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1922 i I i i 3 I I 1 I I i I ! I 922 His interest in the classics had already been roused at New York University, and his unusual ability was recognized at Princeton by the award of the Classical Fellowship at graduation. The next ear he spent in the graduate school at Prince- ton, winning his Master ' s degree in 1888. Then followed two years at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Certain misgivings as to his probable success as a clergyman caused him to interrupt his course in theology and accept a proffered position as in- structor in Greek in Princeton College, a place which he filled until 1894. In the spring of 1894 he was married to Emma Alter Hance of Philadelphia and sailed soon after with Mrs. Blake for Europe, where he spent the year 1894-1895 as a student of Latin at the universities of Leipzig and Erlangen. The ear spent abroad was one of his pleasantest memories. He acquired, along with new knowledge of his chosen subject, an uncommon proficiency in reading and speaking German and a regard for things German, which caused him no little perturbation of spirit when his righteous indignation was aroused by the excesses committed in 1914. Returning to America, he was elected Professor of Latin at Washington and Jefferson College in the fall of 1896. Three ears later, in 1899, he was called by President Drown to the chair of Latin at Lehigh, the position he held at the time of his death. Professor Blake was brought to Lehigh primarily to serve as director of the Arts and Science Course, and spent the best twenty years of his life in the improving and upbuilding of that course. Refined scholarly gentleman that he was, he used his influence not only to inculcate upon the minds of Arts men his own broad culture and the love of the humanities characteristic of him, but likewise to foster among the men of other courses a respect for high ideals and scholastic attainment. The men who sat in his classes or came to him for advice are frank in admitting their admiration of and affectionate regard for him. To them his loss is personal. The University at large loses a man who consistently stood for the best in academic tradition, who was sympathetic to a fault with student activities and troubles and modest and tolerant in his relations with his colleagues. iSB :,n iByffli? «ffsiffsS7Sii?raig
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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
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