University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A TRIBUTE... I 4 Doctor James Harmon l'loose l ' Three generations ago in the State of New York, James Harmon Hoose was born. Two generations ago he was completing the work of his second degree at the old Genesee Wesleyan College in western New York-now Syracuse University. Before long he was teaching in the public schools of his native state, and for over a quarter of a century he served as professor, superintendent of city schools, lecturer at institutes, and during many years as superintendent of the State Normal School, receiving in the early part of this period of intense pedagogical activity his just academic recognition in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Thus the present generation of students is being instructed by those who were themselves tirst taught the way of the teacher by Doctor Hoose. And yet he still lives and teaches, and that in our midst. Almost two decades ago he came to California for a much needed rest. Six years later he was prevailed upon to accept the newly established chair of Pedagogy in the University of Southern California, with the original understanding that his work was to be light. But as the years passed this veteran instructor by sheer worth became indispensible to the broadest activities and highest interests of the University, until, as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, he will go down in the history of the University as one of its Fathers. One department after another has been taken up by him, deepened, broadened, quiekened and then passed over to younger hands to guide in its ensured growth. I-le himself still retains the larger part of the work in Education and Philosophy. ln the educational circles of the country, Doctor lrloose enjoys a wise acquaintance, in Southern California his intluence is universally recognizedg among the faculties of the eight colleges of the University his name is revered and his counsel often soughtg but especially to those who have had the privilege of sitting at his feet, is he endeared. They lind him a man rich in matter, possessing a store of knowledge gathered frotn many fields through long years of industry and freshened by continual alertness to the progress of the human mind in the days just passing. They lincl him a man with a method so different front the common millstones of pedagogy as almost to seem new-a method matured but not water-logged, thorough but not enctnnbered, critical but not fantastic, psychological but discovered to be so chiefly by its results. Best of all, his students tind him a MAN-a man with tempered judgment, with youthful enthusiasm in his classes both large and small, with tireless interest in the great work of teaching in schools of all grades, and with an unquestioned personal concern for the highest good of his individual students, a man with severity tempered by rare kindness, persistence in-wrought with patience, intensity of application balanced by perennial humor, a man, a counsellor, a friend, a fatherg a Christian man. He is one of the few who are great enough to be simple. His formal leadership and the quiet influence of his radiant personality are alike worthy of his hoary head and of his kindly face. May his years of inspiring service be prolonged, be sweetened, be widened yet more in their reach, until some day they are crowned by a glorious unfolding in another world of what they have meant to hundreds of younger lives in this,-from the Empire State to the Golden State. -J. Hudson Ballard. '09 l4

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.Ns we slack the thirst of liden at the chalice of thy mouth, And the wines of aneient wisdom are snrcease of our drought. the XYheresoe'er thy children wander thy immortal feet are set, And thy hand is stretched in wcleoxn thy sons are met. In blood of men and maidens, in the pu of the age. In the dreaming of the student and tl of the sage, ln the passion of the poet who ehante wild and high e whextsoe Ll lses le xrist om th Such songs as lsrafeli hears who sings behind the sky, XYhen night doth fold her pinions and all created things Are hushed to hear that melody that lsrafeli sings: ln the sunlight and the shadow. in our laughter and our tears, ln the warp and Woof of lacing and the guerdon of the years. ln the vision of the future and the fruitage of the past. ls the breathing of thy presence till the world is hushed at last. Then the sword shall heat to plonghsl and the laws of love and truth HIVCS Shall bind men's hearts together as thy spirit hinds our youth. I 13

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' 'APPRECIATIONS l W The man who can develop in young people the power of self-effort, of steady growth toward an ideal, of attainment in strength of character and virtuous living, is an educator of the Iiuest type. Such an educator is Dr. Ifloose, as many can testify from personal experience and observation. SARA A. SAUNDICRS, Su xc-rintendent of the 'l'raining' De Jartment, State Normal School Ilrock mort, N. Y. I l I l I have sat at the feet of several Gamaliels in my life time, hut I never sat where I qot more ideas than I did when the Gamaliel was Dr. James H. lrloose. I knew him when I began to go to schoolg he helped prepare me for eollegeg he offered me a chair in his faculty twenty-live years ago, and I worked with him as a teacher for seven years. lle has thus influenced my life as few others have. and I respect and honor him more than I have words to express. D.-NVID IEUGICNIC SlX'llTl'I. Ph. D., l.I.. D., Professor of Mathematics, Teachers' College. Columhia University. Dr. lloose has a wonderful personality. Energy, strength and force are expressive words, hut power is more expressive. Rugged in feature and in act. hut withal gentle, kind and sympathetic, His fellowship was a strong, silent reward. I think he has never realized how far one hour of his fellowship reached into the future lives of his students. ' 'l'. J. llIcIiVOY. Editor, llflelivoy llflagazine. Someone has happily characterized the great men of the world as: Men tall enough to he seen across the centuries. l take it. everyone in his personal career can look back in a similar manner over his past and see tall people at different periods along the course of his life. Looking hackward over a stretch of a third of a century, such a man appears to me in the person of Dr. I-loose. M. C. BISTTINGIiR, Assistant Superintendent. City Schools. llroad perspective: careful analysis: clear vision of truthg sympathetic understand- ing of the mind of nationsg appreciation of the movement of the human mind in its evolution: these statements characterize the mental attitude of Dr. James Harmon Iloose. T. C. KNOLIZS. Professor of I-listory. University of Southern California. I5