Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Bugle Yearbook (Blacksburg, VA)

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Y -- , ,,,7Y,,.4., 1 CAROL MONTGOMERY NEWMAN R. CAROL M. NEWMAN, the subject of this sketch, and the honored dedicatee this year of THE BUGLE, was born at Wytheville, Va., on October 29, 1879. At the age of five, he moved with his parents to Bristol, Va., where he spent his early boyhood, and where in the public schools he received his preparation for college. He entered King College, in 1894, at the age of fifteen, and, with such diligence did he pursue his studies, completed the course with highest honors in three years, and, as a special mark of distinction, was awarded the Science Medal. The following year he spent in the offices of the Norfolk and Western Railway, at Bristol, there, doubtless, acquiring the training in business methods which later in his career as a college professor was to stand him in such good stead. In the autumn of 1898, Dr. Newman, realizing an ambition cherished persistently and enthusiastically from childhood, entered the University of Virginia, where his scholarly ability and pleasing personality soon won for him a position of iniiuence and leadership in the student-body, as well as the encomiums of his teachers. In his first year at the University, he Won the Magazine Medal for the best essay, and the much coveted Harrison Prize, awarded for the most meritorious translation appearing that year in the University Magazine. Combining for the next two years the exacting duties of a student at the University of Virginia with the onerous office of the instructor, and measuring fully up to the responsibilities of each, Dr. Newman completed, with marked distinction, his chosen course at the University, and in 1901 was awarded the M. A. degree. ' The year following he taught English, Latin, and German at St. Alban's School, near Radford, Va., and, it would seem, found himself too much preoccupied with the duties of his instructorship to avoid-if he would have avoided-the machinations of that artful little intriguer, Cupid, for during this session at St. Alban's he married Miss Carrie Fain, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. John Fain, of Bristol, Va., a bold, but-so subsequent events have proved-a wise and happy step. The fall of the year 190241903 found Dr. Newman again at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, as instructor in English Literature, and as a candidate for the doctorate in English, Latin, and German, which, at the end of the session, he received, magna, cum laude. His second career at the University was, like the former, uniformly and signally successful, his studious and scholarly habits of mind, combined with an engaging personality, winning for him alike the renewed esteem of his preceptors as well as the lasting friendship of his student comrades. Leaving as he did, and as we have seen, so favorable an impression at the University of Virginia, it was but the logical sequence of events that, when appealed to by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in the summer of 1903, to recommend some- one to fill the then vacant associate professorship in English at the latter institution, the authorities of the University should have immediately and unreservedly endorsed Dr. Newman for the position. Thus it was that the Virginia Polytechnic Institute came to know and to esteem the man in whom she now takes so large and so justifi- able a pride. Ei Q, 6