The Washington times., 1921-04-05
SUICIDE PROF
BARES H|SllFE
Slayer Of Syracuse Dean Leaves
Story Of "Iniustice" He Suf- !
/, fered From World.
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agent. i have one sister. Ruth Beck
with Bullock. q missionary in Slang
tan. China; no brothers. My sister is
two years my elder. Ny father died
in his early thirties, before / was a
year old. of pulmonary tuberculosis,
induced by poor food when a student
In Germany, cold there and too strenu-
GUS a life generally. MY life Has
shown markedly the effect of the lack
sf . father. ] have been too much
surrounded and guided BY women
folks, very nne ones, but not men.
As q boy ! early developed q
rather Independent spirit and con-
siderable initiative. Physically was
delicate and only developed after I
had gone from New Jersey, where
ents at Montclair in 1899. at the age
of fourteen. to Los Angeles. gradu-
eted from the Los Ange,es High
School in 1908, entering the University
OF California that fall as an engineer
ing freshman. 1 had Joined the Con-
gregational Church in Los Angeles
some three years before. At the uni
versity 1 came under the influence
of the Y. M. c. A. and of the Student
Volunteer Band for Foreign Missions.
and responding at Pacific Grove Y.
Day. 1914. stated my intention of be-
coming a foreign missionary
PREPARED FOR MISSION WORK.
Pursuant to this aim, which l un-
derstood chiefly in terms Of duty and
opportunity, / next fall changed to
social sciences, and began shortly to
study philosophy, for which 1 had
long had q bent. i advanced fast in
this study. took forty units before
graduation and was greatly stimula-
ted In my thinking thereby. The up
shot was, that after prolonged study,
debate with others and consideration
of all results. I withdrew before leav-
ing the university, from the student
volunteer band. and from my previous
marked activity in the Y. M. c. A.
] was no longer a theorist, and of
course no longer in the full sense a
Christian as the result. Let me say
that 1 was generally regarded as
being a normal Christian, and very
enthusiastic, and active withal. So
that / have seen both sides and lived
through them both.
II graduaed in 1908. a year be-
hind my class. having completed in
the five years my university work
and about half of the three-year
course of the Pacific Theological
Seminary of Berkeley. But was al
ready so sure of my religious radi-
calism that I sensed that most col
leges would have no place for me as
a philosophical teacher IL dared ex-
press my own faith. I felt that /
would like to teach philosophy. /
turned to economics, took my mas
ters degree in that subject in 1900
from my alma matter and then went
to Columbia for further study in my
Phi. ID,
MY promise Of a short paragraph
has gone glimmering.
II completed my residence work In
Columbia in 1911. with major and
economics and went to Germany that
summer, gathering data in some
score odd German cities on Industrial
schools and apprenticeships for my
doctors dissertation. German In
dustrial Education and It's Lessons
for the United States" bulletin of
United States Bureau of Education
1913-Mo. 1s).
TN 1909 before going to Columbia
j had married Helen Frances Robin
son, of Berkeley. a fellow philosophi-