Show STUDENT LIFE 16 iceived his elementary ' training in the Denver Public Schools Later he went east to continue his education and entered the Augustana College Rock Island 111 From this institution he was graduated in 1893 with the degree of A B He was employed the following year as instructor in English in the same college While engaged thus he carried on graduate work at the University of Chicago Summer School In 1895 he assumed control of the grade schools of Uintah Utah Following this he was employed as instructor in Latin German and Mathematics in the Ogden High School In this capacity he labored during hfs seven years’ connection with that school assuming also from 1900 to 1903 the principalship Professor Wilson aside from other virtues incident to genius is an amateur in music having trained a chorus of 200 voices ii connection with his work at Ogden As a lecturer he has won prominence in Teachers’ Institute work along the lines of local Geology and Botany He has always taken an active and enthusiastic interest in athletic literary and musical organizations connected with school work For this reason he is doubly welcome to halls which already begin to resound with the echoes of brilliant and attractive society and clean honest sports J R- - Dexell Prof Bexell who is now director of the School of Commerce in the A C U comes to us after having had a thorough training and practical experience He was born in Sweden in 1867 but early in life came to this counHe received his early education try in" the public schools of Bancroft Iowa In 1893 lie was graduated as Bachelor of Accounts at Augustana College and as Bachelor of Arts two years later He pursued graduate studies at the Universitv of Minnesota in 1898 at Chicago and in 1901 University in 1899-0- 0 completed the Master of Arts course at Augustana College In the spring of 1903 lie accepted the position as Director of the School of Commerce in this institution izaDcth C Smith iss Smith who began this year as cataloguer in the college library comes directly from Wisconsin Her educational career was begun in the public schools of St Paul from whose high school she was graduated in 1892 Later she entered the Universitv of Wisconsin and was graduated with the degree of B L in 1896 Since that time she has worked in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Miss Smith is a type of the modern college woman It is agreeable to have on the faculty such persons who bring with them the spirit and temper of the colleges in which they She has already were educated made a host of friends by her recognition and encouragement of the public life of the college s' |