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In Memoriam By the death in July, 1907, of Miss Rosa C. Lang.. Instructor in German, the Armour Institute of Technology sus- tained a serious, perhaps an irreparable loss. For fifteen years, that is, since the opening of the Institute in 1893. she had been an honored and beloved member of the faculty. Associated with her from the first year were, besides the President and the Comptroller, only three of the present faculty, Miss Wright, Mrs. Bev- eridge, and Dean Monin; and because of their close companionship in the earnest pioneer work of developing the institution, these early associates especial- ly mourn her loss. Miss Lung was a native of Toledo, Ohio, and after some years of training in a convent and tuition at the hands of a cultivated German governess, she under- took a course of study at Cornell University. There she endeared herself to some of the most conspicuous of the Cornell faculty, including the noted critical student of Browning, Professor Hiram Corson, whom she venerated and who always re- mained her close friend and warm admirer. She was later teaching in the public schools of Toledo, when she was persuaded by a Chicago friend to come to this city to accept the position that she was occupying at the time of her death. From the start she showed peculiar adaptability to the conditions of work at Armour Institute: so that her unusual worth made itself apparent, not only to the President and her co-workers, but also to Mr. Philip 1). Armour, the founder of the Institute, who became her warm personal friend. As for her relations with the students of those early years, relations more intimate because of the smaller number of students at that time, it need only be said that every graduate remem- bers her with cordial feelings of firmest loyalty. Miss Lang possessed brilliant intellectual powers; and she had been from her youth an insatiable reader, in her later years reading largely along philo- sophical lines. She was always well informed as to progress in the scientific 18
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world, being thus enabled to show the young men of her classes that she ap- preciated and shared the interests that were to dominate their future lives. Stu- dents were always conscious of her rare gift of sympathy; under its genial influence they showed her the best of their natures, sometimes displaying virtues and mental gifts of which they themselves had been hitherto unaware. Nor was her interest in the students merely an assumed interest; it was a vital part of her life. She had their welfare truly at heart, remembered individual traits, and watched with deep interest their later progress in the world outside. Her excellence as a teacher was particularly apparent in the almost incredible patience that she manifested in dealing with backward but earnest students who were hampered by dullness or by lack of early education. To such students she was always accessible: to them she gave especial consideration in the class- room, and hours of gratuitous assistance outside of recitation-hours. Many such students have felt for her a devotion that has expressed itself in words and deeds of loyal gratitude and affection. By the exercise, too, of her remarkable wit and unfailing good humor she frequently turned into mirth-provoking incident what might easily in the hands of a teacher devoid of a sense of humor have been productive of irritation on the part of both pupils and instructor. Many a hearty laugh enlivened her recitations and laid a foundation of cordiality and good comradeship. In spite, however, of her gifts as a teacher, it was Miss Lang's noble char- acter that made her influence so strong an inspirational force in the training of young men. As Dr. Gunsaulus said in a memorial address at the first Institute assembly of this school-year: “She gave to every young man with whom she came in contact the conception of an ideal woman.” A Toledo friend wrote of her: “She was a woman of rare character, richly endowed with those heart qualities that she herself prized so highly in others—sympathy and the habit of love without censure” What the exercise of this latter power means in a teacher, only those who have seen the marvelous results of such a practice can fully realize: persistently to see the best opportunities of a human soul, to ignore its worst possibilities; and so, to encourage, to lead naturally to a healthy growth of the good, and the sloughing off of the bad—this means the highest service that any consecrated human being can give his fellow-men. VJ
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