George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

Page 14 text:

The stranger enters Washington through a magnificent gateway of marble and gold, and steps out upon the grand Union Station Plaza to get his first view of the Nation s great Capital And vdhat an impression !

Page 13 text:

DeWitt Clinton Croissant Professor Croissant ' s extended college experience, both as a student and as an instructor, has made him well acquainted with the ways of students and their relations with the faculty, and his years at George Washington figured by close relations with the student body, make him particularly well informed as to conditions here. That is why, as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, he has succeeded in steering affairs to the satisfaction and gratification of all concerned. Reward does not come without effort and Professor Croissant s realiza- tion of the fact is seen in his college history. He entered George Wash ingtoti University, then Columbian University, in IS!) 5. After two years there, he went to Princeton, where he received his A. It. in 1899. From 1899 to 11 01 he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and the next year he spent at the University of Colorado teaching English. In 1 9(U he was a Charles Scribner Fellow in English at Princeton, and the next year he studied at Munich, Germany, lie returned to George Washington in 1905, and remained until 1910, serving for one year as Instructor of English and the other four years as Assistant Professor. After spending another year at Princeton as a graduate student he received his Ph, 1)., and then departed for the University of Kansas, where lie spent four years, part of the time teaching English and part of the time directing the University ' s Exten- sion Division. He returned East in PUT) and devoted the whole winter to his hobbv simplified spelling, as General Field Agent of the Simplified Spelling Hoard, with offices in Xew York. Put George Washington called him again, ami he returned at the beginning of last year and took up his duties as Professoi of English. f.ct us hope the wanderings of Ulysses are over. 9

Page 15 text:

AN APPRECIATION T HEJcity of Waskingtor and its educational features offer George Washington Univer- sity every opportunity to become the great national university that George Washington advo- cated and that James Monroe antxipated in the founding of our school, “The College is in immediate connection with a sta e of society vdhere life is seen in its almost every possible phase, 1 ' : ‘ where there appears not only eVery quickening influence to the mind but where the moulding process may be conducted under all the advan- tages of a daily influence connected with the excellencies and defects of every class and charac- ter of public men, H ’ v?here the teacher is not confined to his text and reference hooks, but may exhibit in almost eVery department the practical illustration and application of the studies pursued, ,!b where social life in its different classes and the Legislature and the Judiciary of our Government are open for the improvement of the student, v?hile under the guidance of his teachers, where the most Valuable Libraries and the richest collections from nature and art may aid his investigations.” Inaugural Address of REV. JOSEPH GETCHELL BINNET. D. D. President of Columbian College. 1855 59 n