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Excerpt from Addresses During the Final Exercises, June 8-12, 1913 To visit this ancient college, the second oldest in America, and to participate even for a day in its life, is indeed a privilege. To be a student in it, or to be permanently connected with it as a member of its faculty, is a still greater privilege, and one which only a relatively few may enjoy. Most Americans interested in the early history of their country are familiar with the heroism and sacrifice of those who guided the early destiny of this college, and know its splendid service and its illustrious record; and all rejoice today in its manifest prosperity and in its most hopeful outlook for the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Black McCormick was born on 6 May 1858, in a rural district of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His father, James Irwin McCormick, a classical scholar and well-known physician, was a grandson of John McCormick who came to America from Ireland in 1788; his mother, Rachel Long (Black), was a granddaughter of George Long, a captain in the Revolutionary War.
Prepared by his father he entered Washington and Jefferson College and graduated with highest honors in 1880. During the next two years he taught Greek at his alma mater, served as an instructor in nearby Canonsburg Academy, and studied law.
McCormick was admitted to the Allegheny County bar in 1882. In 1883, he removed to Denver, Colorado, where he engaged in the practice of the law for four years, but, finding the legal profession an inadequate field for the realization of his aspirations, he decided to give his life to the Christian ministry. Returning to Pennsylvania, he entered the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny from which he was graduated in 1890, meanwhile serving intermittently as an instructor in the Western University of Pennsylvania. Ordained (1890) by the Presbytery of Allegheny, he began his active ministry in the Central Presbyterian Church of that city. After four years he was called to the First Presbyterian Church of Omaha, Nebraska, which he served three years. In 1897, he accepted the presidency of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where for seven years he grappled with problems of endowment, curriculum enrichment, faculty building, and the awakening of community interest in the rapidly growing institution.
His success in college administration earned for him an invitation to the chancellorship of the Western University of Pennsylvania, a dormant old college in Allegheny with a small group of recently affiliated professional schools in Pittsburgh. Intense loyalty to his native state made his acceptance inevitable. Here for sixteen years (1904 - 20) he wrought out his enduring monument, a modern university. He organized an educational program based on the obligations of the institution to the community; he purchased a new campus in the civic center of Pittsburgh and constructed modern buildings thereon; he secured appropriations from the state legislature for buildings and for maintenance; he had the name of the institution changed to University of Pittsburgh (1908) in order to win greater local interest and support and to characterize more accurately its field of service; he raised the scholastic standards, coordinated and integrated the constituent schools, secured the endowment of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, and created schools of education and economics and a summer session. He was a member of the committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for the revision of the confession of faith; and a director of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, of the Western Theological Seminary, and of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. In 1920 he was retired from active service with the title of chancellor emeritus. With an undiminished interest in public affairs he continued to write, speak, and preach until, after a brief illness from pneumonia, he died at his home in Coraopolis Heights near Pittsburgh.
McCormick's administration is best known for changing the name of the university (from Western University of Pennsylvania) and moving and expanding it from Allegheny City (currently Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood) to its current location in Oakland. McCormick's administration also established Pitt's dental, medical, business, and education schools. His administration of the university was noted for his leadership in resisting pressures to abandon the school's commitment to liberal education in favor of more technical-based training and the move of the university to the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh where it began to build a classically influenced campus designed by Henry Hornbostel. McCormick would also lead the university into a new level of national recognition, expansion, and growth, as well as begin institutional support of athletics. At the University of Pittsburgh, one of the high rise residence halls located on 3990 Fifth Avenue in the Schenley Quadrangle is called "McCormick Hall", named after Samuel McCormick. This residence hall houses upperclassmen in suites.
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a member of the committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
McCormick was a man of strong friendships and intense loyalties. While small of stature, Samuel had tremendous energy and an active imagination. Neither his labors nor his reputation were limited to the field of his professional duties.
On September 29, 1882 married Ida May Steep of Washington, Pa. Two sons and two daughters were born of this union.
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