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Biola's former Los Angeles building: under construction (top) and complete in 1916 (bottom): It was demolished in 1988, after damage in a 1987 earthquake. [2]Biola University was founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles by Lyman Stewart, president of the Union Oil Company of California; [3] Thomas C. Horton, a Presbyterian minister and author; and Augustus B. Prichard, also a ...
The University of Michigan Ann Arbor hosts three secret societies: Order of Angell, Phoenix, and the Vulcan Senior Engineering Society. Order of Angell and Phoenix were once under the umbrella group "The Tower Society", the name referring to their location at the top of the Michigan Union Tower.
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
On May 20, 2010, Biola officials held a ground breaking ceremony for Phase One and it was officially dedicated on October 14, 2011. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Phase Two will demolish Myers Hall, which is nearly 50 years old, and replace it with a state-of-the-art 57,798-square-foot (5,369.6 m 2 ) building, providing 17 classrooms, 53 academic offices, a ...
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
Barry H. Corey (born November 28, 1961) is the eighth and current president of Biola University, located in Southern California. [1] Corey became Biola's president on July 1, 2007, succeeding Clyde Cook , who retired after serving as Biola's president for 25 years.
Biola's former Los Angeles building: under construction (top) and complete in 1916 (bottom). The church was founded in 1915 by R. A. Torrey. [1] The services were held at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola University), in a 4,000 seat auditorium. [2] [3] [4] J. Vernon McGee was pastor of the church from 1949 to 1970. [5]
School of Education Building (1923-1930), University High School (1924), University Elementary School (1930): This complex was designed by architects Dwight Perkins, William K. Fellows, and John L. Hamilton of Chicago, with Malcomson and Higginbotham designing the elementary school.