Record Of The Class Of Nineteen Ten Of Haverford College Haverford Pa

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Download or read book The Record of the Class of Nineteen-Seventeen (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Record of the Class of Nineteen-Seventeen No single event has ever caused more general regret among Haverfordians than the announcement by President Sharpless of his intention to retire at the end of the present college year. To separate his name from that of Haverford seemed impossible - the two had in forty years become almost synonymous; and the college, its campus and buildings, its educational methods, its aims and ideals all seem like a direct expression of this one man's personality. To quote from a member of the faculty: "His greatest work has been the creation of a self-governing student body into which he has put the breath of his own physical life; and the gathering together of a group of powerful men on his faculty, so imbued with a sense of their responsibility for the students that there has grown up an intimacy between these two bodies of men unique among the colleges of the country. Not a student passes through Haverford College without learning to love and look up to President Sharpless as he would to a father." Isaac Sharpless was born in Birmingham Township, Chester County, December 16, 1848, and received his early education at Westtown School, where he was graduated in 1867. One day, soon after this, he was engaged in plowing on his father's farm when a delegation from the Westtown School Committee appeared and told him that they had decided to offer him a position as teacher. This was the beginning of President Sharpless's career as an educator. He left his position at Westtown to study at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, where he received the degree of B. S. in 1873. Two years later he came to Haverford as instructor in mathematics, and in 1879 was made professor of astronomy. Through his efforts the equipment in that department was greatly increased, so that Haverford had at the time one of the best-equipped college observatories in the country. He was made dean of the college in 1884, in which position his tactful disciplinary methods and gradual introduction of self-government did much toward promoting advantageous relations between students and faculty. In his executive capacity as dean his superior business ability gave the college an increased financial prosperity. In April, 1887, he was unanimously selected president of Haverford, which he has since succeeded in placing in the "little list of the best small colleges." In 1889 he was honored with the degree of LL. D. from Swarthmore College. When a second degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Harvard University in 1915, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell described him thus: "Isaac Sharpless, President of Haverford College, who has put aside the lure of expansion and made the college eminent for sound learning, scholarship and character." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.