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 BULLETIN 
 
 OF 
 
 Hamline University 
 
 Jin Uemoriam 
 
 2jmt. Hatttjeut ^eotge Norton 
 
 ®r. George Ptlber kartell 
 
 ST. PAUL 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY FOUR TIMES A YEAR 
 JANUARY, MARCH. MAY AND NOVEMBER 
 
 Entered as second- clast matter, January 17, 191 1 , at the Post Office at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 
 under thtjla of Congress of July 16, 1894 
 
HON. MATTHEW G. NORTON. 1831-1917 
 
 Matthew George Norton was a model man, citizen, 
 philanthropist and Christian. Physically, mentally, mor- 
 ally and spiritually he was above the average stature of 
 men. His commanding presence and commanding char- 
 acter won for him the esteem and confidence of all who 
 knew him. His success in business was the natural result 
 of his intelligence, industry, energy and integrity. 
 
 Born in Lewisburg, Pa., in 1831, he was educated in 
 the public schools of his native town and in an academy 
 which later developed into a University. He had a good 
 start in life in a home where the fundamental virtues were 
 taught and exemplified. 
 
 He came to Minnesota in 1856, settled in Winona and 
 with his brother James and cousin William H. Laird 
 formed a corporation of which he was president. They 
 built saw mills, bought pine lands and manufactured lum- 
 ber and the business grew to be one of the largest of its 
 kind in the country. With the prosperity of the West it 
 prospered and made them all rich. 
 
 In 1866 he was married to Miss Emma B. Hayes who 
 was in every way his fit companion and their home was an 
 ideal one where Christian hospitality was seen at its best 
 as will be testified by all who were privileged to enjoy it. 
 
 Mr. Norton had a taste for good literature not common 
 in men of such large business interests. He had one of the 
 largest and best private libraries in Minnesota and found 
 time somehow to familiarize himself with its contents. The 
 classics of all ages, the masters of thought and expression, 
 the great teachers who have made the world wise were the 
 friends with whom he took counsel and became himself 
 wise. 
 
 With all his other good traits the supreme element of 
 Mr. Norton's character was his religion. Lord Morley says 
 of William E. Gladstone: "Mr. Gladstone was a great 
 scholar, a great writer, a great orator, a great statesman, 
 but the greatest thing in him was his religion — he was a 
 great Christian." Mr. Norton united with the Methodist 
 
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Episcopal Church in early life, and was a faithful and 
 generous supporter of it all his life. He gave to the cause 
 of religious education, especially to Hamline University, 
 more than any other man in Minnesota; and to schools, 
 churches and good causes of all kinds his benefactions were 
 large and numerous. 
 
 The Winona Hospital, the city parks and the Young 
 Men's Christian Association are largely indebted to him for 
 their existence and prosperity. 
 
 One of Mr. Norton's characteristics, worthy of especial 
 emphasis, was his charitable judgments of other people. In 
 the fifty-one years of my intimate acquaintance with him, 
 conversing as we did freely about all sorts of persons and 
 things, I never heard from him an unkind word about any 
 human being. 
 
 "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." 
 When I think of him, the prayer breathes itself : 
 
 "Teach me to feel another's woe, 
 To hide the fault I see, 
 The mercy I to others show, 
 That mercy show to me." 
 
 In the partiality of friendship and the glamor with 
 which love invests the memories of those we love, we are 
 sometimes tempted to exaggerate their virtues and minimize 
 their defects. But no such criticism detracts from this 
 imperfect tribute to Matthew George Norton. My only fear 
 is that justice has not been done to one in whom justice was 
 always tempered with mercy. 
 
 "His life was noble, 
 And the elements so mixed in him, 
 That nature might stand up, 
 And say to all the world — 
 This was a Man." 
 
 William McKinley. 
 
