EDWARDS, HOWARD

(1854), an American college president, 6. at FauMean co., Va., s. of Francis Marion and rances Lawson Bland Edwards. He was educated at Randolph-Macon College, Va., the University of Leipzig and at the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a ociate rincipal, Bethel Military Academy, 878-80; teacher at Bingham School, (Va.) Academy, 1882-4 and of the academy at Tuscumbia, Ala., 1884-5; profe or of English and modern languages at the University of Arkansas, 1885-90, and same at Michigan Agricultural College, 1890-1906, and in 1906 became president of R. I. State College. Amer. theologian, was proficient in Gk., Latin and Hebrew at thirteen, when he entered Yale Coll.; grad. with high honours in 1720; became a preacher in 1722, tutor in Yale Coll. 1723; pastor of Congregational Church at Northamptoh 1727. He held that the Lord’s Supper was for the converted only, and was dismi ed his church; went as mi ionary to Indians; became Pres. of Princeton Coll. 1757; author of many books. He was a man of great learning and deep piety, a vigorous defender of the Calvinaie theol. Wrote ‘The Freedom or the ill. '