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Samuel Wilson Parr, M.S. Samuel Wilson Parr, Professor of Applied Chemistry, was born at Granville, 111., in 1857. Three winters were spent at Normal in the High School and University. From 1876 to 1878 he was principal of the school at Cedarville. In 1878 he entered the University of Illinois. The next two years were spent on the farm. He re-entered the University and graduated in 1884. While a student here he was connected with the lllini, and was the first president of the Athletic Association. He spent the year 1884-85 studying special chemical and biolog- ical work, at Cornell University. He then went to Illinois College, at Jacksonville, 111., as instructor, and the next year was appointed Professor of Chemistry. In January, 1891, he was appointed to his present position. Herbert Jewett Barton, AA t . Herbert Jewett Barton, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, is a native of New Hampshire. After preparing for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, he entered Dartmouth College. He spent his Sophomore year in Wesleyan University at Mid- dletown, Ct., but finished his course at Dartmouth. For two years he was principal of the Newport, N. H., High School. Coming west, he was principal of the Waukegan, 111., High School, and later, superintendent of the city schools. After a year and half rest from teaching he became principal of the High School Department of the State Normal School, at Normal, in 1883. Eight years later he came here. He has delivered frequent and varied lectures and addresses before educational associations. Civics has occupied his spare time for many years, and as a result of his study he has published The Civil Government of Illinois. Charles Melville Moss, Ph.D. Y. Charles Melville Moss, Professor of Greek, was born at New York Mills, N. Y., and fitted for college at Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1877, and was granted the Degree of Ph.D. in 1881. In 1877-78 he was Associate Professor in Victoria University at Cobourg, Ont. In 1878 he went to the Illinois Wesleyan University as Professor of Greek, and in 1S91 he was appointed to the same position here. Daniel Kilham Dodge, Ph.D. Daniel Kilham Dodge, Professor of English Language and Literature, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1863. He received his early education in a German-American school in that city, and under private tutors. He graduated from Columbia College in 1884. In 1885 he re- ceived the degree of A. M., and in the following year that of Ph. D. He has spent most of his time since graduation as Tutor of the English and Scandinavian Languages in Columbia College. His summers have usually been spent in Copenhagen, where he has made a special study of the languages. He is a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Modern Language Notes, American Journal of Philology, The Outlook, The Independent, Gold- thwaite ' s Geographical Magazine, and the Dial. In 1890 he published a Bibliography of Danish and Swedish Dictionaries. He is a member of the Modern Language Association, American Philological Association, Danish University Jubilee Society, Society for the Publi- cation of Old Norse Literature, and an honorary member of the Danish Historical and Philo- logical Society. He was appointed to his present position in 1892. 11
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Lester Paige Brecken ridge, Ph.B. x$ Lester Paige Breckenridge, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was born at Meriden, Conn., in 1858. He attended the schools of that place, and of Westfield, Mass., graduating from the latter in 1876. His vacations were spent in the shop, usually under the direction of his father. In 1878 he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, graduating, in 1881, from the Mechanical Engineering course. From January, 1882, till the summer of 1884 he was instructor at Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. He was engaged in general engineer- ing work, consisting largely of power measurements until February, 1886, when he returned to Lehigh University as Senior Instructor in Mechanical Engineering. In 1891 he went to Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing. He came to the University of Illinois in 1893. David Kinley, Ph.D., ™ David Kinley, Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, Professor of Economics, and Secretary of the Council of Administration, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in i86l,and came to this country when he was 12 years old. He prepared for college at Phillips ' Academy, Andover, Mass, and graduated from Yale in 1884. For six years he was principal of the high school of North Andover. After a year ' s work at Johns Hopkins he was elected Instructor in History and Political Economy in that institution, and Instruct or in Political Economy and Logic in the Woman ' s College at Baltimore. In 1892 he went to the University of Wisconsin as Fellow and Instructor in the School of Economics. He has written articles on the Ethical Basis of Labor Legislation, Immigration, Relation of the Church to Social Reform, Influence of the Independent Treasury on Business, and is the author of The Independent Treasury System of the United States. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and several others. Daniel Harmon Brush Daniel Harmon Brush, Captain of the 17th Infantry, U. S. A., and Professor of Military Science and Tactics, is absent with his command. 12
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