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GEORGE ELLIOTT HOWARDSPH. D. T120-rs 1512010

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George Elliott Howard, ICORGE ELLIOTT HOXVARD was born in Saratoga, N. Y.. October 1, 18.19. At 311 early age he 111OVCCl WSSt with hiS parents and completed his elementary education in the COllllllOl1 schoolslof Ohio and Illinois. He prepared for college at the Nebraska State Normal, and entered the University of Nebraska, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1876. As a student he dis- tinguished himself in scholarship and athletics, and, in addition to routine work, performed the duties of assistant to the State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction from 1872 to 1876. The years 1876-78 were spent in Europe studying institutional history and Roman jurisprudence at the universities of Munich and Leipzig. The vacations were devoted to travel and supplementary study in Gerinany, Austria, Italy and Belgium. From 1879 until 1391 llr. I-Ioward occupied the Chair of History at the University of Nebraska. Fl'Olll 1885 until 1891, as Secretary of the State Historical Society, with meager resources at command, he collected for the Society Z1 valuzible library of 5,ooo books and pamphlets, comprising many of the choicest sources of Colonial and Western history. - llr. l'Ioward's leading work is his Local Constitutional History, in two volumes. Vol. I, an Introduction to the Local Constitutional History ol' the United States, was published in 1889.4 Vol. II, novv in p1'ep:11':1tio11, The Evolution of Municipal Institutions in American Cities, will be completed as soo11 as Eastern libraries can be visited. The Developinent of the Ki11g's Peace and the English Local Peace 3l:1gistr:1cy is a valuable contribution to institutional literature and has been widely reviewed. A series of addresses on university ques- tions, to be published i11 one volume. comprise, 4' The Evolution of the I'niversity, The State University in America, The West and the Public l'niversity. and The American University and the .-Xinericzin Blau. ' A projected work, to appear this year, is entitled, D y ofthe Evolution of the Marriage Contract in England and the United States. Klrtrriage and the Iianiily : A Stud Dr. Howard is a devoted student of history and is eminently quali- lied tor the duties ofthe classroom. He is a prodigious Worker an . . . ' 3 enthusiastic instructor, and an impressive lecturer. He commands the I . . Rf 11111':1t1fn1 of his students, inspires their zeal for Work, and elicits their best efliirts. H. H. BROWN. I2

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memorial Ode. Ulead at the Founders' Day exercises, March 9, 1894.l 0 LIFE is lost, one says g no 1I13.I1,S work dies Utterly 3 none that looks upon the skies But leaves some record as secure as they From death and death's decay. Lo, this is fate. Put forth thy strong hand where Men labor in Tin1e's garden-plot to-day : Eternity shall find the impress there. And haply this may be. But one says, Nay, there is naught that abides. Time is a wide, unfathomable sea 'Neath whose recurrent tides Are swallowed up all things implacably. This rock-built earth whereof man makes his home Is less than the sea's foam 3 The galaxies of stars that seem to hini Perdurable as tinie, like bubbles swim Upon its surface and like them will burst 5 Yea, time itself, that swallows up all these, Must yield in turn, the last lost as the first,- Must sink whence it arose, Flow backward whence it Hows, Into eternity's soundless, shoreless seas. XVhat may be true? Is life less full or fair, Does deeper darkness gather o'er n1en's eyes, Tlian when our fathers importuned the skies For light withholden there? The sun shines warm to-day as yesterday, The green grass fails not when the rains return, And ivy twines about the burial urn, And stnnnier winds through leafiess branches play. llearken by day, by night, and thou inayst hear Ascending ever one unchanging tune, The voice of all earth's choristers a croon The world song low and clear No age hath listened for this song in vain And Homer calls and Shakespeare answers Here ' -tml loss is balanced by unfaihng gain ' 1 A' r i ' ' D ' . . 1 . , Though one voice dies another swells the strain, ' A 1 , . T4