Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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To the memory of JOSEPH MOODY WILLARD in appreciation of the kindly interest and self-sacrihcing spirit of helpfulness with which he served Penn State for so many years, we, the Class of Nineteen Twenty-five, affectionately dedicate our LA VIE

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JOSEPH MOODY WILLARD By Fred Lewis Pattee F4 IED December 10, 1923, Joseph Moody Willard, in the g iifty-ninth year of his age and the thirty-first year of his service to the Pennsylvania State College. The ranks of 'am Mraz that small older group which worked through the criti- cal transition period of the institution have been sadly depleted of late.. Once again death has taken from the faculty its senior member. Professor Willard was of old Puritan stock, a native of New Hampshire, and a son of Dartmouth her college. He came from a sturdy ancestry which had been in New England since pilgrim days. One of his line, Joseph Willard, was President of Harvard, another on the maternal side by pledging his property in the critical days of the Dartmouth College case, saved the institution from disaster, and in grateful recognition of it the college has perpetuated his name in one of its halls. No alumnus was ever more stamped by the best his alma mater had to give him than was Professor Willard. Often he talked to the men of Penn State of the Dartmouth ideals and often in freshman mass meetings he read to them the stirring words of the great Dartmouth Ode, dwelling feelingly on the lines: Around the world they keep for her Their old chivalric faithg They have the still North in their souls, The hill-winds in their breath, And the granite of New Hampshire ls made part of them till death. A chip of New Hampshire granite, he was inflexible in all that touched the strong fundamentals of characterg he was as dependable as his native granite foundations, he was earnest, active, thorough in . E81