Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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THE LAGENDA OF NINETEEN TWENTY PRESIDENT JOHN HOWARD HARRIS ■■ it . ' ■ ;•« - ' -

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honor of John Hoicard Harris President oj Biicknell University and Mrs. Lueij B. Harris liis icife in appreciation of their thirty years of continuous service to the Univer- sity (L ' ( ' dedic(de this book the Xine- teen-7 ce ity L l e)ida. i : ■•■

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M THE LAGENDA OF NINETEEN TWENTY ' I ' HE educatinnal world makes a distinction l)et veen the teacher and M C the ciiiicafor. Tlie teacher, it says, imparts information aljout L 1 one subject or, it may he. about several subjects. The educator, it says, is ersed in educational principles and methods and se- cures large and practical results in training- the mind. It is oln-ious that the attainments of a teacher are the foundation on which the educator builds his work, — they are a condition precedent to his success. Not often i.s the same person fitted for both functions. Some are apt to teach but are unfitted or unwilling- to administer. Some care rather to administer; and though thev mav, and thev generally do, start as teachers only, they soon abandon that field as the other liroadens before them. President Harris has successfully for fifty years exemplified lioth func- tions — that of teacher and that of educator. In his early day he engaged in pioneer work wdien he founded the Keystone Academy. There was then great need of teaching and. as well, of administering. There was only one to do the latter and that one was compelled to do much of the former. Dr. Harris began in this wry: and when he assumetl the much larger administra- tion of the Uni ersity, he continued to do his full share of teaching and has done so until the present hour when he is on the eve of laying aside the office of President. His teaching has been clear, decisive, founded on conviction, and concerned mostly with those subjects which, while they make a great de- mand on the intellectual faculties, are concerned no less with those moral and spiritual de elopments that distinguish the complete man. His work as ad- ministrator has been strong but not unkind, broad but not superficial, deep but not mysterious. His plan has been to grant much freedom to each instruc- tor within tliat instructor ' s chosen province; and to assume that the students are men and women who are in pursuit of the truth and know what they are about, upon whom as much res])onsibilit - siKJuld be rolled as possible, pre- para t iry to the strenuous da ' s of life ahead of them. With conspicuous ability he has discharged the duties of both offices, a multitude of students in the Kcy- stcme Academy and the Bucknell L ' m ' versity being examples of the lasting- effects of his influence. It is gi ' en to few to teach so long; it is given to fewer to adnfinister so long; and there is nothing rarer in the educational world than the man who so uninterru]jtedlv has coml)ined l)oth offices for half a century. When the time comes for the ship to drop anchor in the harbor at sun down — and may the day be long distant — the captain, o ' er the tea cups, may reflect upon n-iany a prosperous and splendid voyage undertaken for the benefit of humanity and well worth the tribute — Well done! ♦ ♦