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

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nidCKA I ' ll IKS. 23 which he i i-.ulu.itrd in N: I ' lic same N ' cai- he went to (icnilaii)- aiul matriculated at the University of Bonn; hoin Ml ' .hi lu studieil at (ioettini:;en, wht-re he tools the desjjree of I ' h. 1). Mk. LodMlSwas born in Hartford, C onn., June 2!», 1S(;:{. He attended the Hartford I ' ublic Hii di School, from which he j;radu- ated in ISSl. lie then t ' ntered Trinity college. Durin ; his college course he took two prizes in Mathematics, one in {ierman, and one in an oratorical contest. In 1885 he graduated optiiiiiis; he was also valedictorian of his class. Having taught for one year in the Hartford High School, he entered Johns Hopkin ' s Uni- versit)-, where he studied I ' lissics for three years. He held a University Scholarship and the I-Y-llowship in Physics. In Is ' .t d he took his degree. tL O Charles D. Marx was born in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. in, 1857. He received his primary education at Amsterdam, Holland, where his father was U. S. consul from ' (i:? - ' ()( , at Ettlingen, Germany, and in the Public Schools at Detroit, Mich., to which cit ' the family had returnetl in ISl ' iC. jn the fall of ' 71 he went abroad and entered the Realg)-mnasium at Karlsruhe, Baden, where he studied till 187t). Returning to America, he took the course in Civil Engineering at Cornell Uni ersity, from which he graduated in 1878. In the same year he went abroad again and studied for three years at the Polytechnicum at Karlsruhe, where he also acted as instructor in Civil Engineering under Prof. Baumeister. In the summer of ' 81 he began professional work in America, as leveler and transitman on the proposed extension of the Boston and Hoosac Tunne l R. R., and later as U. S. assistant engineer in charge of works in the Mississippi River Improvement at Plum Point. In 1SS4 he accepted the position of assistant professor of Civil Engineering at Cornell University, where he remained until called to the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Pai.MKR was born in iMil. llis earl ' life was spent on the farm anil in his father ' s dairy factories. Stutlied at Leno.x College

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22 THE BADGER. Charles Homer Haskins is a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Johns Hopkins Universit}- in the class of 1887. F rom 1887 to lS9t) he was a graduate student at that institution, holding from 1888 to l81tU the position of Instructor in History, and receiving in 1890 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Besides his doctor ' s dissertation, which is to be published in the current volume of the papers of the American Historical Association, Dr. Haskins has contributed to the Revue Historique and the publications of the Bureau of Education. A. A. Knowlton was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 4, J 859. His father lost his life in the Civil War; and his mother dying soon after her husband ' s death, he was thrown upon the world at a very early age. Until his seventeenth year he worked on a farm, and up to that time was self-taught. After teaching school and practicing land surveying, he entered Phillips Exeter Academ -, taking the full four years ' course and graduating in 1882. In the autumn of that year he entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1880. Having taught at Providence, R. I., for two years, he went abroad for further study, and after an extended tour on the Continent, ma- triculated at the University of Berlin, where he remained one year, pursuing studies in Mediaeval History, Political Science, and Litera- ture, with special work in German Educational Methods. In the summer of ' 89 he matriculated at Leipzig, carrying on the same line of work as at Berlin. In August of 1890 he took his degree of Ph. D., after which he returned to America. iLcC LA - A-.V- S ' - ' VY , Edw. RD Kremers was born in Milwaukee, F eb. 23, 18(i4:. L p to ' 79 he attended the public schools of that city, after which he spent three years at the college of the Reformed Church, near She- boygan, Wis. In the autumn of 1884 he entered the junior class at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The next year he came to Madison, where he finished his course and graduated in 1886. He then held the position of assistant in the Pharmaceutical Department for one year; in 1887 he entered the General Science Course, from

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24 THE BADGER. from ' 77 to ' 79. Later he entered the academy at Grinnell, Iowa, completing the classical course in 1884. The same year he entered the freshman class in Iowa College and at once received recognition as a speaker. For three years he stood without a peer among his college fellows, as an orator, winning a prize in oratory during each year of his college course. In February, 1887, he had the honor to be the orator from Iowa College, to the Iowa State Ora- torical Contest, and easily won second honors. By virtue of which rank he was the same year made chairman of the Iowa delegation to the Inter State Oratorical Contest. During the summer of ' 87 Mr. Palmer took work in elocution and gymnastics at the Chicago Athenaeum and in June ' 88 was graduated from Iowa College as valedictorian of his class. Since that time his attention has been largely directed to the study of the branch in which he is now in- structor. Mr. Palmer does not possess that florid style of oratory which is so objectionable to many, but by an easy and natural style in voice, manner, and feeling, he tries to present his art with a view to clear comprehension. William George Sired, born at Watford, Hertfordshire, Eng- land, in 1861. Attended school at Harrow. Studied music six years under John Farmer, Director of the Harrow Music School. After finishing course of training as student and teacher, went to Nottingham as teacher of pianoforte and singing in the Nottino-ham branch of the Harrow Music School. Practiced his profession in Birmingham from 1882 till 1889, holding various positions. Came to this country in August, 1889, and was appointed instructor in music 1890. fe UyUsl - fc Wt- X- . GUIDO H. Stempel was born at Fort Madison, Iowa, May 18, 1868. Graduated from Fort Madison High School in 1883, from Iowa City Academy in 1885. Took the classical course at the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1889. During a part of the year 1888 — 89 he taught in Kendallville, Ind. High School. After his graduation he took charge of advanced classes in language and literature in the high school of Litchfield, 111., which position he resigned to accept the instructorship in German at the U. W.