Education in Quincy, Massachusetts - Universities and Colleges in Quincy, Massachusetts, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy College (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Universities and Colleges in Quincy, Massachusetts, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy College, Central Middle School (Quincy, Massachusetts), North Quincy High School, Woodward School for Girls, Quincy Public Schools. Excerpt: Eastern Nazarene College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pentecostal Collegiate Institute at the Rhode Island campus, c. 1905On September 25, 1900, several come-outer Methodist clergy and laymen affiliated with the 19th century Holiness movement opened a co-educational collegiate institute at the Garden View House in Saratoga Springs, New York. In a time when pentecostal did not hold the same meaning as it does today, but rather served as a synonym for holiness, it was named the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (PCI) and established for the purpose of providing liberal education and ministry training in a preparatory academy, four-year college, and theological seminary. PCI operated under the auspices of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA), a loose association of Wesleyan-holiness churches from eastern Canada down to the Middle Atlantic, and its own board of education, with Lyman C. Pettit as its first president. PCI was also accredited by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and was given state funding because a public school did not exist there at the time. In 1901, the institute changed locations in Saratoga Springs, from the Garden View House to the former Kenmore Hotel. The initial plans for a liberal arts college were delayed, however. There was a falling out between Pettit and the APCA, and the school re-opened on September 16, 1902, in North Scituate, Rhode Island, without a post-secondary curriculum. Having been the origi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1723253