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CHAPTER II. FROM 1855 TO THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT LAWS, NOV.
1861. HE Second Annual Commencement of the college was on the
twenty-sixth of June, 1856. The two Literary Societies celebrated
jointly their first anniversary on Monday night preceding
Commencement Day. Rev. S. J. P. Anderson, D. D., then pastor of the
Central Presbyterian church in St. Louis, delivered the address,
choosing for his subject "The Treasure in Words." The graduating
class consisted of three members: Robert N. Baker, Jacob P.
Broadwell, and Robert McPheeters. With this class graduated Hon.
John A. Hockaday, who had taken the entire course except a part of
the prescribed Greek, and was therefore the first scientific
graduate of Westminster College. Mr. Hockaday has since received
the honorary degree of A. M. from the Institution, an honor most
richly deserved. The number of students in attendance during the
year was 120, representing five states. Also the degree of LL. D.
from Central College, Mo. The summary, taken from the Catalogue,
shows that Westminster thus early was a living College, as all the
regular classes were in existence and at work. Summary of students
for the year ending June, 1856: Senior Class, 3; Junior Class, o;
Sophomore Class, 4; Freshman Class, 7; Sub-Freshman Class, 20;
Second Class, 20; First Class, 32; Irregulars, 28; Total, 120. The
First Class consisted of those beginning Latin, the Second, of
those in the second, and the Sub-Freshman of those in the third,
year of the Latin course. All students were required to study Latin
three years and the Greek two years before entering the lowest
class in College. This fact may account, at least in some degree,
for the high standing our graduates took in the classics in every
theological Seminary in which the College...
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