Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-06-16

Hennenan, we planned to inject some
discussion which would undoubtedly
lead him to mount a high horse aud
to indulge in varied explosions. The
ruse worked admirably.
FIAsCo OF 1894.
SIN June, 1894, q noted fiasco in
university lie took place. The re-
ceipt OF bogus telegram worked an
unparalleled degree of hilarity in pro-
fessors and students. The baseball
team had been going the rounds Of
colleges, meeting defeat after defeat,
the last being more disastrous than
the one preceding. The last game of
the series and of the year was to be
played. and with brea:hless interest a
telegram was awaited. The lusty v.lls
and the blare of instruments or. the
campus meant the celebration OF a
victory. Prof. Schmitt was making
ont his examination for the next day.
Instantly he dropped his work-with
all the more alacrity because he was
chairman of athletics-and joined in
the procession of merry-makers and
c lebrants. According to an eye-wit-
ness, passing cripple begging aims,
he reached down into his pockets and
emptied it of coins regardless Of num-
Der and value. Upon learn ng OF the
hoax, his only consolation was thu t
Prof. Carson had paid negro band
liberaly to play while the mad process
sion of faculty and students crcled
about dusky forms making hideous
music. The most dramatic feature, as
I recall the circumstances was tie
impassioned and vociferoas speech OF
Tom Finley, a law student from White
county, who the nextmorning in chapel
denounced the cowardly knaves who
had perpetrated the JOKE, and dared
them to come from under cover. Mean
while, Howard Cornick, Harry Wood
side, Robert Troy and Will Fleming
sat trembling and conscience-stricken
in their guilty seats.
ga sphere of activity wherein he
touched vitality the universities life
was in the support and encouragement
of pure athletics. He loved any game
of innocent cha racter, recognizing the
salutary effect. To the end of his life
he played chess and whist, and Was
interested in tennis.
"The memories of those years are
full of the occasions when he stood
for purity and non-professionalism IL
college athletics He preferred Away:
to go down in honorable defeat rather
than any victory or series should bt
tainted with fraud, irregularity o.
professionalism.
Sup TO 1903, when he resigned tn,
treasurership, he played larger par
in the affairs of the University Y. NJ
G. A. than any other member of tn,
faculty. Soon after going into the new
building, he presented to the amuse
ment room two expensive game. II
1895 he took charge of the Bible class
giving for five successive years course,
in the life of Christ, Inc life of Paul
the gospel of Luke, the gospel of NJ at
thew, and the acts of the Apostles
Students retained vivid impressioes o
those studies long after leaving th,
university, and wrote to him testifyins
to the charm and benefit in gratefu
terms. For years he was faculty re
preventative in the associations direc
torate. His most telling work was th,
raising of an Indebtedness that fo
years had hung over the building.
"Various little offices he performed
which may not enter into the recoi
of large things, but which attest furth
er his devotion to the institution. IL
the students they meant much and h,
did them to encourage and stimulate
with constant employment is sucl
diversified university interests, will
an average of $50 students annual,
under his direction, with teaching
twenty-three to twenty-five hours {
week, with hours of his time occupied
in solving problems for people out
side the university and throughout thu
state, it may be asked how such &
crowded life could devote any time tC
pr Jductive scholarship. He had the
ripe attachments which underile scho.
larly research, and he did early in his
career, contemplate the doing of re.
search work. In 1895 he became 9
member of the foremost American
mathematical organization, the Am.
erican mathematical society. He con.
tributed to the American Mathematie
Monthly. the analyst, and the Mathe.
NAUTICAL Magazine; but the pressure oil
clerical work and the consciousness OF
eucroahing disease caused hiEa to dedi-
cate labor and strength more unreserv.
eddy to daily duties and reasonsibili-
ties. He will live, therefor, in the
lives and accomplishments of those he
taught. And l am not so sure but
that his reward will be as great and
MS name as imperishable as though
ne had made distinct contributions to
mathematical science. The beautiful
legend of Buddha illustrates. Fifty
years he had spent in the land of the
Gauges, tenching and ministering
The end of life approached when flow
ers fell from the sky and heavenly
choirs chanted his praises. But not
by all this he said; not by all this,
y Amanda, is the teacher honored; but
the disciple who shall fulfil all the
greater and lesser duties-by him is
the honorer.'
HIS HOME LIFE.
III remains to refer briefly to his
home life and the circumstances of his
death. At Strasburg, Virginia. June