BURIAL RITES CONDUCTED FOR NOTED EDUCATOR -
Services in Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, 18 years Chancellor of Kansas University.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, at Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, for 18 years Chancellor of the University of Kansas and for many years professor of law, at that university. Burial was in Fort Hill Cemetery.
Doctor Strong, a brother of the late Otis Strong, well known Auburn teacher and superintendent of schools, died Monday, August 6, at his home in Lawrence, Kan. The body was brought here today for burial. Doctor Strong was well known in this city. He was born in Venice, Cayuga County. He died the day after his 75th birthday.
Services at the chapel were conducted by Rev. George Montgomery Reid, pastor of First Baptist Church of East Chicago, a former pastor of First Baptist Church of this city.
Tributes were paid to Doctor Strong, in the Kansas newspapers, by Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, Robert McNair Davis, dean of the University of Kansas Law School, and other members of the faculty. Educators and students, as well as former students of the university, united in expressions of regret at the passing of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong suffered a heart attack shortly after Thanksgiving last year and was unable to meet his classes the rest of the term. In February, the regents of Kansas U. granted him a leave of absence for the spring semester, and he showed definite gains in strength. Since early June his strength had been slowly failing.
He is survived by his widow, Evelyn Ransom Strong; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Strong Classen of Ithaca, and a son, Frank Ransom Strong, who was graduated with honors from Yale law school this June.
Doctor Strong was both lawyer and educator. In his later years he combined the vocations, specializing in constitutional law. He was a member of the law firm of Crosby, Rusk & Strong in Kansas City in 1886-1888, following his graduation from Yale and a year of teaching in Auburn. He left his law practice in Kansas City to become principal of the St. Joseph, Mo. high school. It was while at St. Joseph that he met and married Evelyn Ransom, June 24, 1890.
Back to Yale to Study
In 1892 he became superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Neb, but left there to add to his education at Yale, where he received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1897. For two years he taught history at Yale, and then became president of the University of Oregon at Eugene. He went from Oregon to the University of Kansas in 1902.
Doctor Strong was author of "The Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Government of the American People," with Joseph Shafer; "Cromwell's West Indian Expedition, 1654-55," and "A Forgotten Danger of the New England Colonies." In addition, he wrote many book reviews and essays which appeared in the American Historical Review, the Yale Review, New England Magazine, the Nation, School and Society, Science and the proceedings of the American Association of State Universities. He was president of the last named organization in 1916.
K. U. Grew Under Him
When Doctor Strong assumed the Chancellorship, the Universiy of Kansas had an enrollment of 1,300 and a faculty of ninety. The next eighteen years were a period of rapid expansion, the number of students increasing to 4,000 and the faculty to 250. To house this growing student body he urged upon the Legislature the need of more buildings and brought about construction of the engineering building and laboratories, geological building, law building, Robinson gymnasium and the first unit of the present administration building.
University Heads Pay Tribute
Chancellor E. H. Lindsley of the university said: "The university loses one of the commanding figures of its history. Doctor Strong served 18 years as chancellor, 14 years as professor of law, 32 years of devoted service to higher education in Kansas. His administration as chancellor brought remarkable expansion to the institution in range of studies, in faculty, in student enrollment, and in buildings and equipment.
"As professor of law his stalwart character and breadth of outlook made a deep impression on all who sat in his classroom. Above all, Doctor Strong loved the university, and wrought to the end with devotion for its advancement. He was my loyal friend whose wise and magnanimous counsel will be sorely missed in the coming years. The university and the state will cherish the memory of this great builder."
Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school, said: "Those of us who came to the university as younger members of the faculty during the administration of Chancellor Strong received inspiration and guidance from which we shall never forget. His cordial greeting, and his friendly handclasp through all the years will be treasured memories. Doctor Strong's high ideals educationally and otherwise, his unusual ability as an administrator and teacher, and his unceasing devotion to the university as an institution for the training of the youth of the state assure for him a place of high distinction in the annals of the University of Kansas."
