A History of Higher Education in Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of Higher Education in Pennsylvania The history of Allegheny College begins with a meeting held in the court-house at Meadville June 20, 1815. At this meeting a number of men formed an association for the purpose of establishing "a seminary in which a regular course of the liberal arts and sciences" should be duly taught. Meadville was chosen as the site of the new institution, which was called Allegheny College, "from the circumstance that a great part of the region, for the benefit of which the seminary is designed, is watered by the numerous streams which, in the aggregate, make the Allegheny River." The founders proceeded to elect the Rev. Timothy Alden president and professor of the oriental languages and ecclesiastical history, and the Rev. Robert Johnston (pastor of the Meadville Presbyterian Church) vice-president and professor of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. For the present these were to be the sole instructors. They were to begin the instruction of "probationers, " from whom the first class should be formed July 4, 1816. Affiliation with the neighboring county academies was authorized, subscription books were opened, committees were appointed to secure a charter and to prepare college laws, and Dr. Alden was requested to solicit gifts in the East. Such was the beginning of the first college in northwestern Pennsylvania. In a sense a Presbyterian institution, it was the child not of Princeton, but of Harvard, having its origin less in the slow extension of Scotch-Irish educational influence than in the determination of a New England clergyman to plant a college in the West. Timothy Alden was born at Yarmouth, Mass., in 1771, and graduated from Harvard College in 1794. After serving as pastor and teacher at Portsmouth, N.H., he conducted schools for young women at Boston, Newark, and New York City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.