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

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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.

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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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SYI.VKSTER PRIMER. Sylvester Primer was born in the State of Wisconsin, on the 14th of December, 1840, but removed to New York early in life, where he lived to the age of sixteen. He spent three years at LeRoy Academy and three years at Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H, After graduating at the latter institution, Mr. Primer studied for three years at Harvard, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1874. Immediately afterwards he went to Germany, and studied at Leipsic, Gottingen and Strass- burg. In 18S0, Mr. Primer received the degree ol Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) from the last mentioned University. He next taught for about one year in a military school, but returned in the latter part of the same year to his native country. Upon his return he received the appointment of Professor of Modern Languages in the College at Charleston, S. C, where he taught for a period of eight years. In 1889 Dr. Primer went to Rhode Island, and taught for one year in the Friends ' School, Providence, when he received a call to the chair of Modern Lan- guages in Colorado College, Colorado Springs. After teaching there one year he was elected Professor of Teutonic Languages in the University of Texas, where he has now been actively en- gaged for three years. Professor Primer is the author of a con- siderable number of books, besides having contributed many articles to the leading philosophical journals of the United States. He has now in the press an edition of Lessing ' s Nathan the Wise for the use of schools. JOSEPH BALDWIN. Joseph Baldwin, the subject of this sketch, was born in New- castle, Penn., in 1827. From his father, who was a native Vir- ginian and also a teacher, he gained the habits of hard work and the love of learning that have made him famous. His early education was in the public schools, of which he is a most enthusiastic exponent and upbuilder. He prepared for College in Bartlett Academy and graduated in Bethany College, Va., in 1852. During the same year he was elected principal of the Platte City, Missouri, Academy In 1856, he conducted for