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Date: [After 1877]
Text: JAMES ORTON 1830 - 1877 The Faculty of Vassar College desire to give expression to the sentiment of regret and sympathy on the occasion of Professor 0rton's death, and to testify their regard for the character of their de- parted friend. He was a scholar in the truest sense of the word, and his labors will always eminently stand forth on the record of scientific exploration. His efficiency as an instructor as well as his enthusiasm and inde- fatigable industry in furthering the interests...
Show moreJAMES ORTON 1830 - 1877 The Faculty of Vassar College desire to give expression to the sentiment of regret and sympathy on the occasion of Professor 0rton's death, and to testify their regard for the character of their de- parted friend. He was a scholar in the truest sense of the word, and his labors will always eminently stand forth on the record of scientific exploration. His efficiency as an instructor as well as his enthusiasm and inde- fatigable industry in furthering the interests of our College, cannot be too highly valued and will leave their mark for a long time to come. He was a good man;- his genial and sympathetic nature, his modesty and child like simplicity, and the purity of his high- toned character, secured for him the affectionate re- gard of his colleagues and pupils, and the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him. So, while his name will occupy an honorable place in the history of science and public instruction, his memory will ever be cherished in the hearts of his colleagues, pupils, and friends. Therefore resolved, That we tender to Mrs. Orton, and her family, our heartfelt condolence, and express the hope that, with the consolations which our trust in the guidance of Divine Providence affords, they may also derive comfort from the knowledge that their grief is shared by many, that his life was made happy through the love of his family, the attachment of numerous friends, and the successful pursuit of con- genial labors, and that his death has shed lasting glory on his noble work. I - 373
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Date: [After 1878]
Text: JOHN H . rmvmowo 181a - 1878 At the first meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College after the death of our late honored President, John H. Raymond, we record a brief statement of his work in this College, and an expression, altogether inadequate, of the love we have for his memorye We appreciate, as others cannot, the unceasing toil, the perplexity, the solicitude, the many discouragements which attended his heroic and successful endeavor to secure for this College its present eminence among...
Show moreJOHN H . rmvmowo 181a - 1878 At the first meeting of the Faculty of Vassar College after the death of our late honored President, John H. Raymond, we record a brief statement of his work in this College, and an expression, altogether inadequate, of the love we have for his memorye We appreciate, as others cannot, the unceasing toil, the perplexity, the solicitude, the many discouragements which attended his heroic and successful endeavor to secure for this College its present eminence among educational institu- tions. We appreciate, as others cannot, the complica- tions of the problem given to him for solution at the time of his election to his office. At the outset, there was a Board of Trustees having the heartiest interest in this work, but pre- senting many shades of opinion on educational questions. And the Faculty, organized under peculiar limitations needed time and trial to give it experience and strength. And the demand made by the public upon this College in its earlier years, insisting that students sent hither should be trained to the accomplishments of the fashionable world rather than to the earnestness of the scholar, was a demand that he resisted with an unfaltering, a religious con- stancy, and defeated utterly, so that under his leadership a victory, complete, enduring, has been gained for the higher education of women. Beset by the ill-advised and persistent appeal of the parents of our students, with no pioneers to guide him, President Raymond cautiously and safely led this College through the wilderness of its first years. We know what his thoughtfulness has accomplished in the improvement of all the appointments and properties of the College, in securing for it the respect of educated people, in winning for it the loyalty of students, and in organizing a happy domestic regime. But these achievements made by devotion to the duties of his office, though they have commanded expressions of public JOHN H. RAYMOND (Continued) admiration, still seem to us to fade in comparison with the result he attained in promoting the steady growth of our educational work. Comparing the Scheme of Instruction" published in our first catalogue, with the clear and well adjusted cur- riculum now followed by our students we see the traces of his most difficult work, and his brightest success. While others point to his temperament, or to his scholarship, or to his literary and oratorical skill as the secret of his power in this College, we, recognizing all these qualities in him, point to his rare gift for organization as his prime endowment - a gift blending with comprehensiveness of plan a conscientious zeal for the performance of smallest details. This endowment made it possible for him to watch every interest related to his office, and insured the uninterrupted progress of Vassar College under his administration. We remind ourselves that our late President himself grew to loftier ideas under the discipline of his work. Each new success inspired him with grander hopes, to more intense endeavor. He led the way to broader freedom in the discipline of the College; and in presiding over our legislative deliberations, he had come to be the most advanced among us in demanding an unfaltering respect for the womanliness of our students. Always considerate of the weariness of his fellow- workers, he gave himself no rest. In recalling what he has done for Vassar College, we pay our reverent re- spect to his industry, to his fidelity, to his sacrifice of self, to his wisdom, which have laid our foundations so secure that no adversity, not even his death, can overturn them. He was modest, he was honest, he was cautious, he was patient, he was just, he was devout, he was faithful in all things. He was eminent, and he was eminently good, He is dead, but his work survives, I - 391-393
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Creator: Drennan, Manuel J., Salmon, Lucy M.
Date: [After 1890]
Text: 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...
Show moreBERTHA 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 gaied 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 II — 222
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Creator: Van Ingen, Henry, Wood, Frances A., Ely, Achsah M.
Date: [After 1895]
Text: WALTER D. WHEELER 1829 - 1895 Whereas by the death of Walter D. Wheeler Vassar College has lost an officer whose long and faithful service, whose kind and obliging spirit have endeared him to the officers, alumnae and students of Vassar College during the entire period of its existence: Therefore, be it resolved that this Faculty express its sense of personal loss at his death and extend to his family its sympathy in the midst of their affliction. Henry Van Ingen Frances A. Wood Achsah M. Ely...
Show moreWALTER D. WHEELER 1829 - 1895 Whereas by the death of Walter D. Wheeler Vassar College has lost an officer whose long and faithful service, whose kind and obliging spirit have endeared him to the officers, alumnae and students of Vassar College during the entire period of its existence: Therefore, be it resolved that this Faculty express its sense of personal loss at his death and extend to his family its sympathy in the midst of their affliction. Henry Van Ingen Frances A. Wood Achsah M. Ely III — 70
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Creator: Van Ingen, Henry, Kendrick, Georgia Avery, Ely, Achsah M.
Date: [After 1898]
Text: ‘ I i I > WILLARD L. DEAN lﬁhl - 1898 The Cmittee appointed to draw up resolutions upon the death of Mr. Dean, presented the follow- ing: Whereas: by the death of Willard L. Dean Vassar College has lost an officer whose long and faithful service as its treasurer and kind and obliging spirit as a trustee and friend have endeared him to the officers, alumnae and students of Vassar Col- lege during the greater part of its existence; Therefore, be it resolved that this Faculty express its...
Show more‘ I i I > WILLARD L. DEAN lﬁhl - 1898 The Cmittee appointed to draw up resolutions upon the death of Mr. Dean, presented the follow- ing: Whereas: by the death of Willard L. Dean Vassar College has lost an officer whose long and faithful service as its treasurer and kind and obliging spirit as a trustee and friend have endeared him to the officers, alumnae and students of Vassar Col- lege during the greater part of its existence; Therefore, be it resolved that this Faculty express its sense of personal loss at his death, and extend to his family its sympathy in their affliction. Henry Van Ingen Georgia Avery Kendrick Achsah M. Ely III - 257
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Date: [After 1898]
Text: HENRY VAN INGEN 1833 - 1898 Whereas: We, the members of the Vassar Club of Detroit, feel the irreparable loss, sustained by the College in the death of Henry Van Ingen, for so many years head of the Art Department and friend and adviser of the students - Therefore, be it resolved: that we express to the Faculty our sense of deep personal loss in one who gave us so many impulses toward "the right the true, the beautiful and the good", and our sympathy with them in this bereavement....
Show moreHENRY VAN INGEN 1833 - 1898 Whereas: We, the members of the Vassar Club of Detroit, feel the irreparable loss, sustained by the College in the death of Henry Van Ingen, for so many years head of the Art Department and friend and adviser of the students - Therefore, be it resolved: that we express to the Faculty our sense of deep personal loss in one who gave us so many impulses toward "the right the true, the beautiful and the good", and our sympathy with them in this bereavement. Likewise, be it resolved: that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Faculty. From the Vassar Club of Detroit III - 276
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Date: [After 1898]
Text: WILLARD L. new 18u1 - 1898 Whereas: the members of the Club regret deeply the sad loss the College has sustained in the death of Willard L. Dean, who for so many years did faithful work as treasurer and trustee, and who exerted so strong and kindly an influence among the students as to make each feel a sense of per- sonal loss in his death: - Therefore, be it resolved: that we formally ex- press our sympathy with the Faculty of the College in its loss. Resolved: that a copy of this resolution...
Show moreWILLARD L. new 18u1 - 1898 Whereas: the members of the Club regret deeply the sad loss the College has sustained in the death of Willard L. Dean, who for so many years did faithful work as treasurer and trustee, and who exerted so strong and kindly an influence among the students as to make each feel a sense of per- sonal loss in his death: - Therefore, be it resolved: that we formally ex- press our sympathy with the Faculty of the College in its loss. Resolved: that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Faculty. From the Vassar Club of Detroit III - 277
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Creator: Whitney, Mary W., Leach, Abby, Cooley, Le Roy C.
Date: [After 1898]
Text: HENRY VAN INGEN 1833 - 1898 The Cmmittee appointed to draw up resolutions upon the death of Professor Van Ingen made the following report: Whereas: in the death of Henry Van Ingen who for thirty-three years was head of the School of Art and Professor of Art in Vassar College, and was closely identified throughout this period with its life and varied interests, Vassar College has lost an officer whose efficiency, whose sterling qual- ities of mind and heart, whose uprightness and manly...
Show moreHENRY VAN INGEN 1833 - 1898 The Cmmittee appointed to draw up resolutions upon the death of Professor Van Ingen made the following report: Whereas: in the death of Henry Van Ingen who for thirty-three years was head of the School of Art and Professor of Art in Vassar College, and was closely identified throughout this period with its life and varied interests, Vassar College has lost an officer whose efficiency, whose sterling qual- ities of mind and heart, whose uprightness and manly strength,whose cheerful and healthy interest in all relations of life and whose personal affection for his coworkers have rendered his services of the highest value and have made his loss of no ordinary character: Therefore, be it resolved: that this Faculty here- by express its sense of great personal loss, and its sympathy with the family which has been so sorely bereaved. Also resolved: that a copy of this resolution be sent to the family. Mary W. Whitney Abby Leach Le Roy C. Cooley III - 265
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Creator: Wylie, Laura J., Cooley, Le Roy C., Kendrick, Georgia Avery
Date: [After 1904]
Text: ANTOINETTE CORNWELL 1858 - 19Oh Whereas: By the death of Antoinette Cornwell, who for many years has ably assisted in its administrative work, Vassar CO1l6ge has lost an officer of singular disinterestedness and fidelity in the performance of duty, of con- stant and most kindly helpfulness in intercourse with her fellow-workers and with the students, and of a refinement, modesty and sincerity of character that made strongly and steadily for all that was best in the life of the college....
