Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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HE LOVED TO SERVE In dedi eyting the 1953 Gold to the memory and t0 the life-long career of Robert Kimball Richard- son, Beloit College and the Gold do honor to themselves in 1101101 ing not only that great professor who was typically Beloit , but who greatly helped to fashion Beloit College in the second half- century of her life. Puritan son of a Puritan divine, Professor Richardson was born on June 6, 1876, in Hartford, Connecticut, educated in the public schools of New Britain, and at the Hotchkiss School. When he entered Yale University in 1894, the shadow of the future of Beloit was upon him. A student of George Burton Adams, Beloit, 1873, Mr. Richardson naturally took as his major field of his- torical scholarship mediaeval history. The Yale AB. in 1898 was followed in 1899 by a Columbia 31.21., and the Ph.D. was conferred in 1902. Beloit College added one of her most illustrious pro- fessors to the ranks of her own children by conferring; the honorary LL.D. in 1947. In 1901, Robert Richardson came to Beloit College, and here began a teaching career of forty- six years, devoted to Beloit College, to the ideals of hei founders, and to the hopes of her leaders. Intensely loyal to his College, and to her presidents and administrators, he gave unsparingly of his energies, his talents, and his time to preserve and to prosper those ideals, and to bring many of those hopes to fruition. ttDit-kieyt, as succeeding generations of students affectionately called him, gave a lustre and a standard of scholarship to the teaching of history in Beloit College that has ever been a delight and a challenge to his students, and a pattern to those of them who have followed the master in the profession. Consciously or not, he was a believer in, and a practitioner of, the personalisti, approach to the study of history; facts, trends, and movements took on true Vitality and meaning through his breathing life into the deeds and personalities of the good, the great, and the grisly ones in history. His last great task, the History of Beloit College, was finished only a few days before his un- timely and sudden death on August 8, 1952. He remains for Beloit, college and town, the em- bodiment of the finest fruits of New England, Puritan protector of the faith, uneomprmnising scholar and researcher, brilliant lecturer and beloved teacher, the symbol of a fine man, a Chris- tian gentleman. Robert H. Irrmann, Beloit, 1939; Associate Professor of History

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