Pays Warm Tribute
Robert M. Davis, dean of the school of law at the University of Kansas, paid thefollowing tribute: "For five years it was my good fortune to be intimately associated with Doctor Strong. That association was not only professional but also social. Scores of times I saw him in his own home and many times he honored me with calls at my house. I look upon that association as one of the most rare and priceless privileges of my life. He was a manly man, good and true and genuine and wholesome. His natural reaction to any situation was unerringly to do the right thing.
In his contacts with colleagues and students he was always courteous and considerate. In his opinions he was not dogmatic but was always ready to grant that those who might hold opposite views could also be right. To a high degree he possessed those qualities of mind and heart which imbued him with tolerance, sympathy and appreciation. The university has been immeasurably enriched in its spiritual life by his contribution, a service reaching through a third of a century. Physically he passes from our sight but his influence abides forever."
THE CITIZEN ADVERTISER, AUBURN, N.Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934
Services in Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, 18 years Chancellor of Kansas University.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, at Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, for 18 years Chancellor of the University of Kansas and for many years professor of law, at that university. Burial was in Fort Hill Cemetery.
Doctor Strong, a brother of the late Otis Strong, well known Auburn teacher and superintendent of schools, died Monday, August 6, at his home in Lawrence, Kan. The body was brought here today for burial. Doctor Strong was well known in this city. He was born in Venice, Cayuga County. He died the day after his 75th birthday.
Services at the chapel were conducted by Rev. George Montgomery Reid, pastor of First Baptist Church of East Chicago, a former pastor of First Baptist Church of this city.
Tributes were paid to Doctor Strong, in the Kansas newspapers, by Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, Robert McNair Davis, dean of the University of Kansas Law School, and other members of the faculty. Educators and students, as well as former students of the university, united in expressions of regret at the passing of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong suffered a heart attack shortly after Thanksgiving last year and was unable to meet his classes the rest of the term. In February, the regents of Kansas U. granted him a leave of absence for the spring semester, and he showed definite gains in strength. Since early June his strength had been slowly failing.
He is survived by his widow, Evelyn Ransom Strong; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Strong Classen of Ithaca, and a son, Frank Ransom Strong, who was graduated with honors from Yale law school this June.
Doctor Strong was both lawyer and educator. In his later years he combined the vocations, specializing in constitutional law. He was a member of the law firm of Crosby, Rusk & Strong in Kansas City in 1886-1888, following his graduation from Yale and a year of teaching in Auburn. He left his law practice in Kansas City to become principal of the St. Joseph, Mo. high school. It was while at St. Joseph that he met and married Evelyn Ransom, June 24, 1890.
Back to Yale to Study
In 1892 he became superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Neb, but left there to add to his education at Yale, where he received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1897. For two years he taught history at Yale, and then became president of the University of Oregon at Eugene. He went from Oregon to the University of Kansas in 1902.
Doctor Strong was author of "The Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Government of the American People," with Joseph Shafer; "Cromwell's West Indian Expedition, 1654-55," and "A Forgotten Danger of the New England Colonies." In addition, he wrote many book reviews and essays which appeared in the American Historical Review, the Yale Review, New England Magazine, the Nation, School and Society, Science and the proceedings of the American Association of State Universities. He was president of the last named organization in 1916.
K. U. Grew Under Him
When Doctor Strong assumed the Chancellorship, the Universiy of Kansas had an enrollment of 1,300 and a faculty of ninety. The next eighteen years were a period of rapid expansion, the number of students increasing to 4,000 and the faculty to 250. To house this growing student body he urged upon the Legislature the need of more buildings and brought about construction of the engineering building and laboratories, geological building, law building, Robinson gymnasium and the first unit of the present administration building.
