Vanderbilt University quarterly Volume 15 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...at the University. He then went abroad and studied at Leipzig and later at the Universities of Paris and Berlin. He was married August 16, 1809, to Miss Tenney Marr Taliaferro, of Birmingham, who, with two children, survives him. From 1893 to 1905 he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi, and from this year until 1908 Professor of German. In 1908 he resigned his position in order to enter the coal business in Birmingham. In this he prospered much beyond his expectations. Dr. Ferrell was the author of a considerable number of articles on German literature, especially on Grillparzer. He was a contributor to Modern Language Notes, the Sewanee Review, and other publications. He was a member of the society of Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt. EIMER & AMEND HEADQUARTERS FOR Chemicals, Chemical Apparatus, Minerals, Etc. We carry the largest stock of Laboratory Supplies In the United States, First quality supplies only. Prompt service Analytical Balances and Weights One of Our Leading Specialties BSTABLISHID IHI 203-211 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK CITY, A Record of University Life and Work Vol. XV JULY-SEPTEMBER No. 3 THE RELIGION OF AN EDUCATED PERSON BY REV. W. C. BITTING, Pastor Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God... with all thy mind." (Mark xii. 30.) The preacher of a commencement sermon addresses two audiences. As a Christian prophet he has a religious message to a group of men and women interested in education, and as a representative of a school of learning he has an educational message to the general public. Mindful of this double function, let us now think of the religion of an educated person. Surely no words could more fittingly suggest our thoughts for this occasion than those of the ...