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Professor John Smith Shippee ROFESSOR JOHN S. SHIPPEE, the oldest of six children, was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, January 9, 1871. Both his father and mother are decendants of families settled in Rhode Island since the early days of the colony. The pioneer of the family, David Shippee, who was married in the colony in 1664, came from Maidfield, England. Professor Shippee is the eighth in direct descent from him. An ancestor of his mother, a certain Major Adams, fought in the Revolutionary War. Thus Professor Shippee has in his veins the blood of generations of the hardy men and women of New England. His father, by his daily life, set before him an example of kindness, patience, justice, and untiring energy. Men of his frank and unselfish character are rare. From his mother he never failed to receive sympathy and inspiration; and her earnest desire for his success in life has always been a powerful incentive to him to do his best. No man was ever blessed with a better or more generous father and mother. Professor Shippee ' s early education was received in the town in which he was born. When ' he was fifteen years old, he began the college preparatory course in the East Greenwich Academy, a co-educational school, of the typical New England sort, founded in 1802. From his early days he had shown a great fondness for books and reading, implanted and fostered by his mother. During his years at the academy, he read widely in English literature, giving his mind breadth in addition to the accuracy derived from careful training in Latin and Greek. In 1890 he entered Brown University as a freshman. E. Benjamin Andrews had become president of the college the year before and under his broad-minded and vigorous administration it took on new life, and in a short time grew to almost twice its former size. Professor Shippee devoted himself especially to literature and languages. Two of his teachers are known throughout the United States from their text-books, Albert Harkness and Charles E. Bennett. In his fourth year Pro- fessor Shippee was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternitj ; this society is composed of honor men, men who have had the highest standing through- out their course and membership in it is highly prized by students. He also won a Latin prize in his fourth year. Upon receiving his degree, ill 1894, he was made assistant in English in Brown University for the following year. At the end of this year he was appointed In- structor in Latin in the same college, a position which he held until 1902. His associations with his students in Brown were always very pleasant. It was especi- ally during these years that his formative training in the teaching profession was received. His class work did not, however, take all his time, but permitted him to do much advanced study. In 1902 he became instructor of Latin and Greek in the Ohio Military Institute, Cincinnati. His work there was difficult and exhausting owing to disorganization and lack of dicipline in the school. While many of the cadets living in the school were idle and lawless, those whose homes were in College Hill, where the school was situated, were studious, sincere and courteous.
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In 1906 came his appointment as Professor of Latin and French in Lebanon Valley College. Professor Shippee found the college situated in a small, straggling town lying in an extremely beautiful valley. On all sides stretch rich, green, roll- ing fields; in the distance, north and south, lie mountains hemming the valley in. The fair surroundings add not a little charm to the busy intellectual life of the students and faculty. The summer of 1908 was spent in travel and study. Landing in Glasgow, Pro- fessor Shippee vir.ited the beautiful lakes in Scotland, stayed a short time in Stirl- ing and Edinburg, and then went to London, visiting Abbotsford and several cathe- dral towns on his way. After a short stay in Paris, he went to Grenoble, a pleasant city in the midst of the beautiful French Alps. He took a course of advanced study in the old university in Grenoble, and from time to time he visited places of historic and literary interest. His work in Lebanon Valley has proved successful and interesting; that this is so, is mainly due to the students who have taken his courses and who, by their zealous interest and hard work, have made the subjects yield good fruit. It has always been a pleasure to him to meet them and to work with the n — all — freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. As time has passed by and he has learned to know them, they have shown him how faithful and loyal they can be. Teaching them is not a task but a pleasure. This has been especially true of the class of 1910.
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