Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Q Tribute. lSS Roberts stands in I. S. C. for thoroughness. She is thoroughly in earnest. She is thoroughly devoted to the welfare of the College and its students. She is a thorough teacher, and all superficial and shoddy work finds quick and thorough condemnation in her presence and before her spirit. She is thoroughly unselhsh. She has a thorough-going faith in humanity, especially the student portion of humanity. But woe to the student who presumes upon this faith, for Miss Roberts also has a thorough knowledge of human nature in its weak places. While thoroughly loyal to I. S. C., Miss Roberts is not provincial, To crown all, Miss Roberts is thoroughly beloved by all her colleagues and by the students. She probably doesn't know it, but she is weaving and wearing a crown of life that will not fade. ALBERT B. STORMS. ISS Roberts is a typical mathematician. Her eager mind runs quickly .from the Alpha to the Omega of the problem. She discerns as it were by instinct, the signihcance of the data given, the line of logic to be followed, the salient points by the way, the details to be filled in, and the shortest and best method of reaching the final result. She has studied ma-thematics to a purpose. She has made its ideals her ideals, and as an instructor is as accurate, thorough, methodical, clear-visioned as the' science she handles. In all her work she measures up to the same high standard. She plans it, executes it, completes it in a masterful way, lays it aside-and is ready for the next duty call. She does things at the time they ought to be done and does them well. The pre-requisite of the most efficient service is an honest desire to render it. Miss Roberts has that desire. She is the embodiment of the spirit of helpfulness. She is never too tired to do the work, that is urgent. In season and out of season, she has given her time and energy to the service of the College, The Department of Mathematics gladly makes acknowledgment of the value of her services. DEAN STANTON, Professor of Mathematics, I. S.YC.

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miss maria Minnie Roberts. AWQQ - U ,YA fl f - xl l1.:a3. V . f er Q, b L? ag , ff l 25? Lgj N, V Q. A g G fi ISS Maria Minnie Roberts came to Iowa State College in February, 1887, from the Dunlap High School. She graduated from Ames in l890, taught in North Des Moines High School for one month and then entered I. S. C. as an instructor in Mathematics. In i892 she spent a year at Cornell Uni- versity, and in i897 a year at Chicago returning to Cornell for a year in H399 and in i902 she spent the winter at Chicago. In the same year Miss Roberts was made an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In July, 1904, she was promoted to the position of Associate Professor. During the absence of Dean Stanton in Europe in l906, the Board of Trustees appointed Miss Robertsacting Dean of the Junior College, also she acted as head of the Mathematics Department. . As Miss Roberts now is interested in all college activitiesjso she was as a student. She was an active member of the Y. W. C. A. She was a charter member of the Phileleutheroi Literary Society and belonged to the Pi Beta Phi fraternity. . Through these years of faithful and unselfish service to her college and to ours, she has kept in close touch with the students and the different phases of student life. It is safe to say that as each new student has gone down the classification line and come in contact with Miss Roberts, an admiration has sprung up which has increased as he has become acquainted with her. No one could take Mathematics under her without doing his conscientious best. She has the sincere and undying love of all her own students and the admiration of those who do not know her personally.

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HERE is something in true manhood which instinctively responds to true womanhood as to no other influence for good, and hence a noble college woman may, if she will, exert a unique power for good among a body of college students. To Miss Roberts as such a noble college woman her co-laborers yield grateful tribute. None but those who have worked with her can properly appreciate the extent of her influence for good at the Iowa State College. A. A. MARSTON. ISS Roberts' service to the Iowa State College has been of the highest or- der, faithful and efficient in every detail, and she is eminently worthy of the place of honor in the Bomb. Very sincerely yours, CHARLES F. CURTISS, Dean of Agriculture. HE dedication of the H 'OSH Bomb to Miss Roberts is an honor properly bestowed, and is an expression' of the high esteem in which she is held by the Faculty, Alumni and Students of the Iowa State College. Sincerely, J. I-I. MCNEIL. S fellow-woman and co-worker it gives me real pleasure to render tribute to Miss Roberts. ' With the first thought of so doing, those lines of 'Wordsworth,s, so familiar to us all, came to my mind and have stayed there so compellingly that I offer them here: A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food, A as as as as ' ar as - as as With reason firm, with temperate will, Endurance, foresight. strength and skillg A perfect woman. nobly rlanned, To Warn, to comfort and command. MARIAN I-I. KILBOURNE, . Dean of Women, 1. S. C.