Show moreANTOINETTE CORNWELL 1858 - 19Oh Whereas: By the death of Antoinette Cornwell, who for many years has ably assisted in its administrative work, Vassar CO1l6ge has lost an officer of singular disinterestedness and fidelity in the performance of duty, of con- stant and most kindly helpfulness in intercourse with her fellow-workers and with the students, and of a refinement, modesty and sincerity of character that made strongly and steadily for all that was best in the life of the college. Therefore, be it resolved that the Faculty hereby express its deep sense of loss and its sympathy with the family in its bereavement, Also resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family. Laura J. Wylie Le Roy C. Cooley Georgia Avery Kendri IV - 266 ck
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Creator: Whitney, Mary W., Cooley, Le Roy C., Wylie, Laura J.
Date: [After 1904]
Text: I P I I ACHSAH motmr E13! IBM6 - 190k The Comittee appointed December 15 to draw up resolutions upon the death of Professor Ely re- ported as follows: Whereas: by the death of Professor Achsah Mount Ely Vassar College has lost a valued and efficient friend, who for many years both as alumna and of- ficer has been devoted to the interests of the Col- lege and has worked for its advancement with zeal, enthusiasm and large-minded generosity, and who has represented to a pre-eminent degree among...
Show moreI P I I ACHSAH motmr E13! IBM6 - 190k The Comittee appointed December 15 to draw up resolutions upon the death of Professor Ely re- ported as follows: Whereas: by the death of Professor Achsah Mount Ely Vassar College has lost a valued and efficient friend, who for many years both as alumna and of- ficer has been devoted to the interests of the Col- lege and has worked for its advancement with zeal, enthusiasm and large-minded generosity, and who has represented to a pre-eminent degree among the college graduates the spirit of ambition and pro- ductive helpfulness that has characterized their activity: Therefore, be it resolved: that the Faculty hereby express its deep sense of loss and its sympathy with the family in its bereavement. Also resolved: that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family. Mary W. Whitney Le Roy C. Cooley Laura J. Wylie IV - 289-290
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Creator: Cooley, Le Roy C., Whitney, Mary W., Wylie, Laura J.
Date: [After 1906]
Text: J WILLIAM BUCK DWIGHT 1833 - 1906 The Committee appointed September 2h, to draw up resolutions regarding the death of Professor Dwight presented the following: Whereas: William Buck Dwight, whose death occurred on August 29, 1906, has been identified with Vassar College as Professor of Geology and Mineralogy for twenty-eight years, serving the College with loyalty, enthusiasm and efficiency, and Whereas: by admirable traits of character as an in- structor and as a man, he maintained the...
Show moreJ WILLIAM BUCK DWIGHT 1833 - 1906 The Committee appointed September 2h, to draw up resolutions regarding the death of Professor Dwight presented the following: Whereas: William Buck Dwight, whose death occurred on August 29, 1906, has been identified with Vassar College as Professor of Geology and Mineralogy for twenty-eight years, serving the College with loyalty, enthusiasm and efficiency, and Whereas: by admirable traits of character as an in- structor and as a man, he maintained the trustful respect of his pupils, the sincere regard of his as- sociates, and the confidence of all who have been most deeply interested in the welfare of this in- stitution, therefore Resolved: that we, the Faculty of Vassar College here- by testify our appreciation of the character and work of Professor Dwight and our sorrow for the loss of an honored associate. Resolved also, that a copy of this minute be sent to the family of Professor Dwight, as an assurance of our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. Le Roy C. Cooley Mary W. Whitney Laura J. Wylie K C I IV 376 377
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Creator: Leach, Abby, Gow, George Coleman, Kendrick, Georgia Avery, Whitney, Mary W.
Date: [After 1906]
Text: ! 1 1 r 1 EDWARD LATHROP l8lh-1906 The Committee appointed April 6, to draw up resolutions upon the death of Dr. Lathrop presen- ted the followin: Whereas: Dr. Edward Lathrop was one of the Charter Members of the Board of Trustees of Vassar College and for thirty years served as Chairman of the BO9.rd 3 8116. Whereas: During these many years he gave himself to all the interests of the college with marked faithfulness and warm-hearted devotion, and Whereas: He displayed in all these relations...
Show more! 1 1 r 1 EDWARD LATHROP l8lh-1906 The Committee appointed April 6, to draw up resolutions upon the death of Dr. Lathrop presen- ted the followin: Whereas: Dr. Edward Lathrop was one of the Charter Members of the Board of Trustees of Vassar College and for thirty years served as Chairman of the BO9.rd 3 8116. Whereas: During these many years he gave himself to all the interests of the college with marked faithfulness and warm-hearted devotion, and Whereas: He displayed in all these relations a broad-minded sympathy with the highest aims of the college and a liberal and progressive spirit towards the modern Problems of Women's Education, Therefore resolved: That the Faculty of Vassar Col- lege express their profound sense of the great loss they have sustained in his death and their grateful appreciation of his valuable services; That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of Dr. Lathrop. Abby Leach George Coleman Gov Georgia Avery Kendrick Mary W. Whitney IV - 363
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Creator: Bracq, Jean C., Leach, Abby, Wylie, Laura G.
Date: [After 1907]
Text: CORNELIA H. B. ROGERS 1861 - 1907 Whereas: Cornelia H. B. Rogers, Ph.D., was for ten years instructor and associate professor in the department of Romance Languages of Vassar College, and whereas: in this position she proved herself a teacher whose sure scholarship endowed her teaching with living knowledge and healthy culture, a sympathetic adviser always placing principle above expediency and sound life above all formulae of success, a woman of signal inde- pendence of judgment and of great...
Show moreCORNELIA H. B. ROGERS 1861 - 1907 Whereas: Cornelia H. B. Rogers, Ph.D., was for ten years instructor and associate professor in the department of Romance Languages of Vassar College, and whereas: in this position she proved herself a teacher whose sure scholarship endowed her teaching with living knowledge and healthy culture, a sympathetic adviser always placing principle above expediency and sound life above all formulae of success, a woman of signal inde- pendence of judgment and of great dignity of life, Resolved: That the Faculty of Vassar College hereby voice their feelings of sorrow for the loss of a col- league whose gentle ways won for her their united friendship and whose inspiring life and genial uplifting spirit made her a strong factor in the best life of the college. Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Jean C. Bracq Abby Leach Laura G. Wylie IV - 391; - 395
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Creator: Buck, Gertrude, Wells, Emilie Louise, Moore, J. Leverett
Date: [After 1913]
Text: MAY MONROE 1865 - 1913 By the death of May Monroe, for fourteen years in- structor in Spoken English, Vassar College has lost a teacher of distinctive power and a personality of rare graciousness and charm. An original conception of her field of work, a constant reference of its every detail to fundamental principle rather than to mere authority, an unusual gift of recognizing and developing the individual capacities of her students, made her teaching a living force in the college. Those who...
Show moreMAY MONROE 1865 - 1913 By the death of May Monroe, for fourteen years in- structor in Spoken English, Vassar College has lost a teacher of distinctive power and a personality of rare graciousness and charm. An original conception of her field of work, a constant reference of its every detail to fundamental principle rather than to mere authority, an unusual gift of recognizing and developing the individual capacities of her students, made her teaching a living force in the college. Those who knew her only casually remember her unfailing gentle courtesy, her generous estimates of others; those more closely associated with her honor a charac- ter of finest integrity, a nature incapable of unkind- ness or of self-seeking. She gave unsparingly of her skill and training both to the students and to the teaching body. The Faculty of Vassar College desires to record upon its minutes and to express to the family of Miss Monroe its sense of the irreparable loss sustained by the College and its heart-felt sympathy. Gertrude Buck Emilie Louise Wells J. Leverett Moore V - 260
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Creator: Reed, Amy L., Hill, William Bancroft, Fiske, Christabel F.
Date: [After 1914]
Text: FRANCES A. WOOD l8LO - 191k Frances A. Wood, Librarian Emeritus, died on June 17, l9lh. She was connected with the College almost from its beginnin , as teacher of music, 1 67-70 as instructor in gnglish, 1870-80, librarian, 1800- 1910, and as Librarian Emeritus until her death. Under her care the library increased from a few thousand volumes stored in one room of the Main Build- ing to nearly 70,000 beautifully housed in the Thomp- son Memorial Library. She gave her time and thought to her...
Show moreFRANCES A. WOOD l8LO - 191k Frances A. Wood, Librarian Emeritus, died on June 17, l9lh. She was connected with the College almost from its beginnin , as teacher of music, 1 67-70 as instructor in gnglish, 1870-80, librarian, 1800- 1910, and as Librarian Emeritus until her death. Under her care the library increased from a few thousand volumes stored in one room of the Main Build- ing to nearly 70,000 beautifully housed in the Thomp- son Memorial Library. She gave her time and thought to her work unstintedly throughout her active years. By her reminiscences, published in later life, she made a valuable caatribution to the history of the ﬂollege. Her sweetness of spirit, gentle grace, and sympathetic interest won the friendship of all assoc- iates and students. Those who knew her intimately re- cognized the independence of her thinking, the wise tolerance of her Judgments, the charm of her genial, sometimes whimsical, outlook on life. She was uni- versally beloved. In her death the College has lost an honored member of its Faculty, a sincere friend of all its alumnae, and an interpreter to the present generation of the spirit of its past. Amy L. Reed William Bancroft Hill Christabel F. Fiske V - 333
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Creator: Reed, Amy L., Underhill, Adelaide
Date: [After 1916]
Text: SOPHIA F. RICHARDSON 1855 - 1916 The Faculty wish to record their sorrow at the death on February 2, 1916, of Sophia F. Richardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Miss Richardson, who was graduated from Vassar in 1879 and who re- turned as instructor in 1886, had almost completed thirty years of devoted service to her college. She literally gave her life to teaching and to study for the sake of teaching, using her many talents and employing her times of rest solely for the benefit of her...
Show moreSOPHIA F. RICHARDSON 1855 - 1916 The Faculty wish to record their sorrow at the death on February 2, 1916, of Sophia F. Richardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Miss Richardson, who was graduated from Vassar in 1879 and who re- turned as instructor in 1886, had almost completed thirty years of devoted service to her college. She literally gave her life to teaching and to study for the sake of teaching, using her many talents and employing her times of rest solely for the benefit of her profession. Her work was character- ized by definiteness and originality of teaching method and by the mental and moral energy of the response which she secured from her students. While her great reserve confined her friendships to a small circle, those who knew her well received the highest inspiration from her exquisite appreciation of the fine things of life, her singleness of pur- pose, and her essentially Christian character. By her death the college loses a rare personality, a teacher of long and successful experience, and a faithful friend. Amy L. Reed Adelaide Underhill VI - 97
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Creator: Moore, J. Leverett, Washburn, Margaret Floy, Thelberg, Elizabeth B.
Date: [After 1916]
Text: JAMES MONROE TAYLOR l8h8 - 1916 The death of James Monroe Taylor, President of Vassar College for twenty-seven years, offers a fitting opportunity for an appreciation of the important services rendered by him to this col- lege. The Faculty therefore desires to record on its minutes this expression of the high opinion which it holds of Dr. Taylor, as an administrator, as an educator, as a man. As an administrator Dr. Taylor was preeminently prudent and sincere in his management of the material...
