University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph, D, Mass. He received his earlier educa- tion at Leicester Academy. From here he went to Yale, where he received his B. A. degree in 1852. After graduating from Yale he took up the study of law and later practiced law for a short time in Worcester. From 1856 to 1859 he held the position of Principal of the High School of Worcester, ree signing this position to take up the practice of law in New Haven. In 1861 he entered the Civil War as captain in Co. ttH, 13th Connecti- cut. Capt. Sprague was a gallant soldier, and was wounded in the fierce battle of Irish Bend, La., in t63, While leading his company into the thick of the fight. Before the end of the war he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war Col. Sprague again took up educational work and held the position as head of several High Schools and Colleges, succes- sively. In 1885 he became president of the University and filled this position for four years. He was exceptionally well liked in his work here by all Who came in contact with him. Perhaps we can best show the esteem in which he was held, by quoting the following resolutions adopted by the board of trustees of the University at the time he resigned his position here:- hResolved, that, we accord to him tProf. Spraguet a great measure of praise for the present high position which the University has attained, and are impressed with the belief that his connection With this institution will be a bright page in its history for all time to come? Prof. Sprague has left his stamp on all the institutions With Which he has been connected. He was the founder of the first Slimmer school now in existence, located at Marthais Vineyard, Mass. He received an M. A. degree from the University of New York. His specialty has always been English Literature, and he has edited some of Shake- speareys plays, also Miltonis itParadise Lost,N for school and college use. He has also spent several years as a University Extension Lecturer, and is now lecturing on Milton, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, and the leading poets of the nineteenth century, and is editor of the department of Rhetoric of the Students Journal, New York City. His home is at present in Newton, Mass. l l OMER B. SPRAGUE was born in Sutton, 18

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HENRY MONTGOMERY, M. A., Ph. B. ceived his early education in the public schools of Ontario, and in Upper Can- ada College. From the latter institu- tion he went to the University of Toronto, Where he received the degree of B. A. in 1876 and that of M. A. in 1877, also receiving a scholarship and a medal in general science and winning highest honors in Geology, Miner- alogy and Biology He was also given the de- gree of B. S. by Victoria University. After graduation he became the Science Master of the Toronto City Collegiate Institute. He studied for three years in the Medical Department of Toronto University, of whose medical teaching staff he was for five years a member. He also studied for three months at Johns Hopkins University. In 1884 he entered upon his duties as Pryo- fessor of Natural Sciences and Vice President of the University of North Dakota, Where he labored assiduously for live years, and was, during two years of this time, acting Presi- dent of the institution. While connected with this University he explored the Black Hills extensively and made very valuable collections of minerals and fossils through- out the Dakotas. 111 1887, during a tornado Which partly destroyed the Main Building of the University, Professor Montgomery had the misfortune to lose a great many of the specimens Which he had collected. i In 1889 he resigned his chair here to accept a similar position in the New York State Normal and Training School at Cortland. He resigned from the Cortland Normal in 1890 to accept the position of Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Curator of Museum, and Superintendent of the Mining Department in the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. While connected with this institution he traveled extensively over the Territory 010W Statei of Utah, carrying on a very profitable work of exploration and investiga- tion. In 1894 he resigned this position and returned to Toronto as head of the Depart- ment of Geology and Biology in the Trinity University, Where he is still situated. Besides his regular classroom and laboratory duties. Professor Montgomery has prepared numerous papers and lectures upon educational and scientific subjects which have had an extensive circulation. He has made a specialty of investigating the remains of prehistoric man upon this continent, especially in Utah and the Dakotas. His dis- coveries in this science and in paleontology have been favorably noticed by eminent scientists. Professor Montgomery has many friends throughout North Dakota who remember With appreciation his services at our University during the early years of its existence. PROFESSOR HENRY MONTGOMERY re- 17

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the third floor. Here various strange sounds and noises would greet their ears, to analyze 0r distinguish which but little time was given to the prep, for to rush him from the head of the stairs across the hall, open the door of the room from which came the wildest noises, thrust him in head Iirst, and slam the door again, was the work of but an instant for his masculine and skillful conductor The prep is now in the Bull Pen and his education has begun. To record oneetenth of the impressions produced on his mind and body here would require a whole Junior Annual. The reader must be content with one or two typi- cal incidents of the new students life, and may, if he likes, draw on his imagination for the rest. But from what follows it will be plainly seen how beautifully the theory of opposition of forces worked in practice and how lamentable it is that it has been abandoned in modern times. When the writer was an inmate of the Bull Pen, there was one student there who suffered from the not uncom- mon delusion that he was a great orator in embryo. In and out of season he would jump on one of the two big pine tables and harangue the crowd. At first his outbursts met with applause, but as they grew more and more frequent and Violent, sometimes occurring in the middle of the night, they came to be regarded as a public nuisance by the rest of us, and were, in fact, declared to be such, at a formal meet- ing of the inmates, with but one dissenting vote, that of the Victim of the delusion. To pass the resolution was easy enough; to abate the nuisance was a different matter. Argu- ment, persuasion, threats, corporal punishment, were all tried in vain. The case grew steadily worse. Now, what would the faculty, operating directly, have been able to do in this instance? We now set ourselves to study this case closely, and it was observed that the patient always jumped on one of the tables, never on the other. That table must be de- stroyed; and it was so decreed. Accordingly, the next time That gave us a hint as to the proper remedy. the ravings of our poor companion disturbed our slumbers we all jumped out of bed. and rushing simultaneously to- ward the table, precipitated ourselves upon it with all our combined forces, and smashed it to pieces, the orator tumbling down, like a defeated politician, amid the ruins 219 H 570:1; in Rnceiovs. 1 - w K Peel: Ah: 1 l .0 i Ikeg Chem I. El; wun , , F Vows One ell. eruiS fmges :tkwllw mi: - Jami 0' 25? bee s DW'WM 1-15th ex w E Aqesr Qy+iST