Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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JASPER CONVERSE BARNES I! rf ASPER CON ' ERSE BARNES, son of Abraham and .Margaret Welch ;,. ; Barnes, was bom in the town of JMeigsville, Ohio, August 28. t86i. He Ti spent his childhood days on the farm, and received his primary education in the public schools of his native town and in the McConnelsville Higli School and Muskingum ' alley Normal School. He was granted a teacher ' s certificate at the age of sixteen, and began teaching the next year, and continued to teach until the spring of :884, when he entered tlie larietta Academy to ]3re- pare for college. He entered Marietta College in September, 1886, and was graduated in the Classical Course, with honors, on July 2. 1890. In the summer of T8yo he was elected Su[)crintendent of the schools of Belpre. r)hio. which position he held until August, i8q2, when he was elected Principal of the Preparatory Department and Professor of the Science and Art of Teaching in Maryville College. In igoi he was transferred to tlie chair of Psychology and Political Science. , While teaching, and during the sunnner aeations. Professor Barnes ecmi- pleted the post-graduate course in philosopliy of ' ooster University, and has done two years ' graduate work in the University of Chicago. In 1890 he was elected a member of Gamma Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Ohio. Marietta College. In 1892 he was granted a teacher ' s life cei tificate in the State of Ohio; and in 1905 was chosen a member of the . merican Academy of Political and Social Science. The following degrees have been conferred upon him: . .B., Marietta College, 1890; A.M., Ihld. 1893: Ph.D., University of Wooster, 1900. (16)

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