... Musking um C ol le g e S tudent Rebels in the Jazz Age by A WILLIAM HOGLUND During the 1920's Muskingum College of New Concord Ohio experienced student unrest similar to that which engulfed many campuses Never before had the student body challenged so threateningly the school's traditional code of behavior which embodied certain prescribed social moral and spiritual values known as the Muskingum Spirit Originally founded by Presbyterians as a small liberal arts college without formal church ...
... JANET R JANET R DALY BEDNAREK False Beacon Regional Planning and the Location of Dayton's Municipal Airport Introduction At first glance one might logically conclude that the location of Dayton's municipal airport represented a case of deliberate regional planning Approximately eleven miles north of the city's central business district its placement near the city of Vandalia Ohio suggests that those who chose that location had an image or vision of the city of Dayton which extended beyond the ...
... DR DR JOHN LO CKE EARLY OHIO SCIENTIST 1792-1856 by ADOLPH E W AL LER Associat e P rofessor and Curator of the Botan ic Gard en Oh io S ta te University The nineteenth century in the United States suddenly swung into its expanding programs of research and education No one was prepared for the impact of the increasing realization of the power over nature which man now possessed The illusion of the perfectibility of all men through knowledge stretched undimmed The inherent weaknesses of man and ...
... MARC L MARC L HARRIS The Process of Voluntary Association Organizing the Ravenna Temperance Society 1830 With attention beginning now to focus on voluntary association as a characteristic feature of pre-Civil War American life it is important not to lose sight of the phenomenon of voluntary organization as itself a historical problem One aspect of this problem that particularly needs discussion is a complex of issues arising from the extraparliamentary nature of voluntary groups This aspect ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 ing with the connections I must leave behind me but the society of our friends but poorly compensates for the want of a subsistence We have a large circle of little ones dependent on us and I know of no persuit that would give me more pleasure than that of providing an easy Liveing for them Emigration has ever played its part in the making of history and in every land since Moses led his trusting band to the land ...
... THE SEMI-COLON CLUB THE SEMI-COLON CLUB OF CINCINNATI by LOUIS L TUCKER Among the holdings of the Cincinnati Historical Society1 is a box of manuscripts containing 126 documents and a single volume of a shortlived magazine titled The Semi-Colon which consists of three numbers2 These two source materials represent the sole remains of the Semi-Colon Club a literary society that flourished in Cincinnati during the 1830's and 1840's 3 The activities of this club constitute a significant chapter in ...
... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications These swarming hordes of careless unclean illy housed and frequently immoral people make the conservation of the health of the children a moral question with which religionists as well as humanitarians must deal Let us not forget that while we are doing something for the children they are doing a great deal for us Those who freely give out love and service and sacrifice get much that is of inestimable value in return The reflex action ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A VISIT FROM BENJAMIN LUNDY A letter of Ruth Galbreath wife of Nathan Galbreath dated New Garden Ohio 2nd mo 3rd 1833 contains among other things a description of a visit from Benjamin Lundy which may be of interest to readers of this issue of the QUARTERLY as it expresses the regard of Columbiana County Quakers for this reformer and bears testimony to the fact that ...
... REMARKS OF I REMARKS OF I N STURTEVANT DD I HAV E an ambition to speak on this occasion I wish to make a statement in the line of what has been said to-day which it may be bold for me to make and yet there is a fire in my bones that will not let me rest unless I make it I have looked to-day on the cemeteries here the burial places of the Indians-nothing left of these but the monuments of their day the cemetery where sleep the dead the soldier heroes of four wars and somehow filled as I have ...
... array of secondary array of individuals What array of documentary and artifactual evidence to defend his conclusions Within the appendices readers will find genealogies accounts and analysis of the military encounters of April 19th and a detailed historiography of Revere's famous journey Throughout the prose is exciting and the text ...
... 358 Ohio Arch 358 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REPORT OF WILLIAM C MILLS Secretary Building Committee I trust as Secretary of the Building Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society that a brief history of the building including its cost as it now stands will be of interest at this time The appropriation of 100000 for this building was made by the 79th General Assembly 1911 It was presented to the assembly through the Auditor of State's office and acted upon ...
... 390 Ohio Arch 390 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Rickly was President He served that institution thoroughly acquainting himself with the banking business until November 4 1905 having been Assistant cashier for many years past On October 21 1905 he was elected Secretary of the Ohio State Savings and Loan Association of which institution he had been a Director some ten or twelve years previous assuming the duties of his new position November 14 1905 On January 1 1906 Mr Wood was ...
... Lincoln and His Ohio Friends Lincoln and His Ohio Friends By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIEWPOINTS which helped to mold the political career of Abraham Lincoln1 a major influence was Joshua R Giddings antislavery congressman 1838-59 from Jefferson Ohio2 Over a period of years Lincoln and his Springfield Illinois law partner William Henry Herndon read abolitionist literature together and Lincoln became a careful student of Giddings' speeches3 Professor Elbert J Benton has ...
... DAVID A DAVID A NIEDRINGHAUS Dress Rehearsal For World War I The Ohio National Guard Mobilization of 1916 The Ohio National Guard like the National Guard of other states has a long history of service to its citizens and to the United States Its heritage is rooted in the militia system that has played such a vital role in the nation's history In times of crisis-natural disasters civil disturbances or wars and rebellions-it has often been called upon to serve until the crisis subsides and either ...
... John Hay in London 1897-1898 John Hay in London 1897-1898 By Louis MARTIN SEARS The mission of John Hay to London 1897-98 was among the most successful in his country's annals Time and the man had met The Venezuelan incident happily was past leaving few scars The Boer War while looming larger as a portent had not yet terminated Britain's golden age yet forces were already casting the diplomacy of Great Britain and America as well into a new mold The two leaders of the Anglo-Saxon world ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director Two important manuscript collections the Jacob H Schiff Papers and the Felix M Warburg Papers have been acquired recently by the archives In addition to numerous other documents and manuscript collections the minute and record books of thirty-one Jewish congregations were added during 1951 to bring the total to over five hundred volumes the largest collection of this type extant ...
... ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BARN SYMBOLS By AUGUST C MAHR On a great number of Pennsylvania Dutch barns there are geometrical ornaments painted on the outside walls ornaments which as a rule show some sort of star within a circular disk Figs 1 2 8 10b They occur most frequently in Berks and the neighboring counties less frequently in other parts of Pennsylvania and locally even in Ohio and other states of the Union where Pennsylvania ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume II April-September 1861 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1969 xxix 399p foreword preface chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 In his own lifetime Ulysses S Grant was an enigma to most politicians and generals who knew him The Grant revealed in his memoirs was either an overly modest or uncommonly fortunate general The shape of his character and the secrets of his success are not ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR KENTUCKY-MOTHER OF UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES This is the title of valuable compilation by A C Quisenberry published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society for January 192 0 It appears from this that Kentucky has given to other states sixty-one United States senators and one hundred fifty-one represensatives in Congress making a total ...