FORMER DARTMOUTH PROFESSOR DIES AT WILLIAMSTOWN

Robert Longley Taylor, head of the French Department of Williams College and former Professor of French at Dartmouth, died at his home in Williamstown, May 26. Professor Taylor was one of the most popular members of the Dartmouth faculty of his time in Hanover and his death was a cause of sorrow to his many friends in Hanover and among the alumni of the College who knew and loved him. The following editorial obituary is reprinted from The Williams Record of May 30:—

"With the passing away of Professor R. L. Taylor, head of the French Department in Williams College, last Saturday night, came a feeling of sorrow and regret to all those who knew and appreciated the life of service which he lived. Since his graduation from college in 1882, he ceaselessly gave his efforts to the wholly philanthropical pursuit of educating a younger generation, teaching in Kansas, Constantinople, the Hill School, Yale, and Dartmouth, and finally coming to Williams in 1912.

"For forty years Professor Taylor unselfishly took the life of a teacher, with all such a life carries in the way of isolation and slight recompense. For ten years he gave his services to Williams and to Williams men, and it has been of such a benevolent nature that all who knew him know he has well deserved his place of rest to which he has;, so lately departed. He gave his life to the most unselfish principle of education, and those who have profited by his interest in his profession can only mourn their loss, and above all, the loss to Williams, while the teaching profession as a whole may mourn the loss of one of its most faithful disciples. He unswervingly followed that noble philoso- phy of Count Tolstoi's: 'the vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people'."