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Theological geminaries THE NEW SCHAFF-HEItrGOG 348 may appoint yearly a visiting committee. Instruc tion began Oct., 1902, with five students and the following faculty: Rev. James F. Wells, acting executive and professor of church history and English scriptures; Rev. A. C. Rafferty, systematic theology; Rev. F. L. Streeter, New-Testament Greek; and Rev. P. W. Crannell, homiletics and pastoral theology. In May, 1903, Dr. Crannell became president, and in Sept., 1903, the chairs of Hebrew (Prof. Henry T. Morton) and public speaking (Prof. P. K. Dillenbeck) were added, while in 1908 the departments of Christian sociology and religious pedagogy (Prof. W. E. Raffety) were created. The seminary seeks, on the basis of an intelligent conservatism, and a profound faith in the deity of Christ and the inspiration of the Scriptures, to furnish a broad, scholarly, well-balanced, and emphatically practical training for the pastorate. While its curriculum covers all phases of the min ister's preparation, special attention is paid to the English Bible, homiletics, pastoral theology, evan gelism, pedagogy, and sociology, in which latter departments it is one of the pioneers, while missions is also one of its specialties. It seeks to supply especially the Middle West, although its student body is drawn from every part of the Union and from several foreign countries. Of its hundred grad uates and former students, chiefly settled in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, many are found in other states, principally in the West. Its classes are freely open to women, either as special or as regular students. It has (1910) twenty-one trustees, from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Colorado, and Nebraska; seven instructors (six regular, one special); two field secretaries; and fifty-one students from nine colleges and from thirteen states and countries. Its resources are $170,000, including an endowment of $97,000, and its library contains 3,500 volumes. Rev. Philip Wendell Crannell is president, and Rev. B. R. Downer (pro lessor of Hebrew) is secretary of the faculty, while Rev. J. F. Wells is field secretary, and Rev. B. W. Wiseman is associate. E. T. JILL$ON.
8. Newton: Newton Theological Institution is located on the summit of a beautiful hill in Newton Centre, Mass., and occupies fifty-two acres, including well-kept paths, lawns, shrubbery, and athletic grounds. The institution was founded in 1825, and is the oldest seminary established exclusively as such by American Baptists for the purpose of providing college graduates with a suitable course of theological instruction occupying three years. Courses are offered in the oriental and Greek languages, the history and interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, church history, theology, homiletics and pastoral duties, sociology and social reform, missions, religious psychology and Sundayschool pedagogy, and church music. While the privileges of the institution have been intended primarily for college graduates, students who can present evidence of equivalent training and of maturity of mind are receiv^,d in special instances. The institution is controlled by a board of fortyeight trustees, including both ministers and laymen.
The work of the seminary began with a single professor, Rev. Irah Chase (q.v.), with whom Rev.
Henry J. Ripley was associated' in 1826; in 1834 Rev. James D. Knowles was added to the faculty; and in 1836 Rev. Barnas Sears (q.v.). Professor Knowles died in 1838, after a short period of brilliant service; and in 1839 Rev. H. B. Hackett (q.v.) was made professor of Biblical literature and interpretation. All of these were eminent scholars and teachers; and the institution, though financially weak, prospered under their care. From 1839 to 1846 the number of professors was four; in 1846 an assistant instructor in Hebrew was added; and from 1868 to 1908 there were five regular professors, one of them the president, and a teacher of elocution. After years of service as a professor, Rev. Alvah Rovey (q.v.) was chosen president of the seminary in 1868, and continued in that office for thirty years. With the inauguration of President George E. Horr (q.v.) m 1908, the curriculum was enlarged to include instruction in sociology, religious psychology and pedagogy, and church music. The permanent board of instruction includes: in the Biblical departments, Professors Charles R. Brown (q.v.), Frederick L. Anderson, and Winfred N. Donovan; in church history and sociology, President Horr and Prof. Henry K. Rowe (q.v.); in theology, Prof. George Cross; in homiletics,, Prof. John M. English (q.v.); and in elocution, Prof. Samuel S* Curry. Additional lecturers are appointed from year to year to supplement the regular staff, and a weekly convocation of faculty and students brings many other speakers to the seminary.
There are registered in the present year (1910) ninety-two students, of whom thirteen are postgraduates (candidates for the degrees of B.D, and S.T.M.), seventy-four are undergraduates, and five are young women preparing for foreign missionary service after a year's resident study. Students come from all parts of the United States and Canada, from England, Germany, Sweden, and the Far East, and thirty-seven colleges and universities are represented. A summer school is held in June. of each year, and in 1910 fifty-seven students were in attendance. The Gordon School, a training-school for Christian workers, with twenty years of history and with sixty students in attendance, is affiliated with the institution, although located in Boston. The institution has a well-selected library of about 30,000 volumes, and a commodious reading-room. The library is open to students fourteen hours every daffy, except Saturday evening and Sunday, and has an income of approximately $16,000 for the purchase of books and periodicals. To meet other expenses the institution has an endowment of $800,600, besides forty-six scholarships involving a total of $120,000 for the benefit of indigent students. It has six principal buildings: Colby Hall, containing the chapel and lecture-rooms, Farwell Hall and Sturtevant Hall, which are heated by steam and have rooms comfortably furnished for seventy students, besides the dining-hall and the reception rooms, the Hills Library and Hartshorn Reading-room, a President's house, and a gymnasium. About 1,500 students have been connected with the institution, although some of them have not . taken the full course. One hundred and twenty have gone from it to be missionaries in foreign fields, and more than
