Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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in 1892, Rev. Stephen Repass, D. D. Cthen pastor of St. Iohn's Church, Allentownj, was elected Professor of Evi- dences of Christianity. The Department was then known as the Department-of Moral Science and Natural Theology. In IQO4, Rev. John A. W. Haas, D. D., became the fourth President of Muhlenberg, and under his wise admin- istration the ideal of a Greater Muhlenberg is being rapidly realized. Prof. Robert C. Horn was elected Mosser- Keck Professor of ' Greek. ' Christian Evidences was transferred to Dr. Bauman, but beginning with the next col- legiate year the President will again teach this subject. Dr. Haas has also taken over the Mental Science-which for some time before his administration had been taught by the Professors of .English-thus making this Department once more distinctively the Department of Religion and Philosophyg ' REV. JOHN A. W. HAAS, D. D., President and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, was born in Philadelphia, August 31, 1862. Studied at Parochial School of Zion's Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. Graduated from University of Pennsylvania, 1884, acting as Latin Salutatorian. Graduated from Mt. Airy Theological Sem- inary, 1887, and ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church. The following year was spent in the University of Leipsic. Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, of New York City, 1889-1896 5 from 1896, pastor of St. Paul's Church, erecting a new church for this congregation in 1 898. 1 9o4, elected fourth President of Muhlenberg College. Member -of the Society of Biblical Literature. Editor with Prof. Henry Eyster Jacobs, D. D., of the Lutheran Cyclojbedvja. Author of Bible Literature, Biblical Criticismf, and many valuable articles on theological subjects. II

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DR. HAAs. DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION -AND PHILOSOPHY. I ff REDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, D. D., the first President of the College, was Professor of Greek, Mental and Moral Sciences, and Evidences of Christianity. When he resigned in 1876, the next President, Rev. Benjamin Sadtler, D. D., became the head of the Department, and Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Seip was elected to the Professorship of Greek. In 1885, Dr. Sadtler suifered an unfortunate accident and was compelled to retire to private life. Rev. Theodore L. Seip, D. D., was chosen to succeed him, and assumed the duties of this Department in addition to his Greek Professorship. Mental Science was now transferred to the Department of English, and IO ,D

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-sn!m-..,-.Lra...,..s.,AfA,r.af QV .II.... .'IgL ., , fff Y' -ar .Y .--14-.,..a..,f., .D DEAN ETTINGER. 7 PROF. HORN. DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES. Q? HEN the first faculty of Muhlenberg College was organized, Rev. Frederick A. Muhlenberg, D. D., LL. D., first President of the College, became Professor of Greek, and Rev. William R. Hofford, D. D., Provisional Professor of Latin. Dr. Hofford resigned soon after his appointment to become President of the Allentown Female College, which had grown out of the Female Department of the old Collegiate Institute, and Rev. Matthias H. Richards, D. D., succeeded him-serving as Professor of Latin and English from 1868-73. When in 1874, Dr. Richards resigned to accept a pastorate in Indianapolis, Indiana, Rev. Theodore L. Seip, D. D., who, in 1867, had I2