University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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X Faculty and lnstruetorg. - - Bioqrapfyieal. - - 1 Grams YEORVBHROID, Lau. D. CYRUS NORTHROP, LL. D., was born in Ridgefield, Conn., September 30, 1834. He attended school in Ridgefield until he was sixteen years of age, then spent one year at study at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., entered Yale College in 1852 with the class of '56, remained two terms, and then was obliged to leave college on account of illness. He entered the class of '57 in Yale in 1854. While in college he took a number of prizes, especially in speaking and writing, :and graduated the third scholar in aclass of onehundred and our. 1 After graduation he taught for two ears in New Haven, and in 1860 he graduated at the Yale Law School. A year later he began the practice of law in Norfolk, Conn. He was Assistant Clerk and Clerk of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, in 1860 and '61, and Clerk of the Senate in '62. In the summer of the same year lie became editor-in-chief of the New Haven DIllLS'1,8lllldil1D7, and after a year's service as editor, was called to the professorship of Rhetoric and En- glish Literature in Yale College, which position he held till 1884, when he resigned his professorship to accept the presi- dency of the University of Minnesota. For twenty years, commencing in 1856, he was active in politics, taking part! in every campaign and delivering many 'addressesin each. Thegreat movement begun in 1856 seemed, in 1876, to have accomplished its object, and since that time he has taken no part in political or party affairs. In 1867he was a candidate for Congress in the New Haven district. He has delivered many-addresses in a number of the States of the Union, speaking upolredncational,religious and politic-al sub- jects. - 'Some of these addresses have been printed, but he has written no books for publicat ion. His life at Yale was one of numerous responsibilities and of such continual demands on his time as to afford little opportunity for outside work in the way of literary activity. 9

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The coming of Cyrus Northrop marked a new era in the history of this institution, and the University and the State of Minnesota are to be congratulated that a man of such ripe experience in educational and public affairs was secured for the presidency. All students have for him the highest respect possible, and in addition to regarding him as an eloquent speaker and sue- cessful President, honor him as a grand and noble xnan. His lectures on moral, literary, and political subjects are not only highly instructive, but inspiring, leaving in the minds of the students an ideal of the culture and manliness toward which so many of us are striving. That supreme confidence which was reposed in him to such a marked degree at Yale is felt here, and it is a prediction of a career of usefulness to himself and of great benefit to the State through its University. Amar-zz Brqooas, D. D. JABEZ BROOKS, D. D., was born in England in 1823. When a youth his parents emigrated to America and set- tled in Wisconsin, in 1842, at Southport, now Kenosha. After finishing his preparatory studies at this and other places in the West. he entered the sophomore class in Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, Conn., in l8-17, and graduated three years later. He maintained himself while pursuing his studies by teach- ing and other work. While in college he taught in the Middle- town Classical School and in the Newbury Seminaiy. After graduating he came to Wisconsin and conducted, until 1852, a seminary at Watertown. Ile next occupied the chair of Greek and Mathematics in Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. From Lawrence he received the degreeof D. D. In 1,854 he was elected, principal of the preparatory department of Hamline, at Red Wing, and during 1854-'55 he was pastor of the M. E. Church at that place. 'ln 1,857-'58 ill health coni- pelled him to retire from teaadiing. In l8iS9 he resigned the presidency of Hamline, which he had held for nine years, and accepted the professorship of Greek in the University. Professor Brooks has always taken a leading part in the educational affairs of the State. While President of Hamline he was a member of the State Normal School Board, a mem- ber of the first Agricultural College Board organized in Minne- sota, and he took a prominent part in organizing the State Teachers' Association, of which society he was president in 1868. During the same period he was a member of the gen- eral eonference of the M. E. Church and a Commissioner of In- dian Affairs. Dr. Brooks is well and favorably known through the State as an eminently successful preacher and lecturer. Several of lns lectures and addresses have been published. e Throughout his active career of so many years he has been a correspondent for both denominational and secular pa- pers. j 10 M