Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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r EDITOR. ClIARI.KS ( iROV’K 11 AIMES. ASSISTANT EDITORS. Marion Gkktrihk Spanc.i.rr. John Hknrv I’oorman. Literary Department. Walter Edward Hokksommkr. Hknrv Grarer. Albert Gideon Peters. Hknrv Kerrs Smith. Athletic Department. Xevin Francis Gutshai.l. William Radci.ikke Anson. Malcolm Peter Laros. Art Department. Jean Leroy Roth. BUSINESS MANAGER. Isaiah March Raimc ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER. Prank Hendricks IIobson.

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1 r- Wilbur Marshall Urban, Ph. D. , Vvt ,4 SAYS DR. ORMOND, McCosli Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. “There is no small college that has a Professor of Philosophy to equal Professor Urban. The students and friends of Ursinus College arc realizing the truth of this statement, and we, the class of 1903. cherish the highest respect for our esteemed Professor. We, therefore, dedicate this volume to him whom we honor and with whose life, character and work we daily come in contact. Professor Urban's early life was spent in Philadelphia. He was born March 27th. [873, and is the son of Rev. A. L. Urban, of Woodbury. X. J. He attended the public schools of the city, and afterwards spent four years at the William Penn Charter School. At this institution he served as Editor-in Chief of its magazine, was graduated with honors as valedictorian of his class, and received the George W. Childs Entrance Prize for Princeton. In September, 1890, lie entered Princeton University. His college days speak for themselves. Ever after his Freshman year he was known as a cultured man, though never regarded as a “polcr . We may judge his broadness of mind and his efficiency as a student by the honors he won. He was the successful contestant for the Sophomore Debate Prize, and was appointed Washington’s Birthday Orator in his Junior year. Ilis literary ability is shown by the fact that he icceived the Baird Prize for Poetry, and the position as an Kditor of the jVassatt I.H r ny .1fagazitn in his Senior year. His education was not confined to classical studies alone: for when he was graduated in 1895, he received his degree, magna aim I a ude, with special honors in philosophy, and was awarded the Chancellor Green Fellowship in Mental Science After graduation, Prof. Urban went to Germany. For a year he studied at the University of Jena. In the following summer he was married to Miss Elizabeth Newell Wakelin, of Philadelphia, a graduate of Smith College. After travelling in England, France, and Germany, during the same summer, lie entered the University of Leipsic. There he spent a year under the instruction of Professors Wilhelm Wundt and Max Heinze, and received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy with the distinction of stun nr a cum fa tide. The subject of his thesis, which has since l een favorably reviewed in foreign and American journals, was “A History of the Principle of Sufficient Reason,—Its Metaphysical and Logical Formulations. In the fall of ’97 he returned to Princeton as a Reader in Philosophy, and gave a course of lectures, extending through the year, to graduate students and Seniors. 8 it