Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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1922 922 Robert William Blake Died Janutiry ij , IQ3I Robert AV ' illiam Blake was born on a farm in Vinneshiek County. Iowa, on May 21. 1864, the second son of Robert W. and Emily Dayton Blake. The family, originally from the north of Ireland, came to America during the eighteen fifties and settled in Central New York, migrating in the early sixties to Indiana and, after Professor Blake ' s birth, to Minnesota. His parents died shortly after their arrival in Minnesota, and the boy was brought up by his uncle, who moved his family in 1872 to a farm near Richmond, Va. Professor Blake ' s early education was obtained in great part from his uncle, although a neighbor and the public schools of Richmond played their part. In 1876 the family moved north to East Orange and Newark, N. J., where he continued his schooling until the end of his second year at high school. Then came a sort of youth- ful Odyssey, a try at the hardware business and a more profitable fourteen months in a machine shop, a curious preparation for a Professor of Latin. He was wont, how- ever, to count these years as a valuable experience, and to them he undoubtedly owed his surprising knowledge of mechanical matters and his ability to meet and converse on equal term with men from the shops as well as with his colleagues. Two years of such experiences were enough to convince him that his bent was not applied mechanics. By great persistence and diligent application to his neglected studies after shop hours he had succeeded in convincing a justly doubtful uncle that he had the brains and the will to go to college and, as he put it, with the assistance of a great deal of leniency on the part of the examiners, he was admitted to the Classical Course of New York University in the fall of 1883. The next year he trans- ferred to Princeton University and graduated with the class of 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. araii7Tiiraffgirai7w t7 iinirgig g