DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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University at la.rge has enjoyed extensive and varied courses of lectures and other means of profitable instruction. He is especially happy in presiding on the platform, and by his witty sallies and intuitive pleas- antries puts everybody in good humor. Kindness and courtesy are notable traits in his character. He has never sought distinctions or emoluments for himself, but because of his intrinsic worth he has been trusted and honored. Should he for any reason be taken away from Greencastle, no one would have more people to say that they were deprived of a true friend and Christian brother. Students, in- structors, patrons and citizens, all hope that in these delightful asso- ciations he may continue to preside with his accustomed grace, and conduct the institution to a still higher plane of usefulness and Pl'OlTllllellC9. jg Mr 1 tri m! y 3, iylqrii IL ' uglfirswll ' 11'4q ,, ' .- , ,,.- J 7 . i 1' y nf 1-5'5 Wf11 m'w iiii ' T' ' - -W t ill 'lift will-.'l 3i.f-'l MJ T: iiii- .,-,, N-Jil-x l' w u f lli'l.-rs' tif:

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Minister and Professor, Greencastle, Indiana. A. B., A. M., D. D., Indiana Asbury University. Born, March 25, 1842, in Terre Haute, 1862-65, three years in Union army, 1869, entered the Northwest Indiana Con- ference. Appointments: 1869, Bainbridge, 1870, Remington and Goodland, 1873, First Church, South Bend, 1876, Trinity, Lafayette, 1879, First Church, South Bend, 1880-86, Robert Stockwell Professor of Greek language and literature, De Pauw University , 1881-86, secretary of faculty, De Pauw University, 1886-90, president Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, 1890, dean School of Theology, 189-1, vice-president De Panw University, Green- castle, Indiana. Married, November 8, 1871, to Miss Florence Orrill, who died December l6. lS0l. In July, 1895, he was married to Mrs. Clara Leaton Beals, the widow of Professor Harry L. Beals. The parents and family of Dr. Gob-in have been very useful and highly respected citizens of Terre Haute, and no native of that city was more popular in his boyhood days than Hillary. Brave fellow as he was, while a mere youth he entered the Union army and was placed in positions of special trust because of his marked integrity. It may also encourage some busy, toiling students to learn that our honored head once served as train boy on the H Big Four. By joining the army his college course was postponed, but he graduated with distinction, being faithful and as- siduous, as well as brilliant in recitations, and holding front rank in his associations. He served as pastor while in college, and after- wards filled some of the leading pulpits in the Northwest Indiana Conference, and was on his second term in South Bend when he was elected Professor of Greek in his Alma Mater. As an instructor he is painstaking, clear and methodical. Wliile students must labor hard to accomplish the work he requires, no one complains that he is severe or exacting. His election as dean ofthe School of Theology was made the hopeful occasion ful' friends to contribute for the erection of Florence Hall, and in his administration many a poor fellow has been prac- tically befriendcd and enabled to continue in study. By his generous inanageinent and personal friendship with distinguished people, the

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