University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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DR. GEORGE EMORY FELLOWS EORGE EMORY FELLOWS, President of the University of Maine, was born at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, June 9, 1858. He attended for a time the Academy of Northwestern University ; graduated later at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1879 ; studied at the University of Munich, 1888-89, and at the University of Berne, I 890, where he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was granted the honorary degree of LL.D. by Bowdoin Col- lege, 1902, and that of L.H.D. by Lawrence University in the same year. He married in 1 88 1 , Lucia Russell, of Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin. He taught for ten years in various high schools, among others at Appleton, Wisconsin, New Orleans, Louisiana and Aurora, Illinois. He was Professor of European History at Indiana University from 1891 to 1895 ; Assistant Professor of History in the University of Chicago, 1895-1902; President of the University of Maine since 1 902 ; member of the American Historical Association of the New Orleans Academy of Science and various educational societies ; has been secretary and treasurer of the National Association of State Universities for some years. Aside from many articles in various magazines, he is the author of Outlines of the Sixteenth Century, published in 1895, and of Recent European History, published in 1902. Such is the brief memorandum of the important academic events in the life of President Fellows. Such a sketch, of course, gives no indication of the character of the man, or of the qualities which have made him a successful leader in his day and generation. I have had the pleasure of knowing President Fellows for more than fifteen years, and have watched his work with increasing admiration, and I may add, pride. I was associated with him for a time at the University of Chicago, and had an opportunity to see the manifestation of the qualities which have placed him in his present high position. But after all a man ' s real character is deter- mined before he is thirty years of age, about which time I made his acquaintance, and the testimony of other people who knew him as a boy and young man is even more significant than anything which I might say. He was only twenty-one, according to the account which one of his early friends gives me, when he graduated at Lawrence University. A man sitting in the audience on the com- mencement occasion, who was agent and trustee, urged him to become principal of Eau Claire