Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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JAMBS HARDY DILI ARD. The adjectives, distinguished or eminent, would displease Professor James Hardy Dillard, and therefore we shall not use such terms, although richly deserved, but will endeavor to write a sketch appropriate to the simplicity of a truly noble character. James Hardy Dillard was bom October 24, 1856, in Nan- semond County, Virginia. After obtaining the degrees of M.A., D.Litt., and B.L. at Washington and Lee University, he be- came Assistant Professor of Mathematics at that institution in 1876. In the next year he accepted the position of Principal of the Rodman School in Norfolk, Va., and in 1882 became Principal of the Norfolk Academy. He remained in Norfolk until 1887, when he went to St. Louis to become Principal of the Mary Institute of Washington University there. In 1891 Tulane secured his services as Professor of Latin, and in this position, as in every other that he has honored, he has shown all who have come in contact with him that life is more than learning, that a man who stands upright before all men is more than wealth or power, and that only the fame that comes unsought for work well done and kindness never failing is worth having. Professor Dillard is the President of the Public Library here, and is the author of several interesting works which have been very favorably received: Arithmetic Exercises, Se- lections from Wordsworth, and Fifty Letters of Cicero. He has become dean of the educational interests in Louisiana as well as Dean of Tulane University, and as a contributor to the newspapers on vital questions and as a lecturer he has ex- ercised a strong influence through the State and upon New Orleans for the good of the people. Professor Dillard has secured a firm hold on the hearts of all the students by his never-failing interest, his absolute justice and squareness, and by the splendid example he sets us of a man living the high ideals which he holds. A gentleman and a nobleman in character and manner, he is a thoroughly democratic man of great learning and broad culture in society, religion, and politics. Tolerant, liberal, and hospitable to all classes of men, the love of his brother man and keen interest in his welfare are a part of his character, and he does not bend to social distinctions and conventions, but is what he believes. The truth and strength underlying his genial manner only add to its cordial simplicity. It takes no unbending on his part to make the student feel at ease, and while no one stands in awe of his authority, everyone respects, admires, and loves him.

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JOHN HANNO DBII BR. John Hanno Deiler, one of the most noted members of our Faculty, was bom August 8, 1849, in Altoetting, Germany. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, but his thorough musical education was given him by his father, a Bavarian court musician, and by the composer Antoine Mueller. Owing to his great talent, he won a scholarship at the Royal Bavarian Studien and Musik Seminar. In 1866 he entered the Royal Normal College at Munich, and was graduated two years afterward with high honors. During the following years he held Government ap- pointments in several schools, finally becoming connected with the Model School at Munich. After this he attended lectures in the University of Munich, and pursued advanced studies in various branches of the Royal Polytechnic Institute. In 1871 he received a call as principal of a German school in New Orleans, and in 1879 he was appointed Professor of German at Tulane and later at Newcomb also. Since then he has become widely known as a lecturer on German hterature and history, while his Parsifal lectures last year drew enormous audi- ences of the most cultivated people of New Orleans. Professor Deiler has been prominent in many other direc- tions. He is the President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft, a society for attracting and protecting German immigrants, and was the originator of the German Archives for the history of the Germans in the South. In 1882 he founded the New Orleans Quartette Club, of which he is still President and Musical Director. He has been notable in several Sangerfeste of the North American Union, and as the representative of the National Union he addressed a huge crowd of singers at Vienna in 1890 and another gath- ering at Stuttgart in 1896. This same year he was made President of the North American Sangerbund. Locally, Professor Deiler is well known as the President of the New Orleans German Gazette and as a member of the Canal Street Commission. As a reward for valuable services rendered, the German peo- ple of the United States, and for distinguished hterary merit, he has received the Order of Knighthood in the Order of the Crown from the German Emperor. He has contributed to the leading periodicals of this country, in one of which he figured prominently last year in an article on the most noted Germans in America. The latest honor to be conferred on Professor Deiler is the appointment to succeed the late Carl Schurz as judge to award the prizes from the Leipp Memorial Fund offered by the University of Chicago. Combining, as he does, these high intellectual attainments with a most lovable personality, it is no wonder that both students and fellow-professors look forward with the deepest regret to the time when Professor ' s Deiler ' s resignation will go into effect. He may rest assured, therefore, that just as long at Tulane shall endure will his name be honored and loved throughout its bounds. 10