Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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PIENRY C. LOTT, A. M., M. PD. Assistant Professor of Psychology And soft as trickling balm to bleeding pains, Are thy kind words.-Gay. PIENRY C. LOTT was born in Ingham County, Michigan. His earlv educational training was received in the rural schools and the preparatory department of Olivet College. After graduation from the Normal College in 1890, he served five years as superintendent of schools at Bellaire. In connection with this position he held the Of1,'lCC of commissioner of schools in Antrim County from 1891-1895. From 1895 9 ' . . to 1.05 he was superintendent of the Elk Rapids schools. During the summers of 1902, 1903, and 1904, 11 1902 the degree of M. Pd. was conferred bv the Michigan State Normal College, and in 1906 the degree of A. M. by Colunuoia University, where he specialized in l psyciology alnd sociology. He accepted the position in the department of psychol- ogy in 1906. His published works are Nuggets Gathered, and The Literature and Graded Spelling Bookf' e Was special student in the University of Michigan. ln 30

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Elulia A. liing, 'X No institution of learning in the land has had a more consistent or honor- able history, or has rendered greater returns to the Commonwealth that has nourished it than the Normal College of this city and state. The College has been particularly close to the life of the people, impressing itself upon the mind of this Middle VVest as standing for certain educational ideals and standards that have furnished and guaranteed the very best educational fruits for the State. It is not too much to say that no other institution has been able to cultivate and main- tain that intimate contact and close relationship with the educational life of the State that has been the peculiar providence of the Michigan Teachers College. Indeed if the State Normal College were to close its work tomorrow, the State of Michigan would owe more -to its great and distinctive contributions to the life of the Commonwealth than to any other institution of learning. And the secret of all this is not so much in the growing equipment of the college, or in the generous financial provision of the State, as in the spirit of its .Turin XXNNE .IQING Professor of History and Civics administration and the character and personnel of its faculty. Here is the secret of the Norrnal's large and firm hold on the loyalty and devotion of the State. And among all the distinguished educators Who have adorned the faculty of the Michigan State Normal College no name stands higher than that of Professor julia King of the Department of History and Sociology. Not only her great gifts as a teacher, and her academic learning, but her personal qualities, blending in such beautiful'balance both gentleness and strength, the impression also' of realness and genuineness and transparent honesty, which Miss King ever imparts to her students, have given her a place in the affection and admiration of all who have been fortunate enough to come under her influence, really quite rare among educators, Absolutely fair, yet exacting, with a gift for stimulat- ing others not only to learn things, but to enjoy the habit of learningg a marked power, too, of discovering the shirk and the drone to themselves and revealing the ruinous character of such a policy for the studentg Miss King above all else stands as the students' friend, because the best in a student is italicized by contact with her and the worst dis- credited. A gifted teacher, with a high sense of vocation and a high sense of the vast importance of the educator's Work in creating ideals, and giving form and substance and spirit to the life of the day and the life yet to be. the services of Julia King to the supreme things that make the life of a people have made and make today the State of Michigan her abiding yet grateful debtor. 32