Biography Philo Buck, was a scholar and poet gently blended into one. As a Wisconsin professor of comparative literature blended great cultural gifts from his American roots, the English tradition, and the ancient East. Son of American missionaries living in India, Dr. Buck gained a generous early instruction in the English classics, in Indian history …
Biography In 1927—1928 Llewellyn R. Cole impact started when he spent the year as House Fellow in Gregory House at Tripp Hall. Here the young medical student—leader, counselor, and friend—forwarded the social and intellectual health of Gregory residents. Cole earned both his degrees from University of Wisconsin – Madison (B.A. 1926 and M.D. 1929). He …
Biography Probably no other University of Wisconsin professor was privileged to have so many students as William Henry Kiekhofer. It is estimated that enrollment in Wild Bill’s elementary economics classes alone, spiraling for 38 years, reached a grand total of 70,000. Teaching was an exciting mission for the scholar, for his audience a dynamic and …
Biography This was true for Benjamin Warner Snow an Illinois native, possessing a first degree from Cornell University (B.S., 1885), extensive training at German universities, and a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin (Ph.D., 1892). In 1893, newly resigned from a professorship at Indiana, he assumed the chair of physics at the University of Wisconsin …