Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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•Professor Corner jfemitl), Pi).D. ROFESSOR HOMER SMITH was bom in the year 1867. at Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was prosperously engaged in business. Dr. Smith was at an early age given over to the cause of learning. He was sent to the Mt. Vernon Public School, in his native town, where he mastered the horn-books. His father, seeing that the son was more ambitious for an education than for business, took steps to provide for and satisfy this ambi tion. He attended the Roxbui y Latin School preparatory to his entering Amherst College. At Amherst he took the full college course, graduating in iS i with the degree of A.B. Wishing to specialize in English Literature, he took post-graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, from which place he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1895. Since his graduation from Amherst. Dr. Smith has had wide and varied experience as a teacher. From 189 until 1S9S. during which time he also completed his post-graduate work, he was engaged as Instructor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1899 to 1901 he was Professor f English at the Kamehameha School, Honolulu. His Alma Mater then asked for his services, and until 190, wc find him competently discharging the duties of Acting Professor of English Literature at Amherst College. It was with this wide experience that he came to Ursinus College in the fall of 1905. being elected Professor of the English Language and Literature. During the rive years in which he has been identified with the college as head of his department, the courses in English have been improved and extended. Students in general, and those in particular who are farther advanced, found the courses offered very interesting and instructive. Dr. Smith is :«' ► gifted with musical talent. He is Instructor in Organ, and for a time filled most ably the organistship of Trinity Reformed Church, Collegeville. He has been an invaluable factor in many phases of college life. For several years he has been the Faculty member of the Athletic Committee, in which his ideas and suggestions always stand for progress. He is one of the few members of the Faculty who show a lively interest in the Ursinus Union, being a regular attendant at its meetings. He is a mem-lur of the Executive Board of the Ursinus Weekly. His manifestations of keen interest in the welfare of the college, his scholarly attainments in the dennrtment of his choice, ami his general culture, all makes Professor Smith worthy of tin-high degree of respect and appreciation accorded him.

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