Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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Rev. Ei.mei: B. Wai.lek. Dean

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Co Er ), eimcr 33. Waller. jH. .. ©ran professor of 90atf)emtitics, a man, iuitty aiiD brilliant; a fricnD, ftoncst anD faitljful; ateactjcr, rcspcrtcD anD bonorcD; a Dean, tuise anD just, Cfjis IPolume is DeDirateD

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Rev. Elmer B. Waller, A. M., Dean ELMPIR BRIT0:N VAT.LER was Ik.™ at Waldcii. X. V., ..ii : Iarfh 8, ls. ii). IT is early ediieatioii was received, in the jjublic schools of iSeiieca Fails, n;. Y . He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1SS2 and taught nuitheniatics for the next two years at the Schenectady Classical Institute. He sttidied theolngy at Princetmi Seminary, where he graduated in 1SS7. For the next four years he was ]iast(ir of the Presbyterian Church at Elizabethton, Tennessee, and als(.) ])riuci])al of Davis Academy. In 1891 he was elected to the ehaii- of mathematics at ] Iarv ille College, and in 1905 was made Dean of the College. Dean Waller has spent five of his vacations studying at the sunnner school of Cornell University, and he has also been abroad. During the past two years, in the absence of President Wilson, he has been in charge of the College, and much credit is due him for the success and prosperity of the institution ditring that time.