West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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igio PATHFINDER manhood, it is earnestly hoped that he may be spared many years yet as the honored and beloved Principal of the school that ninst seem largely his own creation and has become under his able direction such a potent factor in the educational world, which still needs his virile and expert leadership. ' ali.. ce Peter Dick

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PATHFINDER 1910 It remains to be said that the l)ent of Dr. Philips ' s mind is distinctively judicial, thus fitting him not only to see both sides of a question and give them due weight, but also to anticipate probable objections to any suggested line of procedure. His conclusions are, therefore, urged with an aggressiveness and tenacity, compatible only with such breadth of view and far- sightedness. This (|ualily of mind, while affnrding a valuable hint as to how he wnuld ha e served the state i)r nation, had he entered the legal profession and been invested with the ermine, becomes an invaluable and well-nigh indispensable factur in the administration of a great institution, in which a faculty f fortv members, a student-biuly numbering nine hundred pupils and a board of trustees made up of able and progressi e men are constantlv locking t him for suggestion, advice, or reciimmendation, so that the interests of teachers, students and the comnumitv alike may be suitably safeguarded, and the success of the school may not be jenpardized, because of a low intellectual or moral standard, nr liecause of financial embar- rassment. It must be apparent, therefore, that Dr. I ' hilips has the confidence of the board of trustees, as a wise manager, as he has served them for nearly thirty years, and it is e(|ually manifest that parents tru.st him implicitly and ap- prove of his careful ])olicy, since, each year, in increasing numbers, they send their children to him and his associates to lie edu- cated, and the entire harmony in the faculty, together with the sympathetic attitude of the ])rincipal towards the various de- partments of instruction, deepens the feeling, year by year, that it is a jirivilege and a pleasure to labor under him. 1 he perspective is too short to do more than scant justice to the man, George Morris Philips, or his work. It is no idle retrospective dream to venture the assertion that, had he included a political career with the prosecution of law (his fellow- citizens would have maile it inevitable), his sterling (pialities of mind and heart, added to his well-known genius for executive direction, would ha e insured him eminence in the go ernmental councils of stale an l nation ami, ha ing filled the usual t-Hn-z .v (( if ' ' i ;; of his native state, he would ha e been a formidable and probabK- successful candidate for any ]iosition to which he might have as])ired. But it may be true that, by instilling right principles of thought and action into the minds of the thousands of vouug men and young women who ha e come under his ])ersonal care during the past forty years. Dr. I ' hilips has exerted a wider influence, perhaps at a personal sacrifice, and has done more to better existing conditions and stinnilate human societv to a keener percep- tion of the highest good, than he could have done in any other avenue of iniblic ser ice and, as he is yet in the full vigor of his

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MHRY THOMRS W. HHROLD EMREV TH E STA FF. GDITOR-IK-CXieP. HARRY C. MOVER JOHN R. MOLLINGER J. RLBERT BLRCrtBURN MARY WETT LING EDITH PETERS BRUCE FLEMING AssoGiiTe emioRS. KATHARINE WINTERS RUTH KULP KflTHERlNE STEVENS RLMA WALLACE HANNAH CRAMER MAV HOAGLANO ELIZABETH SCHELLIN MARGUERITE BURGL FftNNV CR5SEL