Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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u! v; -»4 -ii; .i«: -V fti .» » -♦■i - ' •.».-■ iWWr M i w ii i L ' AGENDA ; DR. GEORGE BENEDIC T LAWSON was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Albert B. Lawson, distinguished min- ister. He entered Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was graduated in the class of 1884. He matriculated at Colgate Univer- sity and became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was graduated in 1888 with an A. B. degree and entered Union Theo- logical Seminary. Upon receiving his diploma from this institution in 1891 he went abroad and studied at the University of Bonn. He later returned and did graduate work at Columbia and Colgate, and from this latter university he received his A. M. and D. D. degrees. In 1893 Dr. Lawson entered the ministry, serving churches in Bennington and Brattleboro, Vermont, for fourteen years. Turning to education in 1907, he became principal of Vermont Academy. Here, among many other things, he established the Academy ' s winter carnival. From 1916 to 1922 Dr. Lawson taught at the Pennsylvania College for Women, serving as professor of Education and Philosophy. The war found him a lieutenant, assigned to the Tank Corps. In 1922 he was on the staff of New York University, and the following year he succeeded Dean Llewellyn Phillips as a professor at Bucknell. Here Dr. Lawson has been active in committee work, he has helped to bring about numerous constructive changes in the curricu- lum, and he has helped to introduce many new ideas which have con- tributed to the advancement of Bucknell. 1 I f m k V 19 M