Show moreJAMES MONROE TAYLOR l8h8 - 1916 The death of James Monroe Taylor, President of Vassar College for twenty-seven years, offers a fitting opportunity for an appreciation of the important services rendered by him to this col- lege. The Faculty therefore desires to record on its minutes this expression of the high opinion which it holds of Dr. Taylor, as an administrator, as an educator, as a man. As an administrator Dr. Taylor was preeminently prudent and sincere in his management of the material and educational interests of the college. Few at the present time are able to realize how desperate was the condition of the college when he became president and how difficult was the task of planning a safe ad honorable policy of administra- tion. he material growth of the college is def- inately measured by the fact that when he came to Vassar there were but four buildings on the college campus and canparison with the present reveals a long line of material problems constantly faced and successfully solved. With splendid confidence in the future Dr. Taylor in his first year of office abolished the preparatory department, although the number of students was thereby reduced to less than three hundred; later in his administration when ever- increasing nubers were threatening the educational efficiency of the college, he resolved the opposing claims of caution and progress by limiting the num- ber of students. As an educator Dr. Taylor sympathized with a liberal culture rather than with specialization; he inclined to the humanities rather than to science. Neverthe- less his administration witnessed a rapid development of science in the college - the dual department of Physics and Chemistry was divided, the departments of Biology and Psychology were established. With like breadth of purpose he organized on an academic basis the separately existing Schools of Art and Music and admitted courses in these subjects to the collegiate curriculum. JAMES MONROE TAYLOR (continued) Few men have been blessed with a personality so peculiarly suited to the position of a college pre- sident - a rare combination of wisdom and simplicity, prudence and honesty, strong convictions and modesty. His cordial, frank, sincere manner made a direct ap- peal to the goodwill and confidence of all who met him and the nobility of his ideals and principles held fast the loyalty of his friends and colleagues. J. Leverett Moore Margaret Floy Washburn Elizabeth B. Thelberg VI-17+?
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Creator: Moore, J. Leverett, Griffen, Clyde, Schalk, David
Date: [After 1916]
Text: ~ 18 EMILIE LOUISE WELLS 1871 - 1916 The community of Vassar College realizes with peculiar sorrow the loss it has sustained by the death on April thirteenth, 1916 of Emilie Louise Wells, Associate Professor of Economics. During eighteen years of service the influence of her mind, of her personality has made itself ever more powerfully felt and the Faculty is anxious to bear witness to the loss that has befallen the intel- lectual, as also the communal life of the college. As a member of the...
Show more~ 18 EMILIE LOUISE WELLS 1871 - 1916 The community of Vassar College realizes with peculiar sorrow the loss it has sustained by the death on April thirteenth, 1916 of Emilie Louise Wells, Associate Professor of Economics. During eighteen years of service the influence of her mind, of her personality has made itself ever more powerfully felt and the Faculty is anxious to bear witness to the loss that has befallen the intel- lectual, as also the communal life of the college. As a member of the college community, Miss Wells upheld a high ideal of social service and generous helpfulness. In general relations she revealed the fine impersonality of mind which springs from re- cognition of the larger issues of life, while her more intimate friends realized the potent attraction due to her intense human quality. Her scholarship was clear and logical, and with it she combined an unusual appreciation of what was best in the world of art. Her concern for her students extended be- yond the friendly co-operation of the classroom and she nubered within the group of those bound most closely to her several whose love and admiration had deepened with their experience of later life. The Faculty by this minute desires to express its appreciation of a rare and gifted personality and to proffer to her family a true sympathy in their be- reavement. Christabel F. Fiske Herbert E. Mills J. Leverett Moore VI - 110-111
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Creator: Leach, Abby, Moore, J. Leverett, McCaleb, Ella
Date: [After 1916]
Text: LE ROY CLARK COOLEY 1833 - 1916 In recording the death of Le Roy Clark Cooley, for thirty-three years Professor of Physics or Chemistry in Vassar College, the Faculty desires to express its appreciation of the man and of the teacher. His strict fidelity to duty, his high ideals of life and scholarship, his deep sense of moral responsibility, impressed all with his strength of character, while his justice, sympathy and kindly spirit won for him the confidence and affection of those with whom...
Show moreLE ROY CLARK COOLEY 1833 - 1916 In recording the death of Le Roy Clark Cooley, for thirty-three years Professor of Physics or Chemistry in Vassar College, the Faculty desires to express its appreciation of the man and of the teacher. His strict fidelity to duty, his high ideals of life and scholarship, his deep sense of moral responsibility, impressed all with his strength of character, while his justice, sympathy and kindly spirit won for him the confidence and affection of those with whom he lived and worked. During his long term of service in Vassar College, from l87h to l907, he rarely failed to meet a college engagement. His career as an edu- cator covered a unique period in the development of science. He was among the first to introduce labora- tory method in the college course. His researches in the field of radiant energy brought him to the thres- hold of discoveries that have made others famous. His clarity of expression, devotion to truth and im- partial attitude of mind, comanded the respect and admiration of many generations of students and made a potent influence in their lives. Though Emeritus Pro- fessor he continued to be identified in many ways with the Faculty so that by his death the college mourns the loss of a devoted officer and a loyal friend Abby Leach J. Leverett Moore Ella McCa1eb VI - 121
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Creator: Beckwith, Cora J., Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton, McCaleb, Ella
Date: [After 1918]
Text: AMABEL SCHARFF ROBERTS 1891 - 1918 Inasmuch as one of our young alumnae, Amabel Scharff Roberts, 1913, U. S. Army Red Cross nurse, member of Base Hospital No. 1, Presbyterian Unit with the Brit- ish Expeditionary Forces, died in the service of her country at Etretat, France, January 17, 1918, we, the Faculty of Vassar College, desire to express to her family our deep sympathy in the sense of our com- mon loss. we cannot but be proud with them that Miss Roberts, who had proved to us here her...
Show moreAMABEL SCHARFF ROBERTS 1891 - 1918 Inasmuch as one of our young alumnae, Amabel Scharff Roberts, 1913, U. S. Army Red Cross nurse, member of Base Hospital No. 1, Presbyterian Unit with the Brit- ish Expeditionary Forces, died in the service of her country at Etretat, France, January 17, 1918, we, the Faculty of Vassar College, desire to express to her family our deep sympathy in the sense of our com- mon loss. we cannot but be proud with them that Miss Roberts, who had proved to us here her high standard of work and devotion to duty, should have responded without hesitation to the call of her country, giving unwearying care to the wounded until the end came in supreme sacrifice. The news of her death, coming at the moment of the announcement that Vassar College would be used this sumer by the Red Cross for the preliminary training of college women for the nursing profession, should serve as a bugle call to others to prepare to carry on her labors. Her name will live in our traditions, associated with quiet simplicity, the beauty of steady work, and complete devotion to the service of humanity. Cora J. Beckwith Elizabeth Hazelton Haight Ella McCaleb VI - 217
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Date: [After 1918]
Text: ABBY BEACH 1855 - 1918 By the death of Abby Leach, Professor of Greek, on December 29, l9l8, the college lost a member of its faculty who had served it ably and faithfully since 1883, and who in her teachin strove for "that partnership between teacher and taught which," says Professor Butcher, "has given to the world the high- est thought of Greece." Under her initiative Greek was made a separate department, and the college was song the first to stage a Greek play,...
Show moreABBY BEACH 1855 - 1918 By the death of Abby Leach, Professor of Greek, on December 29, l9l8, the college lost a member of its faculty who had served it ably and faithfully since 1883, and who in her teachin strove for "that partnership between teacher and taught which," says Professor Butcher, "has given to the world the high- est thought of Greece." Under her initiative Greek was made a separate department, and the college was song the first to stage a Greek play, Antigone. She also promoted the study of Greek by her work in Glas- sical Associations, as a member frm the outset of the Board of Managers of the American School at Athens, and as President in 1899-1900 of the American Philo- logical Association. She was an active member of the Associate Alumnae of Vassar, and the President in 1899-1901 of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Her interest in other than academic matters was keen; her circle of friends and acquaintances, large; and her influence, far-reaching. Resolute, conscientious in duty, self-reliant yet upheld by Christian faith, she battled at the last with a painful disease but held steadily to her regular work until vacation and death came together. VI - 306
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Creator: Reed, Amy L., Baldwin, James F.
Date: [After 1919]
Text: cnoncs E. nxmocx 1853 - 1919 The recent death of George E. Dimock, who was for sixteen years a devoted Trustee of the CO116g6, is felt by the Faculty to be an irreparable loss.F0r Mr. Dimock combined in unusual measure ability in business with the tastes of a man of letters, and as he chose to make the educational and intellectual life of the College his special interest, he rendered it exceptional service. A member of the Comittee on Faculty and Studies, he was always alive to the need of...
Show morecnoncs E. nxmocx 1853 - 1919 The recent death of George E. Dimock, who was for sixteen years a devoted Trustee of the CO116g6, is felt by the Faculty to be an irreparable loss.F0r Mr. Dimock combined in unusual measure ability in business with the tastes of a man of letters, and as he chose to make the educational and intellectual life of the College his special interest, he rendered it exceptional service. A member of the Comittee on Faculty and Studies, he was always alive to the need of materials for study; himself a collector of books, he enriched the Library; he promoted research. Still more memorable was the personal appreciation which he manifested toward all achievements of faculty and students, who felt his commendation to be both a reward and an incentive. There are few men indeed of the present generation who merit so well the description expressed in the Classic phrase, "a friend of learning." While his influence will long be held in living memory with gratitude and admiration, it is enacted as a permanent memorial that this recognition of his life of service be engrossed in the Minutes of the Faculty. It is further moved that a copy of the above-written resolution be presented by the Secretary to Mrs. Dimock Amy L. Reed James F. Baldwin VII - 18
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Creator: Moore, Leverett J., Miller, Maria Tastevin, de Schweinitz, Margaret
Date: [After 1920]
Text: ELIZABETH mvrca PALMER 1865 - 1920 By the death of Elizabeth Hatch Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College has lost a member whose service has extended over a period of twenty years, and by this minute the Faculty aims to record its apprecia- tion of the work that she has accomplished. The selfsame qualities that made Professor Palmer so successful as a teacher were manifest in her work as a member of the Faculty - a broad and deep humanity, a high ideal of scholarship, a scrupulous honesty...
Show moreELIZABETH mvrca PALMER 1865 - 1920 By the death of Elizabeth Hatch Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College has lost a member whose service has extended over a period of twenty years, and by this minute the Faculty aims to record its apprecia- tion of the work that she has accomplished. The selfsame qualities that made Professor Palmer so successful as a teacher were manifest in her work as a member of the Faculty - a broad and deep humanity, a high ideal of scholarship, a scrupulous honesty towards herself and others, a sense of balance and justice made constructive through untiring energy and a sincere loyalty to the best interests of the College. She possessed in an unusual degree the capacity for detail combined with a sane opinion of its value and a notable gift for administration, which made her a valuable member of the important committees on which she served, particularly the Comittees on Petitions and Elections, on Intercollegiate Relations and on Admission. Professor Palmer was no mere laudator te oris acti either in the greater world without or In the ITFFIe world of the college, but a vital personality who saw clearly the essential connection between the past and the present. She possessed something of the ancient Roman virtus, something of Roman reverence and dignity, quickened by a sympathy which made her a loyal friend and a reasonable fellow-worker. To the College as a whole her death is a very real loss, but to her colleagues who enjoyed the privileges of a long association her honored memory will live as an eternal possession. Grace H. Macurdy Ida C. Thallon J. Leverett Moore VII - S2
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Creator: [unknown]
Date: [After 1921]
Text: MARY w. WHITNEY 18h? - 1921 The death of Professor Emeritus Mary W. Whitney comes rather as a reminder to the older members of the Faculty of the great loss they sustained when ill-health forced her to withdraw from active service, than as a sudden blow to the Faculty as a whole. It seems all the more desirable, since she is but a name to so many among our number, that we should try to express to those who did not know her something of the quality of her rare mind and per- sonality. It is not...
