University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Charles Edmund Truer, BUSINESS MANAGER Philip Julius Franklin. ASSISTANT EDITORS Edith Bonnett. John Rush Baird. Helen Josephine Colby. Ralph Chandler Daniels. c4rthur SMcDonald Ellis. Henry Walter Gibbons. Cornelia SMcKinne. cAlice Stuart Rising. Elizabeth Rothermel. Lola Jean Simpson. Carl SMetvin Warner. ASSISTANT MANAGERS Hebron (Armstrong. Jred Conklin. Ernest Henry Denicke. William Sherman c Do ' bming. ' Roscoe Leigh Logan. Duncan McDuffie.

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' 99 The -world thinks as I think : only it gives me leave of utterance.

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Couis Du Pont Sylc. S a frontispiece to this book will be found a portrait of Professor Syle. ! The honor, if there be any, is not undeserved. Aside from a well merited popularity as instructor, aside from his influence throughout the State ! as authority upon the teaching of English in High Schools, Professor Syle has gained the esteem of the student body from a long continued and active interest in general college life. It is with pleasure, therefore, that we give below a brief sketch of his career. Louis Du Pont Syle was born, 1857, in Shanghai, China, but spent most of his childhood in Washington, D. C., and in the Shenandoah Valley. He is the son of the Rev. Edward William Syle, one of the earliest Protestant missionaries in China, and of Jane Winter Davis, whose brother, Henry Winter Davis, served the city of Baltimore, for many years, as its representative in Congress. Beginning school, after the close of the war, at the Cherbuliez Military Academy, in New Rochelle, N. Y., he went to London, England, in 1868, and attended a private school for four years. This he left in order to serve as clerk in one of the large tea- exporting houses in Yokohama, Japan, remaining there until 1875. In the same year, having returned once more to the United States, he entered Trinity College, Hartford, with the Class of ' 79. But, attracted by the superior advan- tages of Yale, he moved thither in time to join the Sophomore class. While at Yale he took a Sophomore Prize for English Composition; was appointed Exhibition Speaker in his Junior year; and in his Senior year won a Townsend Orator Prize, a Commencement Speakership, and was chosen Class Poet. Having been sleeted, after graduating, to the Larned and Clark graduate scholarship, he devoted himself to the study of English Literature under Professor Beers, and of Economics under Professor Sumner. A brief intermission of two years in the United States Consular Service, as U. S. Consul in the Madeira Islands, a position to which he was appointed by President Arthur, and from which he resigned after Cleveland ' s first election : and his work as a teacher of English commences. Beginning as tutor in the University of Pennsylvania, he later accepted the prin- cipalship of the High School in Winona, Minnesota. But poor health made a change of climate necessary. He moved to California in 1890, and, first, as Principal of the Santa Barbara High School, and, then, as Superintendent of the Grass Valley schools, acquired a knowledge of our public school system. Professor Hubbard ' s resignation from the English Department of our University, in 1892, left a vacancy which Professor Syle was called to fill. The already growing prestige of the English Department among the leaders of secondary education in the