Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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Page Three Dcnlson University, Granville, Ohio lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN THE trustees of Denison Univ ersity have always regarded the Presidency as a position of serious responsibility, requiring a man of conspicuous ability, high peVsonal character and sound scholastic attainments. For the first twenty years, they turned to the graduates of Brown Umversity for such men. Presidents Pratt, Going and Bailey each carried the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Brown, which of course explains the strong influence exercised by Brown upon the development of Denison. President Hall, though without a baccalaureate degree, was a man of broad mental attainments and intellectual power, continuing in Denison the New England traditions appropriate to his birth and his surroundings during the first thirty years of his life. It was not until 1 863, during the stress brought upon the college by the Civil War, that the Board placed the duties and responsibilities of the Presidency in the hands of a man of western birth and training — Samson Talbot, born on a farm near Urbana, Ohio, and graduated from Denison under the administration of President Bailey. Every student of the history of Denison knows that the result was a striking justification of the wisdom of the Board in making such a selection. Ten years of scholarly and impressive work in the class-room, of deep and lasting moral and religious influence upon the student body and the community, and of wise planning for the future so effectively brought home to the Baptists of Ohio as to win their confidence and support, — all this from the young alumnus left Denison with a far easier path to further attainment than she had ever known before. The over-strained bow broke at the end of these ten years, but the growth of President Talbot ' s administration had been too firm to be lost by his departure. Two New Englanders followed him — Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, a graduate of Brown again, and Dr. Alfred Owen, who took his degree from Waterville College, now Cclby. Of the three men who have held the position since Dr. Owen ' s resignation. Dr. Anderson and Dr. Hunt were of New York birth and graduates of Rochester University. Dr. Purinton, coming between the two, was born in the eastern part of what is now the state of West Virginia, ' and educated in the University of West Virginia. And now again, after a lapse of ju.it fifty years since the election of Samson Talbot, the trustees have seen fit to place an alumnus in the chair which Dr. Talbot so signally honored. Clark Wells Chamberlain too was a farmer ' s son, born in northern Ohio. He entered the Academv under the administration of Principal J. D. S. Riggs, in 1 888, and was graduated from the college with the class of 1 894. Of his college days it is sufficient here to say that he was not only an earnest and energetic student, slighting no branch of study included in his course but an active and influential participant in various lines of legitimate student activity outside the curriculum, including the work of the Young Men ' .? Ch ristian Association, inter-collegiate oratory, and athletics. For three years after graduation, he taught in the Western Reserve Academy. In September, 1897, he entered the Graduate School of the University of Chicago, holding a fellowship in the Department of Physics. It was during his work there that he hit upon the idea which led to his invention of the Compound Interferometer, one of the most delicate instruments known for minute measurements in physical research. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillillilllilli Illllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli