Gregory Dexter Walcott was born at Lincoln, Rhode Island August 29, 1869. His preparatory education was at the public schools of Lime Rock, Lonsdale and Moshassuck in his native State. After leaving school in the fall of 1883, he was employed for the most part in mercantile and manufacturing concerns. Amongst the former was a dry goods store operated by Sharpless Brothers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1884 to 1885 he was connected with the Providence Public Library, but during the following year he was engaged in farming in Lime Rock. He was for four years, from 1886 to 1890, with the Glasgow Knitting Mill at Woonsocket and Warren, Rhode Island, and Brandon, Vermont, with the exception of the fall of 1887 when he was with the Oakdale Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island. He was for several months in 1890 with the Cutler Manufacturing Company of Warren, Rhode Island.
In 1890 Dr. Walcott resumed his studies and became a student at the Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1893 to enter Brown University, where he spent four years, receving the degree of A. B. upon his graduation. He entered Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary of New York City, in 1897, and spent the next three years at these institutions, receiving the degree of A. M. from Columbia University in 1899; Ph. D. in 1904; and B. D. from the Union Theological Seminary in 1900. In 1900-01 he went abroad and matriculated at the Bonn and Berlin universitites in Germany. Returning to this country he was assistant minister for a year at the Central Congregational Church at Providence, Rhode Island, and part of the year of 1903 had charge of the Sayles Memorial Church, at Saylesville, Rhode Island. During the academic year, 1903-1904, he was a graduate student at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, taking the doctor's degree in June as stated above. In the fall of 1904 he became a member of the faculty of Blackburn College at Carlinville, Illinois, as Professor of Greek and Latin. He became Dean of the college and Professor of Greek and Philosophy in 1905, and remained there until 1907, when he was elected to the chair of Philosophy and Psychology at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. This new department, which he established, became rather popular, for while all the courses were elective, at times more than sixty per cent of the eligible students of the university registered for the work. Dr. Walcott still retains his professorship in Hamline University, but was given in 1917-18 a year's leave of absence to teach psychology and lecture on ethics at Tsing Hua College, at Peking, China. This is a government institution supported by the Boxer Indemnity money refunded by the United States.
He is a member of the college fraternities, Delta Upsilon and Phi Betta Kappa; also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Western Philosophical Association, and the American Association of University Professors. He has been mentioned in 'Who's Who in America' for three successive editions, and in 1916 his portrait was secured by the Minnesota Historical Society for their collection of the Prominent Twentieth Century Men of Minnesota.
A Republican in politics, he is a member of the Progressive branch of that party. In his religious affiliations he is a member of the Baptist church of Warren, Rhode Island. He is the author of 'The Kanian and Lutheran Elements in Ritschl's Conception of God', 1904, and has contributed many reviews and articles in scientific, philosophical and other journals.
In 1890 Dr. Walcott resumed his studies and became a student at the Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1893 to enter Brown University, where he spent four years, receving the degree of A. B. upon his graduation. He entered Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary of New York City, in 1897, and spent the next three years at these institutions, receiving the degree of A. M. from Columbia University in 1899; Ph. D. in 1904; and B. D. from the Union Theological Seminary in 1900. In 1900-01 he went abroad and matriculated at the Bonn and Berlin universitites in Germany. Returning to this country he was assistant minister for a year at the Central Congregational Church at Providence, Rhode Island, and part of the year of 1903 had charge of the Sayles Memorial Church, at Saylesville, Rhode Island. During the academic year, 1903-1904, he was a graduate student at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, taking the doctor's degree in June as stated above. In the fall of 1904 he became a member of the faculty of Blackburn College at Carlinville, Illinois, as Professor of Greek and Latin. He became Dean of the college and Professor of Greek and Philosophy in 1905, and remained there until 1907, when he was elected to the chair of Philosophy and Psychology at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. This new department, which he established, became rather popular, for while all the courses were elective, at times more than sixty per cent of the eligible students of the university registered for the work. Dr. Walcott still retains his professorship in Hamline University, but was given in 1917-18 a year's leave of absence to teach psychology and lecture on ethics at Tsing Hua College, at Peking, China. This is a government institution supported by the Boxer Indemnity money refunded by the United States.
He is a member of the college fraternities, Delta Upsilon and Phi Betta Kappa; also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Western Philosophical Association, and the American Association of University Professors. He has been mentioned in 'Who's Who in America' for three successive editions, and in 1916 his portrait was secured by the Minnesota Historical Society for their collection of the Prominent Twentieth Century Men of Minnesota.
A Republican in politics, he is a member of the Progressive branch of that party. In his religious affiliations he is a member of the Baptist church of Warren, Rhode Island. He is the author of 'The Kanian and Lutheran Elements in Ritschl's Conception of God', 1904, and has contributed many reviews and articles in scientific, philosophical and other journals.