University Heads Pay Tribute
Chancellor E. H. Lindsley of the university said: "The university loses one of the commanding figures of its history. Doctor Strong served 18 years as chancellor, 14 years as professor of law, 32 years of devoted service to higher education in Kansas. His administration as chancellor brought remarkable expansion to the institution in range of studies, in faculty, in student enrollment, and in buildings and equipment.
"As professor of law his stalwart character and breadth of outlook made a deep impression on all who sat in his classroom. Above all, Doctor Strong loved the university, and wrought to the end with devotion for its advancement. He was my loyal friend whose wise and magnanimous counsel will be sorely missed in the coming years. The university and the state will cherish the memory of this great builder."
Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school, said: "Those of us who came to the university as younger members of the faculty during the administration of Chancellor Strong received inspiration and guidance from which we shall never forget. His cordial greeting, and his friendly handclasp through all the years will be treasured memories. Doctor Strong's high ideals educationally and otherwise, his unusual ability as an administrator and teacher, and his unceasing devotion to the university as an institution for the training of the youth of the state assure for him a place of high distinction in the annals of the University of Kansas."
Pays Warm Tribute
Robert M. Davis, dean of the school of law at the University of Kansas, paid thefollowing tribute: "For five years it was my good fortune to be intimately associated with Doctor Strong. That association was not only professional but also social. Scores of times I saw him in his own home and many times he honored me with calls at my house. I look upon that association as one of the most rare and priceless privileges of my life. He was a manly man, good and true and genuine and wholesome. His natural reaction to any situation was unerringly to do the right thing.
In his contacts with colleagues and students he was always courteous and considerate. In his opinions he was not dogmatic but was always ready to grant that those who might hold opposite views could also be right. To a high degree he possessed those qualities of mind and heart which imbued him with tolerance, sympathy and appreciation. The university has been immeasurably enriched in its spiritual life by his contribution, a service reaching through a third of a century. Physically he passes from our sight but his influence abides forever."
THE CITIZEN ADVERTISER, AUBURN, N.Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934
BURIAL RITES CONDUCTED FOR NOTED EDUCATOR -
Services in Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, 18 years Chancellor of Kansas University.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, at Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, for 18 years Chancellor of the University of Kansas and for many years professor of law, at that university. Burial was in Fort Hill Cemetery.
Doctor Strong, a brother of the late Otis Strong, well known Auburn teacher and superintendent of schools, died Monday, August 6, at his home in Lawrence, Kan. The body was brought here today for burial. Doctor Strong was well known in this city. He was born in Venice, Cayuga County. He died the day after his 75th birthday.
Services at the chapel were conducted by Rev. George Montgomery Reid, pastor of First Baptist Church of East Chicago, a former pastor of First Baptist Church of this city.
Tributes were paid to Doctor Strong, in the Kansas newspapers, by Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, Robert McNair Davis, dean of the University of Kansas Law School, and other members of the faculty. Educators and students, as well as former students of the university, united in expressions of regret at the passing of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong suffered a heart attack shortly after Thanksgiving last year and was unable to meet his classes the rest of the term. In February, the regents of Kansas U. granted him a leave of absence for the spring semester, and he showed definite gains in strength. Since early June his strength had been slowly failing.
He is survived by his widow, Evelyn Ransom Strong; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Strong Classen of Ithaca, and a son, Frank Ransom Strong, who was graduated with honors from Yale law school this June.
Doctor Strong was both lawyer and educator. In his later years he combined the vocations, specializing in constitutional law. He was a member of the law firm of Crosby, Rusk & Strong in Kansas City in 1886-1888, following his graduation from Yale and a year of teaching in Auburn. He left his law practice in Kansas City to become principal of the St. Joseph, Mo. high school. It was while at St. Joseph that he met and married Evelyn Ransom, June 24, 1890.
Back to Yale to Study
In 1892 he became superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Neb, but left there to add to his education at Yale, where he received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1897. For two years he taught history at Yale, and then became president of the University of Oregon at Eugene. He went from Oregon to the University of Kansas in 1902.
