class in French his senior year. This appointment marks the start of a lifetime of outstanding service to Colgate in teaching and administration which ended with his retirement 43 years later.
Belonging to the “old school,”
by reason of age if not necessarily temperament, was Terry’s old teacher, William H. Maynard, Hamilton College A.B., 1854, who came from the pastorate to Madison in 1875 as Bleecker Professor of Moral Philosophy and as Professor of Ecclesiastical History. He seems to have had a roving assignment teaching variously church history, ethics, “Social Science”
-not defined-and political economy. In 1886 he introduced a course in “Contemporary Socialism”
in which he discussed “the views of the most prominent living socialists.”
He stressed the “right of private judgment”
and, to the distress of some, was a staunch free-trader and Democrat. In later years Professor Terry remembered how, as a student, he had been impressed with the atmosphere of Maynard’s classroom, “its fairness, its justice, its patient charity for the foibles of the past, its belief in humanity, its confidence in the future”
which Terry sought to realize in his own teaching.
Professor Edward Judson, who had joined the faculty in 1867, to teach Latin and modern languages, resigned in 1874 to go into the pastorate. Most notable of the four men who followed him was Albert G. Harkness, 1883-89, who subsequently became an eminent Latin scholar at Brown University. Under his direction the number of courses in French and German had expanded by 1886.
Dean Andrews, “Kai Gar”
as he was affectionately known to his students, continued in the chair of “Greek language and literature”
until his death in 1918. In 1879-80 he spent the year abroad studying philology and classical archaeology. This was to be the first of four trips to Europe and Asia to enrich his teaching. He viewed the instruction of his department as providing intellectual discipline and literary culture. As his Greek courses began to’ recede in importance with the curriculum revision of the ’80’s he offered a course in art in 1880 which extended the work Professor Lewis had done in that field and which won enthusiastic student acceptance. Professor Andrews also introduced instruction in psychology which was a outgrowth of Dr. Dodge’s course in metaphysics and it, too, was highly regarded.
Dr. Dodge continued to give the presidential courses for seniors in Evidences of Christianity and Christian Ethics which culminated their
