MACALESTER COLLEGE. A coeducational institution of learning under Presbyterian con trol in Macalester Park, Saint Paul, Minn., founded in 18S4. It has au academy and a collegiate department, a music department, and a summer school. It confers the degrees of A.B. and Litt. B. In 1002 the attendance was SO in the academy and 90 in the college. The library contained S000 volumes. The faculty numhered 15. The college buildings with the grounds are valued at $180,000. The income was S18,000.
McALL, nV-kal', ROBERT WHITAKER ( 1821 93). An English Congregational minister, found er of the MeAll Mission in France. ITe was horn in was educated at the University of London (1847), and held pastorate; in differ ent cities of England until lie was fifty years of age. At that time, \\dilly minister of a Con gregational church in Hflleigh, he went with his wife for a holiday across to Paris, where they saw the aftermath of the Commune. While
Mr. was addressing a street gathering in the Rue de Belleville, ft workman spoke out from the crowd; "if any one will come among us teaching a religion, not of hierarchy and superstition, but of reality, and earnestness and liberty, very many of us are ready to listen." The Ale.Alls accepted the invitation, and six months afterwards (January, 1872) they opened the Mission Populaire Evangplique de France in a small room in the Rime Julien Lacroix, Belle ville, the locality in which the priests hall been murdered during the Reign of Terror. The rest of his life Mr. MeAll devoted to the interests of the mission. For his sueeess in 'promoting pub lie morality and education in France he was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1892. He was an accomplished musician. and with his wife prepared a French l'rotestant hymn book. See McAu. Missiox.