Asbury - interesting articles
FLORA TURMAN WINS
Source: Greencastle Banner 3
June 1875 p 3
A young lady, Miss Flora Turman of Greencastle, takes the first honors of Asbury University this year. “They that are last shall be first,” says the Good Book. The girls were long in gaining admission to Asbury, and did so in the face of an opposition which resorted to every possible device to keep them out. But the mills of the gods ground slowly and in this case they have ground exceedingly fine for now we see one of those same girls standing at the head of all the students of the University. Now let us hear no more of the inability of females to compete with males in study. That adominable notion has received its quietus and now belongs to the Ancients. The world has moved forward one notch more, and the Banner losses up its metaphorical cap in honor of the event.
MOLASSES MESS
Source: Greencastle Banner Feb 19, 1874 p 3
“Asbury Amusement” – Tuesday morning when the faculty and students of Asbury assembled in chapel for prayers, molasses was found to have been spilled by some one during the previous night in the chairs on the rostrum and on the seats in the body of the chapel. One young man spread his white handkerchief over the saccharine fluid and sat down on it. When he afterwards stood up, a flag of truce gracefully floated in the rear – the handkerchief had stuck to his clothing!