Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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'R 'I R J I7 ASHLEY, By Fuoivms MARTIN. Dr Ashley was born in P1862 in Stokoe-on-Trent, England. At the age of Sixteen he Came to this countly and located in Brooklyn. Later he removed to Zanesville. Ohio, and afterwards became a student in Ohio Wesleyan University. During his college days, he was known as a diligent seeker after truth. He was honored with the Presidency of the Y. M. C. A., and that of the Euteyrean Musical Society. He knows Ohio Wesleyan as the place where he formed many friendships of a lasting character. 1+ rom O W. U. he went in 1890 to Boston University and there as valedictorian took the degree of S. T. B With this came an appointment to a traveling scholarship. Then from the classic halls of the New Woild he went to seek the treasured lore of the old. Dr Ashley studied at Jena, Leipsig, Berlin- and Oxford. His instructors at the first institution were at Oxford Laird, Fairbairn, Wallace and Sanday. i - In 180-L he returned to Boston to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In lSSl5 he became president of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Limll, N- Y. There he spent three years of successful admin- istration V ' In January, 1898 he came to Albion College. He brought the breath of the Atlantic with him. He has the power both to administer and to inspire. He comes with the newest methods in teaching and with a sound system of philosophy. His classes are full of interest. His talks are replete with forceful anecdotes and powerful iifrures As a preacher and lecturer he is widely known. He is now lecturing on an average of four times a week. His themes, 'Savonarola, ' 'l he Saint of the Middle Ages, 'Boomerangs and Mirrors, University Life at Home, ' University Life Abroad ' The Making of a Man, and Axiom No. 10 are treated in his own masterly Way. Here it might be added that Dr. Ashley is a member of the Political Science Section, also of the 4 v 0 O 0 LR ' , . in . - , V 1 ' 7 1 . . K' ' , . Eucken, Liebmann and Reing at Leipsig, Wundt, Hiense and Wulker, at Berlin, Pfleiderer, Paulsen and Weis, Q . Q T , D ' QU K i 4 as 4 N 7' G it , , U as cc vs D Psychological Association and is president of the College Department of the State Teachers Association. Since coming to Albion he has wrought great changes. The arrangement of the buildings has been changed from basement to roof and all for the better. And while these improvements have been progressing, funds have been pouring into 'the college coffersg endowments for new chairs have been received and a valuable library has been bequeathed to the institution. Surely Dr. Ashley is the man for the place. He is a ripe scholar, a forceful orator, a wise administrator and withal a congenial christian gentleman? For him and for the college there remains a bright career. His maxim is, Live out your best. Hear, Old Albion, heed the word! -,7- X

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