BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
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and faithfulness in the class-room, where he is so much at
home, produces an eloquence more effective than a thou¬
sand orators upon the stage. Learned and yet modest,
humble and yet dignified, he carries with him a personality
that is his own. As to the result of his labors let the
voices from a thousand hamlets in this and adjoining States
speak out; let the young men and women from a thousand
homes who have imbibed knowledge and manhood at his
feet come forward and tell the story. Looking back from
his fiftieth anniversary Prof. Crogman may exclaim : 'My
zeal for the work has not been vain.' I now congratulate
myself on having sat at his feet."
The Rev. Prof. J. M. Cox, A.M., B.D., occupies the
chair of Latin and Greek in Philander Smith College,
Little Rock, Ark. His letter included the following :
"I became a pupil of Prof. Crogman in the year 1878,
and continued under his instruction until 1884. Under
no other teacher could six years of my life have been
spent more pleasantly and profitably. To him more than
to any other instructor I am indebted for my little store of
knowledge and for the limited degree of success that has
attended my labors for the last five years. Engaged now
in teaching the very same branches in which I was in¬
structed by Prof. Crogman, and anxious to do well my
work and benefit my pupils, I often think of the many
excellent qualities that characterize him both as a man
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