Chowan College - Chowanoka Yearbook (Murfreesboro, NC)

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TO JAMKS I). KRllNER, Ph.D. OUR LOVED AND HONORED PRESIDENT WE DEDICATE THIS RECORD OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE

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I AMES D. Bruneu, Ph.U.

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Jameg Botuben primer JAMES DOWDEX BRUXER, President of Chowan College, is a native of Kentucky. He studied during the year 1892-93 in Paris and Florence, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Universitj ' in 1894. His undergraduate work was done largely at Georgetown College, Kentuckj ' , where he was Instructor in Latin in 188.5-86. After teaching in various public and private schools, Dr. Bruner became Professor of Romance Languages in the University of Illinois, where he remained for two years. In 1895 he became acting head of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the LTniversity of Chicago. In 1901 he was elected head of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the University of Xorth Carolina. He held this position for eight years. Dr. Bruner is also a man of letters, being the author of numerous magazine articles, of a book of essaj ' s on Victor Hugo ' s Dramatic Characters, and of a dis- sertation on the Dialect of Pistoia. He is the author of four textbooks, as follows: Editions of Chateaubriand ' s Le Dernier Abencerage . Feuillet ' s Le Roman du Jeime Homme Paiwre, Victor Hugo ' s Hernani. and Corneille ' s Le Cirl. He is engaged in the preparation of other articles and books.