Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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coin, giving no value to the gold or silver, but only rendering the brass current, yet those of merit tell the tale of successful post-graduate work. Look through our catalogue: LL. M., one, D. D. S., one, C. E., three, Ph. D., seven, B. D., twenty-two, M. D., twenty-two, M. A., one hundred and nine, LL. B., one hundred and nineteen, add tvvohonorary degrees of D. D., and there is a total of two hundred and eighty-eight decorations. Others are yet to be adorned and others still deserve it, for they are found THE PRESlDENT'S HONIE. in high and honorable positions-the parish ofthe metropolitan bishop, the desk ot the county school examiner, the chair of the editor the Oallerv of the artlst, the sanctum of the author, and the halls of state andcnational legislation. ' H Loyal Family. The Yin o a membei of oui first class. Phe Alumni Hall, though not entirely built gling Gymnasium stands as a monument to the liberal lov-lltv W 1 .24f.

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Westminster 'Cbeological Seminary. fi' 2? 25' gf ' Conference, April, 1881, appointed Rev I T Murray, D.D., Rev. Q 1 I P. L. Wilson and Dr. Charles Billingslea to formulate a plan for ' the establishment- of an institution in which to train young men for the Ministry in the Methodist Protestant Church. One year later the com- mittee presented a report, which was adopted, and on September 6, 1882, there was opened in Westminster, Maryland, The School of Theology. A fiistorieal. A CTING on a resolution of Rev. L. W. Bates, D. D., the Maryland M if 5 ' ' . . . Y' . . SEMINARY. September 4, 1883, the title was changed to The Westminster Theological Semmarv ard on April 8 1884- it was duly' inc t D ' ' f 1 , A l b tl Assembly of Maryland. Iorporfl ec Y ie Gena Q1 Dresidcnte. 15f53'18fQ--REV. THOMAS HAMILTON LEXVIS, A. M., DQD. 188r-1894-REV. JAMES THOMAS XVARD, D. D., F. S. Sc. 1897- -REV. HUGH LATIMER ELDERDICE, A. M., D.D, .0 G A 4 L 1 1 ll 5 I 'l l 5 'E El A s i- I 3 2 .,,.,,..,. .,,, n. 'Q !fszQ1mMn mmap.,- .. AQQ,-.,1...q..4