The Massachusetts Metaphysical College 1882-1889
While Eddy stated that she taught over 4000 students at her College, she might have actually meant the sum total of all students taught under her authority as president as the College including the thousands of students taught when the College was reopened as an auxiliary to her Church in 1899 under the Church's Board of Education. By that time, other teachers such as Eddy's adopted son, Ebenezer Foster-Eddy, Edward Ancel Kimball and Judge Septimus J. Hanna had taught many subsequent classes. Kimball, for example, himself, taught over 150 classes. By 1889, her Normal (teachers class) students had also been teaching under her authority and under her signed certificates in the US and overseas. In any case, John V. Dittimore, former director and clerk of her Church and later Eddy critic, gives a far shorter list in his fairly negative biography on Eddy published in 1932. His list is probably limited to those students, at the College, personally taught by Eddy alone, until she turned over the teaching to Kimball and Hanna. In Dittemore's book, Mary Baker Eddy - The Truth and the Tradition, Dittemore's appendix lists the following students:
According to Dittemore, Mary Baker Eddy personally taught the following students at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College from 1882-1889:
Read more about this topic: Massachusetts Metaphysical College
Famous quotes containing the words metaphysical and/or college:
“For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)