Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
BRYAN UNIVERSITY
TO OPEN THURSDAY
Institution to Teach Funda-
mentaIiSm on Scopes Trial
Site Has so Enrolled.
enecIal nispatch % The So.

epecial Dispatch to The Star.
DAYTON, Tenn, September IS (N.A,
N.A).-In the Rhea County Court
House here in the Cumberland Noun
tsins where the Commoner made his
last stand for fundamentalism at the
Scopes evolution trial exercises will be
held Thursday to mark the formal but
modest opening of the William Jennings
Bran University, an institution, &C
cording to its prospectus, which recog-
nizes and accepts the supernatural.
Fifty Students Enrolled
Ahout SO students have been enrolled
To- the first wear. aId 20 Of these are
ordained ministers. ranging in age from
. TO as. who will take only special
course in the Bible This course IN
Bible study is distinct from the regular
university curricula, which has bsen
patterned after that Of Davidson Col
lepe, a Presbyterian school in North
Carolina, and is designed for students
unable to meet the freshman entrance
requirements.
Or. George E. Guile former extension
worker for the Moody Bible Institute OF
Chicago. is the professor OF the embryo
university and will return here tomor-
row from a series of Bible lectures IN
Canada to make the formal address at
the institutions opening exercises: u Is
the plan of the university board Tor Dr'
Guile to remain in the field, doing eX-
tension work for Bryan University until
the first unit of s2,S00,o0o plant is
completed.
SpindIer Heads Faculty.
For the present Dean F. w. Spindler,
graduate Of Hampden Sydney College,
in Virginia. will head the university.
= aCioI
r1en looking scarcely the % years he
admits. and comes here from Rome,
Ga. where he was assistant dean az
the Berry College. a singularly success
full school in the mountains OF Geor-
pia. to which Henry Ford recently con-
tributed 81 100000.
I'VE expect" Dean Spindler said, as
he discussed the future prospects OF
BRYAN University. mot only to advo-
cate. but to whoop up the infalliblhty
of the Bible Friends of Mr.. Bryan all
over the country have set themselves
the task Of perpetuating the cause he
fought for in these hills in the Summer
of 1925"
In the charter of incorporation given
1t by the State of Tennessee the creed
of Bryan University is summarized
thus:
IAN departments Of the university
religion or sect without imposing de-
nomnational or sectarian tests.
while no statement of belief shall
be required of any matriculating stu
dent, no one shall be placed in a posi-
ton of leadership or authority, either
as a trustee, officer or member of the
faculty. who does not subscribe with us
to the following statement of belief:
We believe that the Holy Bible,
composed of the Old and New Tesla
ments, is of final and supreme author
ity in faith and life, and, being in
spired by God, is inerrant in the orig
inal writings
Sixteen Girls on Roll.
OF the half hundred students with
which the university is expected to be-
gin work, there are about is young
women who have completed high school
courses in this country Dean Spin
der said that or 10 of Ethc total num-
Der resided in Rhea County and that no
students are expected TO matriculate
this year from outside the county
we have received applications" he
explained, from many places in Ten
nessee and from other States. including
Colorado, Virginia New York illinois,
Vermont, Massachusetts, and California.
But we 90 not expect TO receive these
applicants until the sophomore year,
when We expect to have the admins |
tration building suitable for housing |
400 students and for providing ample |
space for administration and class work, |
completed"
Eighty acres surrounding the highest |
hill In a smile radius of the famous |
little village has been given to Bryan |
University by Dayton people, and it in |
cludes a natural smphitheater for the !
foot ball stadium. on which authorities |
Gv-T1nHf tn start xrOFLy ufiaaV the admin |
istration building is finished
This first unit on which construction |
work is temporarily halted, viii be a |
seven-story structure. 437 feet long by |
81 feet wide. and will be built of sand |
stone to be taken from the numerous
uusrries in the Cumberlands This rock |
is Of variegated CClors and in addition |
to its unusual beauty, is said to be one |
Of the most enduring building sub |
stances known.
Seek $4,000 900.
A goal of $4,000. 600. one-half of
which it is planned to use for building |
and administration expense and the |
other half for endowment is the aim |
Of the campaign Of the William Jen- |
nings Bryan Memorial Association |
This campaign is in the hands of |
Malcolm Lockhart. who mas conducted |
a number of school and church drives |
for the Southern Presbyterian Church. |
Already $4,000 has been received and |
pledges tOtaling a half million dollars |
are in the hands Of the association |
The receipts this year are estimated |
at SIS, 900 and these are expected to |
amount to Sl50000 for 1881
Our plan is to get $4,000 Christian !
men and women in the United States |
TO agree to give 500 each over a
period OF three years" Robinson ex- |
planned, and we are receiving pledges |
at the rate Of 100000 a year"
Florida property of the Commoner,
left in trust for Mrs Bryan and valued |
now at about s135 900. is expected tn
come 10 the university, Robinson said.
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