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

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HARRY HAYWARD Tweniy

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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

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1L HARRY HAYWARD DEA.N HAYWARD was born near Lewistown, New York, in 1869, After preparing at the Mount Herman School, in Massachusetts, he entered the College of Apriculture at Cornell in 1890. After graduating he was a land agent in northern Delaware and later went to the State College, Pennsylvania, where he acted as head of the Department of Dairying. He then accepted a position as Professor of Dairying and Animal Husbandry at New Hampshire Col- lege., From there he went to the Department of Agricul- ture at Washington, and was chief of the Dairyving Division. He was engaged in organizing and managing the agrieul- ture work at the Mount Herman School for three years, and came to Delaware in 1906 as Director of the Experiment Station, and Professor of Agriculture. He has done special work at Harvard, the University of Minnegota, and some of the agricultural institutions of England and Germany. In 1919 Dean Hayward was granted a leave of absence and sailed for France to do agri- cultural reconstruction work. In recognition of his work he received a decoration from the French government be- fore he returned to the United States, He is a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and of the honorary fraternities of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. His untiring efforts and his construetive ability make him a true leader in his branch of work, Twenty-one