{"id":869,"date":"2017-08-08T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=869"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:59:55","slug":"bruce-william-herschel-1856-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"BRUCE, WILLIAM HERSCHEL, 1856-1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor, college president. Born&#8211; April 8, 1856, Troup County, Ga. Parents&#8211; Hilery and Catherine (Pruitt) Bruce. Married&#8211; Lillie O. Hart. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, A.B.; Baylor University, A.M.; Mercer University, Ph.D.; Trinity University, LL.D. Teacher in Texas schools and colleges; North Texas State Teachers College, president, 1906-1923. Chairman,\u00a0Texas State Board of Examiners, 1916-1910; President Texas State Teachers Association, 1905. \u00a0Awarded status of president emeritus, North Texas State Teachers College, 1923. Honorary LL.D., Trinity University. Died December 30, 1943.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Circles of the Triangle. Denton, Tex.; North Texas State Teachers College, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>Principles &amp; Processes of Education. Dallas; C. A. Bryant Co., 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Some Noteworthy Properties of the Triangle and its Circles. Boston; D.C. Heath, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Random Verses of W. H. Bruce. Denton, Tex.; North Texas State Teachers College, 1942.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arithmetic, a Higher Book. Boston; D.C. Heath, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>Arithmentic, a Lower Book. Boston; D.C. Heath, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>The Elements of Plane Geometry. Dallas; Southern Pub. Co., 1910.<\/p>\n<p>The Emergent Man. S.l.; s.n., 1940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor, college president. Born&#8211; April 8, 1856, Troup County, Ga. Parents&#8211; Hilery and Catherine (Pruitt) Bruce. Married&#8211; Lillie O. Hart. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, A.B.; Baylor University, A.M.; Mercer University, Ph.D.; Trinity University, LL.D. Teacher in Texas schools and colleges; North Texas State Teachers College, president, 1906-1923. Chairman,\u00a0Texas State Board of Examiners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}