Show i MINER 1 0 YEARS AGO TODAY Y A PROFESSOR Paid His Way by Doing Janitor Work NEW YORK Nov 20 From Irom Irom a coal digger in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky to a professorship of ed educational educational educational ed- ed psychology in Columbia university university university uni uni- I within ten years is the record of Dr William A A. McCall At the age of 29 Doctor McCall McCan has not only the distinction of being a a. member mem mem- ber bar of the Columbia faculty but has won wona a considerable reputation as a lecturer on experiments in educational ps chol og ogy He also is the author fo to a book on educational measurements that represents represents rep rep- resents pioneer r research Earch work in educational educational edu edu- national psychology I I I I I William A A. Mcc McCall n was born at WEllsville Wellsville Wells Wells- ville villa Tenn January 9 1891 The first seven years vears of or his life were spent on a a. farm but thereafter until he was 13 13 he was in the coal mines of 01 Red fled Ash l Ky One winter the family lived in n n. room one log hou house e William worked with his father in the mines part or the time and spent the rest of his bits time as a trapper at 50 or 60 cents cents a day His fathers father's roving spirit kept the family on the move From Red fled Ash they went to then to the Indian mountain moun moun- tam tain mines to a country home near Jel- Jel bico and then back to Red Ash embracing embracing em- em em em- bracing in all about two years ears Wil VII liam attended various schools for brief I periods as opportunity arose but tor br the most part worked in the mines HIS 1113 I I mother died in 1904 His younger broth broth- I er the the only other one living m in a broth I fa farn- farn i II ily of four went 1 to ln live with near Wellsville I A few months later William was wag I among I I strangers at Red lIed Ash lIe He obtained place with witha a mine foreman went to a I school and paid his board by by doln doing chores A year ear later his hla father mar married mar mar- I I ned ried again and the tho family wa was was was' united once more at Red fled As Ash William then went to Williamsburg inStitute for nearby near near- I I ly h- ha a year ear Poor her Ith prevented of his wo 01 ol k there vT con few I I months later th thi y fam y moved to a n place near K Kv E. I Entering college In n 1906 ie paid his way through h th tho th year ear by janitor work in lii V og fie summer of 01 h hf ht 1 earned h enough by coal to to return return re- re turn to Highland I that merged with Institute ii He was graduated from th the unIted schools 1911 with a B. B 5 deg ill lii Up to this this tI ne h I ha-I hid I 1 eon president of the V. V lit t. C. C A. A and literary winner SOCI u a of ut a debaters debater's I le al th C etli- etli A tor tor tor-in-eltie in chief of the I college magazine magazin i 1 member lr of the tennis team and torian of the senior class I In Tn t the fall of 1911 he entered Lincoln Memorial university as an instructor in p and held this post two years I For th the advanced stud study which he did in addition to his work as teacher he ie received received re- re j the bachelor of arts degree I This relationship with Lincoln Memorial Memorial Memo Memo- rial and his old teacher Dr George A A. A Hubbell bi brought blought ought him in touch with Co Co- Co- Co I lumbia L university |