1907-1908 Academic Catalog

GENERAL INFORMATION. HISTORY. The Cedarville College was chartered with full power by the State of Ohio in January, 1887. On Wednesday, September r9, 1894, the College opened for instruction in the rna11sio11 formerly owned by Rev. Hugh Mcl\1illan, D. D., where over a third of a century ago he conducted an academy, from which were graduated many noted personages. The accommodations not being sufficient for the needs of the growing institution, in the second year the present building was erected and opened on the site purchased several years before. Both the building and the campus are the gifts of generous friends. Though young, the college has already exerted a lasting and wide– felt influence. rts students and graduates take prominent places in seminaries, universities and other advanced schools of training. Many of them are worthily filling positions of power and influence in America and foreign lands. The college includes five departments: the Preparatory, the Classical, the Philosophical, the Musical, and the Elocution. In these are students from various parts of the Cnited States preparing for all professions and pursuits of life. ENDOWMENT AND INCOME. GIBSON FUND . The Cedarville College had its practical ongm through the lib– erality of William Gibson, Esq., of Cincinnati, who bequeathed $25,000 for the endowment fund of a college to be erected at Cedar– ville, Ohio, in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, for many years a prominent member and ruling elder in the First Reformed Presby– terian congregation of Cincinnati. COOPER FUND . By the will of the late Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder rn the Cedarville Reformed P resbyterian congregation, the College, 111 the 7