Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-09-02
sepherdso~n Jefferson County, West
THOMAS G. MILLER.

In losing Professor Miller, Shep-
herd College and Shepherdstown will
suffer loss the magnitude of which
cannot be overestimated. Ii is safe
to say that no president il has ever
had has done more to build up and
beautify in the highest sense the COL
lege which now seems to express his
personality from class-rooms and
library to the very walks and lawns
and hower-beds.
Gentle and unassertive, this quiet
clad gentleman has been State
maker Of the highest type. He has
laid the foundations Of the future Wes,
virginia deep in the eternal verities OF
the love of truth and goodness in the
young people under his guidance. They
have had something more to give to
their fellowtownsmen and the COM
ing generation than they could have
received at an ordinary normal school
directed by an ordinary teacher.
Professor Miller has not left Shep-
herdstown or Shepherd College as he
found them when he came here twelve
years ago. Every year has been a
year of steady p-building. A teacher
is builder, a good teacher a master
builder in the highest sense. To be
sure, the fine building of Shepherd
College has been perfected by very
many details; a spacious and beautiful
library has been built up which any
normal school could be proud of, with
its many thousands of carefully select
ed books and almost all of the import
ant periodicals; basement has been
gradually perfected for additional
school uses, commodious gym equip
ped, winter flower department kept
up to bring the added touch of refine
ment-the sight of divinely growing
things before growing minds-to be
sure the school gardens have brough,
their color and charm to the whole
town land the stately white lilies over
the college wall must be dear to us alb
the ornamental trees. the walks, the
lawns with their little flower beds
changing their flowers with the sea
sons, the tennis courts, the Miller ath-
letic field, the dormitory-possibly
the most beautiful building that has
ever been part Of the town-all these
have grown under our eyes and we
have rejoiced in them, but the master
builder was busy on very much more
beautiful work than all these all tho
time that he was with us. Every one
of these twelve years he was busy
building education founded on honest
Christian character, and who can esti-
mate what the State of West Virginia
owes to wise builder of this type?
All who know him acknowledge
that Prof. Miller is a truly remarkable
educator, man with a genius for i'm
parting knowledge and culture. He
has sent out hundreds, yes, thousands
of earnest young people with the
equipment and the ambition to build
up their State. That West Virginia is
the forward-looking, growing common
wealth, she owes to the unceasine
labors of such educators, to the genius
of these who are willing to take infinite
pains for a great end.
! can easily see Prof. Miller in trav-
cling over the West Virginia hills with
his family in the pleasant years tha,
await him meeting a band OF bright
eyed country children and asking then,
where they have been today. car
hear them answer, eve have been tc
school, sir, and our teacher has beer
telling us about Prof. Miller of Shcp.
herd College, and our teacher says he's
the finest educator in all West Vir.
ginia."
A Citizen of Shepherdstewn.