Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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Cbarles 6. Goodall, H. IVI. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY. Q HOF. GOODELL says that he is not yet so old Q but that he distinctly recalls the year of his Q V-is birth. lt Was in 1862. He vvas thus a product 1 rep? . , . . . Q of the War, and it is to the spirit of the times that he attributes his fighting qualities. lt Was in Cen- tral Illinois, on his father's farm, that he Was born. It was not in the ordinary log cabin of great men, but in a respect- able farm-house. His early life was spent amid those pastoral scenes which drive some people to poetry, but which had no charms for him. He early resolved to leave the farm and devote his life to the legal profession. Circumstances, hovvever, stood in the Way of acting upon this resolution until comparatively late in life. He Was nineteen years old when the time at last came for the preparation for his study of lavv. Up to this time what education he had had been acquired at the district school. , I By dint of hard Work over his books during the summer of '81 he was able to pass muster 7' in the high school eX- amination at Mankato, Minn. Even at this time he had little thought of college Work, being in haste, like most boys, to get through and into his profession. But before he Was through high school his ideas began to change and he savv the need of higher education. Besides that, a thirst for knowledge Was aroused, which was destined largely to give shape to his course in after life. Q In 1885 he graduated With 4 honors from the high school. Ann .Arbor attracted him because of its extended course in history and political science. He had made up his mind to go there, but more preparatory Work being required and hav-

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In the home the children were oncouragod to lovc goml bOOkS,,bOOkS were talked over. Tho stories ol' Jacob Abbott and Alice B. Neal gave way, as the chil.dren grew older, to those of Hawthorne and Mrs. Stowe and the lighter work of Washington Irving. Miss Thompsonls school life began early and had many ups and downs. It was ended by three years, work in Shep- ardson College, at Granville, Chio. Dr. Marsena Stone was at that time president and Miss Louise S. Carter flater Mrs. J. R. Downerj principal. Dr. Stone was a suggestive teacher. The girl was very stupid who could pass a year in his classes and not experience an awakening of mind in regard to many phases of life and thought. Miss Carter insisted upon care- ful preparation, a lazy student found no favor with her. Habits of accuracy, order and clearness insisted on by her coniplemented the less rigorous, but more generous, instruc- tion of Dr. Stone. From Shepardson College, Miss Rebecca Thompson was graduated in 1867, at the age of twenty-two. Following this there was a year's teaching in Shepardson, two years in the Greensburg QInd.j High School, and two years in the Indianapolis Institute. In September, 1872, in response to an offer made by the board of directors, she accepted a position in Franklin Col- lege. In connection with her teaching she has been, for some twelve years, college librarian. She has spent one summer doing work with Prof. Stockwell at the Case Observatory, and in '94 spent the summer at Chicago University. In 795 she spent some weeks traveling in Europe. - Prof. Thompson is a thorough instructor, and, like her teacher, Miss Carter, insists on accuracy, order and clear- IIQSS. A I

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ing come into correspondence with Secretary N., Carr and others at Franklin, he decided to come to our college instead of Ann Arbor. He accordingly entered in the fall of 785 and graduated With the class of '88 'ldie year folloiving was spent in studying French and Ger1nan.lwhich were henceforth to be in part his tools. For hr-fore this time he had determined to give his study to the sr-ienriiic investigation of the problems of the day. In the full of '89, While preparing to go to Cornell, he Was called to ihe position of Instructor in Modern Languages at Franklin. Ile accepted for one year and then proceeded to Cornell. In the summer of 790, before going to Cornell, he vvas married ro Miss Lena Ogle, of Indianapolis, formerly a classmate in l'll'2llllillll. After spending tivo years at Cornell he accepted the posi- tion ns principal of the high school at Mankato, Minn. Thus :1t'le1- seven years' absence he re-entered the school from Which he had received his first lessons in scholarly attainments. l'1el'ore he had finished his second year as principal there he was chosen by the board to fill the chair of History, made va- c-:nnt hy the appointment of Prof. Moncrief to the chair of 4'hnrch History in Chicago. The past year, on leave of ab- sence, he spent in Chicago University. Here he Was honored with ll Fellowship and position of secretary of the University I'olit'ical Science Club. Next September We expect to see him back in his old place as head of the History Department.