College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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nurtured at this old and venerable shrine. Hardly a forward move of these four years but bears the impress either of his initiative or of his wise and mellow counsel. As truly of him as of that other great bui lder of the Old College, Sir Christopher Wren, may it be said, Si moniinientum reqiiirls, circiimspice. His visits to the old College, whether in an official capacity or on occasions of visits of national celebrities, are perennial sources of delight to the entire college body; and when at the urging of President Chandler, he says a few words in Chapel, his admirers like to think they can discern in him touches of the beauty of mind, the grace of person, and the sweet reasonableness the Southerners associate with the Washington and Lee of the years when the aroma of the life and death of the great Lee still hung about it. Dr. Dillard ' s long and honorable career has been crowned with signal marks of appreciation from the world of letters and education. His Alma Mater has made him Doctor of Letters; the Tulane University, the scene of his active academic labors, has given him the degree of Doctor of Laws; the University of the South, the Southern educational institution of the church of which he is a devoted member, has conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. But Dr. Dillard ' s place in the hearts of all William and Mary folks is independent of all honors and degrees, wear he them never so worthily. They love him for himself, and for his love for the Old College. The Board of Editors wish him many more long years of all he so eminently possesses: All that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends; and is proud to dedicate the 1922 COLONIAL ECHO to James Hardy Dillard, Rector of the Board of Visitors.

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This professorial period was also rich in productive labors. Dr. Dillard ' s clearness of thouy ht and expression secured him a wider audience than the class room; and he published Exercises in Arith- iiielic, Selections from Wordsworth. Fifty Letters of Cicero, and I ' dvorite Gerniiin Poems (Ausdem Deutschen Dichterwald ) , besides numerous contributions, literary and critical, to various papers and reviews. The mere list is significant of the catholicity of his tastes and abilities. But Dr. Dillard has never been of the selfish type of scholar whose activities are bounded by the lecture room. These sixteen years of his life were fruitful in many contributions to the social and educational well-being of Louisiana. He served successively as member of the Board of Trustees of the Tulane University; as member of the State Board of tlducation of Louisiana; as one of the founders of the Southern Association of Colleges and High Schools, and as President of the National Conference of Church Clubs. In 1907, Dr. Dil lard was selected by the Trustees, out of a large number of eligible Southern leaders of thought, as President of the J canes Fund for the Education of the Negro Race. In his activities in this field. Dr. Dillard showed such educational and social states- menship, and so conclusively proved the benefits of such an institution to whites and blacks alike, that in 1917, the Slater Fund, which had hitherto maintained a separate existence, was, by action of both Boards of Trustees, coalesced with the first named fund, and the joint organization confided to the Presidency of Dr. Dillard alone. In 1913, after an absence of twenty-six years, Dr. Dillard returned to reside in his native State, which he loves as the men of the Periclean age loved the City of the Violet Crown. ' ' He fixed, as the centre of his executive functions under the Jeanes-Slater Fund, the City of Charlottesville, with its congenial atmosphere of Town and Gown. Here he continues, on his native soil, his manifold activities, and on a national stage. He is still serving as member f the (jeneral Faiucation Board, of New York City, and as member of the Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary, New York City. In 1 18, Dr. Dillard was appointed by Governor Davis to membership on the Board of ' isitors of the College of ' illiam and Mary, and was immediately elected Rector of the Board. To the duties of this high office he has brought a singleness of devotinn which might have been expected only of one whose youth had been

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