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MARSHALL Lawrence J. Corbly President Corbly is a potent factor in West Virginia's remarkable progress. A by no means small phase of that development has had its centre in Marshall College the State Normal School which for thirteen years has been under the dynamic leadership of its present head. During those years thousands of young men and young women have received from him and his chosen helpers stimuli which with other forces have had a great part in the revolutionizing of this State during the past decade. If the allotted space permitted a story could here he woven of a Tyler county. West Virginia, country boy becoming aware of the world and of himself, developing ambitions, attaining goals, expanding ideals, throttling and crushing difficulties, widening his possible sphere of usefulness, and seeking after the realities of life. A tale could be told of such success as so often has brought to its producer the question, How do you do it?” and has caused an observer to remark. lie knows not how to take his eye from an end. For a teacher's college president Lawrence J. Corbly is in a superior way qualified. In what line of school work has he not been engaged? As a student he worked in and finished from the common schools of Tyler county, lie graduated from the Fairmont State Normal School, he obtained degrees from the West Virginia University, he did graduate work in the great German Universities of Halle. Jcno and Berlin, and he has traveled extensively not only over the United States, but has made four trips to the British Isles and the European continent investigating personally and by letter the school systems of the world from the grade to the University, each in detail and as a correlated whole. As a teacher his experience has widened and deepened through five years in the common schools of Tyler and Wood counties, three years in the graded schools of Wood and Ritchie counties, two years in the Superintendency of the schools of Water alley, Mississippi, three years in the Superintendency of the Clarksburg. West Virginia schools, and thirteen years as Normal School principal or president. As a lecturer and institute instructor he has found it impossible to grant all the requests for his services and each year declines, though with regret. numerous invitations. As a writer his pen has been a supplement to his untiring efforts to uplift his native State's citizenship. Through the columns ot “The Parthenon”, Marshall's official journal, his writings have had not only a local, but a Statewide influence: for several years he edited “The Public School Mirror : and he is at present with State Superintendent M. P. Shawkcv co-editor of The West Virginia Educator. President Corbly possesses the executive ability necessary to growing a big institution. IIis work is the evidence offered in proof of this statement. He has a 6
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MIRABILIA sympathy for wrestling ambitious personalities which never fails to extend possible assistance or to lighten troubled hearts. He commands the love of his co-workers. He knows how to co-ordinate forces. Though a master-hand in grasping generalities and getting hold of the vital point in any problem, a small detail can hardly escape his notice. He has the tact of a diplomatist, the mobilizing skill of a great general. From his teachers and ptipils he gets willing and glad cooperation because he never imposes an unreasonable duty. Within his friends he inspires unwavering loyalty because they have learned that his desires are but a detail in his great life purpose—the betterment of men and women—that toward that end he has and will continue to sacrifice money,time, and self, so thoroughly are his unyielding physical. mental and spiritual energies devoted to that work. 7
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