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

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IPvofcssov IRobcrt f, Hnbcison, H.fm., Sc.S). Mca of tbe department ot lliatbemattcs State IRormal Scbool, Wicet Chester, iPennsplvania ROFESSOR R0BP:RT FRAXKLIX ANDERSON is the sixth child and the youngest son of Robert and Sarah ( Carroll ) Anderson, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to America, first taking up residence in Chester County, I ' ennsylvania, ;ind later settling in Lancaster County, near McCall ' s l- ' en ' }-. where they continued the occupation of farming, their employment in their native countr -. Born i in this Lancaster County farm, Robert became an integral and an important part nf the help from early chiidh 1, Ijecause there were many odd jobs at all times, such as were entirely within the capability of boys of alnmst any age. So urgent, so frequent and so continuous were the needs for the boy ' s services, that he lost nuich (if the schooling that he might have gotten between his sixth and his eigh- teenth birthdays, helping summer and winter in the entire round of farm work as each m nith of the year dis- closed an almost endless list of things that must be done, anil all of which must be done by hand, in most of which the errand boy ' s part was rpiite as necessary as that of the mature laborer ' s. By reason of this, he was able to attend less than four mcinths a year out of the six nmnths during which rural schools were open in his native township, and this total attendance was much broken into b - absence of days and weeks after hav- ing begun school about the first of Xo -ember, so that progress was slow, broken, and the learning very frag- mentary. This loss in cimtinuuus and f(irmal schooling, of course, cau.sed delay in getting started in his life occupation; vet the experience as a whole was invaluable. Speaking of the value of farm life for the