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OF THEOLOGY 



No 



Mlshteot aifflculty 



was elected preside 



nislng i 



not In lui Vf 

 lining Hi* pin 

 •'-Lastly, wh 

 I received in 

 one of the trustees that I 

 be called upon, to' direct and be the 

 chief figun 



Former President Denies Fric- 

 tion Over Money-Raising as 



. Indicated by Statement At- 

 tributed to Him in New York 

 —Dr. Nehemiah Boynton Re- 

 signs as Trustees' Head. 



Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, president 

 of the Andover Theological Semin- 

 ary, it became Known yesterday, has 

 resigned and -on the heels of this 

 announcement statements were made 

 ; that his retirement was a protest 

 I against/ being called upon to raise 

 "{.money for the -seminary. The Rev. 

 Dr. Nehemiah Boynton of Bro'okline, 

 president of the board of trustees, 

 also has resigned. - ; • 



Over the long distance^ telephone Inst 

 nigh Dr. Fitch, .at his summer home 

 In Cornish, N. H.. was asliod to con- 

 firm or deny stories of friction among 

 the trustees over obtaining funds for 

 the seminary and what bearing his 

 resignation had in the matter. 



Doctor Denies Friction. 

 •IT. Fitch said It* wns "absolutely 

 untrue' that there had been a row, as 

 rnportcd. or that he had resigned be- 

 cause of plans for the raising of money. 

 He said his resignation would not take 

 effect until next summer ah'd. indicated 

 that this showed there had been no 

 precipitate or heated action oil bis part. 



Dr. Fitch, a year from now. will be- 

 come professor of the history and litera- 

 ture of religion at Amherst, besides 

 assuming the duties of college pastor. 



Dr. Bovnton, from his summer home, 

 ."Parson's Pa radise," Five Islands. Me.. 



tion had relationship with that of the 

 president of the faculty." the enig- 

 ' matical wording of which only serving 

 at there had 



ti 



u!. If. 



said' that it ' 



nig thr 



iv 



Boynto 



It 



of the faculty 



' for 



of Ando 

 vera I 



First. 



■sted in teaching 

 niulergraduate students than seminary 

 men. Second, I prefer to have my time 

 free for preaching and teaching and do 

 not wish to be burdened with executive 

 work of the seminary. This is not com- 

 plex and the board or trustees ought 



directed to 

 enter such a campaign and have re- 

 signed. If I had thought that this would 

 be demanded of me, I would never have 

 accepted the position I have just re- 

 linquished. Further than this, I have 

 nothing to say.' Dr Boynton's resigna- 

 tion I will not comment further than to 

 say we stand together." 



Trustees of School, 

 Efforts to reach Boston members n' 

 the board of trustees of the seminary, 

 which is affiliated with Harvard Uni- 

 versity, were unsuccessful. The mem- 

 bers of the trustees are: The Rev. 

 George Harris of Amherst; Burton 

 Payne Gray, a Boston lawyer; William 

 F. Whittemore, treasurer Albert E- 

 .Stearns, principal of Phillips' Andover 

 Academy;" the Rev. Charles L. Noyes 

 of Somerville; the Rev. George A. Gor- 

 don of Boston; the-..Rev. Dr. Harry P. 

 Dewey of Minneapolis; Prof. H. Norman 

 Gardner of Northampton: Samuel Usher 

 of Cambridge and Arthur Chapman r.r 

 Holyolte. 



Dr. Fitch was born in Roxliurv in 1S77 

 and was graduated from Harvard cum 



audc 



to the Unioc 



litOO. Fr< 



Ha 



nt 



Theological Seminar}- in! 

 iorK. His first pastorate 'was in [ 

 ng. N. T., and from there he was! 

 to he assistant to the Rev. 8. TC. 1 

 * of the Mount Vernon Cburrh. ! 

 ills'. The lesponslbilities of the: 



ieath of Dr. He! 

 ippolnted Hartlr 

 ical theologv a 



id pn 



1909 he was! 

 sor of prac- : 

 ident of the ! 



once a stronghold of' 

 declined greatly before j 

 charge and before its' 

 Harvard. At its 100th ! 

 a were but three stu- ! 

 dents graduated. 



FIRE RUINS THE PEQUOT 

 CASINO AT NEW LONDON 



Commodore Plant and Julias 

 Fleischmann Transport Volun- 

 teers to Blaze. 



NEW LONDON, Sept. I— Pequot Ca- 

 itltft society folk's beautiful clubhouse, 

 iltuated at the mouth of the harbor, 

 lorth of New London lighthouse, valued 

 it $T5.(>m, was practically destroyed by 

 ihortly after noon today. Till 



ized 



fourth time 

 fire in 



the Cai 



beei 



S. and th 

 STBlax call for 



the past quarter of 



darted in a mysterious 

 stern end of the build- 

 ups spread so rapidly 

 foil 



nt. 1,0' 



the 



city 



. la 



volunteer fir 



pr< 



'pari; w 

 led. 



:! the 



itory before^the firemen could 

 headway, an'd when the last 

 5 extinguished the building was 



HI. 



Baroness von Hnsburg and Mrs. Junius 

 Morgan were among the patrons at 

 : Casino, the former losing a dia- 

 nd-studded mntch safe, and the latter 



h a d a Close call from nnrlin ^ „■:», 



DR. FITCH^ GDIN G TO AM HERST 

 * " 



President of Andover Theological Seminary 

 to Join Faculty of College in 1917 



Amherst, June 22 — The appointment of 

 Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, president of 

 Andover Theological Seminary of Cam- 

 bridge, as professor of the History of Re- 

 ligion and Biblical Literature in Amherst 

 College, was announced by President 

 Meiklejohn at the alumni dinner. Dr. 

 FUch will begin his new duties in the fall 

 of 1917. 



Dr. Fitch was graduated from Harvard 

 in 1900 and from Union Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1903. The year before his ^fa'ua- 

 tion at Union he did graduate u>^tK at 

 Oxford Unverslty, England, wor!c/»R at 

 Christ Church under Professors Sanday 

 and Driver. From 1903 to 1909 he was 

 pastor of the First Congregational Church 

 of Flushing, Long Island and of the Alt. 

 Vernon Church in Boston. In 1909 ha 

 became president of Andover Seminary 

 and Bartlett professor of practical theology 

 and in 1910 he was appointed Andover pro- 

 fessor of practical theology at Harvard. 



Dr. Fitch is one of the best known col- 

 lege preachers in America. In 1909 he was 

 elected by the Harvard Corporation to the 

 University Board of Preachers, and has 

 just been appointed on that board for the j 

 eighth consecutive year. He has been a 

 member of the Harvrd, Yale, Amherst, 

 Williams, Cornell and University of Chi- 

 cago boards of preachers, and has preached 

 frequently at many other colleges and at 

 the larger private fitting schools. In 1910 

 he was special preacher and lecturer to 

 Princeton University, and In 1910 to Deland 

 Stanford, Jr., University. 



The board of trustees of the college has 

 elected Frank W. Stearns, '78, of Newton, 

 to succeed the late G. Henry Whltcoinb, 

 and Dwight W. Morrow, '93, of New York, 

 succeed Wllford I,. Bobbins, resigned. 

 Arthur C. Rounds. '87, of New York, was 

 :hosen by the alumni to enter upon his 

 second term. 



It was announced also that the donor of 

 the new $250,000 college library, whose 

 name had previously been withheld, was 

 E- C. Converse of New York. The library 

 is a memorial to his brother, James B. 

 Converse who was a member of the class 

 of 1887. I 



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