University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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26 reject whatever is inconsistent with true manliness and womanliness, and above all to model their lives after that of the Great Teacher. The Chancellor’s influence is by no means confined to the University, but is felt throughout the State. From a recent article in the New York Tribune we clip the following, which shows the esteem in which he is generally held: “ The Denver University, which is largely under the direction of the Methodists, has at its head a man of the most catholic spirit, of rare scholarship and ability; he is making a university that is rendering important and far-reaching service to the whole region. Chancellor McDowell is recognized by even- one as a man among ten thousand, and his institution, which was founded early in the history of the State, is worthy of encouragement and generous support.” He is a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, having been appointed by Gov. Mclntire, and re-appointed by Gov. Adams. He is also a member of the State Committee of the Y. M. C. A. These positions are not, however, so much sources of influence, as recognitions of it. Throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth his gifts as a public speaker have made him known. He gave at Greeley the first course of University Extension lectures ever delivered in the State. The subject was “The French Revolution.” This course has been also given in Laramie, Wyo., Colorado Springs (twice), and in Denver where it will be repeated this year. His most popular lecture, entitled “To-morrow and the Day After,” has been delivered once a month, on an average, for several years past. It is a powerful plea for a liberal education, and receives the highest encomiums wherever heard. He is in constant demand for occasional addresses, on all sorts of public occasions. It is, however, in sermons and other religious addresses that the high water mark of his oratory is reached. His baccalaureate sermons are always sources of inspiration to the throngs who listen to them. At four annual meetings of the Collegiate Christian Associations of the country, held at Lake Geneva. VVris., he has been engaged to deliver addresses; his re-engagement for the coming summer shows that he has skill in touching and influencing the hearts of the Christian young men and women in the colleges of our land. For three years past articles from his pen, entitled “ In a Library Corner,” have regularly appeared in the columns of the Central Christian Advocate. To the series of l ooks, entitled “The Picket Line of Missions,” he has contributed a sketch of David Livingstone. The students would be pleased 10 see more of his literary productions put into permanent form. That the Chancellor may long continue to fill the office which he now occupies is the earnest wish of hundreds of students into whose lives he has entered.

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 5 the cramped and unsuitable quarters at the comer of Fourteenth and Arapahoe Streets to the fine building at University Park. The Iliff School of Theology has been opened, and its beautiful building erected. The Chamberlin Observatory has been built, and the great telescope installed; this has rendered possible the prosecution of original scientific research on a scale never before attempted by the University. An endowment of $100,000 has been received from the late Governor Evans, the steadfast patron and friend of the institution. The School of Law has been established, and has become, in point of amount and thorough- THfc CHANCELLOR'S LIBRARY ness of work, one of the best in the country. The different Schools of the University have been bound more closely together, and a University Council created. Though the Chancellor is at the head of the entire group of Schools, his influence is most felt in the College of Liberal Arts. There his hand is on every detail. The curriculum of the College has been greatly enriched, and the corps of instructors increased, through his efforts. The proportion of candidates for degrees, among the students, is much higher than formerly. A spirit of scholarship, of love of learning for its own sake, has been largely developed. Lectures and addresses by prominent men have become a valuable feature of college life. The students are continually urged to seek after what is best and highest, to

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Or. flmmi B. Hyde T IS said of Giotto, the burly peasant painter, that he went about the streets of Florence busy and humorous, always some joke on his lips, always some beautiful thought in his heart. He was everybody’s friend, ever received with honor, pursuing his peaceful way with a merry word and a jest, and betraying his course wherever lie went by something beautiful, some bit of rude common wall blossomed into an immortal thing. This graphic description of the great Florentine painter is every way applicable to the subject of this sketch, for bits of wisdom, quaint conceits, merry jests and beautiful thoughts fall just as naturally from his lips. Such qualities of mind and heart are the product of a keen and sympathetic appreciation of men and things as they are or as they may be; a sense of humor; an artistic mind and temper, and a deep and abiding trust in God. Circumstances mould men too; struggle develops character. And the boy Amtui who at seven began to work his way, who at eleven attended Oxford Academy and by teaching Latin paid for his own tuition and that ot his brother and sister; the lad who worked on the farm studying and preparing himself for college; entered Wesleyan University as a sophomore and graduated with a total expenditure of $550; this boy Ammi was fit father to the man our beloved professor, and Christian gentleman Dr. Hyde. If you ask how could a young man graduate from college on so small a sum? we reply, though he did not shirk in his contributions to deserving objects, he was self-denying, he wasted nothing, he had no costly habits. Then he had superb health; “physical disabilities from his youth to his ripe manhood never averaged a half a day a year.” Furthermore, this young man never had any sense of humiliation at helping himself through college; but a sturdy sense of pride and self-approval. Dr. Hyde was born at Oxford, New York, March 13, 1826. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1846. In 1848 he joined the Oneida Conference. In 1850 lie was married to Miss Mira Smith of Utica, New York, and the married life of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was not more ideally beautiful than the true marriage of this noble couple. For more than fifty years I)r. Hyde has been a teacher. For sixteen years he was Professor of Modern and Ancient Languages at Cazenovia Seminary, and for twenty years Professor of Greek at Allegheny College. Pennsylvania. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Greek in the University of Denver, and for one year was acting Chancellor of the University. In 1894 he was chosen to be the first