New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . of what became Middle Collegewere laid in 1845. In 1846 a charter was obtainedfrom the territorial legislature for a school of learn-ing and, on Nov. 4, 1847, five young men who hadbeen attending the so-called **seminary formedthemselves into a college class. Since then Beloithas moved forward to a position of prestige amongwestern colleges. Not many institutions. East orWest, have been blessed with men of such intellec-tual and spiritual power as those who for a longperiod of years gave luster to the teaching staff—
New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . of what became Middle Collegewere laid in 1845. In 1846 a charter was obtainedfrom the territorial legislature for a school of learn-ing and, on Nov. 4, 1847, five young men who hadbeen attending the so-called **seminary formedthemselves into a college class. Since then Beloithas moved forward to a position of prestige amongwestern colleges. Not many institutions. East orWest, have been blessed with men of such intellec-tual and spiritual power as those who for a longperiod of years gave luster to the teaching staff—Aaron L. Chapin, Joseph Emerson, Jackson , J. J. Blaisdell and William Porter. Presi-dent Chapin, whose birthplace was Hartford, Ct.,ranks with the great college presidents of America. NEW ENGLAND AND WISCONSIN 77 In his active presidency, lasting thirty-six years, hebuilt up the college, beginning with the foundationsthemselves. He also exercised a powerful influenceupon the public men and policies of the up the state on a sightly hilltop is an-. SAMPLE MIGRATIONS FROM NEW ENGLAND TO WISCONSIN rHE arrows indicate the impact of New Englanders upon differentcommunities. To Beloit went colonists from Colebrook and Bed-ford, N. H. The lines connecting Pitts field, N. H., and Bipon, Green-field, Mass., and Madison, Danville, Vt., and Janesville, Chatham, Mass.,and Racine, indicate the influence of individual settlers. other college of the New England type. The villageof Ripon, whose name it bears, was founded in of its early settlers were New Yorkers, butthe town had its beginnings in a Fourierite settle-ment down in the valley of Ceresco, the leading 78 NEW ENGLAND IN TSE LIFE OF THE WORLD spirit in which was Warren Chase, born at Pitts-field, N. H., and then only thirty-one years man who did most to give the college in thoseearly days a real collegiate standing was E. Merriman, who took the helm in was born in Hinsd
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