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18 THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 61.
GENEVA, THE COLLEGE OF THE spirit of a school. Broad and liberal ed its majority. The Church has the Marlatt, Broomfield and Swift, and to
COVE.\ANTER CHURCH. culture has always had at Geneva privilege of dictating the policy of the the other denominations in propw.
(Prepared tor The Christian .Xation.) the pre-eminence over narrow and school and in return for that privilege tion.
In 1848 Geneva College was founded
at Northwood, Ohio, by the Scotch
technical training. Her, science has is made legally responsible for the Sucessful in Secular Pursuits.
always been taught from the cultur- support of the school. Historically, But all Geneva alumni are not minal
rather than the technological point the College is a child of the Church; isters and missionaries. Professors,
Covenanter Church for the purpose
of view. Her curriculum has always legally it is a minor child of the schoolmen, civil engineers, physicians,
of instructing the youth in the arts been framed to meet the demands for Church.
lawyers, judges, statesmen, business
and sciences, particularly with a view a liberal education in the arts and The College has rendered valuable ir..en all the way from Boston to Seservices
to the Church. Seventy of attle and beyond the seas are proud
to an educated ministry. Upon promise
of generous aid, if the college She was founded for this purpose— our living ministers, fifteen of our of their Geneva diplomas. The tol-
sciences before narrow specialization.
were moved nearer Pittsburgh—a a clear statement of It appears in the foreign missionaries, seven of our lowing is a partial list cf Gene'^
centre of Presbyterianism—Geneva charter—and to this purpose she has missionaries among the Indians and prominent alumni, past and present:
was removed to Beaver Palls in 18S0 heen true. In a word Geneva is a four of Our missionaries among the The late J. Herbert Morton, president
Ten acres ot land on the outskirts cl college and not a university. Neither negroes, received all or pari of their of Gordon Memorial College, India;
the town, situated on a beautiful bluff does she compete with universitiet^, education at Geneva College. This H. H. George, former president ot
overlooking the Beaver River, were for she is doing a work which they list does not include the wives of Geneva; J. A. Bole, head of the Decannot
do. The broad basis of schol- ministers and missionaries who, also, partment of German, Brooklyn high
donated by the Economlte Society—
a body of religious communists—upon arship, culture and character which are Geneva trained. The fact is, many school; George Reed, professor of bi-
which was erected a handsome and
imposing structure of native sandstone.
The promised' aid was forthcoming
and under the presidency of H. H.
must precede narrc^w specialization of the Church's workers found tneir ology, Missouri University; C. C. Aris
the peculiar function of the col- better halves at Geneva College, and buthnot, head of department oi econlege,
and with that high function Ge- the custom still continues. Further- omics, Western Reserve University;
neva is content. To the universities more, we note that the men who re- Edwin F. Wendt, member of the Valshe
gladly commits the process of present the Church in the fieldof re- nation Board of the Interstate Gom­
George the endowment passed the sharpening to a point the broad and form are, for the most part, graduates naerce Commission, Washington, D. C.;
$100,000 mark. Soon a residence hall liberal education which she gives her of Geneva.
William H. Coverdale, prominent
for womgn was added. Later under students. • Courses of Study.
consulting engineer of New Yorh
the presidency of Dr. W. P. Johnston a Political Science a Specialty. Geneva offers six courses, Classi- City; R. A. Metheny, M. D., Oargill
beautiful and commodious sclenn" If one feature were to be singled cal, Latin-Scientific, Scientinc, Musiout
in which Geneva College is par- cal. Art, and Oratory, all of which, iMetheny, M. D., Philadelphia; Hon.
McCracken, M. D., Seattle; Sterrett
hall, built of buff brick and trimmed
with stone, housing chemical, physical
and biological laboratories, was litical Science. Since the Scotch Cov- grees. The Classical course is in-y^rthur McKean, Beaver Falls, latter
ticularly pre-eminent it would be Po- with the exception of Art, lead to de-
G. A. Baldwin, Rochester, Pa.; Hon.
erected on the brow of the hill overlooking
the river. Just last year questions of the state, particularly looking toward the ministry, or stu-Legislature 1910-1911; David Mc
enanters were always interested in tended primarily for those who are two both members of Pennsylvania
under the presidency of Mr. W. H. in their politico-moral aspects, it was dents who contemplate teaching Clockey of Pittsburg, Judge Steel ot
George, a handsome new gymnasium only fitting that their institution of Greek or 'Latin, or w'ho deem the Orphans Court, Greensburg, Pa., exof
medium mottled iron-spot brick learning named after the famous Ancient Languages essential to a Judge J. Sharpe Wilson of Beaver;
with red tile roof, interior finished in g.(vigs ^^y jn .^^,llich so many political thorough discipline of the mind and Judge William P. Bamum of Youngshard
wood, lighted with electricity, experiments were made, should pre- to the attainment of a broad and sym- ^°^'"- '^^° although he dia not take
fully equipped with apparatus, bath sent the philosophy of the state com- metrical culture. The Latin-Scientific ^ degree at Geneva, attended there
and locker fixtures, costing approximately
$2-5,000, was erected in honor psychological, metaphysical and ethi- entlfic is for those who look to later ^^ things intellectual.
prehensively and thoroughly. The is a general culture course. The Sci- ^^^ looks to her as his Alma Mater
of President Emeritus W. P. Johnston
and bears his name.
systematically set forth and the prin- The other courses are self-explana- '^^^ present faculty is composed of
cal phases of the State are ruUy and specialization in the fleldof science. Geneva's Faculty.
Location.
ciples thus deduced are applied to tory.
men and women who are epecially
Geneva College has the most beautiful
site in Western Pennsylvainia, and law. This leads naturally into Geneva has every reason to be work in their respective fields.The
questions^ of sovereignty, authority Able Students and Alumni. fitted for their duties by advanced
if not within the entire State. In
the field of social science where the proud of her sons and daughters.
management of the school is in the
natural beauty and healthfulness
fundamental presuppositions of hu­Blesseman society are treated in Sociology ly and cultured professors such as J.
with a long line of scholar­
hands of W. Henry George, president,
there is nothing to compare with it,
W. Pollock Johnston, president emeritus
and fieldrepresentative, and Rob­
except, perhaps, Columbia, perched
and the social phenomena which have
upon the commanding heights overlooking
the Hudson, or the Univer­
R. W. Sloane, D. D, LL. D., the great
to do with wealth, in Economics, anti-slavery protagonist, David McAl- ert Clarke, assistant to the president
Thus the fieldof political and social
sity of Wisconsin at Madison ideally
lister, D'D., LL.D., whom the Century
Club of Pittsburg chose to pre­
The policy is eminently sound and
science, from the nature of Geneva's
located on a picturesque lake. Standing
on a beautiful wooded bluff high
jjrogressive. It is growth through efficiency.
Full equipment, well bal­
foundation, is the fieldof'her special side at a polyglot meetin,