Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PROFESSOR CHARLES KNAPP, who was head of the Classics department at Barnard, died on the 17th of September, 1936. Dr. Knapp was at the University as student and teacher for more than fifty years. He was graduated in 1887; he received his A.M. in 1888, and a Ph.D. in 1890. In 1929 the University gave Dr. Knapp the degree of Litt.D. Immediately after graduating from Columbia Dr. Knapp be- came a prize fellow in Classics. He was also a tutorial fellow in Latin prior to his joining the faculty in 1891. In 1902 Dr. Knapp became Assistant Professor of Classical Philology, in 1906 a full professor and Professor of Greek and Latin in 1921. Professor Knapp belonged to many clubs and societies, among them the American Philological Association of the American Classical League. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Knapp edited the Stories from Aldus Gallius, Selections from Viri Romae, with a collaborator, The Aeneid of Yergil, Books I to VII, and Selections from Ovid among others. Following is a tribute to Dr. Knapp by Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve: Professor Knapp reminded me last summer that during the forty-seven years of the life of Barnard College he had taught in Barnard at least part of every year except one. He was thus closely identified with our history, and was one of that admirable group of men scholars who in their youth helped create Barnard and who remained loyal and devoted members of our faculty throughout their lives. Charles Knapp was a hard worker, a vigorous teacher, a sound scholar, a good fighter in causes which he loved. Most of all these he loved the classics and Barnard. So his life was a happy one. The college in which he lived nearly all of it owes him a debt of gratitude and affection. 18

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SPANISH DEPARTMENT Carolina Marcial- Dorado Assistant Professor Caridad Rodriguez-Castellano Instructor Amelia A. de del Rio Lecturer Helen M. Flanagan Assistant STATISTICS DEPARTMENT Robert E. Chaddock Professor ZOOEOGY DEPARTMENT Henry E. Crampton Professor Florence De Loiselle Lowther Assistant Professor Grace Sprincer Forbes Instructor Elizabeth T. Kinney Lecturer Virginia C. Brooks Assistant Ruth E. Snyder Assistant Helen B. Hornor Assistant DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Agnes R. Wayman Associate Professor Lelia M. Finan Instructor Margaret Holland Instructor Marion Streng Instructor Marjorie Tuzo Instructor Teresa M. Crowley Instructor Fern Yates Instructor Jane Gaston WlLHELM Braun iERTRCDE Mary Agnes Wayman

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QEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON, a Trustee and ihe Treasurer of Barnard College since its opening in J 889, died on July 1st, 1936. He was born at Walpole, Massachusetts, on July 15th, 1853. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1876 and studied at the Harvard Law School. In 1882 he became a member ol the firm of Ginn and Company, and for many years before his death was the head of that impor- tant publishing house. Mr. Plimpton was widely known for his educational, philanthropic and intellectual interests. Besides his long connection with Barnard Col- lege, he was the President ol the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, and a member of the boards of Constantinople College, the Union Theolog- ical Seminary and other institutions. He had several honorary degrees and was a member of many learned societies. He was famous as a collector of paintings and of books. His library was among the most valuable and unusual in the land. His collec tion of books and manuscripts dealing with the history of education, especially in its earlier stages, was the most complete and extensive in the world: it contained every obtainable text-book issued since the birth of printing down to comparatively modern times. His lectures on Dante, Shakespeare and Chaucer were illustrated from his own library; and in two notable books, The Education of Shakespeare and The Education of Chaucer, he reproduced and commented on contemporary text-books and manuscripts from his own collections, several of which were not elsewhere available. Main Barnard students will remember the interesting talk that he gave in the winter of 1927-28 on books that were contemporary with Shakes- peare ' s youth, when with characteristic open-handedness, he allowed students to see, handle and examine horn books, early copy books, a volume by Erasmus with marginal notes in the hand of Melanchthon and other priceless treasures from his library. Barnard students and graduates know him as the only Treasurer that the College ever had; he was that for lorty-seven years. In the early years of the College, that often meant his assuming personal responsibility for its current expenses, until other friends of Barnard could interest outside aid. J hen also and later, it meant searching for and attracting endow- ment to Barnard, and in this pursuit he was indefatigable and successful, as he was in the lurthering of all good causes. Very few indeed are they to whom Barnard students and graduates owe as much as to Mr. Plimpton; and the many of us who knew him personally will also remember him as an unfailing friend. — William 7. Brewster.