Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
BY DIR. RUSSELL H. CONWEu
CHAPTER

IhiE teaching force Of the l-nlyt .
L sity has never been a hireling
ministry. In the earliest years the
instructors We're all volunteers and
were all engaged in some other regll.
iar occupation during the working
hours or steady employment. They
We're company of self-sacrificing
philanthropists and sought the woriS
OF teaching inr'the evening school. at
Befks and Marvine streets, as a mat
Ter OF sentiment. They loved TO do
good II would be dull reading 70
copy from the catalogue the names
OF all the deserving workers who
taught the classes without nav. Some
refused the pay offered to them even
atter the faculty was all placed on
the salary list And now the teaching
s'att Is composed almost entirely of
women and men who could earn else.
Where more than they receive from
the university. One of that noble
company wrote to the President a
rev months ago that his pay was
ample although he was offered else.
Wnere double the amount he was re.
celNing from the university. lie said
that the work there "widened his
VISION of life. "deepened his apprecia.
tion of his daily blessings" and filled
his heart with fullness of salts
faction.' which no amount of salary
elsewhere could purchase. The faculty
mas been most congenial company
or clean souls. whose cOmpanionship
has been a priceless treasure. A
heart filled with the purest love with
a mind clear and electrically sensitive.
makes friend valuable acquisition
which the United States Treasury
could not purchase at the face value.
An Exceptional Worker
But among this company of per.
sistent, patient. talented teachers
there has been one laborer whose
work has been so exceptional and so
long that none can regard il. 10 be out
of place to make special mention of
it, as a sample of the characters who
have composed the active faculty of
the university. The record of the
twenty-five years of service which
Dean Laura II. Carnell, Lift. D., has
given TO the university could not be
tabulated or approximately estimated.
1t has been the life labor of a martyr.
endowed with superb health, n tireless
mind. and in many respects a
genius, she gave up all other ambl-
tions or desires and devoted herself to
the philanthropy of the college with
a self-abnegation and success that
seems unreal. Her wide and close
reading. her general culture and
mental power of concentration were
as remarkable as was her gift OF
homely common sense. She was "A
leader in new enterprises and a care
full business manager, who knew the
cost OF nearly everything used in he
college and who knew every Students
name. She could give in a sentence a
clear analysis of each students char.
acter and capacity, and has been an
accurate and comprehensive encyclo
pedia of nearly everything educa
tional i'm America. and speciaIIy OF au
things. in and about Temple Cniver
sty. While she has seemed to get
time for large duties for educational
clubs, and for the city and for the
State. she has given close, never
ceasing attention to the university
every day and every evening for a
quarter of century. Always al
work the fipst in the morning. the
last TO leave at night and her place
at the dining table often left vacant
Runs without Friction
Every one from the coal HEAVIER tc
the president went to her for trust
worthy information. Workers around
her have felt superstitious awe as
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! chinery of her system running at high
est speed year after year, sixteen hour.
day. Without praise, with smal
pay, no recreation and no recognition
she sped on with no thought of honor'
or fortune. When at one of the i'm
portant annual meetings of the uni
versity corporation tho deans repor
was read containing so much infor
nation and so many practical sue
gestions for the future. one of tn
trustees remarked about Docto
Carnell's lack OF self-laudation, sayin,
little about all her own -unostel
tations but vital work, that is tn
woman disit!" 1t is an illustration o
the great power and value of
woman's influence and toll. goin,
through years unnoted and unre
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