Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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OUR NEW PROFESSORS. REDERICK'O. GROVER, who came to 1 Oberlin last fall to take charge of the Botan- ical Department, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1868. He took his preparatory course in St. johnsbury Academy, Vermont, and his college course in Dartmouth, graduating in 1890. For the next two years he taught in St. james Mil- itary, Academy, Macon, Missouri, and for two more years in the Western Military Academy, Upper Alton, Illinois. In the fall of 189-l he entered Harvard to make a special study of Botany and Zoology, and took the degree of A. B. in l895, and that ofM. A. in 1896. During 1896, he was assistant in the Harvard Cryptoga- mic Laboratory, and for the next two years, assistant in Professor jones' Botanical Labora- tory in Radcliffe College. He was also asso- ciated with Prof. jones for three years in the Harvard Summer School. He was especially welcomed in Oberlin be- cause of his friendship with Professor Jones, and he has fully met our expectations. His work during the year has been successful and every one was glad to learn that he is to be among us next year. wILLIAM GEORGE CASKEY, our new Professor of Oratory, was born in 1865 at Chicago Heights, Illinois. He took his college course in Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, graduating in 1891. For the next two years he was the principal of the Academic Department ofthe Collegiate Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah. He left that position in order to take up special work in oratory,and spent the year ISD3-4 in the Ifmerson School of Oratory, and the following year in Columbia College of Oratory. The next year was spent in graduate work m Columbia, and in the fall of 1896, he was called to t11e University of Wiscoiisili as Instructor in lilocution. He held this position until he came to Oberlin last fall. The increased interest in oratory in Oberlin this year is proof of his ability and enthusiasm as a teacher. He has won many friends, and his genial personality not less than his success in the class-room, makes him a welcome addi- tion-,to Oberlin's Faculty. I 1 6