Show moreMARY w. WHITNEY 18h? - 1921 The death of Professor Emeritus Mary W. Whitney comes rather as a reminder to the older members of the Faculty of the great loss they sustained when ill-health forced her to withdraw from active service, than as a sudden blow to the Faculty as a whole. It seems all the more desirable, since she is but a name to so many among our number, that we should try to express to those who did not know her something of the quality of her rare mind and per- sonality. It is not too much to say that when she retired, there was no member of the faculty who was held in so much affectionate honor as Mary Whitney. She was in intellect and character the finest type of New England woman: in intellect steadfastly devoted to truth, in character as steadfastly holding to the highest ideals, with a gentle humanity and for- getfulness of self that made her the sincere friend of everyone. As a teacher two members of the committee recall vividly the inspiration they derived from her lofty conception of scientific truth and their admiration for her patience with dull-minded. For many years she was the Secretary of the Faculty. Under her direction our Observatory gained an inter- national reputation for accurate and valuable research Entering Vassar College on its opening day, she was throughout her active life an earnest worker for the fullest educational opportunities for woman. Deeply -- one may say devoutly -- interested in the movement to secure equal political and social rights for women, her poise, good taste and balance gained friends for suffrage when sensational methods repelled The breadth of her intellectual life was shown in her fondness for philosophy and poetry, but this serenity and catholicity of mind were accompanied by a love of nature and by an ability to make connections, with all human beings, including especially children, which are found only in great souls. By all who knew her she will be remembered as one of the most eminent who have been connected with Vassar College VII - 88
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Creator: White, Florence Donnell, Whitney, Marian P., Macurdy, Grace H.
Date: [After 1922]
Text: $ | I ! 1 1 1 | l l K 1 4 I \ 1 GERTRUDE SHEPPERLE LOOMIS 1882 - 1922 Through the death on December ll, 1922, of Gertrude Shepperle Loomis, Assistant Professor of French, both the world of scholarship and Vassar College have sustained an irreparable loss. Profes- sor Loomis was one of the few women whose reputa- tion as a scholar is international. Her numerous publications in Celtic and Old French, appearing in book form and in learned periodicals of America and Europe, won her distinguished...
Show more$ | I ! 1 1 1 | l l K 1 4 I \ 1 GERTRUDE SHEPPERLE LOOMIS 1882 - 1922 Through the death on December ll, 1922, of Gertrude Shepperle Loomis, Assistant Professor of French, both the world of scholarship and Vassar College have sustained an irreparable loss. Profes- sor Loomis was one of the few women whose reputa- tion as a scholar is international. Her numerous publications in Celtic and Old French, appearing in book form and in learned periodicals of America and Europe, won her distinguished recognition in this country and aaroad and brought her into per- sonal touch with many of the most eminent scholars in her chosen fields. A tireless worker to the last, she has left a considerable amount of unpub- lished matter. To an unusual extent she combined with a whole-hearted devotion to research a keen interest in teaching and gave much of her best effort to the organization and original presentation of material, in her eager de- sire to pass on the love of learning. Although her term of service at Vassar was short, September 1919 to the time of her death, she identi- fied herself closely and loyally with the college and has left a deep impress upon its intellectual 15-fee Florence Donnell White a Marian P. Whitney Grace H. Macurdy VII - 180
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Date: [After 1922]
Text: GERTRUDE BUCK 1871 - 1922 The recent death of Gertrude Buck is felt by the Faculty as a vital loss. A distinguishing trait in her character, influencing and co-ordinating all her activities, was an unusual union of the instinct for intellectual experimentation with spiritual steadfastness and courageousness - a union which rendered whatever her critical spirit deemed worthy of keeping not an ephemeral but a permanent posses- sion. All fields of modern thought and life - scien- tific,...
Show moreGERTRUDE BUCK 1871 - 1922 The recent death of Gertrude Buck is felt by the Faculty as a vital loss. A distinguishing trait in her character, influencing and co-ordinating all her activities, was an unusual union of the instinct for intellectual experimentation with spiritual steadfastness and courageousness - a union which rendered whatever her critical spirit deemed worthy of keeping not an ephemeral but a permanent posses- sion. All fields of modern thought and life - scien- tific, philosophical, religious, social, aesthetic - interested her and from them she gleaned harvests of suggestion which, in due time, perpetuated them- selves in modification of her teaching material and method. This sensitiveness to stimulus resulted, how- ever, in far more than eager assimilation of ideas. It was joined with a constructive power of which conspicuous results may be seen in the growth under her initiative and fosterage of a flourishing Com- munity theatre in Poughkeepsie, in the present trend of the writing courses in Vassar College, and in the series of books in which she has embodied her educa- tional method and theory. In the more purely aesthetic fields of literature Miss Buck did much experimentation, publishing from time to time a poem or a play, but, because of her crowded life, leaving unfinished others whose merit is known only to those to whom she turned, from time to time, for suggestion and criticism. In connection with The Comunit Theatre it may be said that its whole atmosphere %ears Witness to a distinguishing social attribute of its founder - a certain quiet, disinterested, impersonal friendliness of spirit springing from the same root of genuine humanity out of which grew her more intimate persaaal relation- ships - lasting memories to her closer friends. It is moved that this recognition of her services to the community and to the College be engrossed in the Minutes of the Faculty and that copies thereof be presented by the Secretary to Miss Buck's family and to Miss Wylie. ~ Christabel F. Fiske VII - 179-180
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Creator: Moore, J. Leverett, Palmer, Jean C.
Date: [After 1922]
Text: \ 29 GEORGIA AVERY xsnnnxcx 18u8 - 1922 The Faculty of Vassar College desires to record its sorrow at the death on December lh, 1922 of Georgia Avery Kendrick for twenty-two years (1891-1913) Lady Principal of Vassar College. Occupying a difficult position where students and faculty meet on a more nearly equal footing she main- tained dignity but not at the cost of affection and showed to all members of the College a warm feeling of personal interest. Gentle in manner, courteous in address...
Show more\ 29 GEORGIA AVERY xsnnnxcx 18u8 - 1922 The Faculty of Vassar College desires to record its sorrow at the death on December lh, 1922 of Georgia Avery Kendrick for twenty-two years (1891-1913) Lady Principal of Vassar College. Occupying a difficult position where students and faculty meet on a more nearly equal footing she main- tained dignity but not at the cost of affection and showed to all members of the College a warm feeling of personal interest. Gentle in manner, courteous in address and demeanor she revealed at the same time a steadfastness of purpose that endued her influence with unsuspected permanence and power. As social head of the College she embodied the grace of a hos- tess with a sincere knowledge of intellectual pursuits and respect for academic standards. J. Leverett Moore Jean C. Palmer v11 - 2L1
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Date: [After 1923]
Text: GUSTAV DANNREUTHER 1853 - 1923 It becomes my sad duty to bring to the attention of the Faculty the death of Mr. Dannreuther on Wednes- day, December 19, from an attack of pneumonia. He had been in his usual health the previous Friday when he made his last teaching visit to the college and was ill in all but three days. Mr. Dannreuther was a musician of international re- putation. Born (July 21, 1853) in Cincinnati, Ohio, he finished his musical studies at the Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin,...
Show moreGUSTAV DANNREUTHER 1853 - 1923 It becomes my sad duty to bring to the attention of the Faculty the death of Mr. Dannreuther on Wednes- day, December 19, from an attack of pneumonia. He had been in his usual health the previous Friday when he made his last teaching visit to the college and was ill in all but three days. Mr. Dannreuther was a musician of international re- putation. Born (July 21, 1853) in Cincinnati, Ohio, he finished his musical studies at the Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany, under Joachim and de Ahne, the two most celebrated German violin virtuosos and teachers of that time. He began his professional life in London, where his elder brother, Edward, was professor at the Royal College of Music. In 1877 he returned to America, and from then he has taken a notable place in the cultivation of the taste for chamber music in this country, having been a member of the Mendelssohn Quintette Club in Boston, the lead- er of the Philharmonic Club of Buffalo, the founder and leader of the New York Beethoven String Quartette, to which after a few years, he gave his own name and which played a prominent part in the musical life of the city until it disbanded in 1917. He was also a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra during its first years, and after he came to New York was at the first desk of the Philharmonic Orchestra for many Y6 8.I'S 0 His first appearance at Vassar was on January 19, 1887, as leader of the Beethoven String Quartette, and near- ly every year after that he visited the college either as solo performer or as a member of his quartette or some group of Chamber musicians. The connection with the college thus happily begun culminated in 1906 when he entered the department of music as teacher of violin, a position he held until his death. As a teacher he was an enthusiastic disciple of the school of Joachim, faithful and painstaking, fond of his pupils and spending freely of time and energy in their behalf. He made valuable contributions to the literature of violin teaching. His students recognized the exceptional value of his instruction as well as the charm of his manner and the breadth of his culture. GUSTAV DANNREUTHER (Continued) His deep interest in Vassar was shown by the gift, in 1910, of his library of Chamber Music, with only the proviso that he should retain in his possession whatever music he desired to use until his death. It is therefore to be expected that to the several thousand pieces already on our shelves, there will now be made additions and that the Dannreuther Library of Chamber Music will serve to link perma- nently his name with the college to which he gave so much of his spirit. George C. Gow VII - 313-311+
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Creator: Mills, Herbert E., Macleod, Annie Louise, Landon, Mary Louise
Date: [After 1924]
Text: CHARLES WILLIAM moumou 1859 - 1921; Again it becomes a sad necessity for the Faculty of Vassar College to note in its minutes the death of one of its oldest and most respected members. Charles William Moulton, Doctor of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins University, came to Vassar College in 1892 as Associate Professor of Chemistry. In l89h he was raised to the rank of Professor of Chemistry and served as head of the department until his death on September 13, 192k. His tenure had therefore covered...
