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

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$ -3920. BLUE HEN -2928- EQE;J EDWARD LAURENCE SMITH Dean Smith was born on March 19, 1877, at Newark, Delaware. He entered Delaware College in 1892 and received the B. A. degree in June, 1896. During the next two years he took post-graduate work at Delaware and a course at a business school in Wilmington, In the scholastic vear of 1898-99 he held a University Scholarship in Romance Languages at Columbia University, New York. In 1899-1900 he held a University Fellowship at Columbia in the Romance and Germanie Languages, The degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by Delaware College in June, 1899, In 1900-1901 Dean Smith studied at 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 Polytechnic Institute. In 1902 he was elected Instructor in Modern Languages at Delaware College, and in 1904 was advanced to the rank of Professor of Modern Languages. In ?EIEEhe was elected Dean of the College, and in 1916 Secretary of the aculty. Dean Smith is a member of the Kappa Alpha and the Phi Kappa Phi Fraternities, the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars, the Executive Committee of the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Athletic Council of Delaware College. As Dean of the College he is always active in student life and student affairs. To Dean Smith we go daily for advice in this matter or that matter, always sure of his advice being the counsel of a scholar, a gentleman and a friend. L Twelve

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3920. BLUE HEN -1622- The Faculty If we had a mind to we could turn out a made to order eulogy upon the merits of our beloved faculty. We could garnish the com- position with the old familiar archaic phraseclogy. We could even address aur respected professors as sapi- ent pedagogues. But professor sa- vours of whiskers and a bald head, and pedagogue is only used to fill up space in the Encyclopaedia Brit- tanica. Furthermore, made to order poems are only produced by poet laureates and Walt Mason ; they are not successful. What a travesty upon our friend- ship for Gimpty and Bugs and Dinny and Frogegy to place them, with one grand, dramatic gesture, upon the heights of Olympus! The transition would be too abrupt even for the most imaginative student among usg; furthermore, the sapient pedagogues themselves no doubt would be ill-content with exigencies of a lonely sojourn upon a classical and barren mountain-top. After all, the man's the man, and so we present them here; the Faculty, our pals. L Eleven

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bg s BLLUL TIEDI 9. 4 CHARLES ANDREW McCuE FProfesgor of Horticulture Dean MeCue was born in 1879, near Caro City, Michigan. In 1901 he received the degree of 5. B. from Michigan Agricultural College. He did graduate work at the same institution from 1903 to 1904, and in 1904 he was elected Instructor in Horticulture which position he held until 1907. He resigned in 1907 to become Professor of Horticulture at Dela- ware College and Horticulturist of the Delaware College Experimental Station. He pursued graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in Biology from 1913 to 1915. Dean MeCue was president of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1918, He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Pomological Society, the American Genetie Association, and the Phi Kappan Phi Fraternity. Y Thirteen