University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE Charles James, F.I.C., Assistant Professor' of Inorganic Chemisiry. A.l.C., University College, London, I904g F.I.C., l907g With New Cransley lron ancl Steel Company. England: National Refining Company, West Chester, N. Y.: Received Ramsay Silver Nleclal in Chemistry, l900. Present position I 906-. WN WM NW 14249 5 ffipfgt IQ?

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E GRANITE., 1909. VOL. I Wililiam M. Barrows, B.S., S.B., S.M., Assislanl in Zoology B.S., Michigan Agricultural College, l903g S.B. fBiologyj, Harvard, 1905, S.M. fBiologyD Harvard, l906: Instructor in Science, Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana, 1906- 07. Member American Association for the Advancement of Scienceg Member Boston So ' t f N t l H' P cle y o a ura istory. Present osition i907-. Frederick Rasmussen, B.S.A., Assistanl Professor of Dairying. B.S.A., Iowa State College, I905g Instructor Dairying, Purdue University, i905-06: Assistant Professor Dairying, lowa State College, i906-07. Present position l907-. Ray A. Spencer, A.B., Instructor in English and Modern Languages. CDBK. A.B., Dartmouth, l907. Present position 1907--.

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24 THE GRANITE.I909.VOL.I william Baath Gihha S we look back on the many years spent in school, we can not help trying to recall the essential characteristics in our different teachers that make iff . 0 X I them live in our hearts. Some have not left much impress upon us, V perhaps because of temperamental reasons. 'Others we have not liked, x, M X perhaps because of our lack of maturity, when we were being instructed. i We appreciate, however, that most of our teachers have done their full duty toward us, that all of them 'have been of great help to us. Were we asked, in such an analysis, to state the three qualities that tend to make a teacher achieve the best results, we should designate them as scholarship, ability to impart knowledge, and an honest sympathy with all phases of student activities. Ill President Gibbs, to whom THE GRANITE is respectfully dedicated, possesses all these qualities. His work as a scholar won for him election to the EE, a society of scholars in science. His research work in Agronomy at the University of Illinois, and at Ohio State University where he was Professor of Agronomy, as well as his experiments in the division of soils of the United States Department of Agriculture place him among the authorities in this country on Agronomy. . ill The best proof of his teaching ability lies in the fact that many of his former students are doing most effective work in soils, not only in state colleges but also in the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and that much of the apparatus used in soil physics labora- tories was invented by him. He is a born teacher and even now takes the greatest delight, when as president he visits the various high schools in the state, in showing the pupils the practical application of a mathematical problem to their work in the shop. on the farm, or in the forest. When he instructs, the pupils become interested at once, for he has just the kind of energy that keeps them keen, eager and thoroughly attentive. qi The third quality, honest sympathy with 'student activities, is a rare one and is usually born with the man. Many teachers fail in this one point, thereby nullifying the benefit they might do to others by reason of their sound scholarship, by their inability to see the student's view point. As a student naturally craves contact with his superiors and seldom abuses the privilege, the adaptalble teacher is in great demand and gets the abundant mental compensation that makes teaching the best of professions. ll President Gibbs is of this sort and through his ability to see the stuclent's point of view has gotten a remarkable hold on the student body of New Hampshire College He is not a dictator. He is more like the father who trusts his boys, who believes that they are men