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New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, and Sweden of 2 each, while one student each is from Alabama, Arkansas, British Guiana, England, Illinois, Iowa, Italy, Japan, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, West Virginia, and Washington. Its students represent a wide variety of Protestant religious bodies, though a majority are Congregationalists, as might be expected from the historic affiliations of the school. The endowment amounts to about $833,000. The library is principally merged in that of Yale University, though the separate departmental collections of the school, largely of the nature of a working reference library, contain 18,500 volumes.
Divinity School of Yale College, New Haven, 1872; W. L. Kingsley, Yale College, New York, 1879, ii. 15-60.
IV. Disciples of Christ.-1. Bible College: The College of the Bible, affiliated with the Disciples (Christian) Church, and the oldest theological seminary of that body, is located in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky. It was founded in 1865 as a department of Kentucky University (now Transylvania University), but in 1875 it was severed from that institution and was reorganized under separate management. In that year it had three professors and thirty-seven students, while it has now (1910) a faculty of seven professors, and during the session of 1909-10 enrolled 180 students, of whom nine were women. It was founded by Robert Milligan and John W. McGarvey (q.v.), the former of whom was its first president, while at the time of its reorganization Robert Graham became its president, and he, John W. McGarvey, and Isaiah B. Grubbs constituted its faculty. The institution is devoted entirely to the training of preachers, missionaries, and religious workers, and has exerted a wide influence, more than half of the prominent preachers of the Disciples Church having received instruction in its classrooms. Its students during the session of 1909-10 came from twenty-two states of the United States and from England, Japan, Canada, Denmark, and Australia. Its present faculty is John W. McGarvey, president; Isaiah B. Grubbs, professor emeritus; W. C. Morro, dean, and professor of Christian history and doctrine; Benj. C. Dewesse, professor of Biblical introduction and exegesis; Samuel M. Jefferson, professor of philosophy; Hall L. Calhoun, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament; and Wm. F. Smith, professor of Bible-school pedagogy. It has eighteen trustees, all of whom are members of the church with which the institution is affiliated. Its present profit-bearing endowment is $175,000, with an additional $100,000 not now yielding the institution an income, but which will be available within the next few years. It now has a library of 4,000 volumes.
2. Drake: This seminary, located at Des Moines, Ia., and founded in 1881, forms part of Drake University, which, although considered undenominational, was built up and is supported by the Disciples of Christ. It had its origin in an unsuccessful attempt to remove the denominational
school known as Oskaloosa College from Oskaloosa, Ia., to Des Moines, and it owed its foundation chiefly to the late Gov. F. M. Drake, aided by his brotherin-law, George T. Carpenter (formerly president of Oskaloosa College), and D. R. Lucas, then pastor of the Central Church, Des Moines. The early instructors in the seminary were George T. Carpenter and Norman Dunshee, and its student body has grown until in 1910 it reached nearly 175. Drake Seminary stands for a thorough knowledge of the Bible and all lines of Christian work, and maintains that denominationalism is an abnormal condition, contrary to New-Testament standards. While it does not see its way clear to follow the so-called assured results of modern Biblical study, it criticizes extreme conservatism, and strives to reconstruct the old lines of thought with the purpose of eliminating errors and incorporating new truth. Probably the most important movement connected with the seminary is the Bell Bennett Mission (so named from an intending foreign missionary student, who was accidentally drowned), which has been instrumental in sending out many to the foreign mission field.
Among the more prominent of the seminary's instructors, besides the two already mentioned, are Dr. D. R. Dungan, B. J. Radford, A. I. Hobbs, Robert Mathews, H. W. Everest, Oscar Morgan, Dr. Clinton Lockhart, Walter Stairs, A. D. Veatch, Sherman Kirk, Dr. F. O. Norton, W. S. Athearn, and A. M. Haggard. In 1910 the seminary had five instructors, and its trustees, about twenty in number, were the same as those of the university. The government of the seminary consists of a dean, responsible to the president of the university, who, in turn, is responsible to the board of trustees. The larger number of the students are from Iowa, Missouri, and the neighboring states, and eight or ten usually come each year from the Pacific Coast, as well as from Colorado. In 1910 there were about thirty students from Australia and New Zealand, about ten from England, six or eight from the Philippines, and a few from Canada, China, and Japan. As a rule other denominations than the Disciples are represented among the student bony. The endowment fund amounts to $100,000.
8. Eugene: Eugene Bible University (known, until 1908, as " Eugene Divinity School "), located at Eugene, Lane Co., Ore., was "ounded by Eugene C. Sanderson in 1895, largely through the generosity of Judge J. W. Cowles and Hon. T. G. Hendricks. Its first instructors were Eugene C. Sanderson and Morton L. Rose. The institution was opened in a rented building, Oct. 6, 1895, but within a year the foundation of the Bushnell Library had been laid and land had been purchased, on which have been erected three buildings adjacent to the University of Oregon, with which its relations are most cordial. More recently a branch, the Pullman Bible Chair, has been established adjacent to the campus of the state college at Pullman, Wash. Besides this chair, the university comprises the Bible college, schools of music and oratory, the department of art, the chair of Bible-school science and pedagogy, and a preparatory department; end its students are also entitled to all courses offered in the University of
