The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-08-13
NOTABLE
TRIBUTE TO
GOV. He IDE
Trustees of st. ]. Academy
Pass Resolutions Upon
His Death

The trustees of ST. .Johnsbury
Academy in their resolutions upon
the life and services to it of their
president and distinguished citizen
the late Henry C. Ide, pay him the
following appropriate tribute:
WHEREAS the Academy has
suffered a great loss by the recent
! death of the President of its board
of Trustees, the Honorable Henry
Clay Ide, and is indebted to him
! for his large and varied services
given to it at different periods dur
ing his long life,
RESOLVED that the following
memorial tribute be inscribed upon
its records.
The most distinguished alumnus
of the Academy Of his generation,
Henry Clay Ide, died at his home
in st. Johnsbury, June 13, 1921, in
the 77th year of his age. At the
i time of his death he was president
of the board of trustees of this
|, institution which was strengthened
and honored by the services he
gave to it as its principal in his
early manhood, by his eounsels as
a member of its board of trustees
after his retirement from public
affairs, and by a loyalty to it's
traditions and ideals which was
commensurate with his life.
Prepared for College in the Ac-
ademy by Principal Colby, he was
r graduated from Dartmouth College
with valedictory honors in 1866,
and, being summoned, upon the
death of his early teacher to sue
coed him, was Principal of the Ac-t
ademy during the next two years,
1866-68. Brief as was his term in
this Office and despite the fact that
it was critical period in the his
tory of the Academy, it sufficed to
enable him to confirm the position
it had won as a superior school in
Nor, hern New England, to make
it a memorable epoch in the lives
of his pupils and to cause his res
ignation to be received with uni
versal regret. His administration
proved his possession of the quail
tiles of a great schoolmaster. Hi,
firm discipline, always instinct with
justice, his maintenance of a high
standard of conduct in the whole.
life of the school, his quiet and dig.
nified manner and his inculcation
of great ideas and noble sentiments
all united to make him potent in
developing strong character in his
pupils and in inspiring them to-
attainment Of high ideals. His
alert and penetrating mind, his
strict requirement of diligence IN
the search for knowledge, and cons
slant insistence that each pupil
should "think, think straight, see.
the whole and then by his word.
hit the mark" combined with his
exact scholarship wise methods of
instruction, and the daily impress,
of his own character made him
seem to his pupils even then, what,
in their later full realization o.,
their debt they know him to have,
been-,a great teacher. I
Beginning the study of his chos-
en- profession, the law, while strug
Cling with a physical weakness.
which seriously limited his worl
power for many years, he was ad' !,
mitted to the bar of Vermont irs
st. Johnsbury in 1871. His career !
thenceforth was one of large ano
varied accomplishments in his ma
tive state as a lawyer and legisla
tor, and in a wider field as Chief !,
Justice of Samoa, as Governor /:
General of the Philippine Island.y
and as Minister of the United,
States at the Court of Spain. III
all of these Offices he discharged (.