University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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TVEGLUE U1 The Faculty N the campus and in the class- room we have come to know them in genuine companionship of mutual interests and activities. We find them wise and interesting in- structors, and they are, moreover, those to whom we invariably go with our many difficulties, sure of their sympathetic attention and grateful for their adviee. It is ever the privilege of every Dela- ware man to make of his instructor a true friend and councillor. Each has served the college faithfully and well. We cannot too grate- fully remember their services in building in us that character for which we all strive, or dwell too affectionately upon the strong per- sonal associations which they have had with cur college life, Seventeen

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EDWARD LAURENCE SMITH DEAN SMITH was born on March 19, 1877, at Newark, Delaware. He entered Delaware College in Septem- ber, 1892, and received the B. A. degree in June, 1896. For the next two years he took post-graduate work at Delaware and a course at a business school in Wilmington. In the scholastic year of 1898-99 he held a University Scholarship in Romance Languages at Columbia University, New York City. In 1899-1900 he was the holder of a University Fel- lowship at Columhia in the Romance and Germanic Lan- guages, The degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by Delaware College in June, 1899, In 1200-1901 Dean Smith continued his studies at the Universite de Paris, Le College de France, and L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, at Paris. He returned to America and taught modern languages at Brooklyn Polytechnie Institute. In 1902 he was elected In- structor in Modern Languages at Delaware College and was advanced to the rank of Professor of Modern Languages in 1904. In 1915 he became Dean of the College and in 1916 Secretary of the Faculty. Dean Smith iz a member of the Kappa Alpha Frater- nity, the Honorary Fraternity of Phi Kappa Phi, the Mod- ern Language Association of America, the American Asso- ciation of Colleriate Registrars, the Executive Committee of the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion, and President of the Athletic Council of Delaware Col- lege. As Dean of the College he is always active in student life and student affairs. To Dean Smith we go daily for ad- viee in this matter or in that matter, always sure of his ad- viee being the advice of a scholar, a gentleman, and a friend. LRI Nineteen