 Winona 
 
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 Hamline's greatest benefactor is gone, yet the name of 
 Norton has been so vitally inlaid in the annals of our 
 history, that it must endure as long as the life and memory 
 of the institution. Other names have meant much to us, 
 
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Harrison, Goheen, Hill; but this man not only poured out 
 more largely of his wealth thru a generation but also was 
 able to give more largely of his service as a Trustee for 30 
 years — much of the time as President of the Board — while 
 out of his family came two of the noblest boys ever con- 
 tributed to the student body of any college. 
 
 As Pastor of the family for 8 years at Winona and as 
 schoolmate and friend of the younger Xortons in the early 
 Hamline days perhaps I can speak almost as closely as any 
 other man concerning the deceased. His life was gentle in 
 that exquisite form which becometh the strong and his 
 modesty was such as became the truly great. This was no 
 ordinary man but one of the great Christian business men 
 of the nation. He had an indomitable will and proved as 
 terrible a foe to those he considered wrong as he was a 
 staunch friend to those whom he believed to be right. 
 
 Mr. Norton was a lover of good literature and had a 
 magnificent library. Here among his family and among his 
 books he was at his best and one needed to be well 
 acquainted with the great biographies in which he delighted 
 in order to maintain intelligently a part in the discussion. 
 
 He estimated lives and his judgments gave something 
 of the biographic clue to his own life. Like Gladstone, his 
 life was full of purpose and instead of wasting his time 
 from youth, he improved it; instead of thinking he must 
 "see life" at its worst he tried to see it at its best. He loved 
 beauty, goodness and integrity and deliberately chose to 
 frame his own life after the highest pattern given to man. 
 Thus he chose to relate himself closely with the church and 
 to be an active participant in its privileges and its responsi- 
 bilities thinking he could best grow and best serve thru its 
 organized channels. 
 
 Thru the church he became interested in the church 
 college and Hamline secured one of the most ardent friends 
 and one of the most generous supporters that could come 
 to any college or institution. 
 
 The greatest gift from Mr. Norton to Hamline should 
 be found in his own life. In our hall of fame his name 
 and his picture will be preserved but if our college youth 
 of succeeding generations could study and absorb the secret 
 
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of his success and the spirit which animated him, we should 
 possess a heritage which would prove of royal and eternal 
 worth. 
 
 S. F. Kerfoot. 
 Hamline University 
 
 Matthew George Xorton was the greatest layman that 
 Minnesota Methodism has produced. I do not refer to his 
 great wealth, and business ability, but to the man. There 
 was more oughtness in his nature mingled with kindness 
 than in anyone I have ever known. He was intellectually 
 the superior of any of his business associates. He was 
 morally clean and upright in his business transactions. He 
 was a devout Christian, an intelligent and thoughtful Bible 
 student. Indeed his mind was saturated with the English 
 Bible, its characters and principles were ever in his mind. 
 He was spiritual without cant. He despised sham and 
 pretense. But it was as a father in his home where he 
 measured the loftiest. He had two sons and two daughters. 
 The boys grew to young manhood. The oldest had just 
 graduated from college and had been admitted to the busi- 
 ness firm when he was suddenly taken ill and soon died. 
 The younger brother broken hearted over the death of his 
 brother, began to fail and in a few months he also passed 
 away. Those who knew him said he died of a broken heart, 
 grieving for his brother. The home life had always been 
 so beautiful and tender that the delicate nature could not 
 bear the snapping of the bonds that had bound them 
 together. About this time one of the daughters became 
 seriously ill from which she has never fully recovered. It 
 was his sublime consecration and devotion to this daughter 
 that showed the greatness and tenderness of his fatherly 
 heart. He told me fifteen years afterwards that he had been 
 absent from her two nights only in all these years. There 
 was a solicitude, a watchfulness, a tender sympathy, a 
 heartache for her that exceeded anything I have ever 
 known before. He hoped to live as long as she, that he 
 might care for her to the last, but she has survived him. 
 Since knowing his experience, there is a passage of Scripture 
 that has a new meaning to me, "Like as a father pitieth 
 his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." And 
 I have said if our Heavenly Father is more thoughtful and 
 
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tender of us than was Matthew Norton of his children, 
 then we have a gracious Heavenly Father indeed. I think 
 I know God better, since I have known Matthew G. Norton. 
 