Show moreCHARLES WILLIAM moumou 1859 - 1921; Again it becomes a sad necessity for the Faculty of Vassar College to note in its minutes the death of one of its oldest and most respected members. Charles William Moulton, Doctor of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins University, came to Vassar College in 1892 as Associate Professor of Chemistry. In l89h he was raised to the rank of Professor of Chemistry and served as head of the department until his death on September 13, 192k. His tenure had therefore covered the entire history of Chemistry as a sepa- rate department in this college and there can be no more fitting memorial to his ability and faithful- ness than the organization and fine standards which he had developed. He was a scientist in the best sense of the word, searching for the truth. He had great capacity for investigation and his scientific curiosity suggested constantly new subjects for investigation. This quality of mind together with his practical inge- nuity resulted in novel and valuable methods of lecture demonstration. Those best qualified to judge believe that he could have added greatly to positive knowledge had he devoted himself to research. But he quite willingly sacrificed in large degree this possibility for that which had the greater call -- teaching, the building up of his department organiza tion and the study of college educational problems. His ability as a practical man of affairs was dis- played in the planning and construction of Sanders Memorial Laboratory. Every part of this building testifies to his practical ingenuity and his far- sightedness. His constant attention and thoughtful- ness made it perhaps one of the best planned, most workable and best equipped chemical laboratories in the United States. Indeed many of those who have gone fr it to work elsewhere have called it the best they had known. Due to his care it was built with great economy. At one time or another he had served with conspicu- ous and unusual effectiveness on most of the commit- tees of the Faculty and helped to establish many of its present standards and working procedures. But he did not confine his connection with the college to A 33 CHARBES WILLIAM MOULTON (Continued) departmental and faculty duties. He was for some years a member of the college faculty-student orches- tra and was a constant participant in student fes- tivities. One of his most cherished avocations was the study of birds and out of door life he had always enjoyed. The breadth of his interests was revealed in his skill in woodworking and other craftmanship, and in the great pleasure he found in his later years in reading French and Spanish. He cmbined in remarkable degree two great qualifica- tions of the teacher -- constant insistence on high standards and thoroughness; and the.ability to stimu- late not only in the scholarly minded but in the average undergraduate genuine and lasting interest in science and intellectual interests. His name will endure in the list of great teachers and constructive organizers who have made Vassar College what it is. Herbert E. Mills Annie Louise Macleod Mary Louise Landon VIII — k7
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Creator: Riley, Woodbridge, Washburn, Margaret Floy
Date: [After 1925]
Text: GEORGE STUART FULLERTON 1859 - 1925 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to express its sense of irreparable loss in the death of Professor George Stuart Fullerton. Proessor Fullerton, as one of the most eminent metaphysicians of his time, conferred great distinction upon the college and its department of philosophy by his connection with our faculty. It was a rare privilege for the stu- dents of Vassar College to feel his influence as a teacher, which has so deeply affected many American...
Show moreGEORGE STUART FULLERTON 1859 - 1925 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to express its sense of irreparable loss in the death of Professor George Stuart Fullerton. Proessor Fullerton, as one of the most eminent metaphysicians of his time, conferred great distinction upon the college and its department of philosophy by his connection with our faculty. It was a rare privilege for the stu- dents of Vassar College to feel his influence as a teacher, which has so deeply affected many American philosophers of the younger generation; and for his colleagues to enjoy the stimulus of his many-sided personality and the inspiration of his beautiful character. We shall always hold him in admiring and affectionate remembrance. Woodbridge Riley Margaret Floy Washburn VIII — 98
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Date: [After 1925]
Text: HENRY V. PELTON 18u5 - 1925 It is fitting that the Faculty of Vassar College record upon its minutes its appreciation of the services of Henry V. Pelton who died July 13th, 1925. Elected a Trustee in 1896, his term of service of twenty-nine years in that office was one of the three longest in the history of the college. During the years 1910 and l9ll he was college Treasurer. From February l9lh to February l9l5 he was entrusted with the presidential powers which are concerned with the...
Show moreHENRY V. PELTON 18u5 - 1925 It is fitting that the Faculty of Vassar College record upon its minutes its appreciation of the services of Henry V. Pelton who died July 13th, 1925. Elected a Trustee in 1896, his term of service of twenty-nine years in that office was one of the three longest in the history of the college. During the years 1910 and l9ll he was college Treasurer. From February l9lh to February l9l5 he was entrusted with the presidential powers which are concerned with the business side of the college and with the making of appointments. For many years his mgmbership on the Executive Cométteehand on t e Comittee on Faculty and Stu ies ad kept him closely in touch with all sides of college administration. In all these activities and duties he revealed unceasing fidelity and loyalty to the college. A graduate of Amherst and throughout life a constant reader and student, he had a more vital interest in the educational aims of the college than is felt by many college trustees. Firmly and tenaciously he stood for what seemed right and sound in Eglicy anddac€iog.££:o:e whg didinot fgree gith m never ou e . ones y, s ncer y an disinterestedness of his convictions. Those who knew him well realized that, beneath a rugged and sometimes stubborn manner, there was a kindly and.generous personality. He takes his place in the growing list of t ose who have served Vassar College well and faithfully. Herbert E. Mills VIII - 107-108 __
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Date: [After 1925]
Text: EDITH mom TWISS 1873 - 1925 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to record its sense of the loss which it has suffered in the death of Edith Minot Twiss, Associate Professor of Botany. In the six years of her service here, Miss Twiss had won the respect of the college comunity for her single-minded devotion to her chosen subject of Bacteriology and for the clear-cut efficiency with which she served on committees of public health in the township ad of academic business in the col- lege. Her...
Show moreEDITH mom TWISS 1873 - 1925 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to record its sense of the loss which it has suffered in the death of Edith Minot Twiss, Associate Professor of Botany. In the six years of her service here, Miss Twiss had won the respect of the college comunity for her single-minded devotion to her chosen subject of Bacteriology and for the clear-cut efficiency with which she served on committees of public health in the township ad of academic business in the col- lege. Her students appreciated the ripe scholarship and long experience which she brought to laboratory and lecture-room and shared with them so generously. Few of her associates realized that her adequacy in her work and her quiet power came from a fortitude that met all demands upon her at the cost of great fatigue and self-sacrifice. It was her indomitable courage which carried her through the work of the year to its very close, only a month before her death Such a spirit lives on, not only in the memory of friends, but in that growing life which she taught and fostered in the college. Elizabeth Hazelton Haight VIII - 107
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Creator: Thelberg, Elizabeth B., Mills, Herbert E., Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton
Date: [After 1926]
Text: JOHN LEVERETT MOORE l8h9 - 1926 In the death of Professor Emeritus John Leverett Moore, the faculty of Vassar College has lost a loyal and distinguished colleague. Throughout his thirty-two years of work here, Mr. Moore stood con- spicuously for three things: sympathetic under- standing of the undergraduate's point of view, sin- cere and helpful cooperation with his co-workers and unswerving fealty to his own high ideals of scholarship. His unostentatious labor is recorded in the minutes...
Show moreJOHN LEVERETT MOORE l8h9 - 1926 In the death of Professor Emeritus John Leverett Moore, the faculty of Vassar College has lost a loyal and distinguished colleague. Throughout his thirty-two years of work here, Mr. Moore stood con- spicuously for three things: sympathetic under- standing of the undergraduate's point of view, sin- cere and helpful cooperation with his co-workers and unswerving fealty to his own high ideals of scholarship. His unostentatious labor is recorded in the minutes of comittees on which he served and in the content of the classical library and the museum which he established. His more subtle and undefinable contribution to the annals of Vassar is the prestige gained from having associated with the college during so long a period a professor eminent and respected in American cir- cles of classical scholars. His work lives on through the gratitude of the students he encouraged the friendship of his friends, and the devotion of his department. Elizabeth B. Thelberg Herbert E. Mills Elizabeth Hazelton Haight VIII - 1h?
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Creator: Borden, Fanny, Peebles, Rose Jefferies, Ellery, Eloise
Date: [After 1927]
Text: 1 I I \ r I I I \ LUCY MAYNARD SALMON 1353 - 1927 Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon whose death occurred on February lh, 1927 had been a member of the faculty of Vassar College since 1887. Called to Vassar in order to promote the study of history she organized the department of history of which for nearly forty years she remained the head. During all these years to her colleagues and to successive generations of students she was an unfailing source of inspiration. Outside the college as well as...
Show more1 I I \ r I I I \ LUCY MAYNARD SALMON 1353 - 1927 Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon whose death occurred on February lh, 1927 had been a member of the faculty of Vassar College since 1887. Called to Vassar in order to promote the study of history she organized the department of history of which for nearly forty years she remained the head. During all these years to her colleagues and to successive generations of students she was an unfailing source of inspiration. Outside the college as well as within Miss Sa1mon's influence was widely felt, through her connection with the American Historical Association and through her published works. In 1912 she was honored by the degree of Doctor of Literature from Colgate and in 1926 by that of Doctor of Letters from the University of Michigan. At this time,however, it is no mere objective enumer- ation of her achievements which the faculty would record. It wishes also to place on record its sense of the significance of these achievements. In the first place she contributed to the study of history in this country not only her own enlarging definitions of the subject, and her own valuable research to her field, but she also trained many workers, younger fol- lowers "made" as we say by her teaching. These, car- rying on the work of research and teaching in their own vigorous measure, contribute the most lasting memorial that can be founded. Moreover the young wom- en in her classes went out not only with a new sense of the meaning of history and with an equipment in fundamental methods of work but also with a sense of their responsibility to the comunities in which they might happen to live. To this development of scholars in her own field must be added the quickening of intellectual curiosity that came to many from contact with her living mind. The greatest impulse to thinking independently comes frm another mind in action. By reason of her in- fluence the ordinary world of streets and alleys, signs and show-windows, changing work of every kind has been made a richer document. To this unwritten history, which she taught many to use, must be added the store of historical documents, formal and informal, that have extended the Vassar Library shelves year after year, and which in any cement however brief, must be noted. Vassar owes in great measure its growing LUCY MAYNARD SALMON (Continued) library and the library habits of its students to Miss Salmon's continuous interest in the amassing of material, however difficult to obtain, and to the thorough ability to use such material that she in- sisted upon. The loss to her colleagues of Miss Salmon's cooper- ation extends beyond this recognized withdrawal of her direct contribution to her students. Her fel- low-workers on the faculty were always aware of the fact that her interest in education was never limited to her own field of research or to her own teaching activities or those of her department. She was never in doubt as to what a liberal college is or how it should serve the world. She steadily questioned its relation to its imediate community in social and educational ways, its stand on all matters of national educational interest. Her scrutiny of its internal organization and effectiveness never flagged. This persistent examination of every attitude, rela- tionship, custom or educational policy has been pro- vocative and fruitful. Again and again ideas and plans which she suggested and which appeared to be remote or impractical ideals have come to be gener- ally accepted and completely realized. The faculty owes to Miss Salmon's initiative many of the measures it has sought to make effective since nineteen hundred and thirteen, when she made her significant address to the faculty in which she urged it to look to its life, and know what it was doing and why it was doing it. She stood for faculty participation in college govern- ment, in administrative as well as educational aspects, and for closer and more intelligent relations with the trustees and alumnae than she thought had yet been worked out. It is our sense of this significance of the work of Miss Salmon which the faculty wishes to place on re- cord - of a colleague who was a pioneer in education and whose ideals have left a deep impress on the life of Vassar College. Fanny Borden Rose Jeffries Peebles Eloise Ellery v11: - 201-zou
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Creator: Thompson, C. Mildred, MacColl, Mary, Banfield, Helen S.
