1917-1918 Academic Catalog

HISTORICAL STATEMENT Cedarvil1e College is under the control of the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. It was char– tered 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 conducted an academy from which many noted men graduated. Rev. David McKinney, D. D., LL. D., was the first presi– dent and continued in this capacity for twenty-one years. Rev. Wilbert Renwick McChesney, Ph.D., D. D., has the distinction of being the first professor of the new college, and in 1915 he was elected to succeed Doctor McKinney as president. 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 sev– eral years before. Both the buildings and the campus are the gifts of generous friends. LOCATION Cedarville College has its seat in the beautiful little village of Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, which is located on the Little Miami Division of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, forty-seven miles southwest of Columbus ; seventy-three miles northeast of Cincinnati; twelve miles south of Springfield, and eight miles northeast of Xenia. 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 Cedar ville is level, fer– tile, improved, and in every way suited for a pleasant resi– dence. Any who have children to educate, and wish to be with them during their college course, can find no finer region and no better society than in this community.