ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMI NARY, Cambridge, Mass., the oldest theolog ical institution in New England, founded ix 1807 and opened for instruction the following year, at Andover, Mass. The original founders were Samuel Abbot, Mme. Phoebe Phillips and her son John P. of Andover. The asso ciate founders were William Bartlet and Mom Brown of Newburyport, and John Norris of Salem. The primary aim of the founders was to provide for the professional education ci ministers for the orthodox Congregations: churches, and, in pursuance of this aim, men of different theological views (Old Calvinisz and Hopkinsian) united upon a common plat form. The constitution sets forth a compre hensive plan of instruction in all branches o: Christian learning, and from the first the sem inary was able to offer a more thorough prep aration for the ministry than was then obtain able elsewhere in this country. Among the professors have been Leonard Woods, Moses Stuart, Ebenezer Porter, Edward A. Park Austin Phelps, Joseph Henry Thayer, Egbert C Smyth, and 'William J. Tucker. In the seminary celebrated its centenary with appro priate exercises. At that time it had given in
struction to more than 3,500 students and had sent out 2,172 graduates. The same year the seminary was removed to Cambridge and affili ated with Harvard University, although retain ing its own faculty and its separate corporate existence. Instruction is freely interchanged between the two institutions, and the libraries have been combined into one, the Andover Harvard Theological Library, which contains about 107,000 volumes and 51,000 pamphlets. The total endowment of the seminary, including lands and buildings, is about $1,000,000. The seminary is open to all Protestants without discrimination. Only college graduates are eli gible for the degree of bachelor of divinity. The annual tuition fee is $150, which entitles the students to admission to Andover and Har vard courses alike. The faculty consists of six professors (1916). For the early history of the seminary consult Leonard Woods'