McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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EDWIN PERCY BAKER, A. M. PROFESSOR OF GERMAN. The present incuiiihent ir, the- Cliair cif ( ' .L-rnian in MclCendrcc CnUfgc. Kilwin Percy Baker, a son of a Methodist clerg-ynian. was burr, in Nri-clianicsville. ( )liiii. ( Ictober 23. 1868. When a ymin man lie attcndcil tlu- ( iraml Kivcr institntc tor two years, at tlic end of wliicli time he entered the North Ea.stern ( )liio Xornial Colleije where he spent tliree years in study and preparation lor tcachinj, ' -. but stKm after took up a three years ' course in tlic ( )liio Wesleyan rniversity, from whicli insti- tution he graduated in l8 3. receiving the degree of Bachelor of .Arts. Shortly after hi.s graduation lie was noliticd of his electior, as Professor of ( lertnan and Latin in McKendree College, which position he held until i8( i. when he was allowed a vacation of one year in order to study and travel in Europe. While abroad In- traveleil extensively ami .studiecl German nnder sev- eral of the hest instructors in (,ernian . I ' pon his return to this country he was elected lo the t ' hair of ( ieniiar, in McKendree. therefore having served as a member of the faculty since 1893 to the present time. In 181)5 be was elected secretary of the faculty, which position he still retains. Professor Haker has been coniplimeiited and ])raise l very liigblx by some of the best scholars of the German language in this country as well as by those abroad for lii mastery and fluency in speaking the ( lerman tongue.

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EDWARD B. WAGGONER, A. M. PROFESSOR OF NATURAL SCIENCE. The subject of this sketch, l-lihvard I ' .. Wasgom-r, was Imrn in ( ' .Milfro , 111., in 1852. His bdvlioml days were spent ufxin the farm near (Kulfrev. He moved tn Leban.m in S(«i ami in the fall nf the same year, at the aye nf i-. Ik- entered McKendree I ' ollege. from whicli institutinn he graduateil in 1875. receiving ' tlie detjree i f I ' .aelielnr cif . rts. Soon after sraduatins from .McKendree he acce])ted a position as instruetur in the school at C ' liattiii. 111., where he taught for several years, from there he went to Chautaiuiua, where he completed a course un- der the directions of the E. L. S. Fv ; he also finished a coiirse in Sunday school normal work at the same place. In 1879 he attended the CoUcfje at ' alpraiso. Indiana, and a year later he entered the Snutlurn Illinois N ' ormal College at Carlxmdale. where he remained fur one term. In 1881 he was elected to the Chair of .Vatural Science in .McKendree College, which position he Imlds at the jiresent time, thus having served on the faculty since his election as Professor of Natural Science, with the e :ception of one year when he tau.tjht in the Southwest Kansas College of Winlielil, Kansas. lie has alwavs beer, greatly interested in institute work, having taught in the various institutes in Illinois for twelve years during the summer vacation at McKendree. I ' rot. Waggoner is a leading member of the M. I- ' . Church at Lebanon, and has held the imsition of Siindav . .chfxjl superintendent for the last fifteen years. ; s an instructor of N ' atural Science he is a cap- 2»le and tireless worker and great credit is due him for iin|iroviiig his dei)artnKnt until to-day it is unsur- passed by any college in this State.