 Frank Doran. 
 St. Paul 
 
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 Mr. M. G. Norton was a remarkable man in so many 
 ways that it is not easy to decide what to emphasize in a 
 brief characterization. Modesty, self effacement, unselfish- 
 ness, sincerity, courtesy, kindliness and thoughtfulness for 
 others were some of his striking characteristics. 
 
 Nature formed him after a large pattern, she gave 
 him a large body, a large head and a large heart. And 
 so it was perfectly natural that his plans for business and 
 for service to his fellow men should be made on a large 
 scale. He had unusual views in the matter of Christian 
 stewardship. He regarded his great wealth as not his 
 absolutely but his in trust, his to use in the service of 
 others. And so when a great panic occurred some years 
 ago and business was at a standstill and men were thrown 
 out of employment not one of his employees was dismissed 
 but they and their families were generously provided for. 
 
 His generous gifts to Christian education were made 
 because he had an intelligent conviction as to the mission 
 of a Christian College. And yet his many gifts were not 
 his largest contribution to the college he so dearly loved. 
 For more than thirty years he was the wise counsellor 
 of the other officers of Hamline University and the service 
 he thus rendered cannot be over-estimated. Hamline Uni- 
 versity does well to honor his memory. 
 
 He had a remarkable capacity for friendship. His 
 sympathetic nature, the fact that he was a good listener, 
 and his many admirable qualities of head and heart won 
 him hosts of friends, and he knew how to keep his friends. 
 
 He was a great reader. It is quite unusual to find a 
 man so burdened with the cares of a great business, so 
 fond of books. He had a large, well selected library and 
 he was familiar with its contents, — Euskin, Carlyle, and 
 Emerson were among his favorite authors and his famil- 
 iarity with these and many other good authors was a con- 
 stant surprise and a constant source of pleasure to his 
 friends. G. H. Bridgman. 
 
 MlNNNEAPOLIS 
 
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MATTHEW GEORGE NORTON 
 
GEORGE WILBER HARTWELL 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 September 14, 1881— July 27, 1917. 
 
 George Wilber Eartwell was born ai Hamburg, New 
 
 Jersey, on September 14, 1881. His ancestry shows rather 
 more than the usual American interest of admixture of 
 nationality; the Hart wells coming of pure English stock, 
 and the Zabriskies (Sobieski) of a noble family of Poland. 
 Both branches, however, have been American nearly three 
 hundred years, dating from within a twelve-month of each 
 other, 1636-7. Before he was five his father died, leaving 
 his mother with himself and a younger sister to care for. 
 The little boy thus early formed the habits of industry and 
 thoughtful consideration that marked his life. 
 
 Aside from his mother's encouragement and his native 
 demands, circumstances were not especially favorable to his 
 educational start. For instance he walked four miles night 
 and morning between his home and the Hackensack high 
 school. In spite of this he graduated in his eighteenth 
 year valedictorian of his class. In Wesleyan University. 
 Middletown, Conn., his academic career was brilliant and 
 impressive. He won every mathematical prize open to him 
 in competition, took Preliminary Honors in Mathematics, 
 General Honors, and Phi Beta Kappa at graduation in 
 1903. He earned his expenses by night work in connection 
 with calorimeter experiments, an experience to which he 
 sometimes attributed his strikingly beautiful, though 
 untimely, gray hair. He became at Wesleyan a charter 
 member of the Commons Club, a democratic body formed 
 as a balance to the elaborate fraternity system and program 
 then in vogue ; and he always remained a true democrat. 
 
