University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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THE DIGEST CLEMENT LEACH WILSON ':Gloon1y calm of idle vacancy. Became an ornament in the house of his parents, April 24, 1874, in the county of Ne- niaha, Nebraska.. Prepared at Johnson High School and Lincoln Nornial Univer- sity. Is ofNVelsh and Dutch descent. A nieniber of the Delian literary society, and like us all a nieniber of the Maxwell club. Home address, Johnson, Neb. DENVER LOARING VVILSON But Lord! how he could kick? Did his first kicking at Clarington, Ohio, March 16, 1868. Is of English and Dutch blood, graduate of Western Normal College at Shenadoah, Iowa, degree B.D. Presi- dent of the Maxwell club, third term. FORMER MEMBERS., NEWTON D BURGH, Central City. DAVID F BURKS, Fairbury. . JAMES R BURKS, Beatrice. JAMES W. CHITWVOOD, Macon. WELLS M. COOK, Hartington. ' EDWARD C. FARMER, Madelia. ANTHONY G. KARPISHEK, Linwood. FREDERICK J. D. LASBY, Chester. HOWARD B. RALEY, Crete. J ULE SCHOENHEIT, Lincoln. JOHN E. SPAAN, Orange City, Iowa. EDMUND T. SULLIVAN, Harvard, Ill. JAMES H. WAIJLIS, Paris, Idaho.

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Cibcmcellor George CE. Zllocteon, SSSS. D. Dr. George Edwin MacLean, the iifth Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, was born in Rockville, Conn., August 31, 1850, son of Edwin W. MacLean and Julia H. QLaddj MacLean. His father, a man of public spirit, was a successful merchant, postmaster of Rockville, a member of the I. O. O. F., and later a deacon of the Congregational church of Great Barrington, Mass. The earliest American representatives of the family settled in Hartford and Vernon, Conn., before the Revolution. The gene- .alogy in Scotland reaches back to the eleventh century with a legendary line for several centuries beyond. The Ladd family first came to this country in 1632. Dr. MacLean received his pre- paratory education in Vlfesttield Academy and Williston Sem- inary, Massachusetts. He entered WVilliams College, from which he graduated in 1871. He completed a course of study at Yale Theological School in 1874, and accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian and Congregational society in New Lebanon, N. Y. From 1877 to 1881 he was minister of the Memorial Presbyterian church, Troy, N. Y. Going abroad in the latter year he studied at the University of Leipzig until 1883, with the exception of two semesters at the University of Berlin. He devoted his at- tention especially to philology and history, Biblical exegesis, and old English literature. He collated several old English manu- scripts in the British Museum, Oxford, and Cambridge. He made the degree of Ph. D. at Leipzig. After an extended tour through Europe, he returned to the United States, and shortly thereafter accepted the chair of the English Language and Literature in the University of Minnesota. At the expiration of seven years' service he obtained a leave of absence, spending eleven months in studying in the British Museum, and in making cycle tours through England. Facilities were everywhere aiforded him for becoming acquainted with English life and thought, es- pecially at the universities. Ho resumed the duties of his pro-