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T 1Rev. llbrof. llbhilip IIIB. JBihIe, El. IIB.. Ilbb. ED. , Dean ano IDCSPSOII llhrofessor of the JLatiu Iangllage :mo Iitetatlire. 0 Q Alma Mater as has Professor Bikle and in these days of rapid college growth and unusual 8 student activity when earnest devotion to Gettysburg and constant endeavor in her behalf are f L of so much concern to all of-us, a review of the career of our popular Dean, to whom this l9a.JDL volume is affectionately dedicated, will be heartily welcomed by every patron of the Spectrum. Philip Melanchthon Bikle was born in Smithsburg, Md., December 1, 1844. .At the early age of sixteen he completed the course of study given in the Smithsburg High School and was promptly made teacher of a country school near his home. His marked success in this his first position as an instructor attracted so much attention in the community that, before the close of the term, when he was only seventeen, he was elected Assistant Principal of the Public Schools of Hagerstown, Md., but, having decided to go to college, he declined to accept. He prepared for his later collegiatework at North Carolina College, Mt. Pleasant, N. C., where his brother, Louis A. Bikle, D. D., '57, was Professor of Latin and Greek, and in 1862 he entered the Gettysburg Class of '66. He at once' rose'to an exceptionally high rank in his class and won the Muhlenberg Freshman prize for the best general scholarship. On commencement day he delivered the Latin Salutatory and was awarded Third Honor. During his entire college course he was actively identified with general student affairs and took a conspicuous part in their direction. He was a prominent Phrenakosmian and a member of Sigma Chi. A The year after his graduation at Gettysburg, Prof. Bikle taught Latin and Mathematics in the York County Academy. In 1867 he entered the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, graduated there in 1869 and was duly ordained to the ministry. In 1869 he was elected tothe.Professorship of Latin and Greek in North Carolina College, of which his brother was then President. He occupied this chair one year and then accepted a call to the Vice-Principalship of the Lutherville Female Seminary, now known as Maryland College, in which position he continued until 1873. He resigned this Professorship in that year to go to Dartmouth College where, as a graduate student he' took advanced work in Physics and Astronomy under Prof. Charles'A. Young, Ph. D., LL. D., now one of the leading Professors at Princeton and for many years onegof the foremost of American Astronomers. In a letter to a writer of this sketch, Prof. Young hasfreferred in most complimentary terms to the impression Prof. Bikle made during the period when he studied with him' in New England. Prof. Young says of Prof. Bikle: He was always quiet and faithful, but quick, bright and energetic alsog an exceedingly bright and satisfactory student. Prof. Bikle's success as one of Prof. Young's pupils soon won him distinguished recognition, and in 1874 he was unanimously chosen by our Board of Trustees to the Ockershausen Professorship of Physics and Astronomygwhich chair he held continuously for seven years. Upon the readjustment of the various departments during Commencement week of 1881, he was assigned to the Pearson Professorship of Latin, Gswpab ERY few of our Alumni have been so long and so prominently identified with the affairs of their C 3 I n , . ' V 6 9, . . , . , 1 A , G, Q G ' ' JH -T-.