LEANDER MCCORMICK OBSERVAMORY.
McCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEM INARY, in Chicago, Ill.; opened in 1830 under the auspices of the Presbyterians, as a depart ment of Hanover Academy, at Hanover, Ind. Ten years after its opening the school was re moved to New Albany, Ind. Cyrus ft Mc Cormick (q.v.) offered the institution a liberal endowment, which generous gift caused the removal of the school to Chicago, in 1859. It was for a time known as the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest. In 1886 the present name was taken in honor of its liberal benefactor. No fees are charged for lodging or tuition, and some of its income is used in assisting worthy and needy students. In 1917 there were connected with the seminary 18 professors and instructors and 206 students. The library contained about 41,000 volumes. The total income on productive funds and from other sources, but excluding benefactions, was about $98,000. Its buildings and grounds were valued at nearly $1,000,000 and its endowment funds at about $1,800,000.
McCOSH, James, ican author and educator: b. Carskeoch, Ayr shire, 1 April 1811; d. Princeton, N. J., 16 Nov. 1894. He was educated at the University' of Glasgow, which he entered at 13, and at the University of Edinburgh, where, went in 1829. He became a minister of te Church of Scotland; was settled at Arbroath in 1835, and at Brechin in 1839; but at the disruption of the Scottish Church joined the Free Church, whose organization he was active in promoting. In MO he published 'The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral,) in which he applied the philosophy of Sir William Hamil ton to questions of theology with such skill as to elicit from him the highest commendation. This work at once gave McCosh wide fame as a philosophical thinker, and in 1851 he was ap pointed professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen's College, Belfast, where he remained 18 years, not only discharging his professional duties, but also entering earnestly into work of religious and social improvement, through which his spirit of benevolence and his en lightened zeal for general education accom plished lasting results. In 1868 he was elected
president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), having previously visited this country and become impressed with its educational promise. This promise was especially bright when he assumed the presidency of Princeton, but the conditions of transition in the sphere of higher education were such as to demand consummate powers of leadership. Such powers McCosh, although a foreigner, brought to his work with most satisfying suc cess. During the 20 years of his administration at Princeton he saw the number of students and professors more than doubled and pros perity increased in all departments. His resig nation in 1888 was due to the advance of years, and he was able to continue in the chair of philosophy beyond that period. As a philoso pher he maintained the principles of the Scot tish metaphysicians against all empirical methods, but went beyond his predecessors in the direction of intuitionalism, although he once declared that this "rose out of rationalism as frogs rise out of the melted ice,z) and few ortho dox theologians were abreast of him in wel coming the evolutionary features of the new biology. His writings on theology, philosophy and psychology are very numerous and include 'Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation,' in collaboration with Didde (1856) ; 'The In tuitions of the Mind Inductively (1860) • 'The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural) (1862) ; 'An Examination of Mill's Philosophy) (1866) ; 'Laws of Discursive Thought'(1869) ; 'Christianity and Positivism) (1871) ; 'The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical and Critical' (1874) ; 'The Development of Hypothesis) (1876) ; "The Emotions) (1880) ; 'Psychology of the Cognitive (1886); 'Psychology of the Motive Powers' (1887) ; 'Realistic Philosophy Defended' (1877), and 'Our Moral Nature' (1892). Consult Dulles, J. H., 'A McCosh Bibliography) (Princeton 1895), and Sloane, W. M., The Life of James McCosh) (New York 1896).