1914-1915 Academic Catalog

HISTORICAL STATEMENT. Cedarville College is under the control of the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. It was chartered by the State of Ohio in January, 1887. On Wednesday, September 19, 1894, the College was opened for instruction in the mansion formerly owned by Rev. Hugh McMillan, D . .D., where, half a century ago, he con• ducted an academy from which many noted persons gradu• ated. The accommodations not being sufficient for the needs of the growing institution, in the second year the present main building was erected and opened on the site purchased several years before. Both the buildings and the campus are the gifts of generous friends. Though young, the college has already exerted a lasting and wide-felt in– fluence. Its students and graduates take high rank in seminaries, universities, and other advanced schools of training. Many of them are ,vorthily filling positions of power and influence in America and foreign lands. LOCATION. Cedarville College has its seat in the beautiful little village of Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, which is lo– cated on the Little Miami division of the Pittsburgh, Cin– cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, forty-seven miles southwest of Columbus and seventy-three miles northeast of Cincinnati. It is in the northern part of the Miami Valley, and has one of the most beautiful and healthful locations in Ohio. The country lying about Cedarville is level, fertile, improved, and in every way suited for a