William Penn University - Quaker Yearbook (Oskaloosa, IA)

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DR. BENJ. F. TRUEBLooo, President 1879-90. llr. Tru-ehlood was born in Southern Indiana in 1848. In 1869, he was graduated from Earlharn College, Inidirlllil. after which he spent several years in teaching. In the year 137.3-4 he occupied the chair of Latin, Greek and mixed lllZllllL'lllZtllCSi, at Penn College. The following four y-ears, hc was prcsirlent of Wilmington College, Ohio, but return-ed in Igjfj to hold the same posi-tion at Penn. In 1890, the State University of Iowa conferred upon him the degree of l,l,. IJ. In this year also he severed his connec-tion with the college and hecanie a representative of the Friends Peace .rXssoci:uion. Later he entered into the service of the Ameri- can I't-ace .Xssocialion at lloston, heconiing the editor of the .fXdvocate of Peace. llc has since traveled, lectured and at- lenflml l'c:n-e t'oin'ei'enees in this country and abroad. He recently puhlishetl a work entitled The Iiedcration of the XX'orl4l. and perhaps no nian undcrstznuls the peace question as well as does llr. 'l'i'nehloocl, whose opinions are unbiased and lilieral.

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ab ' 'High in the midsf, surrounded by his peers Placed on his chair of state, he seemed zz God While Sophs and Freshmen tremble at his nod. ABSALOM ROSENBERGER was born December 26, 1849, near Thorntrown, Indiana. ,He received his early ed- ucation in the district schools, afterward attending Spiceland Academy. At the age of sixteen he was an orphan. In 1872 he ent-ered Earlham an-d was graduated in '76. For seven years he was Principal of the Union High School. He en- tered Ann Arbor as a law student in 1-883. After this he practiced fo-r a time in Wichita, Kansas, and in 1890, became President of Penn Colle-ge. et!