Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . n pub-lic schools of Southbridge, Mass., and prepared forCollege at Phillips-Exeter Academy ; graduated Har-vard, 1879; Andover Theological Sem., 1882; Pastorof Cong. Church at Paterson, N. J., 1883-85; PresidentBowdoin Coll., Brunswick, Me., since 1885; and Bowdoin, 1886. WILLIAM DE WITT HVDE, , Presi-dent of Bowdoin College, was born Sep-tember 23, 1S58, at Winchendon, Massachusetts, 438 UNIVE
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . n pub-lic schools of Southbridge, Mass., and prepared forCollege at Phillips-Exeter Academy ; graduated Har-vard, 1879; Andover Theological Sem., 1882; Pastorof Cong. Church at Paterson, N. J., 1883-85; PresidentBowdoin Coll., Brunswick, Me., since 1885; and Bowdoin, 1886. WILLIAM DE WITT HVDE, , Presi-dent of Bowdoin College, was born Sep-tember 23, 1S58, at Winchendon, Massachusetts, 438 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS the son of Joel and Eliza (De Witt) Hyde, andof the family of that name resident in Newton,Massachusetts, since 1640. He was educated inthe common schools of Southbridge, Massachusetts,and was prepared for College at Phillips Academy,Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated fromHarvard with high honors in 1879, and enteredupon the study of theology, spending one year atUnion Theological Seminary and completing hiscourse at Andover Theological Seminary, in following year he spent in post-graduate studyat Andover and at Cambridge, Massachusetts, giv-. WiM. DeW. HYDE ing special attention to philosophy, and September27, 1883, he was ordained Pastor of the Congrega-tional church at Paterson, New Jersey. After abrief but successful Pastorate of two years, he waschosen at the early age of twenty-six to be Presi-dent of Bowdoin College. That position had thenbeen vacant for two years, and the Trustees haddetermined that the next incumbent should alsoserve as the Stone Professor of Mental and MoralPhilosophy. Dr. Hydes ability and interest inthese studies as displayed in College and seminary,undoubtedly influenced the Trustees in the choiceof so young a man for so important a confidence was well placed. The study ofpsychology, though practically required of all and acknowledged as difficult, has become imder iiisskilful teaching one of the popu
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