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ing leaders of the church as well as the rank and file of the clergy; and with the passing of fourscore years and ten nearly seventy bishops had been students at the seminary — almost a fourth of the entire American episcopate from 1784 to 1910. In the same period had been graduated 1,722 men, of whom over 1,000 are living and in the ministry to-day — almost a fifth of the present total number of the American Episcopal clergy.
Despite the encouragement with which the seminary opened, it temporarily languished, and even for a brief period (1820-22) removed to New Haven, Conn. It received new material life, however, with the bequest, in 1821, of about $60,000 from Jacob Sherred, and the gift of an extensive tract of land in what was then the upper part of New York City, from C. C. Moore (q.v.). In this location was erected the first building in 1825, and there now stand the present seminary buildings. Gifts to the institution during its first half-century were many, but its present admirable equipment of buildings, etc., may be said to date very largely from the beginning of the deanship of the late Very Rev. E. A. Hoffman (q.v.), in 1879. The buildings occupy what is known as Chelsea Square, the block bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and 20th and 21st Streets, and are a very notable group architecturally, harmonious and dignified in their outward fabric as well as distinctive in the quiet and reserve of their old-world atmosphere. The library contained in 1910 51,386 volumes and several thousand pamphlets and is especially strong in the history of the Anglican and the American Episcopal Church, patristics, liturgies, and conciliar history. It contains the Copinger Collection of Latin Biblical texts, presented in 1893 by Dean Hoffman and Cornelius Vanderbilt, which at the time of its acquisition was one of the three largest collections of Latin Biblical texts in the world, and also the private library of the eminent Assyriologist Eberhard Schrader. Among its other treasures are a valuable collection of Babylonian tablets, and several Biblical manuscripts.
Entering students are presupposed to have been admitted as candidates for orders in the Episcopal Church or to have been graduated at a " recognized university or college." Under the terms of an affiliation agreement with Columbia University, they may take courses in the latter institution and use its library. With the purpose of elevating and broadening the standard of theological education, especial effort has been made to foster advanced and graduate work. The five fellowships now maintained, with provision for study abroad or at the seminary, and the certainty of an increase in their number at a later date have served to sustain this effort, and the number of graduate students has largely increased in the last decade. In addition, a number of scholarships are available for worthy undergraduates. The total number of students at the seminary in the year 1910-11 was 126, exclusive of several non-resident graduate students.
The publications of the seminary inelude, in addition to its catalogues and proceedings of trustees, a series of alumni publications issued by the associate alumni and the Paddock Lectures. The latter, XL— 25
a series of volumes issued since 1881, contain the lectures delivered annually at the seminary by wellknown scholars and theologians, among the more recent lecturers being Rt. Rev. A. C. A. Hall (q.v.), bishop of Vermont; Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent (q.v.), bishop of the Philippines; Rt. Rev. G. H. S. Walpole, bishop of Eainburgh; Rev. F. J. Hall (q.v.), Rev. W P. Du Bose (q.v.), and Rev. W- R. Inge (q. v.), of Cambridge University, England. The present endowment of the seminary is $2,112,115.81, exclusive of the site occupied by the institution, its buildings, and adjoining land owned by the seminary valued at $2,138,263.25. The faculty at present is as follows: W L. Robbins (q.v.; dean), W J. Seabury (q.v.; ecclesiastical polity and law), J. C. Roper (dogmatic theology), H. M. Denslow (pastoral theology), C. N. Shepard (Hebrew and cognate languages), C. C. Edmunds (New Testament), L. W Batten (Old Testament), A. P Hunt (Christian ethics), A. W. Jenks (ecclesiastical history), F B. Blodgett (adjunct professor of Old Testament), W H. P. Hatch (adjunct professor of New Testament), and C. H. Boynton (adjunct professor of homiletics and pedagogy). The professorship of Christian apologetics is at present vacant by death. In addition to the regular faculty, there are three special lecturers, three resident instructors, and a librarian. Edward Harmon Virgin.
4. Nashotah: This seminary, officially known as " Nashotah House," is situated at Nashotah, Waukesha Co., Wis., and was founded in 1841 by James Lloyd Breck, William Adams, and John Henry Hobart (q.v.), under the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Episcopal bishop of the Territories of the Northwest. At first it was an associate mission, but very shortly it became a training-school for men desiring to give themselves up to missionary work in the great Northwest. From this point of departure Nashotah House soon became a recognized seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and after its incorporation in 1847 it grew until, to-day, it is the second largest training-school for priests in the American Church. Among the earlier instructors, besides those whose names have already been mentioned, were the Rev. A. D. Cole, Rev. Lewis A. Kemper, Rev. T. M. Riley, Rev. A. W Jenks, and Rev. H. E. W Fosbroke. The seminary has always stood unqualifiedly for the principles of the Catholic revival as championed by the leaders of the Oxford movement in England, and firmly holds to that position at the present time. Though the institution has never mothered any great movement, it has, each year since its incorporation, sent out men strong champions of Catholic faith and practise, who, working as they have in nearly every diocese and missionary district of this country and in almost every part of the world, can not but have done much to push forward that great movement which arose at Oxford in the middle of the last century.
At the present time the institution numbers sixty students, eight professors and instructors, and a board of trustees of twenty-one members. The buildings, including three houses used as homes for members of the faculty and a new library building, number ten. The endowment of the institution is at. present $450,000. The library, already rich with
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