The adytum (1891) (14589533589)

Identifier: adytum00deni (find matches)
Title: The adytum
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Denison University
Subjects: Denison University College yearbooks Private universities and colleges
Publisher: Granville, Ohio : The University
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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can adapt himself to all the changes andphases of socieiy. He can arrest the attention not only of the learnedlike himself and the rich, but the lowly and poor as well—He is everat home with the highest and purest, ever at home with the lowest andpoorest. Such a character is an enviable one and such a character isthe subject of this sketch. He hates charlatanism—hates mountebanks.In the highest and noblest and truest sense. Dr. D. B. Purinton is ascholar and a philosopher. Though still young in years he has never-theless attained a larger measure of success and a more wide-spreadinfluence and abiding impression attendant upon his career in life thanmark the paths of most of his contemporaries. His convictions havealways found expression in bold, straightforward actions. His positionson all important pending questions are never left to conjecture. Heis sufficiently radical to be secure against the temptations of a timidand therefore dangerous conservatism. He can never be depended
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Pres. D. B. PURINTON. LL D. ■lELIOTYPE PRINTING CO. BOSTON. THE A BYT TIM. l!) upon to lend his support to mere policy. He is a man of publicenterprise and enters with zeal into every measure that will elevate thecharacter of his community or promote the welfare of the people.Men like this are tew and their value to society is incalcuable. Dr. Purinton is the son of Rev. J. M. Purinton, D. 1)., who was adescendant of John Alden of Miles Standish fame. The son was bornin Preston County, Va., Feb. 15, 1850. His early education wasobtained in Pennsylvania, where he began to teach. He graduatedfrom the West Va. University, where he stood at the head of his class,in 187-3, making the highest general standing ever attained by anystudent of the University. After graduation he was immediatelyappointed a tutor in the Preparatory Department of the University.Fivs years later he was elected Professor of Logic. In 1880 he wasmade Professor of Mathematics, which chair he held four years. Thiswas