Marietta College - Mariettana Yearbook (Marietta, OH)

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'I 5 5 H TO OUR LOYAL AND HONORED PRESIDENT THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE CLASS OF 1905 8 ix

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ALFRED TYLER PERRY, A. M., D. D., PRESIDENT Alfred Tyler Perry was born in Geneseo, Illinois, on the nineteenth of August, 1858. In his youth his family moved to North Adams. Massachusetts, where he received his early education and graduated from the High School. He entered Williams College and, in 1880, obtained his degree of Bachelor of Arts, and his election to Phi Beta Kappa. He then spent two years in the wi1ds, part of the time as surveyor on a railroad. In 1885 he graduated from Hartford Theological Seminary, and received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams, 1891. In 1886 he was assistant pastor of a church in Spring- field, Massachusetts, and for the next few years pastor of the East Congrega- tional Church at Ware. January first, 1891, he returned to Hartford Theological Seminary as librarian and later Professor of Ecclesiastical Polity. In 1899 he was inaugurated full Professor of Bibliology of that institution. He was inaug- urated President of Marietta College in 1900, and has since been Professor of Christian Evidences and Sociology. He received the degree of Doctor of Di- vinity from Williams in 1901. Professor Perry was married in 1887 to Miss Anna Morris, of Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs. Perry takes a very active interest in the students and is highly respected by them. President Perry is an all around Christian gentle- man, and believes in all phases of college life. He is intensely loyal to the Navy Blue an... .. ..n.,, and endeavors to arouse the same loyalty among the students. 1