PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEM INARY, a Presbyterian seminary at Prince ton, N. J. It was organized in 1812, and for a time the classes were held in the buildings of Princeton College (now Princeton University); in 1815 a tract of land was purchased for the seminary, and a building erected. ((The bibli cal criticism is
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bachelor of divinity is conferred on students who have received the degree of bachelor of arts. The buildings include two library build ings, Stuart Hall and three dormitories. In 1917 the institution had 14 instructors, 187 students, 103,000 volumes in its library besides pamphlets, $664,055 invested in grounds and buildings, $3,208,484 in productive funds and $148,692 in total income, and its graduates num bered 6,233. Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D. who was president of Princeton University in 1888-1902, became president and professor of the philosophy of religion at the seminary on retiring from the university and served till 1914, when he resigned and was succeeded by Joseph Ross Stevenson, D.D., LL.D.