Gregory Dexter Walcott was born at Lincoln, Rhode Island August 29, 1869. His preparatory education was at the public schools of Lime Rock, Lonsdale and Moshassuck in his native State. After leaving school in the fall of 1883, he was employed for the most part in mercantile and manufacturing concerns. Amongst the former was a dry goods store operated by Sharpless Brothers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1884 to 1885 he was connected with the Providence Public Library, but during the following year he was engaged in farming in Lime Rock. He was for four years, from 1886 to 1890, with the Glasgow Knitting Mill at Woonsocket and Warren, Rhode Island, and Brandon, Vermont, with the exception of the fall of 1887 when he was with the Oakdale Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode Island. He was for several months in 1890 with the Cutler Manufacturing Company of Warren, Rhode Island.
In 1890 Dr. Walcott resumed his studies and became a student at the Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1893 to enter Brown University, where he spent four years, receving the degree of A. B. upon his graduation. He entered Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary of New York City, in 1897, and spent the next three years at these institutions, receiving the degree of A. M. from Columbia University in 1899; Ph. D. in 1904; and B. D. from the Union Theological Seminary in 1900. In 1900-01 he went abroad and matriculated at the Bonn and Berlin universitites in Germany. Returning to this country he was assistant minister for a year at the Central Congregational Church at Providence, Rhode Island, and part of the year of 1903 had charge of the Sayles Memorial Church, at Saylesville, Rhode Island. During the academic year, 1903-1904, he was a graduate student at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, taking the doctor's degree in June as stated above. In the fall of 1904 he became a member of the faculty of Blackburn College at Carlinville, Illinois, as Professor of Greek and Latin. He became Dean of the college and Professor of Greek and Philosophy in 1905, and remained there until 1907, when he was elected to the chair of Philosophy and Psychology at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. This new department, which he established, became rather popular, for while all the courses were elective, at times more than sixty per cent of the eligible students of the university registered for the work. Dr. Walcott still retains his professorship in Hamline University, but was given in 1917-18 a year's leave of absence to teach psychology and lecture on ethics at Tsing Hua College, at Peking, China. This is a government institution supported by the Boxer Indemnity money refunded by the United States.
He is a member of the college fraternities, Delta Upsilon and Phi Betta Kappa; also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Western Philosophical Association, and the American Association of University Professors. He has been mentioned in 'Who's Who in America' for three successive editions, and in 1916 his portrait was secured by the Minnesota Historical Society for their collection of the Prominent Twentieth Century Men of Minnesota.
A Republican in politics, he is a member of the Progressive branch of that party. In his religious affiliations he is a member of the Baptist church of Warren, Rhode Island. He is the author of 'The Kanian and Lutheran Elements in Ritschl's Conception of God', 1904, and has contributed many reviews and articles in scientific, philosophical and other journals.
In 1890 Dr. Walcott resumed his studies and became a student at the Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1893 to enter Brown University, where he spent four years, receving the degree of A. B. upon his graduation. He entered Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary of New York City, in 1897, and spent the next three years at these institutions, receiving the degree of A. M. from Columbia University in 1899; Ph. D. in 1904; and B. D. from the Union Theological Seminary in 1900. In 1900-01 he went abroad and matriculated at the Bonn and Berlin universitites in Germany. Returning to this country he was assistant minister for a year at the Central Congregational Church at Providence, Rhode Island, and part of the year of 1903 had charge of the Sayles Memorial Church, at Saylesville, Rhode Island. During the academic year, 1903-1904, he was a graduate student at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, taking the doctor's degree in June as stated above. In the fall of 1904 he became a member of the faculty of Blackburn College at Carlinville, Illinois, as Professor of Greek and Latin. He became Dean of the college and Professor of Greek and Philosophy in 1905, and remained there until 1907, when he was elected to the chair of Philosophy and Psychology at Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. This new department, which he established, became rather popular, for while all the courses were elective, at times more than sixty per cent of the eligible students of the university registered for the work. Dr. Walcott still retains his professorship in Hamline University, but was given in 1917-18 a year's leave of absence to teach psychology and lecture on ethics at Tsing Hua College, at Peking, China. This is a government institution supported by the Boxer Indemnity money refunded by the United States.
He is a member of the college fraternities, Delta Upsilon and Phi Betta Kappa; also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Western Philosophical Association, and the American Association of University Professors. He has been mentioned in 'Who's Who in America' for three successive editions, and in 1916 his portrait was secured by the Minnesota Historical Society for their collection of the Prominent Twentieth Century Men of Minnesota.
A Republican in politics, he is a member of the Progressive branch of that party. In his religious affiliations he is a member of the Baptist church of Warren, Rhode Island. He is the author of 'The Kanian and Lutheran Elements in Ritschl's Conception of God', 1904, and has contributed many reviews and articles in scientific, philosophical and other journals.
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