User talk:Adam Dale/sandbox

President Warfield- Before becoming president of Lafayette in 1891, Ethelbert Warfield had studied in both Germany and Oxford, practiced law and was the president of Miami University in Ohio (The Soul of the American University, 301). "For the first decade of his administration, with his great services in the encouragement of athletics, development of student activities, increasing student comforts, he had quite generally minted the loyalty and devotion of the students. The student publications speak constantly of his activities, his accomplishments. They point to him with pride and speak of him affectionately" (The Biography of a College, 194). After leave of absence from 1902-1903 and his election to the Presidency of the Board of Directors, there was a distinct change in student towards. Also during chapel now students would start tapping their hymn books or they would all start coughing incessantly to cause a distraction (The Biography of a College, 194). The faculty were also getting fed up with President Warfield and felt that their participation in religious activities was being put at a higher importance than the excellence of their classroom work (The Biography of a College, 195).

During Warfield's presidency the catalogues stated that the school was "under the general direction of the Synod of Pennsylvania", which is a Presbyterian led group, and that the instruction was to be "within the lines of general acceptance among evangelical Christians" (The Soul of the American University, 302). When Warfield hired Professor Mecklin he believed he was right for the school because he had the "correct pedigree" (The Soul of the American University, 302). He was the son of an orthodox Presbyterian pastor from Mississippi, he had been educated in Presbyterian schools and had a degree form Princeton Theological Seminary" (The Soul of the American University, 302).