 After graduation he taught for two years in the Michi- 
 gan Agricultural College, Lansing, and then went to 
 Columbia University on a fellowship, where in 1908 he 
 gained his doctorate by presenting a masterly thesis entitled 
 Plane Fields of Force ]Y1iose Trajectories Are Invariant 
 Under a Projective Group. The next year he occupied a 
 year's vacancy in the department of Mathematics of the 
 University of Kansas, where he was made an honorary 
 member cf Sigma Psi. In the fall of 1909 he came to 
 
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Hamline University as Professor of Mathematics, and Later 
 in the year became Registrar. In .June 1911, he was mar- 
 ried to Martha Winston, II. {]., '04, who with their Little 
 daughter, Laicella Ruth, age two, and an unborn child, 
 survive him in the beautiful home which they together 
 planned and labored for and had occupied a scant half-year. 
 
 On .July 10. 1917, accompanied by his family, he went 
 to visit friends in Montana. Shortly after his arrival he 
 was stricken by an acute attack of appendicitis, and on the 
 27th of July, following an operation in the hospital of 
 Columbus, Mont., he ended a life of unusual health and 
 vitality. 
 
 Though Dr. Hartwell was a member of many societies 
 and a scholar of rani in his field, his chief monument is the 
 record of his class-room, where his patience and skill were 
 unbounded, in the office, where no pains for a purpose 
 were too great and his efficiency well-nigh perfect, in his 
 heme which was one of singular felicity, ami in the hearts 
 of many friends whom he had a genius for making and 
 keeping. In his human relations he was at his best. He 
 had joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in his boyhood 
 and he maintained a quiet, unshaken faith in the essentials 
 of religion; all the trappings were to him anathema. 
 
 He was one of Wordswortlfs Happy Warriors: 
 " the generous spirit who. when brought 
 
 Among the tasks of real life hath wrought 
 Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought." 
 
 His friends in whose hearts he created his immortality, 
 cherish his keenness of vision and sanity of judgment, his 
 purity of mind, his hatred of shams, his idolatry of the 
 best. He has left a large and lonesome place in Hamline 
 University. 
 
 Thomas Percival Beyer. 
 
 The rare student is the teacher's treasure. George W. 
 Hartwell was one of the few, the very few rare students 
 whom it has been my pleasure to teach. His college career 
 at Wesleyan University and his work for his doctor's degree 
 at Columbia alike showed exceptional mathematical talent. 
 Penetrating in perception, clear in statement, strong in 
 
mathematical imagination, he possessed powers which, I 
 believe, would have made him prominent among the 
 mathematical investigators of the country, had this been 
 his aim. But ambition offered him no temptations. His 
 heart's desire was to teach, and of this I have heard naught 
 but praise. Few men of such power are so unaffectedly 
 modest. I have hardly known which to admire most, the 
 work or the man behind it. Imperturbable, cool, clean and 
 strong of purpose, he saw life's duties with clear eye and 
 left with those who knew him the recollection and the 
 influence of absolute reliability. 
 
 Edward B. Van Vleck. 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 I first met Dr. George W. Hartwell in 1898. I knew 
 him as a student in High School, I received him into the 
 Church and was his pastor for a number of years. I have 
 followed his brilliant career as a student and his equally 
 effective career as a teacher with eager, friendly pride. His 
 fundamental brain power and capacity for work, his quiet 
 strength and steadiness, his unpretending manliness, must 
 have impressed many others as they have impressed me. 
 His superb mathematical abilities commanded my admira- 
 tion. His strength of character impressed me most of all. 
 
 Lynn Harold Hough. 
 Garrett Biblical Institute. 
 
 Dr. Hartwell was always on the firing line, always 
 unafraid, always confident, unruffled, cheerful. My duty 
 led to my knowing him as Eegistrar most intimately. He 
 was brought in contact with every student in college to 
 counsel, to advise, to inform and sometimes to admonish. 
 Always the student left him with the conviction that he 
 had been dealt with by a perfectly just man, or if it had 
 been a question of fact by a man with a phenomenally 
 accurate grasp on all the details of the office. 
 