Doctor Strong was author of "The Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Government of the American People," with Joseph Shafer; "Cromwell's West Indian Expedition, 1654-55," and "A Forgotten Danger of the New England Colonies." In addition, he wrote many book reviews and essays which appeared in the American Historical Review, the Yale Review, New England Magazine, the Nation, School and Society, Science and the proceedings of the American Association of State Universities. He was president of the last named organization in 1916.
K. U. Grew Under Him
When Doctor Strong assumed the Chancellorship, the Universiy of Kansas had an enrollment of 1,300 and a faculty of ninety. The next eighteen years were a period of rapid expansion, the number of students increasing to 4,000 and the faculty to 250. To house this growing student body he urged upon the Legislature the need of more buildings and brought about construction of the engineering building and laboratories, geological building, law building, Robinson gymnasium and the first unit of the present administration building.
University Heads Pay Tribute
Chancellor E. H. Lindsley of the university said: "The university loses one of the commanding figures of its history. Doctor Strong served 18 years as chancellor, 14 years as professor of law, 32 years of devoted service to higher education in Kansas. His administration as chancellor brought remarkable expansion to the institution in range of studies, in faculty, in student enrollment, and in buildings and equipment.
"As professor of law his stalwart character and breadth of outlook made a deep impression on all who sat in his classroom. Above all, Doctor Strong loved the university, and wrought to the end with devotion for its advancement. He was my loyal friend whose wise and magnanimous counsel will be sorely missed in the coming years. The university and the state will cherish the memory of this great builder."
Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school, said: "Those of us who came to the university as younger members of the faculty during the administration of Chancellor Strong received inspiration and guidance from which we shall never forget. His cordial greeting, and his friendly handclasp through all the years will be treasured memories. Doctor Strong's high ideals educationally and otherwise, his unusual ability as an administrator and teacher, and his unceasing devotion to the university as an institution for the training of the youth of the state assure for him a place of high distinction in the annals of the University of Kansas."
Pays Warm Tribute
Robert M. Davis, dean of the school of law at the University of Kansas, paid thefollowing tribute: "For five years it was my good fortune to be intimately associated with Doctor Strong. That association was not only professional but also social. Scores of times I saw him in his own home and many times he honored me with calls at my house. I look upon that association as one of the most rare and priceless privileges of my life. He was a manly man, good and true and genuine and wholesome. His natural reaction to any situation was unerringly to do the right thing.
In his contacts with colleagues and students he was always courteous and considerate. In his opinions he was not dogmatic but was always ready to grant that those who might hold opposite views could also be right. To a high degree he possessed those qualities of mind and heart which imbued him with tolerance, sympathy and appreciation. The university has been immeasurably enriched in its spiritual life by his contribution, a service reaching through a third of a century. Physically he passes from our sight but his influence abides forever."
THE CITIZEN ADVERTISER, AUBURN, N.Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934
Services in Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, 18 years Chancellor of Kansas University.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, at Bradley Memorial Chapel for Dr. Frank Strong, for 18 years Chancellor of the University of Kansas and for many years professor of law, at that university. Burial was in Fort Hill Cemetery.
Doctor Strong, a brother of the late Otis Strong, well known Auburn teacher and superintendent of schools, died Monday, August 6, at his home in Lawrence, Kan. The body was brought here today for burial. Doctor Strong was well known in this city. He was born in Venice, Cayuga County. He died the day after his 75th birthday.
Services at the chapel were conducted by Rev. George Montgomery Reid, pastor of First Baptist Church of East Chicago, a former pastor of First Baptist Church of this city.
Tributes were paid to Doctor Strong, in the Kansas newspapers, by Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, Robert McNair Davis, dean of the University of Kansas Law School, and other members of the faculty. Educators and students, as well as former students of the university, united in expressions of regret at the passing of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong suffered a heart attack shortly after Thanksgiving last year and was unable to meet his classes the rest of the term. In February, the regents of Kansas U. granted him a leave of absence for the spring semester, and he showed definite gains in strength. Since early June his strength had been slowly failing.
