Nebraska Wesleyan University - Plainsman Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Q' D-'Q , mNl2i2' a9'iM A-OM ff x, But few people have made the success attributed to Dr. Harvey Warren Cox, now president of Emory University. Dr. Cox graduated from the class of 1902, as Bachelor of Philosophy. Since that time one success has called for another, until in '1919 the trustees of Emory secured him for President. Born in Birmingham, Illinois, February 19, 1875, he entered Nebraska Wesleyan in the fall of 1898. During the four succeeding years, Dr. Cox gave abundant promise in his work in philosophy and psychology. Graduating in 1902, he was ofered the profesorship of philosophy at Nebraska. Wesleyan University. He held this position unti'l 1909, when he Went to Harvard to complete the requirements for his doctor's degree. In 1910 and 1911 he became assistant professor in philosophy at Harvard. In 1911 he received his Ph. D. degree, having received his M. A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1906. In 1920 Dr. Cox received the degree of L. L. D. from the Uni- versity of Florida. In 1911 Dr. Cox was called to the University of Florida as Professor of Philosophy. In 1916 he was elected Dean of the Teachers' College ,which position he held until 1919. Dr. Cox was married in August, 1903, to Daisy Esther Frisbie, of Red Cloud. They now have three children, two boys and a girl, and are located at Emory Campus. Dr. Cox is a member of the Kappa Alpha literary fraternity, and the Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity. ' Under his leadership Emory College has made unusual progress. The campus has been enlarged from 95 to 160 acres, and the student body doubled in the last five years. Emory University is, under his direction, on a very firm financial footing. The hos- pital has been erected recently at a cost of S1,250,000.00 and other buildings at a cost of SS210,000.0'0. Dr. Cox is an indefatigable worker for Emory. v L gig' ,X Z X5 wg ll 1 . IL lf' NINQM ll-ll O . V231 l31l

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OM o' 1rgfeffigt 6i'FD5-Xffril2f:i11i.?i--ifi rf1qffe-'M 7f14fal H. B. Durham was born in February, 1880, in Marion County, Iowa. His parents moved to Nebraska and settled on a farm near Bostwick, Nebraska. Here he lived the hardy, well rounded life of a farmer boy. In the year 1898 he persuaded his parents that he should have the advantages of higher education and entered the Nebraska Wesleyan Academy at the age of eighteen. Finishing the course in three years, he registered as a Freshman in Ne- braska Wesleyan University the following fall. The next year he returned, intending to work, but was persuaded by Professor F. A. Stuff to register for his Sophomore year. That year he worked as advertising manager of the Wesleyan, and wrote for the Lincoln Evening News. These positions led on to others, by means of which he worked his way 'thru the remaining years of college. He graduated from Wesleyan with the Ph. B. degree, class of 1904. The following fall Professor D'urham became Superintendent of the Bostwick Schools. In 1905 he returned to Nebraska Wesleyan University, taking graduate work in sociology, and in political science. He was appointed Business Manager of the Law Book published by the Law School in 1906. In the year 1907 he went to Washington, D. C., where he entered the George Washington University Law School, and was graduated the following spring with the degree of L. L. B. For several years he was in the service of the United States, as a special agent for the Department of the Interior. From this position he was trans- ferred to a higher position under the United States attorney general. Leaving the service of the government, he engaged in 'legal work for some oil companies. He was married in the year 1908 to Ethel M. Simonds, who graduated with him at Wesleyan. His family is located at Casper, Wyoming, where he is now very successfully practicing law. 1 rsrn lx .l ff 7 1 lk f it R l K M L! 017 fill? i ll A ill. llf.. M if 1 4,4-ill If 61,1 f r f f rxglji rf RRR 5 1 l il l if! F0 wglllw IW v ,V l w ll W l ll- 1 . l ' I K , lv ill ,, NYJ Nix 'Pal .Eff Xa 3, X i 1 fl if l H l 9 f 2' . 1 A :V l 1, l Ai J XX., l 1-3, l.'xi.f , .