Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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616 THEODORE L. WRIGHT, M. A. Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages. Graduated CA. BJ from Beloit College 1880. M. A. by Harvard 188-i. M. A. by Beloit 1586. Instructor in BeloitrCol- lege Academy 1882-88. Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages in Beloit College 1888. HIRAM D. DENSMORE, M. A. Professor of Botany. Graduated CA. B.J from Beloit College June, 1886. Entered upon present duties September, 1888. M. A. by Beloit College J une 20, 1889. DVVIGHT B. XVALDO, PH. M. Instructor in History and Political Economy. Graduated fljh. BJ at Albion College 1887. Ph. M. by Albion College June, 18510. Entered upon duties at Beloit January 6, 1891. EDWARD M. BOOTH, M. A. Knapp Instructor in Elocution. V Graduated CA. B.J at Yale July, 1863. M. A. by Chicago University 1867. Entered upon duties at Beloit Novem- ber,1SS7. ' WILLIAM A. PERKINS, M. A. Instructor in Academy. HENRY B. KUMMEL, B. A. Instructor in Academy. NVILLIAM K. HAY. Instructor in Academy.

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15 REV. HENRY M. WHITNEY, M. A. Root Professor of Bhetorie and English Literature. Grftdutttcd QA. BJ from Yule 1864. M. A. 'hy Yule 18130. Entered upon duties ul Beloit College April, 1871. THOMAS A. SMITH, PH. D. Hale Professor of Mathematics and Physics. Graduated QA. BJ front Muslaingtm College June, 1872. Ph. D. by Yale June,1877. Entered upon duties ut Beloit College 1877. ERASTUS G. SMITH, PH. D. Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy. Grztduuted QA. BJ from Amherst College 1877. M. A. by Amherst College 1880. Entered upon duties at Beloit College 1881. A. M., Ph. D. by Georgia Augusta liniverrity ut Gf.3fllll2,'Cll, Germany. 1883. ROLLIN D. SALISBURY, M. A. Professor of Geology. Grztduttted QPh. BJ frc.n1 Beloit College 1881. Entered upon duties :tt Beloit 18825. M. A. by Beloit College 1884. REV. ALMON W. BURR, M. A. Principal of Academy and Professor of Pedagogics. Graduated QA. B.J from Oberlin Collcge 1868. M. A. by Oherlin College 1871. Entered upon duties at Beloit 1884. CHARLES A. BACON, M. A. Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory. Graduated QA.B.j from Dartmouth College June,1883. Entered on present duties August 28,1885 M. A. hy Dart- mouth College J une, 1886. . CALVIN W. PEARSON, PH. D. Harwood Professor of Modern Languages. Graduated QA. BA from Eftrlhstm College 1865. Ph. D. by University of Giittingen March 24, 1869. Entered upon present duties fail of 1887.

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18 All such long records of worthy genealogy bring, in a new West and in a time of self- made men, a wholesome lesson of the value of good breeding handed down in certain kinds of blue blood. Until Ioseph Emerson was nine years old his father, Rev. Ralph Emerson, was pastor of the church in picturesque and intellectual Norfolk, Conn. Declining a call to the presidency of Western Reserve College, he removed to Andover, where, for a quarter of a century, he filled the chair of Ecclesiastical History. Beloit visitors at Andover are glad to see, honored on the classic walls of the Seminary, the portrait of a father who was always an inspiration and a companion to his son. joseph Emerson's early school and college honors were always most prized as loyal offerings to the father's gratihcation. The later years of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Emerson, several of which were spent in Rockford, were characterized by a most hearty and constant interest in Beloit College, an interest only partially expressed by the considerable additions to the resources of the College which came through their influence. Their honored remains rest in the Beloit Cemetery, and their memorial is the Emerson Library Fund, given principally by their son, Mr. Ralph Emerson, of Rockford. Prof. Emerson's course of preparatory study was completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, after a year's interruption for the recuperation of health. This year, spent in Colebrook, Conn., on the farm of his Grandfather Rockwell, one of the nobility of Litch- field County, brought a serviceable education in practical arts and deepened the native poetic love for landscape, animals, fruits and flowers, to which the pastoral garden on College Street still always testifies. Mr. Emerson graduated from Yale College in 1841. Among his many distinguished classmates were Judge Learned, Rev. Dr. W. T. Eustis, judge Birdseye, and Donald G. Mitchell. After teaching for one year as Principal of Union Academy, New London, Conn. fa year which students of that Academy still rememberj, he entered Andover Seminary 7 where he pursued his theological studies for two years. Then he accepted a call to a tutorship at Yale Colle l ' l ge, wiere ie taught Latin, mathematics, and natural philosophy, continuing meantime his theological studies. For four years he held this tutorship under the administrations of Presidents Day and Woolsey. In 1848 came the call to Beloit. After two days of wet journeying from Milwaukee, President A. L. Chapin, then a pastor in Milwaukee and a Trustee of the scarcely born College, with the drenched but undamped new Professor, drove up to our Campus, where they found mounds and the walls and frame of a brick building three stories and a half