Evanston Academy - Bear Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Principal Fisk The outstanding facts in the career of the late Dr. Herbert Franklin Fisk are these: - Graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1860, engaged in educational workin New York and New England, and came to Evanston in 187 3 as Principal of the Academy of Northwestern I niversity, a position which he held until 19t4. From 1888 until the time of his death Dr. Fisk was Professor of Education at the University. The generation of students which knew Dr. Fisk as teacher and principal has reason for gratitude. Having known him, it is quite impossible to forget him. You might love him or fear him, but whether you loved him or feared him you gave him reverence and remembrance. His life and character were crystal-clear and not without some of the austerity which usually accompanies such simplicity of nature. He wasthe apostle of the manly virtues and lived the truth he taught. He was against all softness and needless self-indulgence and was persuaded that the highest manhood was possible only as one wore the yoke of rigorous self- discipline in his youth. This is high doctrine, it is not easy to practice or to enforce it. But it is true doctrine and Dr. Fisk practiced it and did his best to enforce it. More than likely some of his students thought he was over strict. That is as it may be. The years have probably modified and perhaps reversed that judgment. In a world complacent about indolence and compliant to every form of self indul- gence a head master scrupulous about industry and urgent about high thinking and clean living is God's best gift to any generation. ' The best friend of youth is not the leader who ministers to the whims and caprices of youth. It is he who, to the rawness of youth makes available the ripeness of high character, sound judgment and knowledge of the world. Dr. Fisk in manifold ways proved his capacity for gracious and loyal friendship. He never forgot his students, he followed them in their work in the world with lively and sympathetic interest, and many will witness that at critical moments his instant and willing counsel and help were to them a way of opportunity to better conditions. Dr. Fisk was ever the painstaking scholar and teacher. He could teach and in his teaching awaken. To disclose the ore, that was his conception of the teacherls duty. It was the student's to dig, to rehne and to coin. Only upon such teaching and such studying can a true and fruitful culture be built up. V Moreover, Dr. Fisk was a christian teacher and scholar. To him the end of learning was character and christian discipleship. There was to him no such thing as right culture without the culture ofthe spirit. The soul of education was to him the education of the soul. One could only live to advantage in the garden of the Lord when one was on some degree of personal intimacy with the Lord of the Garden. - It was thus Dr. Fisk lived his life and did his work. He was by way of emphasis the righteous man for whom one could well afford to die. His kind are the salt of the earth, never more needed than now. All who knew him will recall him with thanksgiving. ' H No showy speaker but a plain brave man, A yeoman, one of those who save the land, Shrewd, one whose acts with his professions squared, Untainted and a blameless life he led. ' , CHARLES M. STUART. 13

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UMM E. W. A1ARCELLUS, Principal of Academy, 1915-16-17. Graduate of Nebraska State Normal School5 A. B. Northwestern Ul1lVC1'Slt575 Graduate Work in Univer- sity of Nebraska and Columbia University5 Principal of Public Schools at julian, Neb., 1902-45 Instructor and Superintendent of Schools, Crete, Neb., 1905-155 Instructor in Nebraska State junior Normal, summers 1910, 1911 and 19125 Secretary Nebraska Pupils andTeacl1ers' Reading Circle, IQI3'-'Iss Active member National Education Association, IQIIQ Boy Scout Master of Troop 2. 1 1 4 1. I