Transylvania University - Crimson Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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PROFESSOR SAMUEL M, .IEIPFIERSUN

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Tribute to Professor Jefferson R. H. CROSSFIELD Professor Samuel Mitchell Jefferson, scholar, teacher, philosopher, servant of God and men, and Christian gentleman, has joined the unnumbered hosts since the CRIMSON last issued. With his passing, Transylvania and the College of the Bible become poorer in the personnel of those who teach in our class- rooms and who touch helpfully the youth of our campus, yet infinitely richer in the heritage of a name unsullied and a life without reproach. Perhaps we are too near the earth-life of this great man fully to evaluate him. However, measured by whatever standard, he must be ranked with the truly big men of our day. He had brains enough to rule a nation. Few equalled him in genuine culture. His equipment, especially competent in philosophy, was of the amplest sort, covering a vast range of knowledge and experience. .Whether it be in the realm of abstruse philosophy and psychol- ogy, of science and discovery, or of history, poetry and art, Prof. Jefferson was well informed and appreciative. He was a full man, ready and exact. . While essentially a philosopher, he was an eminent theologian. Capable of those wide reaches of thought that result in liberal faith and the construc- tive attitude, Christianity to him was larger and greater than any other sys- tem of religion in the same proportion that God manifested in Christ is larger and greater than the greatest of men. Consequently, any interpretation of the Christian religion that savored of bigotry or narrowness was distasteful to the instincts of his being. Christian union was, therefore, a subject to which he devoted much thought, and one which yielded some of the richest of his fruitage. ' Perhaps the largest legacy one can leave the world is the gift of a long and successful career as a teacher of potential leaders. Hundreds of students to whose lives Professor lefferson contributed the determining infiuence, will continue to call him blessed-will give him the first place in their Hall of Fame, and hold his name in everlasting remembrance. Few teachers pos- sessed the art of teaching in so eminent a degree and so completely lost themselves in the joy of imparting truth. VVhat an enthusiasm he had for teaching! Utterly devoid of pedagogic professionalism and that aloofness which too often accompanies conscious scholarship, his meat and drink was to give impulse and direction to the mind in its quest for knowledge and power. This spirit led him not only to give earnest heed to the inquiries of students, but constantly forced him out of his way in order to make the fuller explana- tion and to render the greater help.