The history of Methodism (electronic resource) (1902) (14597213817)

Identifier: 02845216.425.emory.edu
Title: The history of Methodism (electronic resource)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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and L. C. Garland. In front of the samebuilding is a bronze statue of Commodore Vanderbilt. InWesley Hall Library there are portraits of Bishop Soule and oflater bishops. On the campus are the graves of BishopsMcKendree, Soule, Andrew, McTyeire, and Dr Garland,with a simple monument over these mounds. In one wall of the Engineering Building there are imbeddedfour bricks from the old Bethel College, and a white marbleblock suitably inscribed reminds the passer-by of the failureof the earliest attempts at higher education and of the finalsuccess after so many years of failure and disappointment. The work of the university is embraced in seven depart-ments: Academic, Biblical, Law, Medical, Pharmaceutical,Dental, and Engineering, each with its own faculty of instruc-tion. The regular degrees are conferred upon students whofulfill the requirements, not as honorary degrees. L. C. Garland, D.D., LL.D., to whose agency as a writer andpublic speaker Bishop McTyeire was pleased to ascribe much
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A VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY GROUP. Gross Alexander, D.D. John A. Kern, D.D. Professor of New Testament Interpretation. Professor of Practical Theology. Chancellor James H. Kirkland,W. F. Tillett, D.D. William Malone Baskerville, Dean of the Biblical Department. Late Professor of English. Some Members of the Faculty 1377 of the interest in the university, was one of the most prom-inent and influential men in Southern Methodism; a strongcharacter, an able teacher, an influential writer, a ripescholar. He was a Virginian by birth, educated at HampdenSidney, professor of chemistry at Washington College, Va.,at twenty years old, and at thirty-six its president. In 1S47,when thirty-seven years old, he became professor of mathe-matics and physics in the University of Alabama, and in1855 succeeded to the presidency In 1866 he was professorof physics and astronomy in the University of Mississippi;from this position he went to Vanderbilt as professor of phys-ics. In the early history of this instit

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