University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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PROFESSOR THOMAS H. SPENCE.

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Professor ®l|omc s . pcttc . ROFESSOR Thomas Humphreys Spence. to whom this vohime is J dedicated, is a native of Worcester County, Maryland, where he %X was born in 1867 at Lansdowne. the beautiful hcmie of his parents. Irving and ' irginia Humphreys Spence, near Snow Hill. His earlv education was carried on at home under the direct super- vision of his father, a gentleman of critical taste and scholarly attainments. Later he attended the Snow Hill High School, from which he graduated in 1885. After a year of further preparation at Alaupin ' s University School at Ellicott City, he entered the Johns Hopkins I ' niversity in 1886, matricula- ting in the Latin-Mathematical Course. In 1898 he left the I ' niversity to become Principal of the Stockton Academy in Worcester County, about the same time registering as a law student in the otfice of the late Clayton J. Purnell. of Snow Hill. When the Maryland Agricultural College was reorganized in 1892, Pro- fessor Spence was elected to the Chair of Languages with instructions to organize a classical course leading to the degree of A. 1!. Having continued his private law reading, he in 1893 passed the bar and was admitted to the practice of law in the courts of Maryland. In 1901, Professor Spence was elected by the Board of Trustees, ' ice- President of the College, which office he continues to hold. His talent for organization has straightened out many of the difficulties which naturally attend a growing institution and under his administration, as ' ice-President and Chairman of the Faculty Committee on College Rou- tine, the work of the College has been much systematized and improved. As a member of the Discipline Committee, Professor Spence has always in his mind the interest of the individual student, as well as of the college. Keen in the detection of the culprit, when college laws have been violated, he never loses sight of the fact that the raison d ' ctrc of the College is to educate and build up the students in character and manliness, as well as in mentality, and that this can best be accomplished where discrimination and leniency go hand-in-hand with justice. As head of the Department of Languages in an institution especially de- voted to scientific work. Professor Spence has well maintained the dignity of his own department, which bears the imprint of his strong personality no less than of his literary taste and skill as a teacher. Of none more truly than of those born beyond the Chesapeake has it been said, Cochtm noii aiiiininn mutant qui trans marc cnrrunt and Pro- fessor Spence is still an Eas ternshorcman in those personal qualities which make life so delightful for dwellers in that favored region. Hospitable in his home, genial and courteous to all, he takes an active and sympathetic in- terest in everything which concerns the students of the college and is al- ways ready to meet with them, as a friend and adviser.

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ffifftccrs nnh nmliv of (Slnstructtmt, R. W. Silvester, LL. D., President Professor of Matlieniatics Thomas H. Spence. A. M., J ' iee-Presideiit Professor of Languages Capt. Edgar T. Conley, 15th Ixft. U. S. A., Commandant Professor of Military Science H. B. AIcUuxxELL, B. S., .M. D., .S r c- Chemist Professor of Chemistry W. T. L. Taliaferro, A. B. Professor of Agriculture Sami-el S. BixKLEV, M.S.. D. S., State Veterinarian Profes.sor of X ' eterinarv Science F. B. BoMiiERGER, B. S., A. M., Librarian Professor of English and Civics Charles S. Richardson, A. M. Professor of Oratory, Assistant Professor in English J. B. S. Norton, M. S., State Patholo,i ist Professor of ' egetable Pathology and Botany T. B. Symons, M. S., State Entomologist Professor of Entomology and Zoology Harry Gwinner, ' SI. M. E. Professor of Mechanical Engineering C. P. Close, AI. S., State Hortienltiirist Professor of Horticulture T. H. Taliaferro, C. E., Ph. D. Professor of Civil Engineering and Physics Henry T. Harrison, A. M., Secretary of the Faculty Professor in charge of Preparatory Department. Assistant Professor of Mathematics J. M. SOWDER Associate Professor of Horticulture