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.afM. BLUE HEN- f ' i ' 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 phraseology. W ' e could even address our 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. ■hat a travesty upon our friend- ship for Gimpty and Bugs and Dinny and Froggy 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 us ; 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. Eleven
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,a§)ai. BLUE HEN Edward Laurence SxMITh 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 year of 1898-99 he held a University Scholarship in Romance Languages at Columbia L ' niversity, New York. In 1899-1900 he held a L ' niversity Fellowship at Columbia in the Romance and Germanic Languages. The degree of ' SI. 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 1915 he was elected Dean of the College, and in 1916 Seci-etary of the Faculty. 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 liddle 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. Twelve
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