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ROBERT WILLIAMS THE light of this troubled world first broke upon my eyes in the beautiful vale of the Aire, in Yorkshire, England, not far from the Priory of Bolton which Wordsworth has immortalized in his poem, The Doe of Rylstone, and not much farther Frcm the famous home of equally famous Bronte sisters. M y memory is still green of a boyhood spent in the neighborhood of a sixteenth century church and an ancient castle. It seems as if I had been cradled amid a thousand years of history. M y parents, not being Dukes, emigrated to the United States when I was yet young, and apparently having a full sense of their responsibilities, brought me with them. And 90 I have grown up, a citizen of the United States. Now there come memories of New England, my jobs there and later my education. And so to Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa¬ chusetts I am indebted for such formal training as I have; preparation for college at the East Greenwich Academy; college career at old Wesleyan University, and graduate work of various sorts at Harvard, Yale and Boston. Since coming to the Middle West two other colleges have enrolled me as an adopted son, namely Albion and Ohio Wesleyan. Most of my life has been spent in work, with only a little leisure for play. As a parson, teacher, dean and president my hands have been rather Fuir of cares. Providence has apparently ordained me to be a son of toil, and I have no quarrel with this arrangement. However, among my hobbies are included a little golf and less tennis. If when and as I have opportunity for books, poetry, philosophy and religion absorb much of my thought. M y serious interests are my wife and my children, for I realize with Francis Bacon, that he who marries and has children gives hostages to Fortune. Besides being a citizen of this Republic, I am a Methodist, a Republican with Democratic ideas, a more or less casual Mason, and am listed along with other college presidents in Who’s Who, where the curious can be satisfied as to further details of my life. (Autobiographical sketch requested by the editor of the Northern) pAGB
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