The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13
DR. DRESSLAR IS
 ABLE INSTRUCTOR

The new professor of education and philosophy at the University of Alabama, pr. Fletcher Bascom Dresslar. who will take the chair after the holidays. is said t. be one of the most popular teachers of the University of California. dis patch to c. San Francisco paper gives fine idea of his record, and the esteem i1 which he is held
 Berkeley, November 90.-Dr. Fletcher Bascom Dress.ar, associate professor of the science and art of teaching, connected with the department of education of the university for the last Il years. and con sidered one ct the highest faculty mem hers, has rendered his resignation to Pres ident ,, heeler and will accept the chair of education aiid philosophy at the Univer- sity of Alabama the first of the year. The broad field offered in the southern un- iNersity, combined with the higher salary tendered and the honor of being the head Of a department, caused Professor Dress lar to leave the university The regents have not as let accepted his resignation, nor has his successor been selected
 graduate of the University of In diana with the class of 1889, Professor Dresslar, after taking his masters de- gree from his alma mater and his doe tors degree from the Clark university, came to this state in the early ninetes to join the State Normal school at Los Angeles He was a contempofary there of IT. E. E. Brown, formerly of the fac rlty of the university, and now comnis sioner of education of the United States government
 pr. Dresslar's application of methods of teaching the principles of education re- suited in his appointment to the faculty of the University of California in 1897 He was one of the most brilliant members of the department under Dr. Brown. at that tune professor of education. and is now considered one of the foremost educators Of the state. The university faculty will keenly feel his loss.
 A worker for the best in the school department Professor Dresslar took an acuve interest in the school system of this state, and it was largely due to his hnuence tadt many changes were made Tor the betterment of the system As president of the Teachers association of the state ne was active during the last campaign in defeating the pernicious amendment proposed to place the state board Of education in the hands of tbe politicians and booksellers
 The held to which Professor Dresslar soes IS one of the most prolific from the educational standpoint in the country It was largely on account of it's great possibilities that he severad his connec- uon with inc university. President Aber- cfombie of the University of Alabama. ourlng his long tenure of office has built up wonderful institution, which, al- though small in number of students as compared to the larger colleges of the country, has a field for development pos sessed by few universities.
 A number of banquets have been ar ranged in honor of Dr. Dresslar before his leave-taking. The students in his seminary courses will tender him a com plimentary dinner December in the Pied mont Park clubhouse. Among those who will be present besides the guest of honor are James I. Preston. Roy Armstrong. Frank Bartel, Sam Cohn, William Wood. John Irmle, Edward Albert, Elmer Cave. Robert Kruse and A. c. Barker