The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The western theological seminary

Collection:: Economics Books

THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The very name is suggestive of history, for when the institution was created by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1825, the site of Pittsburgh was con- sidered western. Pittsburgh did not secure this institution without a struggle. There was a year-long controversy as to its site, rival claims of various Ohio and Indiana towns, some of them now long forgotten, being urged as against “Alleghenytown,” then a village of seven hundred souls. The Assembly appointed a board of five commissioners to determine this site, and few now know that first of this group was General Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. The first session formally opened on November 16, 1827, the instructors of this class of four being the Rev. Elisha P. Swift and the Rev. Joseph Stockton, both pioneer clergymen of the first rank. Dr. Stockton had been principal of the old Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh. The centennial anniversary was observed with much cere- mony on November 16, 1927. The first building was erected in 1831 on what is now known as Monument Hill. This building was completely destroyed by fire on January 23, 1854. The second building, erected on Ridge Avenue facing West Park in 18355, and known as ‘‘Seminary Hall,” was partially destroyed by fire in 1887 and immediately repaired. In 1914 this building was demolished to be replaced by a large modern group, two wings of which were dedicated May 4, 1916. Architecturally the new buildings are English Collegiate Gothic, and struc- turally they are steel frame and fireproof. These two wings contain six class rooms, an office, a large faculty and directors room, a beautiful reading room 38 x 88 feet, a librarian’s office, a seminar room for private study, and a stack room capable of holding 160,000 volumes. For its size, it is ap equipment second to none in the country. The first dormitory was erected in 1859 and was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Hetty E. Beatty, and known as Beatty Hall. This structure becoming inadequate by 1877, the Rev. C. C. Beatty furnished funds for a new dormitory, which was known as Memorial Hall, as Dr.

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