Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . been appropriated for the repairof buildings. Two years later another sum of $10,000 was votedfor the same purpose. The following year $5,000 for general The year 1886 indicates still anotherrecognition; of the $8,000 intendedfor the college, $5,000 of it was toestablish a Chair of Pedagogy. Thiswas a wise move. As has been in-timated Ohio University in its earlyhistory was noted as a strong teach-ers college. This phase of herwork was now to be strengthenedby offering distinctly pedagogicalcourses. Dr. J. P. Gordy was calledto the Chair of Pedagog
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . been appropriated for the repairof buildings. Two years later another sum of $10,000 was votedfor the same purpose. The following year $5,000 for general The year 1886 indicates still anotherrecognition; of the $8,000 intendedfor the college, $5,000 of it was toestablish a Chair of Pedagogy. Thiswas a wise move. As has been in-timated Ohio University in its earlyhistory was noted as a strong teach-ers college. This phase of herwork was now to be strengthenedby offering distinctly pedagogicalcourses. Dr. J. P. Gordy was calledto the Chair of Pedagogy and it wasa wise selection. Students began toflock, as in the days of McGuffey,to Athens. The direct appropriations con-tinued to increase year by year. In1896 bonds to the amount of $55,000were voted for the erection of Ewing Hall, now the administra-tion building. This same year President Super was succeeded byDr. Isaac Crook, who managed the affairs of-the institution until1898. Dr. Super again took charge of the institution and in 1901. President, Dr. CharlesW. SurER. Ohio University. 443 gave way to Dr. Alston Ellis, who retains the position at this administration of President Ellis has marked a new anddistinct era in the life of the Ohio University. It ushered inthe Greater Ohio University. President Ellis with his longexperience as a public school and college man has made a dis-tinct impression on the policy of the institution, in the way ofnew and better things. This decade has witnessed the expenditure of more money by the State of Ohio on this pioneer col-lege than in the whole century of its history. In 1900 therewere five buildings on the campus. Now there are there was a faculty of twenty-two, now there are sixty-seven. Then there was a yearly enrollment of four hundredstudents, now there is one of fifteen hundred. The wholeamount expended by the state in the way of permanent im-provements and maintenancein this period is over a mil-lion an
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