Download or read book Annual Register of Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California, 1910-1911 written by Pacific Theological Seminary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Register of Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California, 1910-1911: Announcements 1911-1912 The founding of the Pacific Seminary was prompted by the same motives that led to the establishment of the first theological seminaries in New England. Among the pioneers who in the early California days entered the region about San Francisco Bay were men of Congregational ancestry and training who at once entered on the work of education. A college school, incorporated soon after its founding as the College of California, now the University of Cali fornia, was the first fruit of their activity. It was nat ural that the founding of a theological seminary should follow. Being themselves graduates of Yale, Andover, Bangor and Union, they were conservators of the best traditions of theological education. With commendable breadth of view, they first proposed to establish an interdenominational seminary, and to this end opened correspondence with other denomi nations to secure their oo-operation. This overture failing, the Congregationalists undertook the task single-handed. In the autumn of 1866 a Theological Seminary Association was formed, a constitution drawn, a board of trustees elected, and the first endowment secured. In 1869 the Rev. J. A. Benton was elected first professor and began the work of instruc tion in San Francisco. In 1870 a second professor, the Rev. George Mooar, entered upon his duties. Meanwhile the Seminary had been housed in a com modious building on a beautiful hill-top in Oakland, Where for a period of thirty years it continued to min ister with steadily increasing efficiency to the religious needs of the Pacific Coast and of foreign mission fields. In 1884 the teaching force had been further enriched by the Rev. Israel E. Dwinell's election to the third professorship. A steady increase Of the endowment made it possible for the institution to gather a faculty of the present number, to broaden its scope, and fur nish itself with greatly enlarged facilities. In 1901 the Seminary, with Wise foresight, was removed from Oakland and established beside the State University at Berkeley, a step which has met the most gratifying approval of its alumni and friends, as well as of leading educators throughout the country. 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.