BERTHA ROBINSON
- 1890
The Faculty of Vassar College feel impelled to
put upon record an expression of their sense of
the serious loss sustained by the College in
the death of Miss Bertha Robinson, for the past
three years a valued and beloved instructor in
the College. The influence of Miss Robinson,
quiet and unobtrusive to a high degree, was much
deeper and stronger than she knew. Her modesty
and perfect freedom from a spirit of self-assertion
led her to depreciate the value of her services
and the extent of her powers. And it is a source
of regret to her closest friends that she could
not live to know how much she had done for her
pupils, how much she had contributed to raise the
tone and spirit of the College, how much her
example of steady and severe conscientiousness,
of unfailing courtesy, of unwearying patience, had
benefited others. Her friends and all who had
knowledge of her work know that it was solid and
that the results of it will be permanent. Her
wide knowledge, her various accomplishments, her
refinement of taste, her earnestness as an
instructor have left their mark upon her many
pupils, and have gained for her the respect and
affection of all who have associated with her.
The Faculty of Vassar College desire to record
their sense of loss, and their sincere and heart-
felt sympathy with her bereaved family.
Manuel J. Drennan
Lucy M. Salmon
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