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poor investment decisions, lackluster fundraising, overly generous tuition waivers, and even substantial embezzlement by a former financial officer depleted the university's endowment and resulted in
Lincoln's running substantial operating deficits most years. Rendall Hall, a two-and-a-half-story brick building on Lincoln's campus that cost $ 25,000 to build, broke ground in June 1891 and was eventually named in honor of both presidents.
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Rendall became principal of the preparatory department at
Lincoln University in 1870 and became professor of Latin at Lincoln in 1872. He was ordained to the ministry in the Presbytery of Chester in 1876 and became clerk of the presbytery in 1894. He succeeded his late uncle, Isaac Norton Rendall, as
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As president, John
Ballard Rendall was popular and respected (and known to participate in the students' rough-and-tumble football games) but a poor fiscal manager. In 1906, Lincoln was the third wealthiest university in Pennsylvania when measured by endowment capital per student. The university's
291:(where Lincoln University was located), and president of the Ministers' Social Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity in 1914–1915. Active in the Presbyterian General Assembly, he served as its national commissioner five times and twice was the runner-up candidate for national moderator.
303:, on July 12, 1872. They had four sons (all Princeton alumni and ministers) and one daughter: John B. Rendall Jr., U. W. Rendall, Humphrey J. Rendall, James H. Rendall, and Jane B. Rendall. Harriet died at the couple's home at Lincoln University in May 1922.
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minister, educator, and politician. He served as a professor of Latin at the
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missionaries John and Jane (Ballard) Rendall. Of
Scottish descent (from
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Rendall married Harriet Elizabeth Jones (1845–1922) of
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