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LENOX COLLEGE J.A. RITCHEY. Ph.D. President, and Professor of Mental Science.
HOPKINGTON, IA., June 23, 1888. This testimonial is given to recommend the bearer, Mr. E. C. Grubbs, as a young gentleman well qualified for any of the positions usually obtained by students recently graduated. He is a member of the class of 1888 in Lennox College with the degree of Bachelor of Science, for which degree he holds a diploma. For the three years which he spent in this college his record is good, and his deportment and scholarship grades are high. As a student he has been attentive and successful. He is therefore recommended to those to whom he may apply for a position as well prepared in scholarship and general intelligence.
J.A. RITCHEY, President Lennox College.
Office of A.O. STANGER, Superintendant, Deleware County, Ia. MANCHESTER, IA., July 28, 1890.
To whom it may concern:
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STOCKHAM, Nebr., July 17, 1890.
To whom may it concerned:
The undersigned, constituting the School Board at this place, take pleasure in saying that Mr. E. C. Grubbs, who has taught our school as Principal for the past two years, has given excellent satisfaction, both to the Board and to the patrons of the school. In methods of instruction he is fully abreast of the times, and his government is good. He is particularly successful in impsrting his own enthusiasm and love of study to the pupils under his instructions.
Outside of the school room he is an umremitting student. So well please have we hbeen with his work in our schools, that we have contractrd with him for another year.
Respectfully, I. D. EVANS, A. LEWIS, WILLIAM STEPHANS, School Board.
JEFFERSON ACADEMY. Rev. C. M. Des Islets, Ph. D., Principal.
CANNONSBURG, PA., July 31, 1890.
It affords me more than ordinary pleasure to bear testimony to Mr. E. C. Grubbs, who was a student of mine at Bellevue College. He is one of the hardest working students that I have ever known, and seldom left a subject without seeing it in all its bearings. I may say, too, that I do not think that I have often had a student whose progress was more satisfactory than was his. He is earnest, diligent, conscientious.
He has been pushing his college studies far beyond the college course since graduation; and I have it from the most realiable sources that his scholarship and acquirements are of the first rank.
I have followed his career with great interest, and I consider Mr. Grubbs as one of the rising and promising young men of the West. I am glad that he has chosen the great work of teaching for his life work.
Very truly, C. M. DES ISLETS, Principal Jefferson Academy.
By permissions the following is appended, which will give some idea of the standing of Dr. Des Islets as an educator:
PRINCETON, N. J., March 15, 1888.
Dr. Des Islets was a student if mine in Psychology and the History of Philosophy, and stood very high in these departments. I formed a friendship with him at that time which has continued ever since, and I have been constantly hearing of him and from him. I have evidence that he has been a good teacher in the chairs which he has occupied. A few months ago he submitted to me a Treatise on Ethics which he meant to publish. I read it with care. It was characterized by much reading and reflection, and by sound ethical principles. I believe Dr. Des Islets to be fit to become a Professor of Ethics in any college in America.
JAMES McCOSH. President Princeton College.
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DRAKE UNIVERSITY
GEORGE T. CARPENTER, A., LL. D., Chancellor.
DES MOINES, IA., Aug. 4, 1890.
To whom it may concern:
It gives me pleasure to say that Mr. E. C. Grubbs is now pursuing a post-graduate course of study under the direction of the Faculty of Drake University. We find him a hard working, conscientious student, and a Christian man of irreproachable standing. We are also assured by those competent to know, that he is a superior teacher and principals of schools, in which work he has had much successful experience. I take great pleasure, therefore, in recommending him to any who may be in need of his services, or with whom he may meet in social or church life and work.
G. T. CARPENTER,
Chancellor Drake University.
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