Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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nary. His simplicity of Christian life, his habitual prayerfulness, his love for the Bible, and his love for his brethren in the ministry, especially his younger brethren — the students, qualify him to make his teaching fascinating. Students look forward to the hours when they meet him : they are sure of finding strength and inspiration. They soon discover that the teacher is impatient with details, unless they mean something. They find themselves in the grip of a man who is dealing with principles, with generalizations. Tliey feel the compliment which the teacher pays as he assumes that they know the reasons of his generalizations, and they are incited to investigation. Incidentally he reveals the width and variety of his reading, the range of his infonnation, the exactness of his knowl- edge. His power is that of a stimulating university lecturer, not that of an academic drill-master. There is also a history written in institutions. The life history of Dr. Weston is written large in the Crozer Seminary, a memorial more enduring than bronze. As administrator, wisdom is President Weston ' s marked characteristic. He well illustrates the combination of wisdom and energy. He knows what can be done under given circumstances, and does not permit fretfulness or worry to weaken his power. The rapid growth of the Seminary and the place it occupies in de- nominational thought are due to his patience, tact, forbearance and executive efficiencv. It has required no ordinary administrative ability to establish a school whose material equipment is worth $500,000, whose alumni are joyously enthu- siastic in devotion, whose faculty are cordial co-workers, and whose curriculum is marked by breadth, variety and quality. But greater than his words or his works is the man himself. No one who has heard Dr. Weston speak but could refer to him what one of our . merican poets wrote of another: ' e, listening, learned what makes the might of words, manhood to match them, constant as a star. SERUS IX COELUM REDE.VT.

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President Henry G. Weston, D.D., LL.D. It is entirely appropriate that the Annual of Bucknell should be dedicated to Henry G. Weston, D. D., hh. D., President of the Crozer Theological Semi- nary. In 1868 the Theological Department of the University at Lewisburg was discontinued in favor of the new seminary founded at Upland by the Crozer family, and named in honor of the father, John Price Crozer. The name of John Price Crozer is second on the list of contributors to the first hundred thousand dollars raised for the endowment of the institution at Lewisburg, and first in the list of the hundred thousand dollars for additional endowment raised in 1865. In 1868 Dr. Henry G. Weston became President of the Crozer Seminary, and in the same year he was elected to membership in the Board of Curators of the University, serving until 1882, when he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees, of which he is still a member. From 1871 to 1876, he served the Uni- versity as Chancellor. During his nearly two score years of service on its gov- erning Board, the University has had no more faithful friend or more sagacious adviser tlian Dr. Weston. There is a history written in the souls of men. It is the real world history, infinitely surpassing any literary history in importance and completeness. It is there, if we could see with the eyes of God, that we would find the history of such a man as Dr. Weston. He has been a preacher of truth for more than three score years, he has addressed thousands upon thousands, and has left every man who has heard him a better man than before. As a teacher in Crozer Seminary there have been under his instruction more than two thousand students, and each thought and every word of theirs throughout their lives bear the imprint and inspiration of Dr. Weston ' s mind. .As a teacher of Theology, President Weston stands among the first. He is admirably fitted for service in a theological semi- 8 ♦ ♦ ♦

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ENTRANCE GATEWAY. 1905 CLASS MEMORIAL