Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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nut III r S« ' (| II • I I ( ' IJM I jjrincipal ; and has acted as principal of the Mansfield State N ' Mnnal School for the past fourteen and a half years. Dr. Smith has done an extensive work in pedagogy and philoso])liy, collecting the results of his experience in his lK ok Systematic Methodology, which is widely used in our country and is found in tlie lihraries of foreign lands. His institute work consists of lectures on ■ lulucational Psychology. Child Study. deneral Pedagogy, and Methodology. Wherever he has worked remarkable growtli and prosperity have resulted, and now the Clarion State Xormal School is to reap the harvest of past years of successful experience under his leadership and guidance. The Christian Association work has hecn I)enefited largely by his helpful suggestions and untiring attention. With his assistance the interests of the associations have been made the interests of the whole school rather than the interests of a few. There is no heroic poem in the world l)ut is at bottom a biogra- phy, the life of a man; also it may he said there is n(i life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem, of its sort, rhymed or un- rhynied. Dr. Smith has made of his course in the History of Edu- cation a story of the great educators vitalized into human beings living a vivid romance. Each hero of an hour has heralded another torch-bearer in the line of march of man ' s enlightenment, swelling the procession of those high-thinking men whose unity of aim and sequence of achievements show a logical advance in procedure through the centuries from Socrates to Horace lann. In concise sketches the elements of each great teacher ' s scheme of education iiave been shown to be a modification of his predecessor ' s plan, reach- !!ig mi-re and more widely the rank and file of people. In manners, refined and dignified; in scholarship, accurate and conscientious ; in thinking, intense and luci l ; in expression, fluent and vivid. Dr. Smith has been a pattern tc his students. His keen interest in this school as a particular expression of our educational system has seemed subservient to his concern for the individual pupil as a friend whose sympathy and cordial smile have in turn served as a solace or reward. As scholar, lecturer, author, educator, and Chris- tian gentleman we shall remember him. Since respect and esteem are the foundation of the most enduring loyalties, our principal may place unc|ualified assurance in the affec- tionate regard and loyal support of the present undergraduates and future alumni bodv.

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1!)14 r ii ( ' s (| II 1 1 v.ni DR. ANDREW THOMAS SMITH. Near Norristuwn, [Montgomery Count}-, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, some fcur decades past, there was placed ujjon the records the name of Andrew Thomas Smith. His earliest education was gained in the schools of Norristown, but when thirteen years of age he began to attend a country school. In that school house by the road he received the inspirations which were destined to affect his whole life. His further schooling was gained at M ' est Chester Normal, New York University, Lafayette College, the University of Pennsylvania, in Dr. George Stewart ' s course in philosophy: and the Universitv of Michigan, in the depart- ment of peclagagy, under Dr. ' illiam Payne. An honorary degree was granted him by Lafayette College. In his career as a teacher and an educator. Dr. Smith has worked in the public schools of Montgomery County ; has been principal of the Soldiers Orphan Home at Chester Springs; was professor of pedagogy- in the ' est Chester State Normal School for fourteen and a half vears. during the la t -iexen cars of which time he was vice-

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l!)li I ' li ( ' S ( ' (| n ( ' I 1 ( ' 11H4 JOHN BALLENTINE, A. .M., PH. D. WILLIS V. WELCH, K. S. Vice Principal, Latin and Greek Science and Naure Study WALTER R. EGBERT, .W. S. PH Englisli and History of Education J. W. F. WILKINSON, A. B., A. M. Higlier Mathematics