Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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CALENDAR. 1893. Annual Examinations ............. June 14-16. Prize Contest in Elocution, Preparatory Depart- ment .................. Friday, june 16. Baccalaureate Sermon, by the President . . . . Sunday morning, june 18. Commencement Sermon .......... Sunday evening, june 18. Prize Contest in Elocution, Collegiate Depart- ment . .... Examinations for Entrance .... Animal Meeting of Board of Trustees . . . . Class Re-unions . . Class Day Exercises Commencement . . Alumni Dinner . . Fall Ter111 Begins . . Thanksgiving Recess Examinations . . . Christmas Vacation . Winter Team Begins Day of Prayer for Colleges .... Freshman-Sophomore Celebration . Examinations . . . Baldwin Oratorical Contest . A Spring Vacation . . Spring Term Begins Decoration Day. . . Annual Examinations Commencement . . 1894. Monday evening, June 19. june 19-20. Tuesday morning, june 20. Tuesday, june 20. Monday, June 19. Wednesday, June 21. Wednesday afternoon, june 21 Tuesday, September 12. November 30-Dec. 3. December 21-22. Dec. 23, '93, to Jan. 8, 1894. Tuesday, January 9. Thursday, January 25. February 22. March 22-23. Friday, March 23. March 24 to April 2. Tuesday, April 3. Wednesday, May 30. June 13-15. june 20.

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GEORGE STOCKTON BUKKOUGHS. PH. D., D. D. . MVN, ,XL J,..', ', -. -NA 1-:ORGE S'1'oc1c'roN Buaxoucsi-is was born January 6, 1855, at Waterloo, N. Y., where his father, Rev. George W. Burroughs, was at that time pastor of the Reformed tDutch'J Church. Boyhood and youth were passed mostly in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in Philadelphia, Pa. His mother was his teacher and inspirer, and when he began attendance at school, at the age of eleven, he was more advanced and ahler than any of his class. In two years he was prepared to enter college. But thirteen was too young an age. He entered the Sophomore Class at Princeton College when he was sixteen and graduated, with the highest honors of the college, in 1873, when he was nineteen. His theological training in the Seminary was with the class of 1877, at Princeton. Dr. Burroughs was married on the 30th of May, 1877, to Miss Emma Frances Plumley, daughter of Rev. G. S. Plumley, D. D., F. S. S., at Metuchen, New Jersey. Their children are Mabel, Ralph and Edmund. On july IO he was ordained to the ministry and made pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Slatington, Pa. After serving that church two years he accepted a call to the First Congregational Church, Fairfield, Conn., where he labored for four years. From 1883 to 1886 he was pastor of the Center Congre- gational Church, New Britain, Conn., from which he was called to the pastorate of the College Church of Amherst, Mass., and from that position he was called to the presidency of Wabash College. His alma mater has honored him in quick succession with its academic degrees: A. B., M. A., Ph. D. and D. D. Dr. Burroughs is director and secretary of the American Institute of Sacred Literature, and is also a member of two other societies of sacred learning, namely, the American Oriental Society and the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. His specialties being sacred learning and philosophy, he is emi- nently qualified for teaching those branches which usually belong to the President. .,,,,,.o