Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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flprof. Cslhcms. lmcfhev f3,Q57iI.liamfy. T is with great pleasure that we present the picture of Rev. C. L. Williams, Professor-elect to the chair of English in Denison University. Professor Williaiiis was born at Imlaystown, Monmouth County, N. -I., june 8, 1851. At ten years of age, his mother having died, he went from home and worked on a farm for his board and clothes for six years. During the next seven years he studied, sometimes at Pennington Seminary, N. I., and at others, at Peddie In- stitute in the same State, and at intervals taught a district school. In September, 1874, he was admitted to the Fresh- man Class of Princeton College. Owing to financial difli- culties, he was obliged to miss his Sophomore year in college, but he kept up his Work with the class. Returning next year to Princeton, he Won the highest prize offered by the college for public speaking, that of the junior Oratorical Contest, and in his Senior year he was elected managing editor of the Pffifzcetafzzkzfz. He also represented the college in the Inter- Collegiate Oratorical Contest in his Senior year. After gradu- ation, Professor Willianis was five years Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Pennington Seminary, making a special study of Anglo-Saxon, and serving the last two years as Vice-president. During 1883, he took a year's course in Theology and I-Iomiletics at Crozer, at the end of which time he was called to the pastorate of the Upland, CPenn.j Baptist Church. Wlien asked about his acceptance of the chair of English in Denison, Professor Williaiiis remarked: I Was led to accept the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Denison by the conviction that Denison University is an institution in which honest and earnest Work is done, and which has an unusually promising future? 17

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PROF. CHARLES L. VVILLIAMS.

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Qbarneg fliiefrrtovial f?.l'faIl. HE frontispiece shows the new Science Building, Barney Memorial Hall, which is now being erected. It is the gift of E. J. Barney, of Dayton, Ghio, and is designed as a memorial to his father, Eliam E. Barney, who was long a generous and devoted friend of the college in its early years of poverty and struggle. This building is a handsome structure of Amherst stone and buff pressed brick, one hun- dred and forty-two feet long by seventy-two feet deep. It is situated on the brow of college hill, overlooking the valley and village below. It contains thirty-nine rooms, carefully designed for their respective uses, which will take the place of eleven smaller rooms now in use in College and Doane Halls. The rooms at present used for science instruction contain 3,760 square feet of floor area, the new building will release this room for other uses, and furnish in addition 16,550 feet exclusive of halls, etc., or more than four times the present space. The heating will be done by steam, chiefly by indirect radiation. Steam will also be distributed for drying ovens, evaporating baths, distilled water, etc. The building will be lighted by gas and by electricity, both produced on the premises. Gas will also be distributed to hundreds of heating burners, assay furnaces, etc., water all over the building, and electricity to convenient points in the physical rooms. A mechanical workshop of three rooms will be a prominent feature of the physical department. Power for the machinery in these and other rooms will be furnished by electro-motors drawing current from the dynamo room. The building is to be ready for use in September of the present year, and will be an invaluable addition to the present facilities in science instruction. I8