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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
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