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2. Colgate: This institution, the oldest Baptist theological seminary in America, had its historic beginning in " thirteen men, thirteen prayers, and thirteen dollars," and the resulting organization, in Sept., 1817, of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York, incorporated in 1819, with the purpose of establishing an institution which should afford opportunity for a thorough theological education, including a full literary and scientific course of training and culture. The first student, Jonathan Wade, later renowned in missionary annals, was received in 1818, but it was not till 1820 that the school was definitely organized, at Hamilton, N. Y., which became known as " The Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution." Rev. Daniel Hascall, one of the founders, was the first professor, while among other members of the faculty in the earlier years, Nathanael Kendrick, Barnas Sears (q.v.), Joel S. Bacon, George W. Eaton, and Thomas J. Conant (q.v.) acquired national reputations as scholars and educators. Of the present faculty, the following, who have rendered fifteen or more years of service, are well known in the Baptist world: William H. Maynard, Sylvester Burnham, Arthur Jones, David F. Estes (q.v.), George R. Berry, and William Newton Clarks (q.v.). In 1839, the institution admitted students not having the ministry in view, which led naturally to the organization of a college, which in 1846 was incorporated under the title of Madison (since 1890, Colgate) University. The attempt, finally defeated in 1850, to remove the two institutions from Hamilton created a perilous crisis out of which both moved into increasing prosperity. Three successive compacts (1847, 1853, 1893) between the Education Society and the university have been the basis of the administrative and educational control of the seminary. While the latter has itself no funds, it is the chief beneficiary of the Education Society, the productive endowment of which at the present time (1910) exceeds $770,000. Its library is merged in that of the university, which contains over 55,000 volumes besides periodicals and pamphlets; and the Samuel Colgate Baptist Historical Collection, which is endowed, is the most complete of any in this country in materials relating to the history of the Baptists in England and America. Already the Theological Seminary of Colgate University, to use the present name, has sent out nearly 1,400 students and graduates, of whom nearly 100 have rendered missionary service on foreign fields. The courses of instruction at present cover three years; the senior class spends one term in New York City where it studies the religious and social problems of the large city and methods of religious work. In 1907, an Italian department was opened in Brooklyn for the training of Christian workers among the Italians in America.

WILLIAM H. ALLISON.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jubilee Volume: First Half Century of Madison University n.p., n.d. (probably published at Hamilton, N. Y., 1872).

3. Crozer: Crozer Theological Seminary is located just outside the limits of Chester, Pa., in the borough of Upland, Delaware Co. On Nov. 2, 1868, the widow and seven children of John Price Crozer endowed the seminary with land, buildings, and in-

vested funds amounting to $275,000, and on Apr. 4, 1867, the institution was incorporated by act of legislature. Its trustees and faculty are Baptists, but students of any denomination are admitted. Its earliest instructors were Henry G. Weston (q.v.; president and professor of pastoral theology), G. D. B. Pepper (q.v.; professor of theology), -Howard Osgood (q.v.; professor of Hebrew and church history), and Lemuel Moss (professor of New-Testament literature). The seminary was formally opened Oct. 2, 1868, and graduated its first class of eight students in June, 1870. Since then 696 men have been graduated, including the class of 1910, and 437 others have pursued studies without graduation. Though the youngest of Baptist theological schools, Crozer's roll of alumni includes many of the foremost men in the denomination. It has always stood for the best possible training of every man who is called to the ministry, and among its prominent instructors have been George R. Bliss, professor of Biblical interpretation; John C. Long, professor of church history; Elias H. Johnson (q.v.), professor of systematic theology; and James M. Stiffer, professor of New-Testament exegesis.

The seminary has a faculty of twelve professors and instructors and a board of twenty trustees who elect their successors; is empowered to confer degrees in theology; and confers the de;;rees of B.D. and Th.M. for work done (no honorary degrees). The first president, Henry G. Weston, died Feb. 6, 1909, after a service of forty-one years, and Prof. Milton G. Evans was chosen his successor in June of the same year. In 1910 there were eighty-nine students enrolled (among them being one Methodist and one Disciple), including six resident graduates and one special student. The productive endowment is $600,400, and the number of books in the library is nearly 23,000. HENRY C. VEnnr;It.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Historical Sketch, of Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa., 1898. A brief history of the institution is prefixed to its catalogue each year.

4. Kansas City: The Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, located at Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., Kan., was founded in 1901 to meet the need of the Baptists of the Middle West for an institution devoted exclusively to ministerial education, none such then existing west of Chicago and Louisville. Rev. E. B. Meredith, missionary secretary of the Kansas Baptist State Convention, was president of the board of trustees, and on his retirement in 1902, Rev. S. A. Northrop, of Kansas City, Mo., took his place. Rev. B. W. Wiseman was financial secretary, and others influential in the founding of the school were Rev. T. N. Clark and Rev. S. M. Brown, both of Kansas City, Mo., Rev. J. F. Wells, of Kansas City, Kan., and Prof. M. L. Ward, of Ottawa University, Kan. Mrs. Charles Lovelace, of Turner, Kan., gave 115 acres of land as the " Merrick K. Barber Foundation," in honor of her deceased husband, and this property, now worth from $75,000 to $115,000, formed the nucleus of the school's resources. The seminary is under the control of the Baptist denomination; seveneighths of its trustees must be Baptists, and the Convention of each contributing state may nominate at least one trustee to represent it on the board, and