Date: [After 1929]
Text: JEAN CULBERT PALMER 1872 - 1929 In the death of Jean Culbert Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College have suffered a grievous loss. To all who knew her she was a friend of warm sympathy, modest in valuing her own achievements, keenly con- cerned for the happiness of those about her. A gracious manner, which was in her the expression of a generous spirit, gave charm to any gathering of which she was a member and lent distinction to her every act. Never too hurried to give ear to those in hnuble,...
Show moreJEAN CULBERT PALMER 1872 - 1929 In the death of Jean Culbert Palmer the Faculty of Vassar College have suffered a grievous loss. To all who knew her she was a friend of warm sympathy, modest in valuing her own achievements, keenly con- cerned for the happiness of those about her. A gracious manner, which was in her the expression of a generous spirit, gave charm to any gathering of which she was a member and lent distinction to her every act. Never too hurried to give ear to those in hnuble, great or small, she was ever ready with wise counsel. We sought her in the sure sense that her kindly sympathy and friendly understanding would not fail. Her buoyancy and gaiety of spirit radiated good cheer and friendliness wherever she went, and her lively sense of humor and zest for life were a source of constant enjoyment to all who came in contact with her. Hers was a true sociability of the spirit, springing from a genuine liking for peo- ple and an unstinted giving out of the treasures of her rich personality. In her keen enjoyment of what might have been tasks or stern duties she made of every day living a fine art. To the last, even through months of painful illness, her vivid personality was never dimed nor did her brave spirit fail. She fought the good fight with the courage and faith that were always hers. As Warden of the College from 1915 to the time of her death on July ll, 1929, she was ever a harmonizer be- tween the older code of courtesy and the newer demands of freedom. She was a unifying force between academic traditions on the one hand, and the interests of social living in its widest sense on the other. We cherish, therefore, her fourteen years of life and work among us as one of the imperishable endowments of Vassar College. G. Mildred Thompson Mary MacC011 Helen S. Banfield VIII - 3h2
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Creator: The Philadelphia Meeting of the Associate Alumnae of Vassar College
Date: [After 1929]
Text: JEAN CUEBERT PALMER 1372 - 1929 The following minute written by Caroline M. Lewis and adopted at the Philadelphia meeting of the As- sociate Alumnae of Vassar College, and also at the Council meeting with a vote that a copy should be sent to the faculty of Vassar College, was read: If the aim of Vassar College's existence can be caught in one phrase, it seems happily expressed in the enrichment of personality through character of mind. To these qualities of education Jean Culbert Palmer...
Show moreJEAN CUEBERT PALMER 1372 - 1929 The following minute written by Caroline M. Lewis and adopted at the Philadelphia meeting of the As- sociate Alumnae of Vassar College, and also at the Council meeting with a vote that a copy should be sent to the faculty of Vassar College, was read: If the aim of Vassar College's existence can be caught in one phrase, it seems happily expressed in the enrichment of personality through character of mind. To these qualities of education Jean Culbert Palmer particularly contributed. Her unerring sen- sitivity to the needs and capacities of the per- sonalities with whom she was in contact created for them an imediate sense of adjustment to difficulty and a freer course to self-development. Her own character of mind offered the steady inspiration of its example especially throughout her recent illnes during which her first thought always was her re- sponsibility to the College, herself the last thoug As Warden of Vassar College for fourteen years, Mis Palmer preserved a peculiarly delicate and importan balance between the solidity necessary to the large group which her decisions affected and constructive exceptions which personality demanded. As we, the Associate Alumnae of Vassar College, mou her death on July ll, 1929, we are also grateful th her charm of calm power remains a living impulse wi us who shared it. From the Philadelphia meeting of the Associate Alumnae of Vassar College VIII - 351 ht s t rn at th
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Date: [After 1930]
Text: \ 1&2 MARY LOUISE SANSBURY MILLS 1363 - 1930 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to record its sense of loss in the death of Mary Louise Sansbury, wife of Professor Herbert E. Mills, which occurred after a very brief illness on March 1, 1930. She was born in Palmyra, New York, and educated in Syracuse at the Keble School. She had been closely connected with the college socially since coming here in 1890 as a bride; living for two years in Main Building before establishing their home on...
Show more\ 1&2 MARY LOUISE SANSBURY MILLS 1363 - 1930 The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to record its sense of loss in the death of Mary Louise Sansbury, wife of Professor Herbert E. Mills, which occurred after a very brief illness on March 1, 1930. She was born in Palmyra, New York, and educated in Syracuse at the Keble School. She had been closely connected with the college socially since coming here in 1890 as a bride; living for two years in Main Building before establishing their home on Academy Street in the city. Her interest in student life was shown in the generous hospitality of their home and also in frequent par- ticipation in more formal affairs on the campus. The Penn School on St. Helena Island is essentially a Vassar enterprise. Mrs. Mills was Treasurer of its local sustaining club for many years, and in recent years a Trustee: visiting the school personally once, and planning for later visits. She initiated, organized, and supervised the Eastman Park Garden School, in which some two hundred children had individual gardens, and were regularly taught much of gardening, nature study and related matters. For fourteen years she spent much of her time in this garden, and finally reluctantly gave up this work, a severe tax on strength and time. As indicating Mrs. Mills‘ heredity, we note that her paternal grandfather, Ralph Sansbury, was for many years Steward (i.e. General Manager and Comptroller) of Princeton College. These facts are less significant than her personality, in which her friends have rightly mentioned her con- stant thoughtfulness and her creative sense of beauty. VIII - 378
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Date: [After 1932]
Text: OLIVE MADELAINE LAMMERT 189k - 1932 The faculty of Vassar College record the death of our friend and colleague, Olive M. Lammert, with a deep sense of loss and with appreciation of the ser- vice she rendered the college during the time of her connection with it. The best years of her life, in fact most of her years, she spent at Vassar. First she was a student who showed promise of her brilliant career, then a Sutro fellow and later, a member of the faculty whose signal service as a teacher,...
Show moreOLIVE MADELAINE LAMMERT 189k - 1932 The faculty of Vassar College record the death of our friend and colleague, Olive M. Lammert, with a deep sense of loss and with appreciation of the ser- vice she rendered the college during the time of her connection with it. The best years of her life, in fact most of her years, she spent at Vassar. First she was a student who showed promise of her brilliant career, then a Sutro fellow and later, a member of the faculty whose signal service as a teacher, an in- vestigator and a vital part of our organization and of the community generally won for her early recog- nition and rapid promotion. The loss sustained in her death is felt, not only by Vassar College but by a wider circle of workers in her own field of Chemistry among whom she had out- standing recognition. Honors truly earned came to her continually. She had ﬁne true scientific spirit and with unstinted devotion carried on research which resulted in valuable contributions to Physical Chemis- tryo Her particular field was the study of electrical con- ductance in liquids and liquid solutions and problems in photochemistry begun during the years of her grad- uate study at Columbia and continued after her return to Vassar. Her early work led to the solution of cer- tain difficulties as to the electrodes used in con- ductance and to improvements in measuring electro- motiveforce of aqueous solutions published in a series of articles under the title of "The Quinhydrone Elec- trode". Her last work was an oscillographic study of electrodes in general. She carried on her investiga- tions at Vassar with much valuable apparatus loaned by Columbia and with a research assistant employed under a grant from Columbia. Results of the work were published jointly from Columbia and Vassar by Profes- sor J. L. R. Morgan and Professor Lammert. In col- laboration with Professor Morgan she was also writing a book on Physical Chemistry, considerable portions of which have been completed, to be used as a test and reference book. Olive Lammert's breadth of view, her spirit of inves- tigation, her scientific imagination combined with OLIVE MADELAINE LAMMERT (Continued) the strength of her pesonality and her fundamental joy in living made her a teacher of rare quality. Recent letters from students now in college and from many in earlier classes show how generously she gave to her students both in class and in the casual con- tacts of the day's work. She was never too busy to stop and help them with their personal problems as well as with their work. They speak of her "boun- teous giving", her "magnetic personality", her "friend liness , her ‘delightful sense of humor which light- ened her classes". Her teaching, they say, was unique. "Her wide knowledge spurred them on". Deftly she interpreted for them the beauty of precision and accuracy, and showed them the joy of scholarly work. She was the "inspiration which carried them on". The faculty,as well as the students, had supreme con- fidence in her. She served ably on comittees and responded continually to calls outside her own field. In academic service generally her tempered judgment was invaluable. It is given to few to attain, in a comparatively short lifetime, such distinction and recognition both pro- fessionally and personally as came to Olive Lammert. Frances G. Wick Olive M. Lammert - died October 9th, 1932 A.B., Vassar College 1915 Sutro Fellow, 1919-20 Sigma X1. 1921 Ph.D., Columbia University, l92h Assistant in Chemistry, Vassar College, 1915-17 Instructor in Chemistry, Vassar College, l9l7-l9 Assistant Professor, Vassar College, 1921-25 Associate Professor, Vassar College, 1925-29 Professor, Vassar College, 1929-32 OLIVE MADELAINE LAMMERT (Continued) List of Publications: Dissertation printed in 1923 The Conductance of and the Effect of Light Radiations on Solutions of the Alkali Halides in Acetophenone. Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Lamert, Olive M. The Design and Use of Conductance Cells for Non- Aqueous Solutions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Q5, 1692 1923 Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Lammert, Olive M. The Purification and Physical Constants of Acetophenone. J. Am. Chem. Soc. gg, 881 (l92h) Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Lammer , Olive M. The Electrical Conductance of Solutions of the Alkali Halides in Acetophenone. J. Am. Chem. Soc. gg, 1117 (192u) Morgan, . Livingston R., Lammert, Olive M., and Crist, Ray H. Photochemical Reactions in Solutions of the Alkali Halides in Acetophenone. J. Am. Chem. Soc. gg, 1170 (1921) Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Lammert, Olive M. Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Measurements of the Electrical Conductance of Liquids and Solutions. II. A Discussion of the Bridge As- sembly for th Measurement of Electrical Con- ductance with Particular Reference to the Vree- land Oscillator as a Source of Current of Con- stant Frequency. J. Am. Chem. Soc. QQ, 1220 (1926) Morgan, J. Livingston R., Lammert, Olive M., and Campbell, Margaret A. The Quinhydrone Electrode. I. J. Am. Chem. Soc. £2: (1931) Lamert, Olive M., Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Campbell, Margaret A. The Quinhydrone Electrode. II. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 22: (1931) Morgan, J. Livingston R., and Lamert, Olive M. The Quinhydrone Electrode. III. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 5;, 215a (1931) Lammert, Olive M., and Morgan, J. Livingston R. The Quinhydrone Electrode. IV. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 51, 910 (1932) Morgan, J. Livingston R., Lamert, O1ive M., and Campbell, Margaret A. The Preparation and Reproducibility of the Quin- hydrone Electrode. Transactions of the Electro- chemical Society 61, h0S (1932) Paper presented at th 61st General Meeting of the Society, April 21-23, 1932 IX - 126-127
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Creator: Peebles, Rose Jeffries, Reed, Amy L.
Date: [After 1932]
Text: LAURA JOHNSON WYLIE 1855 - 1932 Bern, Milton, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1855 A.B., Vassar College, 1877 Pb-QDQ’ Yale, Instructor in English at Vassar, 1895-96 Associate Professor, 1896-97 Professor of English, 1897-l92h Professor Emeritus, l92h Died, Poughkeepsie, New York, April 2, 1932 An expression of what the life of Professor Wylie has meant to us, her colleagues, may perhaps best be approached by reminding ourselves of her own definition of the task of college education as she looked...
