YALE ALUMNI WHEEKLY
YALE OBITUARIES.
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In College, Mr. Hobart was a member
of the University Club and Phi Delta
Phi. After graduation, he took a course
in the Cincinnati Law School, from
which he graduated in the Class of 1897.
HARRY SMITH OSBORN, IQOI.
Harry Smith Osborn, 1901, died at the
home of his College roommate, Willard
D. Howe, at Pittston, Pa., on Friday
evening, Aug. 25, after a short illness.
His home was at Easthampton, L. L.,
and he was the son of Dr. Edward and
Mrs. Phebe H. Osborn. He prepared
for College with the aid of a private
tutor, Rev. Dr. James B. Finch of
Amagansett, L. I., and later went to the
Hopkins Grammar School in this city,
where he graduated in 1897.
Osborn was a good student and a
very excellent member of the College
community. His character was strong
nd above reproach in every particular.
We had, in a high degree, the respect
of his teachers and of all who came
n contact with him. He was a mem-
ver of the Presbyterian Church of his
home and was active in the life of the
church. Dr. Finch, who knew Osborn
voth as his pastor and as his teacher,
has written a few lines to the WEEKLY
lwelling on the strength of his charac-
ter and his good record as a student,
particularly in languages. Action on his
jeath will be taken- by his classmates
when they reassemble this Fall.
Mr. Osborn had several relatives pre-
eding him at Yale. One, a great uncle,
Jeremiah Osborn, graduated in 1799; an
uncle, Henry P. Hedges, in 1839, a
cousin, Edwin Hedges, in 1869, and a
cousin, William Hedges in 1874.
JULES LUQUIENS,
Late Professor of the French Language and Lit
erature in Yale University.]
During the vacation the University
ias sustained a severe loss in the death
4 Jules Luquiens, Professor of the
French Language and Literature. An-
swering a request from The ALUMNI
WEEKLY, the following sketch of him is
siven in affectionate regard for the
memory of a friend and former chief.
When College assembled after the
Easter recess last Spring, it was learned
that Prof. Luquiens had been obliged
io drop work and seek rest away from
New Haven. Accompanied by some of
his family he went to Clifton Springs,
N. Y. He then planned for an absence’
of but a few weeks, though his physician
felt sure his illness was of more serious
JULES LUQUIENS.
character. When Professor Luquiens
learned, in the second or third week
after his leaving, that his family and
friends in New Haven had made ar-
rangements looking to: his absence for
the remainder of the year, he wrote say-
ing he was disposed to upbraid the one
who had so made public announcement.
He showed fine courage all through his
last illness). The weeks at Clifton
Springs were days of intense suffering.
His heart trouble would not allow him
to lie down, and loss of sleep compli-
cated the functional disease; yet he
steadily maintained his purnose of re-
suming work in September. Towards
the middle of May he felt well enough
living much of the day-time upon the
broad veranda of the house, where, as
he himself put it in a letter of July 26,
despite Ohio’s reputation for “torrid
breezes,” he was enjoying cool ones. In
the same letter he also said: “The fact
is that, although the physician’s words
are encouraging, there are more back-
sets than moves forward in my pro-
gress.” About the middle of August,
Prof. Luquiens grew rapidly worse.
For nearly a week following the doctors
gave but little hope. Upon the 18th,
however, the crisis seemed to have been
weathered and he became somewhat his
old self for a little. Under that date
the writer even received. through his
son, some Department instructions from
him. He died quietly the 23d, of dilata-
tion of the heart, and was buried in
Salem the 25th. His death was beautiful.
It came to him as he was seated in his
chair reading, at. the close of day, just
when the stin was at its setting. The
book he held fell from his hands as
though a gentle sleep had overcome him,
and his last expression of countenance
was one of rest, with love and com-
fort in it for those he was leaving.
Prof. Luquiens was reserved in mat-
ters regarding himself. To those,. there-
fore, who have had the pleasure of
knowing him during his residence in
New Haven, some information regard-
ing his life and professional career be-
fore coming to Yale, will be acceptable.
He was born Jan. 24, 1845, in: Lau-
sanne, Switzerland. His boyhood and
school days were spent in Lausanne.
For his professional course he went to
the University of Geneva, where he was
graduated in the theological department.
Then came a parting of the ways for
Prof. Luquiens. He felt that he was
not fitted in social temperament for the
life of a Swiss pastor. The writer is
of opinion, too, judging from certain
of his public utterances, that he must
have felt himself, at this time, becoming
ill at ease in the household of Swiss
Calvinism. Whatever be the reason, he
definitely gave up the ministry at this
time. He immediately thought of go-
ing far from home. He debated ac-
ceptance of a position as teacher of
French in Robert College, Constanti-
nople. America, however, appealed to
him most and hither he came in 1868.
His first position was in Charlier’s In-
stitute for Boys in New York City. The
routine of such a school he found to be
distasteful to him, and but a short time
was spent there. His next post was in
the Wesleyan College for Women, Cin-
cinnati. The scholastic year, 1872-3, he
spent at Yale in post graduate study in
Sanskrit with Prof. Whitney, under
whom he received the degree of Ph.D.
From Yale he went as instructor to the
University of Cincinnati. The Winter
of the same year, 1874, he accepted a
call to the French Department of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he remained till his election to
a professorship at Yale in 1802.
It is clear from the above that Prof.
Luquiens was a teacher of rare excel-
lence. He held comparatively few posi-
tions. Few foreigners, who teach in
America, are able to point to such a
steady ascent from a very humble posi-
tion to one of eminence. This record is
further borne out by the opinion of stu-
dents who have been under him since
his coming to Yale.. A prominent mem-
ber of the Class of Ninety-Nine said
to the writer last Spring, just after Prof.
Luquiens had been obliged to cease
work, that Prof. Luquiens’ teaching was
the best he had been under during the
four years. This isolated opinion would
not be quoted here did not the writer
feel that it was also the judgment of
quite a group in each class which came
under him.
It is not difficult to see wherein lay
some of the secret of Prof. Luquiens’
success as a teacher. He was a manly
man. His discipline was without fus-
tian; he could be even arbitrary and
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stubborn without losing the respect of
his students, because all felt that within
there was true kindness and that, in the
end, pros and cons would be consider-
ately weighed. One pedagogic princi-
ple, which he held and practiced with
his less advanced classes, was repetition.
The elementary matters were offered to
his students in varied garnishes; and,
with pungent and stealthy wit, he was
able to relieve the monotony of recita-
tion. In his advanced courses in litera-
ture Prof. Luquiens appeared at his best.
Whether he spoke in French or in Eng-
lish, his utterance was slow. Many, up-
on hearing him for the first time in
extemporaneous lecturing, have judged
him poorly prepared. His apparent
hesitation, accompanied often by a gaze
out over the heads of his class, as though
he were soliloquizing aloud, after a
while lent charm to what he said. His
listeners in the end learned by pleasant
experience to follow him expectantly.
In words he had rare delicacy of touch,
which bespoke a large vocabulary—re-
markable indeed in a foreigner—and ar-
tistic feeling.
Most of his popular lecturing in New
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