William Smith College - Pine Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Faculty MILTON HAIGIIT TURK, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Librarian, Horace White Professor of English Language and Literature. A.B. Columbia, 18863 A.M., Ph.D., University of Lcipsic, 1889. CID B K. Student in Universities of Strasburg, Berlin, and Leipsic, 1886-89. Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and English, Hobart 1891, Secretary of the Faculty, 1890-07. Registrar, 1903-07. Author of The Legal Code of Alfred the Great, edited with introduction, 18891 Syllabus of English Literature, 1893. De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe, edited 18973 Selections from De Quin- cey, 1902, and The English Mail Coach and joan of Arc, 19053 Member of Modern Language Association3 traveled in Europe, I9I2-I3. Dean of William Smith, 1908-15. JOSEPH HETHERINGTON NICDANIELS, A.B. A.M., LL.D., Professor Emeritus of Greek Lan- guage and Literature. A.B. Cwith first honorsl Harvard, 18613 A.M., 1870. 41 B K. Instructor in Lowell High School, 1862-68. Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Hobart, 1868. Member of Institute of 1770, Rumford Society. Traveled in Europe, I872Q traveled in Greece, 18923 traveled in Europe, 1907, 1911. Professor Emeritus, 1911. LL.D., Hobart, 1911. 86

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of earthly life in its true perspective and regard death as a natural step in the process, even as birth is. Only then shall we see that nothing is really worth striving for in this Heeting phase of existence except the things of the spirit, which are eternal, the things that are summed up in those two words, which best describe the essential personality of men like Doctor Silver, intellect and character: those only leave their impress when we are gone, those only we can take with us when we go hence, the rest is dust and ashes, the dream of a shadow. The pathos of this pitiful little life of ours disappears when viewed against the vast background of eternity. It is as Shelley, true Platonist that he was, said in what is perhaps the finest simile in English poetry: 'The one remains, the many change and pass: Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly, Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death trarnples it to fragments' 35

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I+ CHARLES DELAMATER VAIL, A.B., A.M., L.H.D. Professor Emeritus of Rhet- oric and Elocution and the English Language and Literature. Librarian Emeritus. A.B. Hobart 1859, A.M., 1862, L.H.D., 1904. 111 B K. Tutor in Algebra, Hobart, 1869-70. Horace Wliite Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution and the English Language and Literature, and Instructor in Logic, Hobart, 1872-88. Instructor in Elocution and Registrar, Hobart, 1888-1903. Librarian, 1872-1909. Member Modern Language Association of America. Member Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, University Club of New York. Corresponding Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Trustee of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and Member of the Watkins Glen Committee. WILLIAM PITT DURFEE, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty. A.B. University of Michigan, 1876, A.M., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, I883. fb B K. Professor of Mathematics, Um- versity Mound College and Berkley Gymnasium, 1876-81. Fellow in Mathematics, johns Hopkins, 1881-83. Professor of Mathemctics, Hobart, 1883. Author of Elements of Trigonometry, 1900. Member of New Yorlc Mathematical Society. Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Acting President, 1912-I3 and 1915- 16. 37