Geneva College

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a coeducational institution in Beaver Falls, Pa., founded in 1848 under the auspices of the Reformed Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 18; students, 480. President R. H. Martin, D. D. GENEVA, LAKE OF, or LAKE LE- MAN (Latin, Lacus Lemanus), the largest of the Swiss lakes, extending in the form of a crescent, with its horns pointing S., between France on the S. and the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, and Valais; length, measured on the N. shore, 55 miles; and on the S. shore 40 miles; central breadth, about 6 miles; area, 331 square miles; greatest depth, 1,015 feet. It is 1,150 feet above the sea. The Rhône, which enters the E. extremity a muddy, turbid stream, issues from the W. extremity perfectly pellucid, and likewise of the finest blue. GENEVA, UNIVERSITY OF, a university of Switzerland, founded in 1559 as the the Ac Academy of Geneva, and known under its present name since 1873. Its faculty of theology after its foundation was under the direct supervision of Calvin and Béza, and the institution soon became the center of Protestant scholar ship. It maintained its high reputation throughout all the centuries of its existence, and both among its teachers and its students there are to be found many renowned names. It has always attracted a large number of students from foreign countries. It has faculties of theology, law, medicine, philosophy and science. In 1918-19 the teaching staff numbered 155, and the student body, 881. Women are admitted to all courses on the same basis as men. GENEVIÈVE (zhen-vyāv), ST., the patron saint of Paris; born in Nanterre, near Paris, about 422. She devoted herself while yet a child to the conventual life. Her prayers and fastings are credited with having saved Paris from threatened destruction by Attila in 451. Her festival is held Jan. 3. She died in Paris, Jan. 3, 512.