Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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GUY STEVENS CALLENDER Died August 8, 1915 The sudden death of Professor Guy Stevens Callender last summer removed from the faculty of the Sheffield Scientiic School a scholar of recognized ability and a man of strong per- sonality. By the members of the successive Senior classes of the Select Course to whom he taught the principles of economics and modern government he will be remembered for the high standard of accomplishment upon which he insisted, and for his untiring efforts to bring every student up to that standard. His life is a record of untiring efforts, often in the face of great obstacles, Hrst to obtain an education and then to make himself the master of a certain field of knowledge. Born in 1865 on a farm in a small Ohio town, the ninth of ten children, he early acquired habits of industry and an ability to bear respon- sibility. In order to get the education for which he longed, he was Willing to work his way through Oberlin College. The eagerness to learn more thoroughly the subjects which had inter- ested him in his undergraduate work led him to enter, the Graduate School at Harvard in 1893. There he devoted himself with characteristic energy to the study of the social sciences and especially to the subject of the economic history of the United States. In 1897 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and three years later was appointed professor of political economy in Bowdoin College. From there he came to Yale in 1903. Professor Callender's principal published work, the work which established his position as the leading authority in the field, was his Selections from the Economic History of the lfnited States, published in 1909. The Select Course is particularly indebted to Professor Cal- lender for his services as chairman of the committee which reorganized the work of the course, establishing it in its present position in the School, and also for the directing influence which he exerted in the formulation of the curriculum of the Graduate Year in Business Administration. No man could wish for a higher tribute of appreciation than was paid to Professor Callender in the columns of the Alumni

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PROFESSOR CALLENDER

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374 HISTORY OF 1916 S. Weekly by the members of the faculty who knew him best: Among his colleagues he was recognized as a singularly detached intellectual force, pursuing truth for its own sake, never distracted by personal interest, fearing no condemnation, seeking no favor. Master of a wide range of facts, inflexibly honest with himself and others, he was a formidable adversary, who, while he did not hesitate to give hard blows, yet rejoiced equally to receive them. He harbored no ill-will, one of the most striking features of his character was the unusual gener- osity with which he shared his ideas with colleagues and students, there was no smallness about him. In the face of growing illness his qualities of industry, courage and hearty good fellowship were indomitable.