montgomery, D.D., LL. D., President
of Muskingum College, 1904-1931 (Pittsburgh,
1932).
9. Special Number, Muskingum College Bulletin, Series I, No. 3 (December
1905),
2-4.
10. Hand Book, 14. The quotation
was expressed as early as 1905 in Special Number,
15.
11. Rules are listed or discussed in Hand
Book, 4, 11-15, 22-23, and Muskingum
College Campus Regulations (New Concord, 1926).
12. The Black and Magenta (student
campus weekly), April 14, 1919; The Mus-
coljuan, 1922 (campus yearbook), 9.
13. Alumni Edition, Muskingum
College Bulletin, Series XX, No. 1 (January
1925), 3.
14. J. Knox Montgomery, "Report of
the President of Muskingum College," The
United Presbyterian Synod of Ohio:
Sixty-First Annual Meeting, September 26th and
27th, 1922, Steubenville, Ohio (n. p., n. d.), [25].
15. Upton Sinclair, The Goose-Step: A
Study of American Education, 2d ed. (Pasa-
dena, 1923), 346-347.
16. Report of the President to the Board
of Trustees of Muskingum College, dated
April 24, 1922; Report of the President
of Muskingum College to the Board of Trustees
for the Year 1924-1925, dated June 9,
1925; and Report of the President of Muskingum
College to the Board of Trustees for
1925-1926, dated June 8, 1926. J. Knox Mont-
gomery Papers, Muskingum College
Library, New Concord, Ohio.
17. W. O. Thompson, "A Greeting
from the President of the Alumni Association,"
Alumni Edition, Muskingum College Bulletin, Series XXIV, No. 7 (October
1928), 3.
18. Hand Book, 14.
19. William Martin Giffin, "Cast in
the Mold," Nineteen Twenty-Six Muscoljuan
(New Concord, [1925]), 141-142.
20. The Black and Magenta, October
20, 1925.
21. Ibid., May 31, 1922.
22. Ibid., February 14, 1928.
23. Robin Morton, "'This Side of
Paradise,'" The Muscoljuan, 1923, of Muskingum
College, New Concord, O. (New Concord, [1922]), 116.
24. The Black and Magenta, October
11, 1927.
25. The Eighty-Fourth Annual Catalog,
p. 15; The Ninety-Third Annual Catalog
of Muskingum College and Continuing
Franklin College, Muskingum College
Bulletin,
Series XXVI, No. 4 (May 1930), 28.
26. The Black and Magenta, April
25, 1923.
27. [John S. Cleland], "Muskingum's
Standards," Alumni Edition, 1926, Mus-
kingum College Bulletin, Series XXII,
No. 9 (Autumn 1926), 2-3. See also Report
of the President of Muskingum College to
the Board of Trustees for the Year 1925-
1926, and G. B. McCleary,
"Founders' Day Address," Alumni Edition, Muskingum
College Bulletin, Series XX, No. 3
(April 1924). 7-8.
28. See Minute Books of Philomathean
Literary Society, 1915-1925; Union Literary
Society, 1913-1923; and Aretean Literary
Society, 1920-1925, in Muskingum College
Library.