Download or read book Eightieth Annual Catalogue, 1928-1929 (Classic Reprint) written by Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eightieth Annual Catalogue, 1928-1929Williamsport Dickinson Seminary was founded in 1848 by a group of men of Williamsport under the leadership of Rev. Benjamin H. Crever, who, hearing that the old Williamsport Academy was about to be discontinued, proposed to accept the school and conduct it as a Methodist educational institution. Their offer was accepted and, completely reorganized, with a new president and faculty, it opened September, 1848, as Dickinson Seminary, under the patronage of the old Baltimore Conference. It was acquired in 1869 and is still owned by the Preachers' Aid Society of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Meth odist Episcopal Church, and is regularly chartered under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. It is not a money-making institution. All of its earnings as well as the generous gifts of its friends have been spent for maintenance and improvements. During a large part of its history its curriculum covered the work now included in a high school course and at the same time included about two years of college work. By its charter it is empowered to grant degrees, which authority was for a time exercised. In 1912 it began to confine itself to the college preparatory field and has continued in that field up to the present time. After considering both the opportunity and the need of doing more advanced work, the Board of Directors at their meet ing in October, 1928, voted to continue the college preparatory and general academic work, and to add two years of college work, paralleling the freshman and sophomore years in a liberal arts college. These junior college courses are outlined herein and may be found on later pages of this catalogue.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.