Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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Salutory ]l RING the third decade of the last century, Alexander Camp- bell and a number of his associates planned to establish an institution for higher learning. A similar enterprise was launched in Kentucky in 1836; this, coupled with the panic of 1837, caused .Mr. Campbell to wait until 1840. That year a charter for Bethany College was secured from the State of Virginia, erecting and establishing at or near Bethany. Counts ' of Brooke, in this common- wealth, a seminar) of learning for the instruction of youth in the various branches of science and literature, the useful arts, agriculture, and the learned and foreign languages. The founders purposed that the study of the Holy Scriptures should bulk large in the curriculum and routine of the college. The charter specifically forbids the establishment of a theological professorship in said college. Those men were seeking Christian Liberty and felt that it could only be obtained by a free use of the Scriptures and ignoring the shackles of the then current theology. Each day all students were to attend divine worship and listen to the expounding of the Bible by a member of the faculty. This was as much a part of the program as the courses in Latin, science, or mathematics. From the first Bethany College stressed the value of honest work. manly behavior, and the Christian faith. Young men of ability came to the institution, did their work carefully, and went to places of influ- ence and power. Keen men with character have always enjoyed such privileges. Bethanv College now as well as then seeks to call out and train an adequate leadership for the many necessary tasks of the day. Since 1881 women have enjoyed the privileges of Bethany College on equal terms with men. CLOYD GOODNIGHT Twenty-six

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President Cloyd Goodnight, D.D.

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TME FACULTY