Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Ihe Faculty £%t LLEN R. BENTON is a native of New York. He entered LqJ Bethany College in 1845, and was graduated therefrom in K? 1847. He received A. M. from his Alma Mater, and LL. D. from the N. W. C. U. When this college was organized in 1855, he was chosen Professor of Ancient Languages, and served in that position until 1868, being President of the Faculty from 1861 to 1868. He then taught for three years in Alliance College, and went in 1871 to Lincoln, Neb., where he organized the University of Nebraska, and presided over it until 1876, when he returDed to Butler, where he has since been teaching sacred history and philosophy, having been once more chosen President in 1886. William M. Thrasher went from Indiana to Bethany College in 1 853, graduating A. B. in 1854, and received soon after his A. M. After some ten years of teaching in academies, he was elected to the Chair of Mathematics in 1865, in the Northwestern Christian University, now Butler, and has taught here uninterruptedly since that time, except in 1873 and l v 74, when he spent a year in travel and study in Europe. T. J. MacAvoy was originally an Ohioan, but went in early life to Iowa, where he graduated at the Mt. Pleasant Academy. He served four years iu the war of the rebellion, and then took up the study of elocution and oratory under Kidd and Murdoch, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Oratory. Since then his life has been spent mainly in teaching and giving public readings. In 1877 he founded the Indian- apolis School of Elocution and Oratory. He has taught in various col- leges, and commenced work at Butler in the fall of 1889. Scot Butler is a native of Indianapolis. After his return from service in the Union army, from 1862 to 1865, he entered Butler, then the N. W. C. U., as a Freshman, and graduated in three years with the class of 1 68. After teaching two years in the University of Indiana, he was elected to the chair of Latin in his Alma Mater in 1871. From 1873 to 1875 he was granted leave of absence, and traveled and studied in Europe. He was a Matherian and a Sigma Chi. II

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HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY. with the college two years, and Mr. Wilson and Miss Hall for the past year only. In addition to this corps of instructors, several tutors have been employed duriDg the last year. The first faculty consisted of but four members. The recent policy of introducing a large number of elective studies and of affording opportunities of extensive graduate work is especially commendable. The outlook for the University is very encouraging. The endowment has been considerably increased by the recent zealous efforts of the financial agent, Wni. Mullendore, and the large increase in the number of students during the past year shows that the work of the school is becoming more widely, as well as more favorably, known. 10

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THE FACULTY. Hugh C. Garvin was born in Ohio, and attended Bethany College and Miami University, graduating from the latter with A. B. in 1 863, and receiving afterwards A. M. He then spent two years in Germany, and after teaching in Franklin College, Ohio, returned in 1870 to Germany, where he taught and studied until 1877. In 1880 he was chosen Pro- fessor of Modern Languages at Butler, and in 1889 was elected to the newly-created chair of Biblical Philology. Thomas M. Iden came from Ohio to Butler University, where he en- tered the Freshman class in September, 1878. Teaching in 1880-81, he returned to graduate with the class of 1883 as a Ph. B. After hav- ing been principal of the Irvington schools, Secretary of the Butler University, and Librarian and Instructor in the same institution ; he was chosen Professor of Chemistry and Physics in 1886. He has spent two summers at the Harvard Summer School of Chemistry. In college he was a Pythonian and a Phi Delta Theta. Oliver P. Hay is another Indianian, graduating from Eureka College in 1870 as an A. B., receiving A. M., afterward, from that institution, and Ph. D. from the University of Indiana. He spent 1876-77 at the Sheffield Scientific School, at Yale. He came to Butler as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in 1879, and has taught biology and geology since 1886. He has been and now is a contributor to the lead- ing scientific journals, and has several times published results of his investigations. Thomas C. Howe came from Southern Indiana when, in the fall of 1884, he entered the second preparatory class at Butler. He graduated Ph. B., in 1889, in the same class with Miss Jennie Armstrong, to whom he was married a year later. During 1 89-90 he taught Latin and German in Butler, and in April, 1890, was elected to the Armstrong chair of Germanic Languages. He went at once to Berlin to make special preparation, and will return in 1892. He was a Philokurian and a Delta Tau Delta. Miss Mary Hall, of Indianapolis, was for two years a student at But- ler, immediately after the removal of the college to Irvington. She then went through the Indianapolis Training School and was a teacher in the public schools of that city until the summer of 1890, when she was elected to the Assistant Principalship of the Preparatory Depart- ment of Butler University, which was at that time separated from the college proper. Miss Harriet Noble went from her home in Vincennes to Vassar Col- lege, where she entered the Freshman class in the fall of 1869, gradu- ating A. B. in 1873. She has received the degree of A. M. from Butler. 12