Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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Arthur Cleveland Hall Died June 23, J9J0 RTHUR Cleveland Hall, the Edwin M. Stanton Pro- fessor of Economics at Kenyon College, died in Gambier on the twenty-third of June, 1910. His passing was so unforeseen, and came so unexpectedly after the exercises of Commencement, during which he appeared in his usual robust health, that the college scarcely credited the report when it reached us that day; both his associates and friends here and his relatives in Con- necticut were shocked beyond measure upon hearing the death of one so able, so accomplished, and such a lover of out-door sports, and the news of his sad departure was scarcely able to be believed. His death resulted from a sudden attack of acute indigestion and came at a time when his work was most valuable to our college. Dr. Hall was born in 1865 in Middletown, Connecticut, of an old and distinguished family. His mother was the daughter of Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, and his father a prosperous merchant and at one time a partner of A. T. Steward; another relative was a Com- modore in the United States Navy and his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. From them he inherited valuable books, paintings and furniture which adorned his home here in Gambier where so many times the college enjoyed his delightful hospitality. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in the class of 1888, where he was a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, and he was afterwards elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He devoted several years to journalism and business; was Assistant Superintendent of the exhibit of the Bureau of Charities and Corrections at the World’s Fair in 1893, and in 1894 he served as Lecturer in Criminology at Johns Hopkins University. His next appointment was to the fellow- ship in Sociology at Columbia, which he held for three years, engaged at the same time in settlement work in New York City. In 1901 he was granted the degree of Ph. D by Columbia; he then taught for a year at Princeton, and was called to Kenyon in 1904 as the Edwin M. Stanton Professor of Economics. While here. Dr. Hall spent one summer near Buffalo as special agent of the U. S. Bureau of Corporations, to investigate the great industries of that city, and another summer he was a delegate to the National Conference of Charities. At another time, he visited the eleven

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scene of the operations of the Rough Riders in order to report on the sociological aspect of the case. In all these activities, he was an earnest and thorough worker and in his daily duty of teaching equally devoted and conscientious. Because of his conspicuous ability as an orator he was chosen to make the principal address on Stanton Day, when Mr. Carnegie visited the college, and to present several distin- guished candidates for honorary degrees, such as Ambassador Dudley. Mr. Carnegie, and others. Only the day before his death he pre- sented Colonel Kilbourne for the degree of LL. D. and delivered an eloquent and polished address. •I Literary work also claimed his attention, and he published an im- portant work on “Crime and Social Progress,” which has been used as a text book in colleges and is recognized as an authoritative treat- ment on the subject. Dr. Hall was a deeply religious man, and took an active interest in the work of his church; he served on the vestry of Harcourt Parish and as a member of the County Committee of the Layman’s Forward Movement. In athletics, too, his interest was keen and not only was he a proficient tennis player, but he organized cross country runs, and one year trained the college track team. Q Whether in athletics or sociological investigation, in religious work or college instruction, the same enthusiastic devotion, the same deter- mined endeavor to help and benefit his fellow men, the same thorough- ness and perseverance characterized all his work, and his agreeable personality left a lasting impression upon colleagues and pupils. twelve