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

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A DEDICATION. 7. CHARLES N. DUBOIS N, EVER before, certainly not in recent years, lias our campus community been so stunned and saddened as it was on August 14, 1951, when death, instantly and without warning, took from us Charles Nelson DuBois, for fourteen years a member of the Department of English. It was partly because he was still young, only forty-one. And it was partly because he was so vipright and outstanding a teacher and man. x t the time of his death he was an associate professor, in charge of the English courses in the Stockbridge School, the University ' s academic extension program, and registration of students in English. His own course in American Poetry was one of the most popular in the Department. He had recently brought into effective operation a calendar for campus activi- ties. His gifts and services were various and gratefully recog- nized by all of us. INIoreover, he had been for several years faculty adviser to the Index. He had helped plan this book. That it should be dedicated to his memoiy is therefore pre-eminently fitting. This is for the record, Init what can never be committed to words is the memory of a vibrant, loyal, resourceful, inde- fatigable associate, respected and loved by all who worked with him, youth ' s hostage to honor in a troubled world. We miss him sorely, l)ut are proud to have known him. — Frank Prentice Rand ...IN MEMORIAM

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; Memoriam — Arthur N. Julian Arthur X. Julian, professor of German and Head of the Depart- ment, died on August 11, 1951, after a period of failing health. Born in 1885 in Illinois, he did his first teaching at Elgin Academy after graduating from Northwestern University. In 1911, after study and travel in Europe, he came to the University of Massa- chusetts, becoming Head of the German Department in 1925. In June of this year he had retired, with the intention of devoting part of his time to a re-examination of ancient Greek literature and language — next to German his favorite study. Death overtook him before he could rightly begin to gratify his wish. Professor Julian will be remembered by many generations of students for his friendliness and his unselfish attention to the needs especiall.y of those less favored than their fellows. By his friends and associates he will be remembered as a man of integrity and loyalty, by his immediate family for his undiminished devotion to their well-being. Fred C. Ellert