{"id":208,"date":"2006-09-05T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2006\/09\/05\/the-things-you-learn-from-read\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:30:29","slug":"the-things-you-learn-from-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/the-things-you-learn-from-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The things you learn from reading Pennsylvania history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The things you learn scanning the local interest book section on Labor Day at Borders in Lancaster:<br \/>\nI knew that a classical school that later became Marshall College started in York in 1834. I knew it started when the <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/02\/05\/two-york-county-union-churches\/\">German Reformed<\/a> Seminary moved here and that the seminary and classical school later moved to Mercersburg in Franklin County.<br \/>\nI knew that Marshall College moved to Lancaster to join with 1787-vintage Franklin College to become Frankin &amp; Marshall College in 1853&#8230; .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI knew that Mercersburg Seminary remained in Franklin County, and that the small-town seminary started a national movement called Mercersburg Theology. I knew that theology, which restored liturgy and symbols abolished during the Reformation in Europe, became controversial. I knew some believed the movement threatened to return Protestantism to Catholicism and that many pastors schooled in this theology ministered at German Reformed \u2014 later <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2013\/12\/06\/union-church-buildings-once-common-now-rare-in-york-county-area\/\">United Church of Christ<\/a> \u2014 congregations in York County. I knew that Mercersbury Seminary later moved to Lancaster to become Lancaster Theological Seminary and that its former campus became prep school Mercersburg Academy.<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s what I didn\u2019t know: David Schuyler and Jane A. Bee\u2019s Arcadia book on Franklin &amp; Marshall credited Marshall College as starting with the prep school in York. So, it can be said that one of Franklin &amp; Marshall College\u2019s main stems came from York.<br \/>\nWhen you think about it, it\u2019s not surprising that a college would trace its origins to a classical school. York College, for example, comes from two main branches: York Collegiate Institute and York Academy. 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