. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. m Scotland. Having studied the prelimi-nary branches in the Brownsville public schools, heattended the Tuscarora, Pennsylvania, Academy in1869, and the University of West Virginia in 1870,entering Princeton from the latter and graduatingwith honor in 1S74, receiving the Degree of Masterof .\rts in 1877. He then took the full course ofthree years at the Princeton Theological Seminary,graduating with the Class of 18
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. m Scotland. Having studied the prelimi-nary branches in the Brownsville public schools, heattended the Tuscarora, Pennsylvania, Academy in1869, and the University of West Virginia in 1870,entering Princeton from the latter and graduatingwith honor in 1S74, receiving the Degree of Masterof .\rts in 1877. He then took the full course ofthree years at the Princeton Theological Seminary,graduating with the Class of 1877. At College he was President of his class during the Sophomoreyear, took the Third Junior Essay Medal in WhigHall, also First Senior Oration Medal, and wasPresident of the Nassau Hall Bible Society. Whilea theological student he was a member of Library Meeting in Philosophy. He alsocontributed to the Nassau Literary Magazine andread before the philosophical meeting an essay onThe Ideal Theory of Plato. His suminer vacationin 1876 was devoted to preaching at Central City,Colorado. On graduating from the Seminary hewas installed Pastor of the Bellevue Presbyterian. WM. L. Church, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where heremained six years, going thence to the SouthPresbyterian Church, Philadelphia, in 1883, andcontinuing in that pulpit until 1892, when he wascalled to the Pastorate of the Tioga PresbyterianChurch, in the same city, which he still has served three times as Commissioner to thePresbyterian General Assembly and as Moderatorof the Westminster and Philadelphia Presbyteries;is an occasional contributor to the religious pressand the author of an able critique on Dr. Shieldsbook entitled. Final Philosophy, which he readbefore the American Institute of Christian Philos-ophy. Princeton made him a Doctor of Divinityin 1895. Dr. Ledwith is a Director of the Pres- 256 UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS byterian .Ministers Fund and Librarian of the Pre
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