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THE UNIVERSITY BlackhawE, Courtesy, Lorado Taft
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Elmer Ellsworth Powell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy day of August, 1861, and was named after Elmer Ellsworth, the first llmartyrii of the Civil war. He is the son of Curtis Powell, a pioneer Methodist circuit-rider, who in his early ministry was conspicuous in evangelizing the then western frontier. ELMER ELLSWORTH POWELL was born at Clayton, I11., on the 16th Dr. Powellis preparation for university study was made at Lincoln, IllinoiSe partly in the Lincoln High School, and partly in Lincoln College, a small Cumber- land Presbyterian institution located there. In 1881 he entered the University of Michigan, where he took the B. A. degree in 1885, having completed in- cidentally the entire first year of the Law School also. When Dr. Powell was in college, intercollegiate athletics had not yet come into vogue, 8student activities8 being almost wholly of a literary character. The Alpha Nu Literary Society, of which he was several times the president, claimed a considerable amount of his attention. He was interested also in 8T he Chronicle , the student journal of the time, and served two semesters on the editorial staff, one as Business Manager and one as Editor in Chief. Some months after graduation he was seized by the conviction that he ought to enter the ministry, although, in View of the way in which his career was subsequently shaped, he has often remarked that it must have been someone else who was ilcalledii when he went. To prepare himself for his chosen pro- fession he then attended the Boston University School of T heology, receiving at the end of the three-year course the degree of Bachelor of Systematic Theo- logy. He was then appointed to teach in the Theological School which his Church had just established at F lorence Italy to train Italians for the protestant ministry. Two years later he followed the School to Rome, where he was married and his only child was born. After four years in Rome he went to Germany ,to restore impaired health, and to study philosophy at Halle and at Bonn. From the latter University he received in 1899 the degree of Ph. D. magna cum Iaude. As his protracted sojourn in Europe had given him unusual opportunities to learn the languages, he accepted, on his return to America, the temporary position of Professor of modern languages in Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. While engaged in this work he wrote his book en- titled llSpinoza and Religion? In 1905 he was called by Dr. Benton to the chair of Philosophy in Miami University, which he held until June, 1922, when he asked to be retired. He says that nothing is so enjoyable as wholesome work, and that he has not retired to a life of idleness, but to one that will permit him to go his own pace in the investigation and advocacy of the truth in regard to present-day issuese religious, social, and politicalawhich, in his opinion, have lately been badly bedeviled.
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