 He was of that little group of great mathematicians 
 which this generation and country have produced; such a 
 group is always small in any country or time, to be counted 
 on one's fingers. Usually such a one is not found to be 
 naturally a great teacher of elementary mathematics. What 
 to the ordinary mind is full of difficulties is to him like 
 
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breathing. Dr. Hartwell was a notable exception. With a 
 clarity of statement and of restatement, able to feel his 
 way into the very mind of the students and with a patience 
 almost divine he was indeed an unique teacher. 
 
 With clear and keen vision he saw the great issues 
 involved in our war and was an intense patriot and a sup- 
 porter of the government. 
 
 We all loved him, those who knew him best loved him 
 most. L. H. Batchelder. 
 
 Hamline University. 
 
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 George W. Hartwell was a brilliant mathematician, 
 an exceptionally efficient teacher, always ready to do more 
 than his share of work, a despiser of shams and absolutely 
 square in his dealings with all. Common sense was second 
 nature to him. He possessed an almost uncanny accuracy 
 in his ability to size up an individual correctly in a remark- 
 ably short time. 
 
 Professor Hartwell did not play to the grandstand, he 
 endeared himself to no one by preaching meaningless and 
 superficial generalities. He endeared himself to all because 
 of the life he lived. The individual who called him friend, 
 the various groups, whether college or church, which 
 claimed him as one of their number, his loved ones of the 
 family circle, all have a right to boast because George W. 
 Hartwell was one of them. These groups feel keenly enough 
 the loss they have sustained. The citizenship of the world 
 thinks it doesn't feel it. But society is injured though it 
 may not know it. The world does not need more preach- 
 ers, missionaries, reformers, professors, etc., half so much 
 as it needs recognition of men of the Hartwell type. 
 
 Roy Towne. 
 Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS 
 
 Charles Horswell, Professor of Biblical Literature, 1421 
 W. Minnehaha street. 
 
 Professor Horswell has the degrees A. B. and A. M. 
 from Northwestern University, B. D. from Garrett Biblical 
 Institute, Ph. D. from Yale University, and D. D. from 
 Northwestern University. He was Professor of the Hebrew 
 
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Language and Literature in Northwestern University 
 1887-1902; and Pastor of the Kenilworth Union Church 
 1903-1917. He succeeds Dr. W. H. Wood who resigned 
 during the last summer to go to Dartmouth College. 
 
 Roger Arthur Johnson, Professor of Mathematics, and 
 Registrar, 1697 W. Minnehaha street. 
 
 Professor Johnson, who succeeds Dr. G-. W. Hartwell, 
 deceased, is a graduate of Amherst College, 1910; and 
 received the Ph. D. degree at Harvard in 1913, since which 
 time he has been Instructor in Mathematics in Western 
 Reserve University. 
 
 Harold Scott Quigley, Professor of Political Science, 
 1443 Capitol avenue. 
 
 The departments of Political and Social Science are 
 this year separated, and Professor Quigley heads the former. 
 He is a graduate of Hamline University, 1911. Having 
 won the Rhodes Scholarship in Minnesota he spent the 
 next three years at Oxford University, where in 1913 he 
 was granted a Diploma in Political Science and Economics 
 and in 1914 the B. A. degree in Modern History. Return- 
 ing he spent two years at the University of Wisconsin on 
 a fellowship, and there received the Ph. D. degree in 1916. 
 Last year he was Instructor in Political Science in Prince- 
 ton University. He has published besides his thesis several 
 articles in the American Journal of International Law and 
 the Mid-west Quarterly. 
 
 Louise Young, Dean of Women, Goheen Hall, Hamline 
 
 University. 
 
 Miss Young, who succeeds Miss Lucile Rader, resigned, 
 was graduated from Vanderbilt University, B. A., Phi 
 Beta Kappa. She received the degree M. A. from the 
 University of Wisconsin, where she was also Fellow in 
 Philosophy. Last year she was Fellow in Philosophy at 
 Bryn Mawr College. 
 
