Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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That Ohio Northern has achieved her rightful place in the educational world despite the limited resourccs of her physical plant is a tribute more than anything else to the high caliber of her instructors. It is with a sense of profound thanks that we dedicate this, the forty-fourth edition of the Northern, to Wilfred Ellsworth Binkley, Professor of History and Political Science, who truly represents this ideal. Indeed, few institutions of our size are fortunate enough to have a man of his stature. In 1952 Columbia University cited Dr. Binkley as one of the six outstanding professors of political science in the country, and his return by request of Oxford University to his visiting professorship there last year bears witness that his fame is more than national. A full-time teaching position and, for the past two years, the top executive position in the municipality of Ada has not prevented him from participating and traveling actively in political and social science activities, both state and national. Author of many articles, he is now working on his sixth book. His previous works include 'Problems in American Government f1926l, Powers of the Presidentv fl937l, L'President and Congress f1943j, and American Political Parties f1949j. A Grammar of American Politics, standard political science text used in many colleges, recently went into its second edition last year. American Political Parties has been translated into German and Spanish editions, and a Russian translation has even found its way behind the Iron Curtain. Dr. Binkley received the highest acknowledgment of his renown last April 10 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as one of the dozen members of the National Historical Publications commission, only one other professor being named to this government body. Dr Ralph Harshman, Vice President and Dean of Graduate School at Bowling Green State University, giving Dr. Binkley With picturesque Magdalen tower in the an honorary Doctoriate in Public Administration at Bowling background, Dr. Binkley is shown on the Oxford Greens spring commencement in May 1953. university campus in the summer of 1950. 7 i

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S 47 YEARS A STUDENT AND PROFESSOR... Entered Northern in 1903 as a freshman . . . received B.S. degree in 1907 . . . graduate work at Harvard . . . B.A. at Antioch and M.A. and Ph.D. at Ohio State . . . Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at O.N.U., 1921 . . . Professor and chairman of Division of Social Sciences, 1936 . . . member of faculty, American University at Biarittz, France, 1945 . . . Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia Univer- sity, 1946 . . . Visiting Professor of Political Science, Oxford University, England, 1949-50 and 1953 . . . Member of the Executive Council, American Poli- tical Science Association, 1951 . . . Mayor of Ada, Ohio, 1951-53 . . . Appointed member of the National Historical Publications commission by President Eisenhower, 1954. DR. WILFRED E. BINKLEY NORTHERN 1907 Dr. Binkley receiving the key to the city by outgoing mayor K. W. Preston upon the occasion of his installation as Ada's chief executive in January 1952. ' 'Sq fl,. H

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