ia. Bethany College, at Bethany, West Virginia, was chartered
in 1840, and Alexander Campbell, who had founded it as Buffalo
Seminary, was its president until his death in 1866; other colleges
founded by the sect are: Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky.; Hiram
College, Hiram, Ohio (1850, until 1867 known as Western Reserve
Eclectic Institute); Butler College, Indianapolis, Indiana (1855);
Christian University, Canton, Missouri (1851; coeducational); Eureka
College, in Woodford county, Illinois (1855; coeducational); Union
Christian College, Merom, Ind. (1859); Texas Christian University,
Waco, Texas (1873, founded as Add Ran College at Thorpe's Springs,
removing to Waco in 1895); Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (1881);
Milligan College, Milligan, Tennessee (1882); Defiance College,
Defiance, O. (1885); Cotner University, Lincoln, Nebraska (1889); Elon
College, Elon, North Carolina (1890); American University, Harriman,
Tenn. (1893); the Virginia Christian College, Lynchburg, Virginia
(1903), and for negroes, the Southern Christian Institute, Edwards,
Mississippi (1877), and the Christian Bible College, Newcastle, Henry
County, Ky. Theological seminaries are the Berkeley Bible Seminary,
Berkeley, California (1896); the Disciples' Divinity House, Chicago,
Ill. (1894); and the Eugene Divinity School, Eugene, Oregon (1895).
"Bible chairs" were established in state universities and elsewhere by
the Disciples,--at the University of Michigan (1893), at the
University of Virginia (1899), at the University of Calcutta (1900)
and at the University of Kansas (1901). The denomination has
publishing houses in Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville and Nashville.

See Errett Gates's _History of the Disciples of Christ_ (New York,
1905), in "The Story of the Churches" series, and his _Early Relation
and Separation of Baptists and Disciples_ (Chicago, 1904), a
University of Chicago doctoral thesis; and B. B. Tyler's _History of
the Disciples of Christ_ in vol. xii. of "The American Church History
Series" (New York, 1894).

DISCLAIMER, a renunciation, denial or refusal; a disavowal of claims. In
law the term is used more particularly in the following senses:--(1) In
the law of landlord and tenant, the direct repudiation of that relation
by some act on the part of the tenant. A disclaimer may be verbal or
written, but in such case it must be something more than a mere
renunc