THE
OHIO STATE
UNIVERSITY
Copyright 2011 by The Ohio State University.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Goerler, Raimund E. (Raimund Erhard), 1948
The Ohio State University : an illustrated history / Raimund E. Goerler. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-: -- 8142 - 1154 - (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-: - 8142 - 1154 - (cloth : alk. paper)
. Ohio State UniversityHistory. I. Title.
LD 4228 .G 2011
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2010043954
Cover design by Jeffrey Smith of Designsmith
Text design by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe
Type set in Adobe Minion Pro
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Senator Justin Morrill ( 1810 1898 )
Morrill and Lincoln Towers (left to right)
Photo from 1870 s showing military training
Reuben P. Cannon, member of the Ohio House of Representatives, ca. 1870
Ralph Leete, one of the first members of the board of trustees
First page of the Cannon Act, ca. 1870
Excerpt from a circular distributed to newspapers in Ohio that announced the opening of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College on September , 1873
Governor Rutherford B. Hayes
Joseph Sullivant
Sullivant Hall
Valentine B. Horton, president of the first board of trustees
Handwritten notes by Joseph Sullivant concerning the curriculum and organization of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College
Norton S. Townshend, elected first professor of agriculture in 1873
Townshend Hall in 1906
Campus map 1876
Campus map, ca. 1878
Engraving of University Hall 1873
OSUs first faculty, 1873 1874
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, first professor of physics, 1873 1884
The Physics Building, built in 1904
University Hall library, 1889
First dormitory students
University Hall, completed 1873
Minutes for the first faculty meeting of The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College
First graduating class, 1878
CHAPTER TWO
Edward Orton
The first presidential residence
Kuhn Honors and Scholars House
An 1890 s photo of Professor Edward Orton taking students of a tour of geological samples displayed in Orton Hall
An 1880 s photograph of Professor Orton with students on a geological field trip
Walter Quincy Scott
Chapel service in University Hall, 1880 s
A 1912 portrait of Walter Quincy Scott by George Bellows
William Henry Scott
Scott Hall
James Canfield
Canfield Hall
William Oxley Thompson
Bust of Thompson by Bruce Saville, located in the Main Library
Statue of President Thompson on campus
George Washington Rightmire
Stillman Hall
A mural by Emerson Burkhart
Two students following the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rightmire Hall
Howard L. Bevis
Bevis Hall
Novice Fawcett
President Fawcett with a donor
The Fawcett Center for Tomorrow
Ovalwood Hall, Mansfield Campus
Harold Enarson
President Enarson with students
Enarson Hall
Edward Jennings
President Jennings with students
Jennings Hall
E. Gordon Gee
President Gee helping students move in to dormitories
President Gee at fund-raising event
President Kirwan
President Kirwan with students
President Karen Holbrook
President E. Gordon Gee
CHAPTER THREE
Charles Thorne
William R. Lazenby
The Agricultural Experiment Station, on the site of present-day Lazenby Hall
The Ag Experiementation Station, as it was on the Columbus campus
Ohio governor James Campbell
Campbell Hall, shown in 1954
Hayes Hall (completed 1892 )
Orton Hall (completed 1893 )
Nial R. Hysell
Engineering class building pontoon bridge, 1943
B-s fly over OSU campus, 1943
Professor Samuel Renshaw (shown standing)
Army men in school, 1943
OSU President Howard Bevis (left) standing in front of the marker designating status of OSU men in service
War Research Laboratory
OSU Professor Herrick Johnston in the Cryogenic Laboratory
Physical training exercise on the campus in wartime
Scene at a navy recruiting office
Temporary campus accommodations for student veterans
Student demonstrations for free speech on campus, 1960 s
Student takeover of the Administration Building (now Bricker Hall), April 1968
A peaceful student demonstration in front of the Administration Building, 1969
Women students demonstrating for equal rights on campus
Students confront the National Guard on the Oval, April and May 1970
Scene at Mirror Lake
CHAPTER FOUR
George Bellows, ca. 1903
Milton Caniff, 1982
Charles Csuri in 1986
Edgar Dale in 1953
Max Fisher, ca. 1993
Paul Flory
William Fowler
Thomas French
A. B. Graham in 1919
Frank W. Hale, Jr.
Scene at the Hale Center, with director Larry Williamson in 1997
Eileen Heckart in 1961
Charles F. Kettering
John Kraus
Benjamin Lamme, 1920
Jerome Lawrence (shown with Robert E. Lee at right, ca. 1960 s)
Roy Lichtenstein, 1995
Ralph Mershon, 1911
William G. Myers
Richard Olsen
Jesse Owens, 1935
Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson
James Thurber
Les Wexner
Robert Zollinger
Alumni reunion in 1935
The Longaberger Alumni House
CHAPTER FIVE
Welcome Week
Horton Literary Society, 1894
The Philomathean Literary Society, 1903
Mollie Murrys Boarding Club in 1892
A student room in 1897
The Makio staff, 1887
The Lantern staff, 1893
The Townshend Society in agricultural education in 1908
The Chemical Society in 1892
The Sphinx Honor Society in 1919
Chimes, 1936
Bucket and Dipper, 1931
Mortar Board, 1965
A campus cleanup project, 1984
Student cheerleaders, 1974
The Cosmopolitan Club in 1918
Omega Psi Phi in 1930
Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1929
Dr. Caroline Breyfogle, first Dean of Women, 1912
Joseph Park, first Dean of Men, appearing with Bucket and Dipper
Some aspects of student life
Various campus recreations
Protests over OSUs refusal of an invitation to play football in the Rose Bowl of January , 1962
Student scene in 1964
Student demonstration scene, February 1969
Student demonstration, May 1970
Informal moments of student life
Fashions and fads
Views of the new Student Union, 2010
CHAPTER SIX
Pole vault in 1893
Two images from the OSU yearbook, Makio, 1880 s
Campus map from 1888
Campus map from 1897
First football team, 1890
First basketball team, 1897
The Armory in 1902
Gymnasium in the Armory
Campus map, 1900
Ohio Field in 1915
Professor Thomas E. French in 1902 yearbook
George Rightmire as a young professor at OSU, ca. 1911
Lynn W. St. John, 1914
Chic Harley, ca. 1918
OSU plays Northwestern, 1916
Radio broadcast of OSU football, ca. 1935
Stadium Drive parade in downtown Columbus
Ohio stadium under construction, 1921
Three swells with tickets waiting outside the Ohio Stadium, 1930
Students outside dormitory within the Ohio Stadium
The Mens Physical Education Building and Natatorium in 1932
A scene at the Natatorium in 1935