The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31
NOTES FROM UNION SEMINARY.


The Session OF Franklin Street Church, Baltimore
has presented to the Seminary handsome imperial
photograph tastefully framed, of their late pastor
the Rev. DIR. William Urwck Murkland, of the
most talented and distinguished of the alumni of the
institution. The librarians also making
ceedingly interesting collection of framed photo
graphs OF various living alumni.
The new catalogue of the Seminary is in
press The representation i'll the student body of
States, Colleges and Presbyteries is always matter
OF interest to those who watch the of supply
to ministry The catalogue shows that of
the 81 students thus far enrolled this session. %
from Virginia; II from North Carolina I from
Tennessee; from South Carolina; from Alabama;
from Maryland and l each from ten other States
and countries, including Austria, Canada and Japan.
The literary institutions represented follows
Hampden-Sidney College, IA Davidson College, IL
King College, g; Washington and Lee University, ;
Southwestern Presbyterian University 3; Princeton
University 2; University of North Carolina, 2; Rich
mond College, 2. Fourteen other institutions have
/ each.
Presbyteres are represented as follows: East Han
over, Sit having the largest number is due in part
to the fact that the Seminary is located within
its bounds; Abingdon, 3; Lexington, 5; Fayetteville,
4; Roanoke 4; Winchester 3; ENFORCE, Holston,
Kings Mountain, Knoxville, Montgomery North
Alabama and Wilmington have each. Alabama,
Asheville, Athens Baltimore Concord Louisiana,
Maryland Meclllenburg Memphis, Norfolk, Orange,
Ouachta st. Louis and Tombeckbee have l each.
1t Will be observed That among the colleges Hamp-
den-Sdney holds her ancient and honorable place
furnishing the largest number of students
ing to the Seminary from any single college, and that
Davidson, usual is close second; but the most
remarkable feature of this part of the representation
is the fact that King College furnishes six This is
the largest number furnished by any institution in
proportion to its total attendance. Indeed the very
large proportion of the graduates of King College
who have entered the ministry and the character of
the work which they have done, make it clear that
it would not be easy to overstae the value of this
institution to the church and the world.
Many of the old students will be sorry to learn
that Laburnum, the beautiful suburban residence of
Mr.. Joseph Bryan, opposite the Seminary, com
petely destroyed by fire early in the morning of
Sunday, January the 9TH The mansion will be re-
built, but this time in Colonial style.
The extraordinary mdness of the weather for the
last two three weeks has not only greened the
campus somewhat and caused the forsythia and other
early flowers TO bloom, and the buds to SWELL some
of the peach trees putting out shoots, but has
also brought the students out the tennis grounds
again The automobiles have been whirling about
over the driveways around the Seminary district
if it were summer time.
There general in the Seminary COM
munity at the death of the Rev. DR.. Rumple, whose
gigantic figure and genial face and kindly voice had
been familiar features of the meetings of the
Of Trustees for forty-three years.