The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . PROFESSOR JONATHAN HAMNETT,Of Allegheny College. RESIDENCE OF DOCTOR E. E. WILEY,Emory and Henry College. at once began to attract students; and^estheticism saw itself well represented inschools of art and music. Syracuse University, while legallydating only from the year 1S70, can traceits origin considerably further back,
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . PROFESSOR JONATHAN HAMNETT,Of Allegheny College. RESIDENCE OF DOCTOR E. E. WILEY,Emory and Henry College. at once began to attract students; and^estheticism saw itself well represented inschools of art and music. Syracuse University, while legallydating only from the year 1S70, can traceits origin considerably further back, andclaims to be one of the earliest Method-ist colleges in New York state. So earlyas 1S49 there was founded at Lima, inthat state, a college under the auspicesof the Genesee Conference, and bearingits name. Genesee College was open toboth sexes, a distinction in which it ledthe van among colleges. The localityof Ljina proving too remote, the verycentral city of Syracuse was chosen, andthe state convention of Methodists whichhad sanctioned this change resolved onthe raising of three hundred thousanddollars to found a first-class universityThe veteran educator, Dr. Jesse Peck,who occupied the chair, put his name onthe list of subscribers with a donation oftwenty-fiv
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