University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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4 THE TKOCH OS. 18 JOHN W. STERLING, Ph. D., LL. D., was born in Wyoming Co., July 17, 1816. His early education was obtained in the State of New York. Before entering college he studied law for three years, but never gave his attention to its practice. He entered the College of New Jersey at the age of twenty-one years, and graduated in 1840. He was principal of Wilkesbury Academy for one year, but resigned to enter the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. Here he graduated in 1844, and afterwards officiated as tutor in the College of New Jersey. After leaving this college he engaged in missionary work in the State of Pennsylvania. He was elected Professor of Mathematics in the University of Wisconsin in 1848, at its organization, having been Professor of Mathematics one year in Mt. Carroll College, at Waukesha. He was dean of the faculty from i860 to 1865, when he was elected Vice-Chancellor. In 1869 he was elected Vice-President of the University. In 1866 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the College of New Jersey, and also the degree of Doctor of Laws from Lawrence University, at Appleton. WILLIAM F. ALLEN, A. M., was born in Northboro, Mass., Sept. 5, 1830. He fitted for college in Leicester Academy and Rox-bury Latin School. He entered Harvard in 1847 and graduated in 1851. After leaving college he taught as a private instructor for three years in New York City. In 1854 he went to Europe, where he studied at Berlin and Gottingen. He visited Rome in 1855, where he spent six months. After visiting Naples and Greece, he returned to the United States in 1856. For seven years he taught in West Newton, Mass., and spent two years in the service of the Freedmen’s and Sanitary Commission, in the Southern States. He was for one year Professor of Ancient Languages in Antioch College, Ohio, and one year at Eagleswood Military Academy, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected to the Professorship of Ancient Languages and History in the University of Wisconsin. In 1870, this chair was changed to Latin and History. He is also a director of the Madison Free Library. Among his writings for reviews are : “ Recent German Works on Roman History, ” North American Review (1857); “ Rawlinson’s Herodotus,” Christian Examiner (1859); “ Slavery in Rome,” North American Review (i860)) “The Future of the South ” (1862), “ Democracy on TT'rial ” (1863), “The

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BIOGRAPHICAL. 17 President JOHN BASCOM, D. D., LL. D., was born at Genoa, N.Y., May i, 1827. He fitted for college at Homer, N.Y., and graduated at Williams College in 1849. After graduating, he read law for one year at Rochester, N. Y., but never entered its practice. After having attended the Auburn and Andover Theological Seminaries, he graduated from the latter in 1855. During this year he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in Williams College. On account of an affection of the eyes, which rendered him almost blind, he was obliged to perform all of his literary work through the assistance of an amanuensis. Amherst College bestowed the degree of Doctor of Laws upon him in 1873, and Grinnell College that of Doctor of Divinity in 1875. During his Professorship at Williams College, he was absent on a visit to Europe one year. In 1874 he was called to the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin. He has published “Political Economy” (1859); “Aesthetics” (1862); “Philosophy of Rhetoric” (1865); “Principles of Psychology” (1869); “Science, Philosophy and Religion” (1871); “Philosophy of English Literature” (1874); “Philosophy of Religion” (1876); “Comparative Psychology” (1878); “Ethics” (1879); “Natural Theology” (1880); “Science of Mind” (1882); “The Words of Christ as Principles of Individual and Social Growth” (1884). Dr. Bascom’s contributions to periodicals have been numerous. Among others, “Intuitive Ideas,” “Utili-tarianism,” “Conscience,” “ Cause and Effect,” “The Human Intellect,” “Instinct,” “The Influence of the Press,” “The Influence of the Pulpit,” “ The Nation,” “ Taine’s English Literature,” “ Prof. Albert Hopkins,” “Consciousness,” seven articles on “The Natural Theology of Social Sciences,” which have appeared in the Bibliothica Sacra; “ Hickok’s Empirical Psychology,” in the North American Review; “The Laws of Political Economy in their Moral Relations,” “ Review of Buckle’s History of Civilization,” in the New Englander; “ The Relations of Intuitions to Thought and 'rheology,” “Consciousness : What is it?” “Inspiration and the Historic Element in Scriptures,” “ Darwin’s Theory,” “ Evolution,” in the Presbyterian Review; “The Foci of the Social Eclipse,” in Putnam’s Magazine. Many of his addresses have been published. (2)

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BIOGRAPHICAI. 19 Freedmen and Free Labor in the South ” (1864), “ South Carolina ” (1865),“ The American Executive” (1866), “OurColleges ”(1867), all to be found in the Christian Examiner; “The Religion of Ancient Greece,” North American Review (1871); “The Caucus System,” Christian Examiner (1871); “A Day with a Roman Gentleman,” Hours at Home (1870); “The Religion of the Ancient Romans,” North American Review (1870). He has been a constant contributor to The Nation. An address upon the “ Agriculture of the Middle Ages,” published 1877 ; papers on the “ Rural Population of England, as classified in Domesday Hook,” “ United States Sovereignty,” “ Peasant Communities in France ” and “ The Origin of Freeholders,” are articles which he has read before the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. He has published an edition of “ The Agricola and Germanica of Tacitus” (1880); “History Topics for High Schools and Colleges,” with List of Reference Books, was published in 1883. ALEXANDER KERR, A. M., was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, August 15, 1828. His early life was spent near Rockford, 111., where his advantages for an education were limited. He entered Beloit College at the age of 21. Here he graduated in 1855 with the highest honors in his class. He spent several years in teaching in Georgia, and for two years wras Superintendent of Public Schools in Winnebago Co., 111. In 1863 he took charge of the public schools at Beloit, Wis. He was called to the chair of Greek Language and Literature in the University of Wisconsin, in 1871. In 1869 he was elected President of the State Teachers’ Association, and has been a member of the Board of Education of the city of Madison since 1873. He has con-tributed largely to the periodical press of Wisconsin. J. B. PARKINSON, A. M., was born at Edwardsville, Madison Co., 111., April 11, 1834. He entered the Preparatory Department at Beloit College at the age of sixteen years. He, howrever, only remained in Beloit College two years, after which he took charge of an overland expedition to California. He spent three years in the mines of California and then returned to enter the University of Wisconsin in 1856. He graduated here in i860, with first honors. He was ap-