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represented the University; among them were funerals of the older faculty members and village worthies at which he delivered appropriate sermons of sympathy and appreciation. His handling many details relating to student behavior, which had hitherto taken great amounts of time at faculty meetings as well as the energies of the President, was a distinct advantage to Dr. Dodge.
The faculty of the entire University which numbered 13 in 1869 grew to 22 in 1890, primarily to keep pace with the rising enrollment in the preparatory and theological departments. Six of the earlier group and eight of the later group were ministers. Five professors on the staff at the beginning of the period were still active at its conclusion-Beebee, Osborn, Andrews, Harvey, and Taylor; all were graduates. Their long tenure may be explained to some degree, at least, by their devotion to the University and its purposes: of training young men for the ministry, and of Christian education. Like their colleagues elsewhere, they, too, accepted low incomes to enable the institution to sustain itself. In 1869 the professors’ salaries at Madison were $1,500; by the mid-’70’s substantial increases were possible, thanks in part to a matching gift from James B. Colgate, but by 1890 the scale for College
