Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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DANIEL WALTER MOREHOUSE, Ph.D., Northwestern Christian College, Excelsior, Minnesota, 1895-18975 S.B., Drake University, 1900, S.B., University of Chicago, 19025 S.M., Drake University, 19025 Ph.D., University of California, 1914. Professor of Physics and' As- tronomy at Drake since 1900. Has served Drake as Dean of Men, 1919-19225 President and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 1923- 1930g President 1930-. Awarded the Donahue Comet Medal for the discovery of the Morehouse Comet in 1908, and one of America's foremost authorities in the field of Astronomy. Member of American Astronomical Society, British Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow Iowa State Academy of Science fPresident, 1921-221, received Community Cup awarded to the citizen rendering the most distinguished service to the City of Des Moines. i231

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SHERMAN KIRK, A.M., Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Drake since 1897. S.B., Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va., 18883 A.M., 18983 Student, Drake University, 19013 Chicago University 1903. Has been Dean of the College of the Bible, and is present Head of the Department of Greek and Latin. Author of a treatise The Value of Greek for Christian Workers , which was previously read at a meeting of the State Teachers of Latin and Greek and had also been requested read before the National Convention of Eta Sigma Phi. Member of Philological Association of America, and the Des Moines Chapter of the Archaelogical Institute of America, of which he has been chairman several times. Spent the spring and summer of 1929 in study and travel in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Palestine and Egypt. E221 QNIV5 wx , ,P 2' Q gi -1 O. Lfklvs .Y 1539

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WILLIAM FRANCIS BARR, A.M., Graduate Eastern Indiana Normal School, 18805 student Summer School, University of Chicago, 18965 Harvard, 19035 Ph.B., Drake University, 1903, A. M., 1907. Taught in Drake University Academy, 1900-035 Dean of Drake Normal School, 1903-075 Dean of the College of Education, 1907-115 Director of School of Education and Dean of Men, 1911-135 and Dean of the College of Education since 1913. Metnber of Iowa State Board of Educational Examiners, 1923-255 member of National Educational As- sociation, Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa. Has been president of Western Association of College Teachers of Educa- tion, chairman of Bureau of Education, member Chamber of Com- merce, Des Moines. Lecturer at University of New York, summer of 19125 and University of Chicago, summer of 1914. Author of Drill Lists in Arithmeticu, published in 1894, also of Outline of Physics Cthird editionj in 1904. U41 gui 6 40 3? fa gi -4 O. Psgivfi .Y fggx