Show moreLAURA JOHNSON WYLIE 1855 - 1932 Bern, Milton, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1855 A.B., Vassar College, 1877 Pb-QDQ’ Yale, Instructor in English at Vassar, 1895-96 Associate Professor, 1896-97 Professor of English, 1897-l92h Professor Emeritus, l92h Died, Poughkeepsie, New York, April 2, 1932 An expression of what the life of Professor Wylie has meant to us, her colleagues, may perhaps best be approached by reminding ourselves of her own definition of the task of college education as she looked into the future on the day in June, l92h, when she ceased from active service among us. The continued existence of such a college as Vassar, she said in her farewell speech, would be justified only by its successful establishment as a vital part of the life of the country; not as the educator of a single class, isolated from the community, but as the source, through those whom it directly trains, of inlargement for every ccmmunity into which they 8°- The largeness of such a conception, together with the energy, the high spirit, and the thorough con- sistency with which she lived up to it, was Profes- sor Wylie's great contribution to her college and to the cause of education, throughout her twenty-nine years of teachin as a member of our faculty. And in spite of her failing health in after years, the Pdepth and fertility of her thinkin power" (to use the phrase of one of her colleagues? could still be felt by all who knew her in college or town - felt as a force for better living and more significant social intercourse among all people. Personal free- dom, social responsibility, creative activity - these things she taught steadily wherever she was and how- ever she lived. But first she followed them herself. Miss Wylie came to the college as instructor in the fall of 1895, as a seasoned teacher and with a doc- tor's degree from Yale. She was expected to make changes and she made them; within two years she was LAURA JOHNSON WYLIE (Continued) head of the department and had revolutionized the work, organizing it on what must even today be called a sound, flexible, and progressive plan for the artistic and scholarly study of English, While she showed in the selection of her assistants her power to estimate character and ability, she was, until 1901, almost single-handed in the work of re- construction, the only person officially responsible for the management of the department and the only person in it above the rank of instructor. She car- ried at the same time a heavy teaching schedule and, however large her classes, succeeded in setting an example of the principle she so firmly believed in, of completely individualizhag every student therein. In the conduct both of her classes and of the de- partment, her most remarkable achievement was - as President Macﬂracken has elsewhere said - her power to make almost any group of people, with varying or even hostile opinions, work together for the common good without compromising their integrity or her own. She was always a tireless worker and a courageous fighter for any principle she believed in, but never at the expense of Justice or courtesy to an opponent. Her colleagues paid tribute to her ability by electing her to the most important committees and all movements in the faculty towards a freer curriculum and greater faculty participation in the management of the insti- tution found in her an influential supporter, though always with the proviso that proposed experiments must be fully thought out and results inspected. The students, too, trusted her and felt her personal charm and the breadth of her sympathy to such an ex- tent that few student enterprises of any moment were begun without asking her advice or help. In wholly inadequate recognition of these qualities, the faculty hereby record their deep sorrow at the death of their dear friend, Professor Emeritus Laura Johnson Wylie, and their sense of loss at the passing away of one who was always and most of all a great teacher. Rose Jeffries Peebles Amy L. Reed l. Katharine Warren, "The Retirement of Miss Wylie," Alunae Quarterly, November l92h, IX - 98-99
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Date: [After 1933]
Text: DURANT DRAKE 1878 - 1933 After eighteen years of devoted service to Vassar College Durant Drake, Professor of Philosophy, died at the age of fifty-five in the early morning of November twenty-fifth. Always frail in body he at first attached no great significance to the illness that laid him low in the month of October, and even when told that the end was near continued a gallant struggle for recovery. Recognizing at last that death had come to claim him he accepted the inevita- ble with...
Show moreDURANT DRAKE 1878 - 1933 After eighteen years of devoted service to Vassar College Durant Drake, Professor of Philosophy, died at the age of fifty-five in the early morning of November twenty-fifth. Always frail in body he at first attached no great significance to the illness that laid him low in the month of October, and even when told that the end was near continued a gallant struggle for recovery. Recognizing at last that death had come to claim him he accepted the inevita- ble with courage and perfect serenity. Durant Drake was of New England puritan stock. It was in accordance with the traditions of his race that he went first to Boston Latin school and then to Harvard University, winning prizes all along the way and graduating summa ggg laude. A kind fate gave him close touch7FIth eminent scholars in his chosen field and fruitful intercourse with them helped to shape his own ideas into what he himself called the philosophy of a meliorist. "If," he wrote, "there is any keynote that has given a kind of unity to my thinking in diverse fields it is a sense of the needless unhappiness from which men suffer and a pas- sionate longing to do my bit in formulating and dif- fusing a clearer intelligence concerning the art of living." Thus in his teaching he emphasized primarily problems of human conduct, drawing his illustrations fro an extraordinarily wide range of reading. Stimu- lating class discussions were often continued on Sunday afternoons when throughout the year he was at home to his students. Many of those who have gone forth from Vassar will always remember gratefully that beautiful and hospitable home. But it was as a writer that Durant Drake was most widely known. Eminently in his books he realized his "passionate desire" to formulate and diffuse "a clearer intelligence concerning the art of living." Their titles indicate how practical, in the broad sense of th t th i f h f hi ki P e erm, was e a m o muc o s thin ng: ro- blems of Conduct (19110, Problems of Reli ion (1‘§l'6JI 3haII We Btanﬁ B the Church? {I525}, America Faces the Ftture lI§§Z;, The New Horalit (l§23). The re- viewers of these boohs all prhise their lucidity, vigor, forceful and winning style, and persuasive sanity. The same qualities of style appear in his re- cent Invitation to Philoso h . His most abstract thinki was ex res H In hi d d It P1 i N t ng p se n an s_,_§ceL n a ure (1925), where he presents his metaphysical system, DURANT DRAKE (Continued) related to though not derived from the thought of Santayana and Charles Strong. It may truly be said of Durant Drake that his life and work, despite his physical limitations, fulfilled to an extraordinary degree its own high aims. Lucy E. Textor IX - 188 [ /
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Creator: Tonks, Oliver S., Thornbury, Zita L.
Date: [After 1933]
Text: I I J \ ' I I ! ELLA McGADEB 1856 - 1933 The death of Miss Ella McCaleb closed the life of one whose many years reached back well into the pioneer days of the college and gave her a vision of its growth now shared by only a few. In almost its entirety her long career was devoted to the service of her beloved alma mater. Even her short experience as a teacher in secondary schools helped her toward her ultimate duties as Dean. Endowed with a kindly disposition and a deep sense of what is...
Show moreI I J \ ' I I ! ELLA McGADEB 1856 - 1933 The death of Miss Ella McCaleb closed the life of one whose many years reached back well into the pioneer days of the college and gave her a vision of its growth now shared by only a few. In almost its entirety her long career was devoted to the service of her beloved alma mater. Even her short experience as a teacher in secondary schools helped her toward her ultimate duties as Dean. Endowed with a kindly disposition and a deep sense of what is honorable Miss McCaleb was happily fit- ted to be a friend and counselor to the student body. While she fully appreciated the importance of schol- arship she never forgot the value of character build- ing as it touches both a decent industry and an in- tense loyalty to the principles upon which the col- lege is based. Nor did her interest in the students cease at gradua- tion. Rather she maintained her contacts with the alumnae so successfully that her house was to them a homing place upon their return just as it had always been an hospitable hearth for undergraduates and faculty, and not least of all her small friends, the faculty children. Properly she considered herself a liaison officer functioning between the college with its compacted interests and the outside world as it is represented by its alumnae. In this memorial the faculty desires to record its deep sense of loss of a true friend and faithful servant of the college. Oliver S. Tonks Zita L. Thornbury IX-M9
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Date: [After 1933]
Text: WOODBRIDGE RILEY 1869 - 1933 The Board of Trustees record with great regret the death on September 2nd, 1933, of Professor Wood- bridge Riley, Chairman of the Department of Philos- ophy and teacher of this subject for twenty-five years at Vassar College. Possessed of a virile and incisive style, Professor Riley made noteworthy contributions to the critical literature of American thought. His wit and keen pleasure in living made him a vivacious and compan- ionable resident on Professors‘ Row....
Show moreWOODBRIDGE RILEY 1869 - 1933 The Board of Trustees record with great regret the death on September 2nd, 1933, of Professor Wood- bridge Riley, Chairman of the Department of Philos- ophy and teacher of this subject for twenty-five years at Vassar College. Possessed of a virile and incisive style, Professor Riley made noteworthy contributions to the critical literature of American thought. His wit and keen pleasure in living made him a vivacious and compan- ionable resident on Professors‘ Row. His home, so generously shared by himself ad Mrs. Riley with the students, was a center of campus life. Professor Riley died at the height of his powers and at a time when students were choosing philosophy with increasing interest as a major study. The Board of Trustees extend to the family of Profes- sor Riley, their sincere sympathy. Resolution sent from the Board of Trustees IX - 185-186
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Creator: MacCracken, H.N.
Date: [After 1933]
Text: MRS. HENRY SEELY WHITE 1861 - 1933 The Faculty of Vassar College record with deep regret the death of Mrs. Henry Seely White on May 27, 1933. Mrs. White was a most valued member of the college community, ever ready to join in its social life and interested in every new step in the progress of the college. In many personal ways, also, members of the community pay her grateful tribute. Her kindness, humor, and gaiety endeared her. The Faculty extend to Professor White and his children their...
Show moreMRS. HENRY SEELY WHITE 1861 - 1933 The Faculty of Vassar College record with deep regret the death of Mrs. Henry Seely White on May 27, 1933. Mrs. White was a most valued member of the college community, ever ready to join in its social life and interested in every new step in the progress of the college. In many personal ways, also, members of the community pay her grateful tribute. Her kindness, humor, and gaiety endeared her. The Faculty extend to Professor White and his children their sincerest sympathy. H. N. MacCracken IX - 176
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Creator: White, Henry S., Rawlings, Margaret B., Thompson, C. Mildred
Date: [After 1933]
Text: WOODBRIDGE RILEY 1869 - 1933 Professor Woodbridge Riley held over many years a unique and distinguished position in the professions of Philosophy and Education. Both as a scholar and as a professor of Philosophy his work was character- ized by a lively and vigorous interest in intellec- tual freedom. In much of his writing, and always in his teaching, Professor Riley reflected the wide- spread tendency to embody the abstract truth in terms of concrete experience. Though his contributions to...
