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E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 1900-1908
Among the men who have built and served the University of Nebraska, one of the most dynamic personalities was Elisha Benjamin Andrews. A man of wide and rich personal experience, he had also a breadth and depth of scholarly training, a literary productivity, a range of interest, a wealth of imagination and of humor, a devotion to duty and vision, and a genius in moving and leading men which made him an outstanding figure in the educational life of the nation.
Born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, on January 10, 1844, he came into a family whose heads for two generations had been Baptist ministers of prominence. His brother, Charles B. Andrews, became governor of Connecticut in 1879-81. E. Benjamin began to prepare for college at the Connecticut Literary Institute. Interrupted, however, by the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery. In two years he had risen to the rank of second lieutenant. He was wounded during the siege of Petersburg, in 1864, losing the left eye. Mustered out, he resumed his studies, graduating at Brown in 1870, and at the Newton Theological Institute in 1874.
After a year in the pastorate at Beverly, Mass., he was called to the presidency of Denison University, at Granville, Ohio, and served there until 1879. Transferring back to Newton, he was for three years professor of homiletics. In 1882 he was appointed to the chair of history and political economy in Brown University. He spent the next year in preparatory studies in Europe. In his work at Brown his reputation was quickly established. The University of Nebraska gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1884. In 1888 he went to Cornell University, returning, however, in 1889 as president of Brown.
The leadership of Dr. Andrews at Brown during the ensuing nine years gave new life and power to the institution. Attendance of undergraduate men rose from 276 to
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