La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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The volume, Who's Who in America, credits Mr. McCormack with editing a Series of Philosophical Classics, Mathematical Series, and the volumes ofthe Memoirs of Gustave Koerner which he prepared in 1909. That volume also notes the translations of the following foreign works: Binet's Psychic Life of Micro- Organisms, 1889, Mach's Science of Mechanics, 18935 Mach's Popular Scientific Lectures, 1895, Weismann's Germinal Selection, 18964 Eimer's Orthogenesis, 1898, LaGrange's Lectures on Elementary Mathematics, 1898, Topinard's Science and Faith, 1899, Delitzsch's Babel and Bible, 1902, Cumont's Mysteries of Mithra, 1902, Mach's Space and Geometry, 1907. Mr. McCormack was given the honorary degree of Master of Science in 1919, by Princeton University, and in June 1930 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, from Northwestern University. Upon the latter occasion, Professor Henry Crew paid tribute to him in the following words: A great teacher who has realized and has met the needs of his entire community by devoting his efforts to the individual student, an accomplished linguist whose studies have resulted in a remarkable mastery of his mother tongue, a philosopher who has followed the advances of science, both social and physical, without for a moment losing sight of the fundamentals, a scholar of catholic tastes who has grasped the large problems of life, but without superficiality, an enemy of chauvinism and a strong advocate of fairmindedness among nations. The death of Thomas J. McCormack, on June 24, 1932 took from our midst a foremost leader, educator and man whose ability and influence cannot be re- placed. :N ! s vi f' aged .fa .yi A 1 ll 'T

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