Show moreWOODBRIDGE RILEY 1869 - 1933 Professor Woodbridge Riley held over many years a unique and distinguished position in the professions of Philosophy and Education. Both as a scholar and as a professor of Philosophy his work was character- ized by a lively and vigorous interest in intellec- tual freedom. In much of his writing, and always in his teaching, Professor Riley reflected the wide- spread tendency to embody the abstract truth in terms of concrete experience. Though his contributions to philosophical letters were many and varied, his work in the field of early American philosophical thought, as appeared in the volumes, "American Philosophy", 1907, and "American Thought - From Puritanism to Pragmatism", 1915, represents the first and most authoritative work in this field. In addition to his more strictly scientific writings, he devoted much time in his later years to the task of writing against what he considered harmful superstitions in the intellectual and moral world. As a teacher of Philosophy, Professor Riley offered courses which gave the historical approach to philosophical pro- blems. His terse epigrammatic myle, human sympathy, and lively wit served to make him always an effective tgacher, and an able controversialist in the world of i eas. Professor Riley received his university education at Yale University from which he received the A.B.,A.M., and Ph.D. degrees. He was a research scholar at Johns Hopkins University, a teaching member of the faculty at New York University, and for two years was acting professor of Philosophy at the University of New Bruns wick. From September 1907 to the day of his death, he was professor and chairman of the department of Philosophy at Vassar College. In his sudden death on September 2, 1933, the faculty of Vassar College has suffered a grievous loss, and will miss in him a vigorous active-minded colleague, loyal friend, and neighbor. Henry S. White Margaret B. Rawlings C. Mildred Thompson IX - 176
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Date: [After 1933]
Text: HELEN FRANCES EPLER 1863 - 1933 A letter from the family of Helen Epler thanking the faculty for their beautiful floral tribute and words of affection after the death of Miss Epler who was killed in an automobile accident. IX - 185

Date: [After 1934]
Text: JEAN CHARLEMAGNE BRACQ In view of the resignation and approaching departure of Dr. Jean Charlemagne Bracq, John Guy Vassar Professor of Modern Languages, we, his fellow members of the Faculty, wish to put on record our appreciation of:- his long and faithful service as head of the French Department; his loyal interest and cooperation in all that pertains to the general development and welfare of the college; and his untiring labors in the world beyond the college bounds to unite more closely...
Show moreJEAN CHARLEMAGNE BRACQ In view of the resignation and approaching departure of Dr. Jean Charlemagne Bracq, John Guy Vassar Professor of Modern Languages, we, his fellow members of the Faculty, wish to put on record our appreciation of:- his long and faithful service as head of the French Department; his loyal interest and cooperation in all that pertains to the general development and welfare of the college; and his untiring labors in the world beyond the college bounds to unite more closely the land of his adoption and the land of his birth. And we would express our hope and desire that in the years of active life still before him, which we trust are many, he may continue to do most effective work, with tongue and pen, in the cause of humanity and of religion. VI - 262-263, 1913
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Creator: Reed, Amy L., White, Henry S., White, Florence Donnell
Date: [After 1934]
Text: JEAN CHARLEMAGNE BRACQ 1853 - 1931; Jean Charlemagne Bracq, who died December 18, l93h at his home in Keene, New Hampshire, at the age of eighty-one, had served Vassar College with distinc- tion fro 1891 to 1918, at first as John Guy Vassar Professor of Modern Languages, afterwards as head of the Department of Romance Languages and Professor of French. Although he came to America at the age of eighteen, he remained always a loyal son of France in his sympathies and in all his varied...
Show moreJEAN CHARLEMAGNE BRACQ 1853 - 1931; Jean Charlemagne Bracq, who died December 18, l93h at his home in Keene, New Hampshire, at the age of eighty-one, had served Vassar College with distinc- tion fro 1891 to 1918, at first as John Guy Vassar Professor of Modern Languages, afterwards as head of the Department of Romance Languages and Professor of French. Although he came to America at the age of eighteen, he remained always a loyal son of France in his sympathies and in all his varied activities. He took an especially warm interest in the little town of Bertry near Cambrai which was his birthplace, keep- ing in touch with its schools and its library, which he had helped to found. One of its streets now bears his name in recognition. A graduate of the McGill University and of the Newton Theological Seminary, he carried on further theological study in Edinburgh and in Paris at the Sorbonne. He was secretary of the McAll Association in Philadelphia for six years before coing to Vassar. Later in life he received honorary degrees fron.Colgate and McGill. In his twenty-seven years at Vassar he built up from small beginnings a strong department of Romance Lan- guages, in which the study of French was transformed from the mere learning of a language to the study of a civilization by modern methods. He was eager to interpret the spirit of France to young Americans and readily placed the resources of his learning at the disposal of American research students in France. As an anti-militarist he worked untiringly to further international understanding and was three times a delegate to international peace conferences. In his book, France Under the Re ublic (1910), he showed himself an enthusiastic defender of the Third Republic and of governmental policy in French colonial expansion. His paper on French Ri hts in Newfoundland furnished the historic basis for tée settiement of oer tain long disputed questions concerning the Newfound- land fisheries, and he took a prominent part in defend ing the French government at the time of the separation of church and state. He lectured and wrote on a variety of subjects and published articles and pamphlets too numerous to be listed in this place. JEAN CHARLEMAGNE BRACQ, (Continued) Many honors came to him: he lectured before the Lowell Institute; was decorated Officer of Public In- struction and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; he was elected Laureate of the French Academy and Laure- ate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Paris. When he retired in 1918, he was subsidized by the Canadian Government to travel and study French- Canadian history and social life, the fruit of which research was another important work, The Evolution of French Canada (l92h), which was later translated Into French and for which he was awarded a gold medal by the Franco-American Society. A tireless worker, he left unfinished at the time of his death a very con- siderable manuscript. In his life as a member of the Vassar community, his friends remeber best the ordered dignity of his home, where he and Mrs. Bracq dispensed a gracious hospital- ity. A neighbor recalls that it was because of his activity on behalf of the motormen and conductors of the Poughkeepsie Street Railway that the Company en- closed the car platforms. The same neighbor relates how some twenty years ago, he sent to Keene for a number of young pine trees, which he presented to the householders along Proessors' Row. He was meticulous in performing his social duties as a citizen. The Faculty of Vassar College wish to record their sense that, in the death of Professor Emeritus Jean Charlemagne Bracq they have lost a member who reflecte honor upon the group by his persistent industry in re- search of importance, his loyal service to three countries, and his very real achievement as teacher and author. And they desire that this minute be sent to Mrs. Bracq with the most sincere expression of sympathy in her bereavement. Amy L. Reed Henry S. White Florence Donnell White IX - 237
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Date: [After 1935]
Text: ELIZABETH BURR THELBERG 1860 - 1935 In the death of Emeritus Professor Dr. Elizabeth Burr Thelberg, Vassar College has suffered the loss of one of its oldest and most distinguished faculty members. Her love of teaching and preventive medi- cine endeared her to generations of students and patients whose naes and personalities she never forgot. Dr. Thelberg's resourcefulness, delightful wit, and rare versatility made her greatly sought and thoroughly appreciated. Her love of literature--...
Show moreELIZABETH BURR THELBERG 1860 - 1935 In the death of Emeritus Professor Dr. Elizabeth Burr Thelberg, Vassar College has suffered the loss of one of its oldest and most distinguished faculty members. Her love of teaching and preventive medi- cine endeared her to generations of students and patients whose naes and personalities she never forgot. Dr. Thelberg's resourcefulness, delightful wit, and rare versatility made her greatly sought and thoroughly appreciated. Her love of literature-- we can picture her now with her basket of books going from library to garden, her interest in pure science, her skill as a physician, were character- istics rarely canbined. Dr. Thelberg's contacts in the community were quite as close as on the campus. She was active in various local organizations and president of many of them. She was not only recognized here and in the community but by medical associations in the state and in the country and finally by international societies on whose cm- mittees and boads she served. Jane North Baldwin IX - 271-272
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Date: [After 1935]
Text: JEAN BIRDSALL 1895 - 1935 In the untimely death of Jean Birdsall the college suffers the loss of one of its most beloved and talented teachers. Coming into the faculty in 1927, by reason of manifest ability she was rapidly ad- vanced to the rank of Assistant Professor and later to that of Associate Professor. Whether in the field of ancient or of medieval history, her interest in the reconstruction and interpretation of social life, as her pupils testify, was spontaneously imparted to other»...
Show moreJEAN BIRDSALL 1895 - 1935 In the untimely death of Jean Birdsall the college suffers the loss of one of its most beloved and talented teachers. Coming into the faculty in 1927, by reason of manifest ability she was rapidly ad- vanced to the rank of Assistant Professor and later to that of Associate Professor. Whether in the field of ancient or of medieval history, her interest in the reconstruction and interpretation of social life, as her pupils testify, was spontaneously imparted to other» As a productive scholar her contributions were finding a place in noted publications; a study of the English Manors at Caen being contained in the Anniver- sary Essays in honor of Charles Haskins, while a translation of the fourteenth century chronicle which was left unfinished is still expected to be printed in the Columbia Records of Civilization. To the in- tellectual activities of our academic societies she gave unstinted support, having been a devoted member of the Classical Club, at one time President of Phi Beta Kappa, and continuously Vice-President of the Faculty Club. At the same time membership in such onerous cummittees as that on Admissions, on Students‘ Records, and the Board of Elections gave evidence of uncomon efficiency in the administration of affairs touching the student body. For the same reason, especially in maintaining a good rapport between the older and the younger members of the comunity, her recent services as Head Resident of Josselyn Hall are acknowledged to have been most valuable. Without seeking popularity, or apparently being con- scious of any such attribute, Miss Birdsall neverthe- less comanded it in an unusual degree. So expressive a nature was likely to enliven any company wherein she might be found. In ordinary cdnversation her dis- position was o timistic, dwelling with discrimination upon that whicg was enjoyable and commendable, delight ing in the frank interchange of opinions, while the less amiable trends of discussion found her silent and indifferent. Moreover a ready wit without sharp- ness was an instrument which served to brighten and clarify whatever it touched. With no inclination to be exclusive she evinced a marked capacity for friend- ship, whereby she became a merry copanion in the JEAN BIRDSALL (Continued) recreations of the campus and countryside. All these traits and activities are remembered as the spontane- ous overflow of an abounding spirit within. But alas that rare mental endowments were cast in a frail physical frame, and that a life so full of promise has been thus cut off at the beginning of a brilliant careerl The college has truly been enriched by her presence, the memory of which will long remain. James F. Baldwin IX - 271
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Creator: MacColl, Mary
Date: [After 1935]
Text: 1 a \ \ I 1 \ KATE HUNTINGTON TAYLOR (Mrs. James Monroe Taylor) 1850 - 1935 In memory of Mrs. Kate Huntington Taylor we gratefully record her valued contribution to the social life of Vassar College. The influence of her sincere dignified personality, the wisdan'with which she conducted her family life, and the interesting hospitalit£ which with President Taylor she dispensed from 18 6 to l9lh, impressively indicated her worth. People who met Mrs. Taylor at home or in her zestful travels...
Show more1 a \ \ I 1 \ KATE HUNTINGTON TAYLOR (Mrs. James Monroe Taylor) 1850 - 1935 In memory of Mrs. Kate Huntington Taylor we gratefully record her valued contribution to the social life of Vassar College. The influence of her sincere dignified personality, the wisdan'with which she conducted her family life, and the interesting hospitalit£ which with President Taylor she dispensed from 18 6 to l9lh, impressively indicated her worth. People who met Mrs. Taylor at home or in her zestful travels were refreshed by her strength and balance, her realistic attitude to life, and the savor of her good wit. To the members of her family now saddened by her death the Faculty of Vassar College expresses its deep sympathy. Mary MacColl IX - 271
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