Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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1In flbemortam 7 Professor Cohn's connection with Northwestern dates from the year 1893. l-lis college course was taken at Columbia University, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1867. After a post-graduate course of three years he was awarded a master's degree from the same university. With this prepara- tion for future study he went abroad, and from 1871 to 1873 waslenrolled as a student in the University of Berlin. On his return to America he taught German in the Aulton Grammar School of New York City. In the summer of 1876 he held the chair of German in the Amherst Summer School, and in sub- sequent summers he conducted the German department at Chautauqua. With the first day of his residence in Evanston, Professor Cohn began to work heart and soul in the interests of the Ger- man department. l-le conceived the idea of enlisting in our favor the sympathy of the prominent Germans of Chicago, and of making the German department a German-speaking body. The first idea found expression in Der Deutsche Lzteratur- Vere1'n, the second in Die Deutsche Gesellschaft. These two organizations resulted in inspiring among the students of the German department an espn? de corps that would be hard to parallel anywhere else in the University. The constant drain on his physical vigor that such activities implied seemed to have had little effect upon Professor Cohn's constitution. but when the collapse came it was sudden and complete. He died on Wednesday, March 21, 1900.

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HENRY COHN

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1111 flbemouam ANNA MAUDE BOWEN was born 1n Chxcago December 15 1872 She entered Northwestern Umversrty 1n September 1891 and at the close of three years of study graduated frorn the ph1losoph1cal course Wllh the h1ghest honors The follow mg year she went to Cornell Umversxty to do graduate work 1n German Through her ndustry and talents she rapldly won the adm1rat1on and esteem of her professors and IH May 1895 she was awarded a fellowshxp IH the Germamc languages Before tal-nng her doctors degree she went rn july 1896 to Germany where she studxed both at the Unlver slty of Lelpslc and at Munlch recelvlng In absenfza the degree of Doctor of Phllosophy from Cornell UUIVCYSIQY 1n june 1897 Upon her return to Amerlca she taught for two years 1n the high school at Martins Ferry Ohlo and durlng the sprmg of 1899 res1ded rn New York where she was engaged rn lxterary work In June 1899 she was elected Actmg Dean of Women of the College of Lrberal Arts of Northwestern Un1Vers1ty After spendmg the summer xn Germany pur sulng further studres ln hterature and art she entered upon her dutres at Northwestern September 1899 She occup1ed the posltlon of Dean only four months death comrng very suddenly Sunday rnormng january 28 1900 O 5 1- . . 1 1 1 . : . . . 1 . 1 . . . 1 1 . , . . 1 1 1 1 . ' , . 1 1 1 . . , 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 -