knowledge of the languages and the higher mathematics. So
rapidly did he advance in these studies that it was found
necessary to place him in a class alone, none of his mates
being able to keep up with him. This separation was from a
class of about twenty young men from the Carolinas,
Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. For five years he studied,
making an advancement that was frequently a marvel to the
teachers, some of whom were at times puzzled to sustain
their place of superiority over him.

In 1876 Daniel Wallace Culp graduated from Biddle
University, being the first graduate from the classical
department of that institution, with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts.

Having decided to study theology, he, in the fall of the
same year in which he graduated from Biddle, entered
Princeton Theological Seminary. At the same time he entered
Princeton College to study the History of Philosophy and
Psychology under the great Dr. McCosh.

The presence of a colored student in the classes at
Princeton College (which has no connection with the
Theological Seminary) was particularly obnoxious to the
young men of the South, of whom there were several then in
attendance. This brought on a crisis. The young white men of
the South packed their trunks and left for their homes,
declaring with much emphasis that they would not sit in the
lecture room with a "nigger." But, strange to relate, their
parents showed better sense by requiring them to promptly