1902-1903 Academic Catalog

6 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. GENERAL INFORMATION. HISTORY. ·william Gibson, Esq., of Cincinnati, bequeathed $25,000 for the endowment fund of a college to be erected in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, at Cedarville, Ohio. The institution was duly chartered by the State of Ohio in January, 1887. On Wednesday, September 19, 1894, the college opened for instruction in the mansion formerly owned by Rev. Hugh MacMillan, D. D., where over a third of a cen– tury ago he conducted an academy, from which were graduated many noted personages. The accommodations not being sufficient for the needs of the second year, the trustees had the present building erected on the site purchased several years before. Both the building and the campus are the gifts of generous friends. The income of the College consists of the interest from its endow– ment, voluntary subscriptions from friends, collections from the differ- . ent congregations under the care of the General Synod of the Re– formed Presbyterian Church, and the tuition of the students. The College needs and should have at once an additional endowment of $75 ,000. The College is pledged to a Christian education along mod– em lines. Here, then, is an opportunity for wealthy persons interested in the diffusion of Christian knowledge to invest their means·perma– nently to their own honor, the good of others, and the glory of God. Sums ranging from $500 dollars up will be received and funded per– petually in the name of the donor for the endowment. Though young, the College has already exerted a lasting and wide-felt influ– ence. Its students and graduates have taken prominent places in seminaries, universities and other advanced schools of training. Sev– eral of them are filling positions of power and influence. The College include four department , the Cla ical, the Philo-