18923 Extending the Faculty 



century for their maintenance. In 1902 the fifty -The Pious 

 years' dispute concerning the Fund was settled by Fund 

 the Hague Tribunal, the decision being in favor of 

 the Catholic Church of America as guardian of the 

 Missions; and the sum in question, principal and 

 interest, was promptly repaid by the Mexican 

 Government. It is interesting to note that this 

 particular case was deliberately chosen as the first 

 to be considered at The Hague because it was 

 thought unlikely to arouse undue partisan or national 

 feeling. Our friend and neighbor, Attorney John T. 

 Doyle of Menlo Park, a broad-minded and well- 

 informed authority on Spanish-American affairs, 

 prepared the elaborate legal basis for the Church 

 contention. 



3 



With the reopening of the University for its 

 second year, the faculty ranks were strengthened by 

 several additional teachers. 



Dr. Ewald Fluegel was a fine example of the best type of A Chaucer 

 thorough and patient German scholar. While docent at Leipzig, 

 he had been chosen editor of the proposed great Chaucer Dic- 

 tionary by the British Chaucer Society of Oxford. To this 

 work Dr. Fluegel gave his available time and energy up to 

 the date of his death in 1914 a calamity hastened by his 

 distress at the outbreak of war. He had then completed only 

 about half of the huge task, though the rest was already elabo- 

 rately blocked out. For his ideal had been to present the 

 language of Chaucer's time with absolute completeness and 

 perfection of scholarship. 1 An excellent teacher as well as 

 investigator, always considerate and optimistic, Dr. Fluegel 

 was much beloved by his students and colleagues. 



1 Under his successor, Dr. John S. P. Tatlock, the work has been continued, 

 with hope of its ultimate publication by the Carnegie Institution which had 

 granted special aid to Dr. Fluegel. 



C 439 3 



