Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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Hon. Thomas C. Miller Who in W. a. does qo1 know Prof. .Miller? Surely most of the children of our State do, for have they not heard liim. in their school rooms, at then school closing, at their Sunday School Conventions, telling them, in an agree able way, about a richer, cleaner, higher living, about birds and flowers, land- scape and home decora l ions, aboul poets, scientists, and statesmen. And then the teachers — ami don ' 1 they as an army, know him. Long be fore he was the head of our school system, he had met the teachers for years aud years in their institutions, all the way from Hancock to McDowell. To these he had given the fullness of his rich experience, of his wide reading, of his sympathetic Living. And his students know him; the hundreds who have learned of him, in the country schools, the city schools, and the University at Morgantown. And the thousands of Normal students and graduates, for did he not graduate at this school, and hand to those who have finished here and at the five other Normals their diplomas, together with words of encouragement ? And citizens interested in education in all parts of the U. S. know him, for has he not for years spent money, time and energy, to meet those saviors of civilization — teachers — in their general meetings in W. Va. in the South or West or North, or to represent the higher life of (his Stale in fair or expo- sitions, ai St. Louis, Jamestown, or Seattle. And then the soldiers know him. He wore the Bine in defense of his nation, and at encampments, camp tires, reunions of his comrades, he has been there with his word of reminiscence, sympathy or cheer. So it is to this citizen, solider and school comrade, we dedicate this num- ber of the .Mound, hoping many years of service may be left to be added to that long line of years already devoted to the Higher Life of our Native State.

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CHAS. J. C. BENNETT, A. H. President. Pli. D. A. B., University of Nashville. ' 89 : A. M., Ibid. 1802 ; student YV. V. U, 1S90-1892: A. M., Inland Stanford. Jr.. University, 1896; student in Chicago University, winter and spring. 1901 : Ph. D., Columbia University; instructor in Wesleyan College. Buckhannon, 1892-95 ; principal Palo Alto High School. 189T-8 : instructor in psychology, State Normal School, San Jose, Cal.. 1898-1904; in- structor in philosophy and education, Louisiana State University, 1905-1007 ; present position since 1907.