Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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llltlvillt Best HIIGQYSOII, H. m. S CRITIC, lecturer and translator, Professor Anderson belongs to the literary C world: as teacher, he belongs particularly to us at Stanford Universityg and the date when he began his career at Butler University-1877-has for us peculiar interest. In his later work at Knox College, Purdue University and the University of Iowa, he established the traditions of the work in English, experiences which fitted him preemineutly for pioneer work at Stanford. The University owes largely to him the scholarly and progressive character of the work done in the English department, but his students owe him a far more personal debt. He imposes nothing upon them but his own catholicity of taste and broad conception of scholarship. Hence his infiuence is apparent, not in characteristic methods and theories, but in a responsive enthusiasm for the noble and artistic in literature, a broadened outlook, and an impulse toward original effort. His contact with life is as vital as with books, so that his influence does not pass with the school days, but remains a constant inspiration toward deeper thinking and higher living. K. S. W. Ewald iiliigtl, Pb. D. 'MWALD FLUGEL studied for his profession at the Universities of Freiburg ig and Leipzig. At the latter institution, where he took his degree of Ph. D. in 1886, he was a teacher of English Philology. , For some time he has been the editor of Anglia, published in Halle, Ger- many. It was for this periodical that he edited a collection of early English songs, among which are the poems of Queen Elizabeth and the songs of Henry VIII. Among his separate publications is a work on Carlyle, in German, in two parts, the latter of which has been translated into English. His Life of Sidney, with an edition of The Defense of Poesiel' and The Sonnets, is the most authoritative work on the subject. At present he is engaged upon a Chaucer lexicon, for the Chaucer Society of London, England. It is to be a complete concordance to the works of Chaucer, and the first volume is to be published in 1900, the fifth centenary of Chancer's death. Another work upon which he is engaged is The Neuengliches Lesebuch, a collection of literature of the time of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. This, together with the ample notes, will be invaluable to the student of that period. It will be in four volumes, the first one having been published last year. Professor Fliigel's grandfather was a merchant in Louisiana from ISO3 to 1819, when he returned to Leipzig to study in the University. It was he who began the famous Fliigel dictionary, that was reedited and completed in 1891 by Professor Fliigel's father, who devoted twenty-five years to the task. Thethorough scholarship of Professor Fliigel commands the respect of all who know him, and his earnest and genial manner wins for him their friendship. Imbued with the atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon and Chaucerian periods of literature, he succeeds in imparting to his students an interest in them that leads to enthusiasm. His private library is one of the most valuable of its kind in America, and through his kindness it is made available to the members of the University. E. M. H. -12...

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lldtbdtl Hbbbii, H. B., IIE. B. V vATHAN ABBOTT was born July II, 18511, in the State of Maine. He gradu- ated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in june, 1873, and entered Yale tl1e following fall, graduating in 1877. He then studied law in his father's oiiice, and in Boston University, where he graduated in 1881, and was thereupon admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was married in 1884, and remained in Boston practicing law until his appointment as Tappan Professor of Law in the University of Michigan in 1891. In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Law in Northwestern University, and the following year was called to the Department of Law at Stanford. Professor Abbott, by his method of teaching law, happily combines the lecture, textbook and judicial decision. A summary of each subject studied is dictated in the form of notes, and this is supplemented by the informal discussion and t' quiz. The idea is to make everything as plain as possible. I want to make myself clear, says Professor Abbott. To do this, he scorns not the use of simple language and homely illustration. Another characteristic of his teaching is that he never drives, never makes use of threats to force a student to work. Such methods are unnecessary in his classes. He so interests one in the study of law, that it is a pleasure to work with him. Again, the prodigious amount of work that he does himself is an inspi- ration to others. Professor Abbott, by his devotion to his profession, his eminent scholarship, his high ideals, and his kind, genial ways, has endeared himself to all who know him. R. J. O'N. Hmm william Smith, m. m. . fx ROFESSOR ALBERT WILLIAM SMITH, the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, was born in Westmoreland, N. Y., on August 30, Li 1856. He obtained a preparatory education in the grammar schools at the High School of Rome, N. Y. At eighteen years of age he began his collegiate training. registering at Cornell University in the fall of 1874. In 1878 the degree of B. M. E. was conferred upon him. After some years of practical work, Mr. Smith returned to Cornell and in ISS6 received the M. M. E. degree. A During the intervening years, from 1878 to 1886, Mr. Smith was engaged, first, for about a year and a half at the Brown tk Sharp Manufacturing Company of Providence, R. I., where he held the position of machinist and contractor. In 1830 he accepted the position of machinist and shop foreman in the Straight Line Engine Works of Syracuse, N. Y., and three years later he became superintendent of the Kingsford Foundry and Machine Works of Oswego, N. Y., which latter position Mr. Smith held until his return to Cornell. In 1886 he became a Fellow in Mechanical Engineering in his Alma Mater, being promoted in 1887 to an assistant professorship. In 1891 he was offered and accepted the chair of Machine Design at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Smith became a member of the Faculty of Stanford University in 1892 and at OllC6 attained to an unusual degree of popularity with his students. Being a thorough master of his subject, and having a faculty for interesting his scholars and clarifying their work, he has every requisite of the truly valuable instructor. His lectures are a special feature of his instruction and are marked by fluency, apt illustration, and a logical and clear presentation. Professor Smith is the author of two well-known textbooks, Constructive Materials of Engineering allfi Elementary Machine Design. He is a leading member of two engineering societies, the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers and the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, ' S. B. O. L- I4 +.