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

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Pendleton, who was a professor in Union University, Murfrees- boro, Tenn., at the time Dr. Waggener was connected with the institution as a student. In 1870, he was given the chair of En- glish lyiterature in Bethel College, Russellville, Ky., having pre- viously been principal of the preparatory department. In 1873, he succeeded Noah K. Davis as chairman of the faculty, the lat- ter gentleman having accepted a position in the University of Virginia as Professor of Moral Philosophy. He was president of Bethel College from 1876 to 1883, when he came to Austin, hav- ing been elected Professor of English Literature and History in the newly established University of Texas. Dr. Waggener has been chairman of the faculty since 1884, and under his guidance the University has made great progress. In 1867, Dr. Waggener received the degree of A. M. from Bethel College, Ky., while in 1875, Georgetown College, Ky., conferred on him that of I L- D. ROBERT LEWIS DABNEY. Robert Lewis Dabney was born March 5, 1820, in the county of Louisa, Virginia, forty miles west of Richmond. His parents were Col. Chas. Dabney and Elizabeth Price, his wife, descend- ants of early colonists from the adjoining county of Hanover. He was prepared for college in mixed classical and English schools of the neighborhood, and on June i, 1836, joined the Sophomore Class half advanced in Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia. Leaving here in October, 1837, on account of his mother ' s widowhood, he taught a mixed neighborhood school in his native county for two years. In December, 1839, he en- tered the University of Virginia, which institution he left July 4, 1842, with the degree of Master of Arts. October, 1844, he entered Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, leaving in June, 1846, Bachelor of Divinity. After preaching seven years and two months, — one year as licentiate in the Presbyterian Church in Louisa county, and six years and two months as ordained minister in Augusta county, Virginia, — he returned to Union Seminary in September, 1853, as Professor of Ecclesiastical His- tory and History of Doctrine and Philosophy, etc. In 1859, he was transferred to the professorship of Systematic Theology in