claim: Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines.
evidence: Charles Henry Parrish -LRB- April 18 , 1859 -- May 8 , 1931 -RRB- was a minister and educator in Lexington and Louisville , Kentucky .. educator. educator. He was the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Louisville from 1886 until his death in 1931 .. Baptist. Baptist. He was a professor and officer at Simmons College , and then served as the president of the Eckstein Institute from 1890 to 1912 and then of Simmons College from 1918 to 1931 .. His wife , Mary Virginia Cook Parrish and son , Charles H. Parrish Jr. , were also noted educators .. Mary Virginia Cook Parrish. Mary Virginia Cook Parrish