University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Ivecturer on the History of Medicine and Demonstrator of Physi- ology, David Ckrna, M. D.. Ph. D. Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence, Hon. Robert G. Street, B. A. Lecturer on Clinical Surgery, Gary H. Wilkinson, M. D. Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin, and Assistant in Pathology, George H. Lee, M. D. Demonstrator of Anatomy, Thomas Flavin, M. D. Professor of Pharmacy and Lecturer on Botany, and Dean of the Pharmaceutical Faculty, James Kennedy, Ph. G., M. D. Provost and Librarian of the Medical Department, James P. Johnson.

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BIOGRAPHICAL. LESLIE WAGGENER. On September ii, 1841, I eslie Waggener first saw the light in Trenton, Todd connty, Ky. Passing over his early school days, we find him, in i860, a Senior in Harvard, having just gradu- ated in Bethel College, Russellville, Ky. Soon after taking his A. B., at Harvard, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. He was left for dead on the field of Shiloh, but a negro boy, whom he had brought from home, found him and carried him to Corinth. His life was despaired of by the surgeon, but after some months he regained his health. Having rejoined his regiment, which had been changed in the meantime to the 9th Kentucky, Hanson ' s Brigade, Breckenridge ' s Division, Array of Tennessee, he took part in the expedition under John Morgan to Hartsville, Tenn. About this time he became second lieutenant in the company in which he had first enlisted. Dr. W. was at the battle of Chickamauga and was again wounded, though not se- verely. In the investment of Chattanooga and in the retreat from Missionary Ridge he was present, and while in winter quar- ters at Dal ton (1863-4) temporary appointment on the staff of Brigadier-General Lewis. Passing over the engagements at Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek, we find Dr. Waggener at Atlanta (July 226. and 28th) and at Jonesboro. His brigade having been almost destroyed at this latter place, its sur- vivors were mounted and went to increase the cavalry under Wheeler. When Johnston ' s army, which included them, sur- rendered. Dr. Waggener was adjutant of his regiment. In June, 1866, he arrived at his home in Russellville, Ky. June 27, 1867, Dr. Waggener was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Pendleton, of Uplands, Pa. Her father was James M.

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one year the Lawrence County Normal School, and spent a term in the Millersville, Pennsylvania, State Normal School. From 1858 to 1867 he was President of the Indiana Normal School at Kokomo. During this decade he held one hundred teachers ' in- stitutes and delivered six hundred educational addresses, thus contributing to the establishing of the excellent school system of Indiana. From 1867 to 1881 he was President of the first Missouri State Normal School, Kirksville, Mo. During these fourteen years he conducted one hundred and fifty teachers ' in- stitutes and State normals, and gave one thousand educational addresses, thus building up the Missouri school system. From 1881 to 1891 he was President of the Sam Houston State Normal School, Huntsville, Texas. At the close of this term the Regents of the University of Texas, having created the School of Pedagogy, unanimously elected Dr. Baldwin to take charge of it. It is to be hoped that he will remain a decade in this position, thus rounding out a half century of teaching. During all these years Dr. Baldwin has been a constant con- tributor to the standard educational journals of the world, and has embodied his life-work in three noted books — ' ' Art of School Management, Elementary Psychology, and Psychology Ap- plied to the Art of Teaching. CHAS. Iv. EDWARDS. Charles L. Edwards, Professor of Biology, was born Decem- ber 8, 1863, at Oquawka, Illinois, on the Mississippi river. He took the B. S. degree at Lombard University in 1884, B. S. at Indiana University in 1886, and A. M. in 1887. He attended the Johns-Hopkins University in 1887, 1888 and 1889, and the University of Leipsic in 1890, taking the degree of Ph. D. He was Fellow of Morphology at the Clark University in 1891 and 1892, and Director of the Summer Laboratory of Biology at Min- neapolis in 1887. He has been connected with the following zoological explorations: Florida, in the spring of 1876, the Bahamas, in the summers of 1889, 1891 and 1893, the Gulf coast of Texas, in the summer of 1892. He has published several in- teresting articles in American scientific journals.