College Work. 19 the meeting of the Associate Reformed Synod of Illinois, it was, at the request of the })resbytery, taken under the care of the synod and entrusted, in its government, to fi Board of Trustees, consisting of twenty-four members, eighteen to be elected by the synod — including those already in olHce elected by the Second Associate Reformed presbytery — and six to be elected by the Board of Trustees itself. Thus Monmouth College organized first as an academy, then changed into a college, was ready for faculty and students. The Rev. David A. AVallace, at this time pastor of the East Boston Associate Reformed Mission Church, having been chosen President, with Rev. Marion Morrison, an esteemed classmate at Miami Univer- sity, Professor of Mathematics, and Rev. J. R. Brown, the former principal. Professor of Latin, came to Monmouth in February, 1856, to visit the field with a view of considering the question of accepting or declining the offer of president of the incipient col- lege. He returned to his home in East Boston, and, after consulting his wife — a thing he always did before deciding an important question of life — -he decided to accept. He was led to this conclusion largely by the health of his wife, who could not stand the stormy