Hamline University - Liner Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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VVilliam J. Keller, A. M., was born in LaPorte, Indiana, the son of a Methodist minister. He obtained his early education in Milwaukee and Chicago, later entering Northwestern Academy. He graduated in 1897 and immediately entered upon his work in Northwestern University. He was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, and for years a member of the University Glee Club. In 1900 he graduated with the degree of A. B. and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The following year he took graduate work at Evanston in Latin, Greek and German, receiving the degree of A. M., IQOI-2, appointed Fellow in Greek at Northwestern, and taught Greek in the academy and college 3 IQO2-3, took graduate work in Greek and Latin at the University of Chicago, 1903-4, appointed Fellow in Greek in the U. of Chicago. In the fall of 1904 he was elected Professor of Greek in Hamline. He brings to his work such a thorough knowledge of his subject as to make it a delight to work under him. Though the study of Greek may die out in some institutions. with Prof. Keller at our head, Greek in Hamline is assured a continued existence. -23--

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james Sherman King, A. B., was born of sturdy American stock, on a farm in Northern Illinois. Wlieii a boy, he attended the district schools near his home, and later entered the Northwestern Academy at Evanston, Ill. He graduated from the Academy in 1897, and immediately took up his Work in the University. He was a member of the Adelphic Literary Society, the Sigma Nu Fraternity, and in his Senior year was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated in 1901 with 'the degree of A. B., and the following autumn entered upon his work in Hamline as Professor of Greek, German and French. In the summer of 1904 he traveled in Ger- many, and in 1905 took graduate work at the University of Chicago. The same year he married Miss Edna Huser of the class of '03, Hamline. Since 1904 Prof. King's work has consisted of German and French alone. and under his guidance Hamline students are rapidly acquiring the fac- ulty of adapting their 'tongues to the languages of Science and Etiquette.

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1 I Erville Bartlett Wfoods, Ph. D., was born in Medfield. Mass. In 1882 he removed with his parents to Racine, Wis., where he spent the next fifteen years of his life. In 1897 he entered Beloit College and was appointed Assistant Librarian, which position he held for three years. He was a member of the Freshman team in the first Beloit-Ripon debate. The same year he won the Wfaterman prize scholarship, and in his Junior year the Robertson prize for scholarship. In his Senior year he was appointed assistant instructor in German, and elected President of his class. The first semester of the same year, he served as Editor of the College Wfeekly, The Round Tablef' In june, IOI, he graduated with the degree of A. B., summa cum laude. IQOI-2, assistant principal of Wfau- pun, QlVis.j. High School, summer of 1902, spent in foreign travel: IQO2-3. Librarian and Instructor in Beloit College, IQO3-5, Fellow in Sociology at the University of Chicago, summer of 1906, instructor in University College, awarded degree of Ph. D., magna cum laude. Fall of '06, entered upon his work as head of the Department of Social and Political Science at Hamline. Dr. IVoods is a mei Sociological Society and of the Religious Education Association. nber of the American