The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-07-25
Educational.


WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY.
A committee of the Board of Trustees of Wash
ington and Lee University composed of Rev Dr.
@. b. Stricken, of Union Theological Seminary
Richmond; Rev. Dr. r. H. Fleming, of West
minister Church. of Lynchburg; and Presiden,
Denny, of the University; met in Lynchburg on
July 10Th for the purpose of eecting a successor
to Professor Alexander Lockhart Nelson NJ A.
L. d.. who after having served the University
tor htty-two years as professor of mathematics,
recently retired the first beneficiary of the Car
negie Foundation from the Southern States
President George H. Denny announced, after
the adjournment of the meeting that Professor
Livingston Waddell Smith, M A. PHI D. of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology had been
selected out of large list of available candidates
from every section of the country Professor
Smith has fine reputation as a mathematician
He is master of arts and a doctor of philosophy
OF Washington and Lee, where he spent seven
years as a student and instructor. He is about
thirty years old. He was formerly assistant to
Professor Nelson, who endorsed him with
out qualification. He took postgraduate courses
in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and
for two years has been member of the Faculty
OF the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the
foremost technical school of the country Dr.
Smith had the highest endorsements from the
most eminent specialists of the United States,
commenting him not only as scholar, but as an
unusually gifted teacher. He is a son of Major
Francis II. Smith, formerly of Lynchburg and
now superintendent of schools in Stanton He
is grandson of General +. H. Smith, for a quar-
ter of century superintendent of the Virginia
Military Institute
President Denny also announced that Professor
Ashton Waugh McWhorter, NJ A., PHI d., an
adjunct professor of George Washington Univer-
sity, had been appointed instructor in the de-
partment of mathematics The rapid growth of
the university demands the employment of
four men in this one department DIR. McWhor
ter is native of Virginia and Phi d. of Johns
lie has faro for
years and is highly endorsed by leading educators
UNION SEMINARY NOTES
Through the kindness of Mrs Mary E. Figgatt,
the library of the Seminary has come into posses
sion of the set of Matthew Henrys Commentary
which presented to her father by the grand
daughter of Dr. James Wadde the blind preach
er, of whom William Writ gave the remarkable
description i'll the British Spy" which is familiar
to many Of our readers from its reproduction i'm
full i'll Foote's Sketches of Virginia 1t is mat
ter for qualification that the volumes associated
thus with this marvellous preacher are now added
to the exceedingly valuable collection of antiqu-
ties in the library connected with the names of
Francis Makenie George A. Baxter and other
Presbyterian worthless.
In the Bi-Monthly Bulletin published by the
Southern Presbyterian Mission in China Mrs
]. L. Stuart writes follows Of the visit TO Vir-
glnla by which she gave much pleasure to her
friends in this community: "The eight weeks
spent in Virginia will be classed among the bright
spots in my life | came right into the heart of
missionary interest the day of my arrival in
Richmond going from the train to the Quarterly
Meeting of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Second Church, where found large
company of ladies, besides the Miriams' and
'Covenanters,' with their offering of nearly 5000
Two days later attended the first meeting of the
Ladies' Synodical Union, which lasted several
days, was we'll represented, and very interest
ing programme carried out without a hitch Then