Hamline University - Liner Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Blair County, Pennsyl- Thomas Percival Beyer, A. B., was born in vania, and reared in the Allegheny Mountains of Clearfield County. In 1895 he entered VVilliamsport Dickinson Seminary, being a member of the Society of Aborigines and of the Belles Lettres Union. He graduated in 1898, and in September, 1899, entered Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Conn. While here he broke his instep While pole-vaulting, and was ' ' H h l ed organize the debarred from all athletics except the discus. e e p Z, 't President in 1902. In his Senior Wesleyaii Commons Club and was 1 s year he was a member of the college senate, and Assistant Librarian. He graduated in IQO3, being lvy Qrator on Class Day-. and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The following six months he spent on a cattle ranch in ' ' l. I january of 1904 he took up his Kansas, recuperating his healti n ' ' ' t Tarkio College, f sor of English Literature and History a Work as Pro es g ' ' l cted Professor of the English Lan- Missouri, and in june, 1906. was e e guage in Hamline University. -25-

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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

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Ioseph M. Barton, A. M., Sc. D., was born at Derby Station, XYest- moreland County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in 1874. After graduation he taught for several years, and in 1881 was elected County Superintendent of his home county, which position he held for six years. In the spring of 1887 he was - D elected as Head of the Department of Science in the Cumberland Valley State Normal School and held that position until last June. when he re- signed to accept his present position. He received the degree of A. M. from Mercersberg College and of Sc. D. from Franklin and Marshall College. In 1893 he was a member o by the state to pass upon the exhibit of school work sent by Pennsylvania to the XVorld's Fair at Chicago. Dr. Barton is a Presbyterian and, fra- ternally, a Mason of high degree. ' f the committee of three appointed -26-