Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Halsey made the presentation address on behalf of the class, and Dr. Patton received the gift for the college. A reception was given the alumni and friends of the college by President and Mrs. Patton at their house. The Lynde debate was held in the First Presbyterian Church in the evening. The sophomore reception was held in the University Hall after the debate...
...Smith, the best baseball pitcher Princeton College ever posessed has accepted a call to the Central Presbyterian Church. New York. He was a member of the class of '77 in Princeton, and as a pitcher for the college nine helped the college to keep the inter-collegiate championship for three years...
...Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred and ten of the institutions listed are known as universities...
...United Presbyterian college has been established at Sterling, Kan., under the name of Cooper Memorial College...
...when an act was passed establishing the "University of Michigan," and providing for thirteen professorships, including one for the historical sciences, or "diegetica," as they were called in the pedantic scheme of Judge Woodward, the framer of the act. The method of supplying the faculty was unique. A Scotch Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, was given six professors, in addition to the presidency; while Gabriel Richard, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territory, took the six remaining chairs. In 1821 this preliminary organization was repealed and a board of twenty-one trustees, including the Scotch parson and a Catholic bishop...