Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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PRESIDENT M. F. WARNER. J 1 illard Fillmore Warner, the fifth president JYl of Baldwin University, was born in Tus- 1 1 carawas Co., O., in 1848. He was fitted for college in the preparatory department of Ohio Wesleyan University, a college located at Delaware, O. In 1871, he graduated from the University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the fall of the same year, he went to Drew Theological Seminary where he graduated two years later with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. His first work was service as a pastor in the Newark Conference in New Jersey. In 1879, he was transferred to the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and served in various pastorates, among which were those of Ashland, Wellington and Shelby. In 1887, he entered the Faculty of Baldwin University and was soon after elected to the vice-presidency. A vacancy occurring in the presidential chair, through the resignation of President Stubbs, now of University of Nevada, Professor Warner was elected Acting President of Baldwin University. In 1895, Dr. Warner was elected President and transferred from the chair of Literature to that of Philosophy. In President Warner, the University has a man, wise, genial, and an educator in the truest sense of the word. Under his skillful guidance, the Uni versity is sure to have continued prosperity. He has always been a great favorite with the students.

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LADIES ' HALL.

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K b HE chair of Greek Language and Literature, since the year 1874, has been occupied by Professor Karl Riemenschneider, Ph. D. Karl Riemenschneider was born in Louisville, Ky., May 14, 1844. When he was only seven years old, his father, Rev. Engelhardt Riemenschneider, one of the pioneers of German Methodism, was sent to Germany as a missionary. Thus he could avail himself of the educational advantages which the excellent school-system of that country so amply offer. He received his elementary education in the primary schools of Frankfort- on-the-Main, Bremen and Bremerhafen. From the latter place, his father was transferred to Zurich (Switzerland). There Karl Riemenschneider, at the age of twelve years, became a pupil of the Gymnasium, (classical school or college), the best school of its kind in Switzerland. After passing his Maturitaets-Examen, he matriculated in the University of Tuebingen ( Wurttemberg) , where he studied philology under Teuffel and Michaelis, philosophy under Siegwart, history under Weizsaecker and Kugler. His university study was interrupted for a little more than one year, during which time he taught in the Theological Seminary of German Methodism, situated at that time in Bremen, as a substitute for the late Dr. Paulus who wished to attend the Universities of Halle and Berlin for several semesters. Just then President Warren, of Boston University, was the chief theological professor in the seminary. After Mr. Paulus ' return, he went back to Tuebingen to finish his course and to pass his examination for the Ph. D. degree. On the very day of his Rigorosum, he received a call from the Trustees of German Wallace College to the chair of Ancient Languages in that institution, and as it had always, been his fixed intention to return to the land of his birth, he accepted and began his work in German Wallace College in the Fall term of 1868. Berea has been his home since then, and though several calls have been tendered to him by far greater institutions, he has preferred to remain where he spent the first years of his professional life. In 1883 he was elected to the Vice-Presidency, with all the duties and functions of an Acting President, and in 1893, to the Presidency of German Wallace College. In 1874, when Prof. White (Harvard) resigned, Prof. Riemenschneider took charge of the Greek classes in Baldwin University, and since then has, without interruption, been connected with this institution also. PROF. CARL RIEMENSCHNEIDER. ' 7