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

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N if QL I I i I -dv TIJE UZVYVERSITY BADGEIE. 3 and ye orchestra did playg and once did U rah, rah, 'Wis-con-sin, ring through ye hall. After ye Benediction,by ye Reverend C. E. Hall, did ye assembled multitude disperse, feeling glad in their hearts, for ye true spirit, which had pervaded all, made them so. YE RECEPTION. V When ye shades of night had fallen did ye people again assemble in Library Hall, for ye Alumni had there prepared feast and pleasure in honor of ye new President. lVIuch did ye people speak together and make merry until many grew weary and went their way, then did ye Spirit of Dance enter into ye rest and only departed again when ye warning cock-crow was heard. So ended ye Inaugural Day. . Jiif- JA, 1 1-aaiagfa. sw - ,a ef 9:54 .1 2 - ,nga , ,fair ' a !M'f :4 .lg-QQV' 'liiiff X. Q i ,Law - r , . . 1 - W .- N N iff:-jx-f ' if .. - Q- Y ' ggi yi, -f K 121.42 'i 5- -- -.lim ' 444' f ,Pr -l A Ii? :ff 43.1, ' V. i 1 - r. 447 , , -.,. 1 , 1 A .i in 5:4 1 will 554kiis5E2i54AQ34l -,f 1 Q lll 5' f vi-30 ,,'2fnq12y??' ffablyfu f ff M, Q xwxgxxfg, e X wi Q f N X' .c., wwf, fa ' , - 5 y N- i gf 'AC 2 Y 19 'M '- 'f,1,,, fi. 'hs A V sg-TQ 'u I ' ' I ' . Qiggihnw Nfl. A ' I 1, 3 .I l fif, fy - wb j ,: E-bf . -l .f ' '. ' -' ' - Gil ' , 5 ff 4-nl - QQ., 161, N in 1 -21 ,. Q,5Z!, ,go'i,,-W .

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2 THE UJVIVERSITY BADGEJ3. me 'llI1HLlQl1l'3tiOI1 of Q6 IDI'65iD6l1f of QC imI1i'06l'5ifQ of ml1i5COl19iI'l. Tuesday, ye seventeenth day of January, in ye year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninty-three, and ye year of our University forty-four. ' When ve many friends and students of ye University were close assembled in Library Hall, where above did float ,much of ye College color amid ye decorations of evergreen, and where above ye American eagle did soar, then when ye sun did mark half after two did ye mighty Officers of State, ye sedate Supreme Judges, ye trusty Regents and ye beloved Faculty with ye Hourish of trumpets ascend ye platform, where they did find seats. Ye Honorable William Pitt Bartlett did sit in ye chair as presiding oflicer. Now was all, save ye breathing, hushed while Bishop Samuel Fellows, of ye Class of '59, spake ye opening prayer. Then did ye following rise to their feet and speak: Professor john Charles Freeman, on behalf of ye Faculty, and Henry Herbert Jacobs, of ye Class of '93, on behalf of ye studentsg and james L. High, of ye Class of '64, on behalf of ye Alumnig and President james B. Angell, of ye University of Michigan, on behalf of ye sister Univorsitiesg and Governor George W. Peck, His Excellency, on behalf of ye commonwealth, and Regent John Johnston, on behalf of ye Regents. When all these had come to an end was Charles Kendall Adams formally installed as President of ye University, by presenting him with ye seal of ye University. When all was again quiet did ye new President give ye Inaugural Address on Ye University and ye State. Music was not lacking from this feast of intellect, for from time to time did ye Club of Glee chant in Latin w x mvxwwmx KW x

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4 TIJE UIVIVERSITY BADGEJC. W Glbarles 1RenbaII Elbams. HARLES KENDALL ADAMS, President of the University, was born at Derby, Vermont, on the 24th of January, 1835. The first ten years of his hfe were spent if in a village, but from the time he was ten until he was twenty years of age he i , f lived upon a farm, attending a district school during the winter months. In the 7 al l I G in course of these years, however, he showed considerable aptitude as a student of if I I G 5- I mathematics, mastering Davies' algebra, geometry, trigonometry and surveying before he was eighteen. From 1852 to 1855 he taught school during the winter I A .i ii 6 A 5 months. In the fall of 1855 he moved to Iowa, whither he was followed the next spring by his parents. It was not until after he had passed his twenty- first birthday that he decided to fit himself for college by taking a complete course in Latin and Greek. Though his parents earnestly sympathized with him in his desire for a collegiate education, it was impossible for them to render him any financial assistance. His preparation was completed at the end of one year by arduous study in the Denmark Academy, Iowa, and he entered the University of hIichigan in the fall of 1857, where, after supporting himself four years by manual labor, by teaching, and by assisting in the admin- istration of the library, he graduated in 1861. Remaining foragraduate course of study, he took the Master's degree in 1862, and immediately thereafter was appointed instructor in Latin and historv. In 1863 he was made assistant professor, a position which he held until 1867, when he was advanced to full professorship, with the privilege of spending a year and a half in Europe. After studying in several of the universities of Germany and France, and spending about two months in Italy, he entered upon his work as professor in the autumn of 1868. Soon after his return to the University he established a historical seminarv, modeled atter the methods pursued in Germany. On the establishment of a school of Political Science at the Ilniversit v of AIiehi-