 Leslie Cornelius Cox, Assistant Professor of Latin, 
 
 1701 Capitol avenue. 
 
 Dr. Cox is a B. A. of the University of Toronto and a 
 Ph. D. of the Johns Hopkins University. He is in full 
 charge of the department of Latin during the year's leave 
 of absence of Professor W. E. Thompson. 
 
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*William L. Dealey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy 
 and Psychology, 1489 W. Minnehaha street. 
 
 During the year's leave of absence granted to Dr. G. 
 D. Walcott for work in Tsing Hua College, Peking, China, 
 the department of Philosophy is in charge of Dr. Dealey, 
 who is a graduate of Brown University, A. B., A. M., 
 Phi Beta Kappa; and a Ph. D. of Clark University. He 
 has published a number of articles in the Pedagogical 
 Seminary. 
 
 *William Lewis Abbott, Assistant Professor in Eco- 
 nomics and Social Science, 1516 W. Minnehaha street. 
 
 Mr. Abbott is a graduate of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, A. B., A. M., LL. B., 1911-1913. He has since 
 been a Reader in Economics and Assistant in Sociology in 
 the same institution. 
 
 Edward Newton Voorhees, Instructor in English and 
 English Literature, 1595 Wesley avenue. 
 
 Mr. Voorhees was graduated from Hamline Univer- 
 sity B. A. in 1914. The next year he was a graduate 
 student in the University of Minnesota, and 1915-1917 he 
 studied in Boston University and the B. U. School of 
 Theology. He received the degree A. M. in English in 
 1917. He has published several literary studies in the 
 Methodist Review, and has recently been elected editor of 
 the H. U. Alumni Quarterly. 
 
 Will. F. Wolf, Instructor in Chemistry. 
 
 Since graduating from Hamline University in 1909, 
 
 Ph. B., Mr. Wolf has been engaged in teaching and adminis- 
 trative educational work, his last position having been Su- 
 perintendent of Schools at Lebam, Washington. 
 
 Ethel Ackerman, Instructor in Mathematics and 
 Assistant to the Dean of Women, Goheen Hall Annex. 
 
 Miss Ackerman was graduated from Hamline Univer- 
 sity A. B. in 1909. She has since been a teacher of Mathe- 
 matics and Principal of the High School in Pipestone, 
 Minn. 
 
 ♦Acting head of the department, 1917-1918. 
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THE GOOD WORD 
 
 Hamline opens six months after America's entry into 
 the war with an enrollment of 410 students. This despite 
 the loan to Uncle Sam of last year's members. Both these 
 numbers carry cause for gratification to the friends of our 
 college. As usual, a nearly equal balance is maintained 
 between the sexes, a fortunate condition which the other 
 coeducational colleges of the state rarely enjoy. The fac- 
 ulty and departments are increased, the classes in elemen- 
 tary subjects substantially reduced in size by increasing the 
 number; and from numerous indications it seems likely 
 that the work of this year will be of even more serious and 
 thorough-going character than usual. This is fitting. 
 
 As in the past Hamline stands ready to give her best 
 BLOOD to a cause. At the same time it must be her prime 
 duty to supply her quota of trained BRAINS to the im- 
 mensely difficult problems of reconstruction and peace which 
 may not be far distant. 
 
 Meanwhile the Hamline men are making marvelously 
 good in every branch of active war service. Every one of 
 the men who trained in the first camp at Fort Snelling 
 has received a commission and been given a responsible 
 post. Official reports from Allentown show that the Ham- 
 line Ambulance Unit ranks individually and collectively 
 second to none; straws indicate they will soon see and test 
 the mud of northern France. Elsewhere, in the army, navy, 
 marine, motor, aero, and wireless, the boys are doing their 
 bits; while here within our good gray walls 410 others do 
 theirs. . Editor 
 
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