Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-24

| iiuences as fragrant az the broken
alnbasier box of very preciouS oint-
ment. Annie W. Sutton.
TOO much can not be said of Miss
willard" writes a white ribbon friend,
aud accepting this stutoment us true,
we give the two following Helections
from the memorial number OF The
Union Signal;
Sin February, 1871, Miss Willard
was elected president OF the Evanston
college for ladies'. At that time the
institution had no connection with tho
university She was the first woman
TO be elected president OF college. IL
is due to her labors that the town
authorities gavo site for the new
college what was then one of the CHIEF
parks OF Evanston. Upon that site was
built what ia now known az the
Woman's Hall. She with others mnde
the canvass for tho money with which
II was erected, and brick by brick Hhe
watched its walls as they climbed high
above the trees. 1t was in her thoughts
by day and by night, and she was fond
of It, She said of it, 1T ia my sister
Mary's that died, and 1t Ia mine" In |
! June, 1873, tho institution was in
eorporatel with the university under |
conditions largely dictated by her, anu |
;, she became dean Of the Woman q college
and professor of esthetics in the faculty
Of Liberal arts. As professor and dean
she had her trials. Shu taught the
classes in Eng ish, and mot them in the
y rresident'a room in UniverHity Hall.
1t was u new experience for college men
y 10 rucite to woman teacher. They
q triad har mettle only to find that.she
!, understood herself and them. They
admired and respected her. She was
n popular and inspiring, and in every way
D a successful teacher. 1t is au ambition
y worthy OF the immurtals to build one s
Y own life into the livos OF others, anu
10 this she was able TO do to remarkable
degree. ON June 18th, 1874, she re-
70 signed her olhue az dean and at the
81 same tilno her pruIessorship in tho
J university. Speaking Of it years after
re- she declared that this severance OF her
~ university relations was the greatest
10 saCritice her life had known and ever
10 could knuw. Ii has hasn said that she
~ lett her work in the university to devote
herself to the cause which she after
t'i wards espouspd and with which her
H. nuine il hencesnrth to be forever identi-
r. fed. That she did not do 80 ia known
as to all who have read her 'Glmpses OF
1u Fifty Years" in which she wrote: ut
prieves me that cannot truthfully say
|
az professors chair in one of Americn' q
he best universities on purpose to take up
on temperHnca work." hut IL is true that
I'M having left the university shu deter
49, mined upon temperance work IN the
're fnce OF tempting offers to teach else
ae where, and that she held to that work
nj though attractive nositiuns in Other
fields we're open to her all along the
years had aho cared to occupy them. II
Ia no secret that she voluntarily with
I'D draw from the university because she
did not approve of the policy which the
at faculty had at that time adopted re
arH spactina certain questions of adminis
r. tration. "ghars's divinity that shapes
,nt our onds, rough hew them as we will
nc There we're othe; Kingdoms awaiting
ion Of which she knew not. This was al
hour of disappointment. But RuskiI
ian tells uu that in the secret of diRappoint
ment, as in the twilight So beloved b.
ire Titan, we may SEQ the colors OF thing
leu with deeper truth than 10 the mos
ar' dazzling sunshine. And who shall den.
lo5 that as ehe sat in the shadow OF he
1eu disappointment, 1t was revealed to be
u what her mission waR to he She coul'
ISL ,n"i say:
'.a, Nv bark is waited to the strand
Ieu By breath divine;
the And on the helm there rests hand
Other than mine.
tue Mics willard as a friend France
~ willard knew how to be friend.
nat Ia not au easy thing to be a friend |
non tho true sense OF that word. IT re
ouires rare traits OF character. Ther
,uts must be truth and tact, courage an
.'le patience, love and helpfulnsss. Sh
possessed ali these qualities in th
ion, fullest degree Hers was the soer
1 a. l,... a., 4l,,a ~
and and discover the ideal, which after a
Will ID the only true real Hers, too, WI
18th the PROPHETS function TO arouse
As every heart the longing and the will
lich actualiae that ideal until it should b
pril come the apparent real. We call b.
u Of tho friend Of humanity, and abe vi
ston that In the broadcast possible sense, b
ates she was the friend OF humanity becau
Nav sho was first. last, and always Il
Will friend of tho individual human uni
ton, With her tho masses we're never allow
road TO absorb tho individual She low
Mr. humanity in the abstract but her 10
Della for humanity in the abstract was DO
and nurtured nf her love for huInaui
in the concrete. People were hor Iii
l., friendship was her native air; s
'ruer radiated friendliness sno took all
anu world by the hand, and showed
nnsy each one with whom she came in CT
Tue tact her throbbing heart beats of 60
,senI i will.
astc lTbs r,eves W. o. II. U. held a n
r man mortal service for Miss Willard 10
iaW. NJ. L. Church, Sunday evening, Mar
iai 10 9Th. The president of the union, NJ
Ii. A. Corkran, and several memb
participated in the impressive ssrvi
Pyle and the choir of the church rende
1hH | aDnfODriate music.