He is survived by his widow, Evelyn Ransom Strong; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Strong Classen of Ithaca, and a son, Frank Ransom Strong, who was graduated with honors from Yale law school this June.
Doctor Strong was both lawyer and educator. In his later years he combined the vocations, specializing in constitutional law. He was a member of the law firm of Crosby, Rusk & Strong in Kansas City in 1886-1888, following his graduation from Yale and a year of teaching in Auburn. He left his law practice in Kansas City to become principal of the St. Joseph, Mo. high school. It was while at St. Joseph that he met and married Evelyn Ransom, June 24, 1890.
Back to Yale to Study
In 1892 he became superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Neb, but left there to add to his education at Yale, where he received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1897. For two years he taught history at Yale, and then became president of the University of Oregon at Eugene. He went from Oregon to the University of Kansas in 1902.
Doctor Strong was author of "The Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Government of the American People," with Joseph Shafer; "Cromwell's West Indian Expedition, 1654-55," and "A Forgotten Danger of the New England Colonies." In addition, he wrote many book reviews and essays which appeared in the American Historical Review, the Yale Review, New England Magazine, the Nation, School and Society, Science and the proceedings of the American Association of State Universities. He was president of the last named organization in 1916.
K. U. Grew Under Him
When Doctor Strong assumed the Chancellorship, the Universiy of Kansas had an enrollment of 1,300 and a faculty of ninety. The next eighteen years were a period of rapid expansion, the number of students increasing to 4,000 and the faculty to 250. To house this growing student body he urged upon the Legislature the need of more buildings and brought about construction of the engineering building and laboratories, geological building, law building, Robinson gymnasium and the first unit of the present administration building.
University Heads Pay Tribute
Chancellor E. H. Lindsley of the university said: "The university loses one of the commanding figures of its history. Doctor Strong served 18 years as chancellor, 14 years as professor of law, 32 years of devoted service to higher education in Kansas. His administration as chancellor brought remarkable expansion to the institution in range of studies, in faculty, in student enrollment, and in buildings and equipment.
"As professor of law his stalwart character and breadth of outlook made a deep impression on all who sat in his classroom. Above all, Doctor Strong loved the university, and wrought to the end with devotion for its advancement. He was my loyal friend whose wise and magnanimous counsel will be sorely missed in the coming years. The university and the state will cherish the memory of this great builder."
Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the graduate school, said: "Those of us who came to the university as younger members of the faculty during the administration of Chancellor Strong received inspiration and guidance from which we shall never forget. His cordial greeting, and his friendly handclasp through all the years will be treasured memories. Doctor Strong's high ideals educationally and otherwise, his unusual ability as an administrator and teacher, and his unceasing devotion to the university as an institution for the training of the youth of the state assure for him a place of high distinction in the annals of the University of Kansas."
Pays Warm Tribute
Robert M. Davis, dean of the school of law at the University of Kansas, paid thefollowing tribute: "For five years it was my good fortune to be intimately associated with Doctor Strong. That association was not only professional but also social. Scores of times I saw him in his own home and many times he honored me with calls at my house. I look upon that association as one of the most rare and priceless privileges of my life. He was a manly man, good and true and genuine and wholesome. His natural reaction to any situation was unerringly to do the right thing.
In his contacts with colleagues and students he was always courteous and considerate. In his opinions he was not dogmatic but was always ready to grant that those who might hold opposite views could also be right. To a high degree he possessed those qualities of mind and heart which imbued him with tolerance, sympathy and appreciation. The university has been immeasurably enriched in its spiritual life by his contribution, a service reaching through a third of a century. Physically he passes from our sight but his influence abides forever."
THE CITIZEN ADVERTISER, AUBURN, N.Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934
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