University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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IN MEMORIAM GUY CHESTER CRAMPTON Doctor Guy Chester Crampton, distinguished insect morphologist, was born in Mobile, Alabama, September 21, 1881. He died of a heart attack in Albany, New York, on October 31, 1951. Doctor Crampton received the A.B. degree from Princeton; A.M. from Cornell and Harvard; and Ph.D. from the I ' niversity of Berlin. He was a member of several entomological societies in America and abroad, and of the leading honorary societies in American universities. Other details of his life and work are given in American Men of Science and in Who ' s Who in America. Doctor Crampton came to the College in the spring of 1911, retiring in 1947. He was a much-loved teacher, and undoubtedly most of the entomologists whom he trained — and they may be numbered in the hundreds — best remember the friendly and informal discussions with their professor, not in the lecture rooms but more especiall ' in the laboratories and after classes. To be associated with a man of Doctor Crampton ' s philosophy and culture was in itself an education, and unques- tionably many of his former students now holding high positions throughout the nation and abroad owe much of their present success to the influence of this great teacher. Always Doctor Crampton was most generbus of his time and wealth, and in his passing leaves a host of friends who owe him an unrepayable debt. Ch.uiles p. Alexander IN MEMORIAM WALTER EVERETT PRINCE On December 22, 1951, the I ' niversity was saddened by the death of Professor AValter E. Prince, member of the Department of English for thirty-seven years before his retirement in 1949. ' Sir. Prince was born in 1881, attended school in Webster, and then took both a B.A. and an M.A. degree at Brown. In 1912 he began his long an l highly succes.sful career at the University. He was known affectionately to .several college generations as Bull Prince and was the sort of man about whom legends naturally circulated. For years his familiar voice boomed and echoed through the classrooms and corridors; sometimes it was a roar of indignation directed at an absurdity in contemporary literature (he liked nothing but the l est in the great classics) or at a liapless frcslunan guilty of passing in a careless theme: but the indignation generally turned into a roar of laughter — laughter ' ' not of the face and diaphragm only, but of the whole man from head to heel. In his eighteenth century courses he would alternately assume the manner and mood of a Dean Swift or a Dr. Johnson, two of his favorites. He had an abiding love of the theater and taught Elizabethan drama with a truly Elizabethan en- thusiasm. He was justly ])roud of having introduced the study of .Vmerican Litera- ture into the curriculum, and for years students crowded into his American courses in such number that only an auditorium could accommodate the enrollment. While other memories recede into the past, Walter Prince ' s rugged character will remain with us as sharply outlined as e ' er in years to come. We remember him as a robust American, an enemy of h, ' ]iocrisy, a lover of courage, talent, and in- tegrity when he met with them in any human being. AYlLLI. M G. O ' DONNELL

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Clarence Gordon— In Memoriam Scientist, naturalist, lover of the great outdoors, Clarence Gordon was, as student, alumnus and teacher, a personage on the campus of his Alma Mater for considerably more than half his life. Graduating in 1901 after an undergraduate career of leadership and recalled to join the teaching staff following a period of graduate study and teaching in other institutions, he had much in knowl- edge, experience and personality to offer his students. Distinguished among his associates, he headed the science faculty for eighteen years. Though professionally a geologist, he had an inherent interest in plant life: his private garden was a repository of cheri.shed favorites gleaned in field and fishing excursions which were often made in rare companionship with a fellow naturalist. A man of sterling character, scholarly attainment, deeply committed to things worthwhile, loyal in friendship, his was a pattern of high accomplishment and exemplary living. . . Vincent Osiiun

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