1963-1964 Academic Catalog

GENERAL INFORMATION Cedarville College Cedarville College students receive thorough academic instruction in arts and sciences closely integrated with Biblical Christian perspec– tives. Faculty members provide willing, careful, Christian advice and counsel. The College emphasizes an evangelical, conservatively Biblical theological position in regard to doctrine and patterns of conduct. All students enroll in a Bible course each semester until they have finished the required Bible sequence. Students come primarily from Regular Baptist churches through– out the United States. However, the College welcomes eligible young people from other churches in its student body. Cedarville College ad– mits only those who profess to be born-again believers. LOCATION Cedarville College is located in a rural community but possesses the advantage of being within easy driving distance from several cities of central and southwestern Ohio. The village, Cedarville, Ohio, where– in the college is located, is situated in Greene County and lies about 46 miles southwest of Columbus, 60 miles northeast of Cincinnati, 26 miles from Dayton, 11 miles south of Springfield, and 8 miles from Xenia. HISTORY Cedarville College was originally conceived and founded by The Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 1887 that group obtained a charter from the State of Ohio for the college. The first session opened on September 9, 1894. In that year thirty-six students were enrolled and classes were conducted in a rented house, formerly owned by the Reverend Hugh MacMillan, who had conducted an academy there in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Among the faculty members that first year was W. R. McChesney, later the president of the college. In another year the first college building, "Old Main," had been com– pleted; and from 1895 on classes have been conducted there. In 1928 the General Synod of The Reformed Presbyterian Church unanimously voted to transfer "all control, ownership, title, and vested property rights of the Cedarville College" to the Board of Trustees of the College "and their successors forever." On April 4, 1953, the Trustees of the Baptist Bible Institute of Cleveland met with the Trustees of Cedarville College. By a process of resignations and elections, the ownership and control of Cedarville Col– lege passed completely into the hands of the Trustees of the Baptist Bible Institute with the vision and purpose of having a distinctively Baptist liberal arts college. In the fall of 1954 the Trustees of Cedar– ville College met and voted to discontinue the Bible Institute program and to concentrate on the work of a liberal arts college. 4