Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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X QI Tribute It was just before the opening of this college year that we were shocked to learn of the sudden passing from earth of Professor Robert Coit Chapin. A rarely sym- metrical personality, a mind keen, eager, and of unusual grasp, a character, sincere, elevated, devoted to high ends, are suddenly withdrawn from our association and we are deeply bereft. Born into the life of the College, breathing its atmosphere from earliest child- hood, appropriating its ideals as his own, Dr. Chapin has entered with absolute fidelity into the interests of Beloit, not making them his own, for they were his already, but making them effective by his example and his counsel. His clearness and impartiality as a teacher, his power of viewing sociological data in the light of human sympathy, his gifts as a painstaking and sagacious investigator, have made him a guide and inspirer of young scholars, and given him an assured place in national regard as one of the authorities in Social Science. His friendship with his pupils was strong and abiding. In the home circle he was sympathetic, genial, considerate, unwearying in kindness. As a citizen he contributed modestly but effectively to civic welfare. As a colleague he was courteous, alert, convincing, ever illuminating difficult problems by his acute, unprejudiced, progressive mind. As a Christian he regarded the commonest duties as part of a divine calling and estimated life in terms of a supreme loyalty. Inheriting his honored father's devotion to the College and grasp upon the fu- damental principles of its administration, he has carried his father's work steadily forward into the enlarging life of the present, gaining distinction in his father's chosen field of study, and like him pouring his own very being into the being of the College with results that are beneficient and enduring. Every student of Beloit College who has had any relations however incidental with Professor Chapin, has recognized in him affriend, ready to be of service to any one needing his counsel or cooperation. For years our debating teams have prized his help, and have always found a tonic influence in his clear insight, his well-poised judgment, and his disdain of tricks of argument. We had thought that for many years to come he would be one of the central influences in the life of the College, his knowledge of its history, his acquaintance with its graduates, his grasp of its problems, becoming of constantly increasing importance. We can hardly yet believe that he is to be with us no longer. That he has been taken from us when at the summit of his influence fills us with sorrow. But when we think of his love to the College and what his life did for us, we are helped to realize more truly the worth of the College and the richness of the life which it shares with us all. . EDWARD D. EATON. Page 19

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Page 20 Qggsfsss SMQX ,KNNQSSSR X NN -hi X-Q1 :N sv-f X...- xl W wwe-:Ns 'NFA s Q as 5 mms, A KKLN.. mm GEORGE LUcIUs COLLIE, PH.D., LL.D., Dean and Profeffor of Geology, on the Alunini Foundation. S.B., Beloit College, 1881, Teacher, Delevan, Wis., 1881-1890, Morgan Fellow, Harvard University, 1891-2 , Ph.D., Harvard University, 1893, Professor of Geology, Beloit:College, 1893- , Dean, ibid, 1900- , Acting President, 1905-8. QDBK, B011. WILLIAM PORTER, D.D., Brinsrnade Pro- feffor of,Latin, Ernerituf, on the Carnegie Foundation. A.B., Williams College, 1830, B. D., Union Theological Semi- nary, 1843, Professor of Latin, Beloit College, 1852-1907 , D.D. Williams College, 1882, Professor Emeritus, 1907. fI2B K. THOMAS ALEXANDER SMITH, PHD., Hale Profeffor of Mathematics and Pltyficf, .Erneritufg on the Carnegie Foundation. A.B., Muskingum College, 1872, Pro- fessor of Mathematics, ibid., 1872-4, Ph.D., Yale University, 1877, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Beloit College, 1877-1913, Studied at Oxford, England, 1903-04, Professor Emeritus, 1913. CIDBK. , ERASTUS GILBERT SMITH, PH.D.,Profe:.for of Cheniiftry, on the Charlotte M. F ixlee Foundation. Recorder. A.B., Amherst College, 1877, A.M., ibid, 1880, Pro- fessor of Chemistry, Beloit College, 1881- , Ph.D., University of Gothingen, 1883. CIDBK. . '4 by .aj -5 We All fr,,'.' .- ll'-'Jeff 'mtl 14+-4 Q ' .-vlyfs Qllff 'C' ,. ' ,.-nl H3wJ', . - y , 'jxfjr-Ng ', p lsstlff f hflwwf' Civy 1 ,L ug ' If-fl -' ',, I-,,,,,.,.. rf ffllaa- - we all l'Qw '1:L ff- l' uw- 5 I PVEUSNP ,l 15311 if i lif Gil 'l'EL.'C'1i.i Z '1 lain, I L:-nj... , ,A HW F, ll' Fifi in , 'lift iff fxxx lilllffr ' 1 olpfnf ' H3591 lux. I. 5-., 1 -..:f gi P. HM. -fr QA .HQ Q 1 .gan-v , -xfhxtul :J l ',.- V' ' Xa 115. ,, K- ., 1 Qld. 1 . -.I X . L, :N-.