Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ollege. Rev. Samuel StanhopeSmith was its first President, to be succeeded, when heaccepted the professorship of moral philosophy inPrinceton, by his no less eminent and accomplishedbrother, Rev. John Blair Smith. Of his distinguishedservices and ability, the history of Virginia, of thePresbyterian Church and of education, is full. Lacy, was acting President for seven years, fol-lowed by the sainted Archibald Alexander, D. D., namesmemorable and honored. Rev. Moses Hoge, D. D.,was President fr
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ollege. Rev. Samuel StanhopeSmith was its first President, to be succeeded, when heaccepted the professorship of moral philosophy inPrinceton, by his no less eminent and accomplishedbrother, Rev. John Blair Smith. Of his distinguishedservices and ability, the history of Virginia, of thePresbyterian Church and of education, is full. Lacy, was acting President for seven years, fol-lowed by the sainted Archibald Alexander, D. D., namesmemorable and honored. Rev. Moses Hoge, D. D.,was President from 1807 to 1820, and filled the double THE SnUTHKKN PRESBYTERIAN cifURCir. 503 position of President of the College and Professor ofTheology, by appointment of the Synod of varying fortunes the college lias pursued the eventenor of its way, and now, under the efficient presidencyof Rev. Richard Mcllwaine, D. I)., has reached a higherprosperity than ever known before in its history. In 1837 Davidson College was planted in Meck-lenburg County, N. C, a county already famous no. DAVIDSON ILLEGE, DAVIDSON, N. less for its love of liberal education than for its loveof independence. For fifty-five years it has steadilyadvanced in popular regard, and has stimulated a loveof thorough scholarship. Its graduates are held in highesteem, more than one-third of whom have entered thePresbyterian ministry. Davidson College is under thecontrol of a Board of Trustees appointed by the Pres-byteries of the Synods of North Carolina, South Caro-lina, Georgia, and Florida. Rev. [. B. Shearer, 1). I).,LL. D., is President (1891), and the number of stu-dents in attendance is now larger than ever has already been made to Central Univer- 504 PRESBYTERIANS. sity, Richmond, Ky., under the chancellorship of L. H. Blanton, which was founded by the Pres-byterians of the Synod of Kentucky since the close ofthe Civil War, and to Southwestern Presbyterian Uni-versity, Clark
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