KIND WORDS FOR LECTURES 



lOI 



Kind Words for Lectures 



University of Tennessee Capstone of 

 Public School System, Knoxville, 

 Tennessee. 



professor iiarrv clark, dirkctor of 

 the; summer school. 

 To Whom it May Concern : 



We had Dr. Bigelow with us for one 

 week's lectures during the 1916 sum- 

 mer school, and he made an unusual 

 impression on our students and on the 

 people who came in from the city. He 

 won the club women of the city, and 

 he had many invitations for social cour- 

 tesies. His crowds grew with each lec- 

 ture, because as one woman said, "He 

 is so sane and so different from the 

 usual lecturer." Another enthusiast 

 came up to me after one of his lectures, 

 and said, "Where did you get him?" 



Many lecturers try to state bizarre 

 hyperboles in order to catch attention, 

 but Dr. Bigelow won his crowd by his 

 interesting ways of stating fairly both 

 sides of mooted questions. 



He has an inexhaustible energy, for 

 he attended classes all day long and 

 then after night would go down to the 

 market house and interview the hucks- 

 ters who drove in from the country. At 

 8 P. M. he would be on hand for the 

 night lectures. Just for a side line he 

 would go out in the city and make a 

 talk for the negro institute to accom- 

 modate our country superintendent or 

 conduct a round table on some topic 

 for the students and cluli women. I 

 envy him his vigor that has come from 

 his out-of-doors life. 



A Most Unusual Speaker. 



Dr. Bigelow is a most unusual speak- 

 er. He is sort of "dift'erent" and some 

 would say "queer" but he is very en- 

 tertaining and in listening to him one 

 is impressed with his breadth of view 

 and sympathies. 



One characteristic of the man that 

 has manifested itself to those who have 

 heard his two lectures is that he does 

 not like to commit himself or to state 

 his position on anything Init he rather 

 prefers to let his hearers decide for 

 themselves any issues that may come 

 U]) in the course of his address. 



1 )r. I')igel()\v made quite an iiii])res- 

 sion on thc^se who heard him during his 

 stay in this city. He is a most unique 

 personality and is a man of wide study 

 and thought. He has a way of his own 

 of looking at life and it is a good way. 

 Dr. Bigelow is an optimist and a lover 

 of nature, in fact, his love of all living 

 things, both plants and animals, is the 

 most characteristic thing about him. 

 He can see the beauty and the lesson 

 in the smallest plant that grows and if 

 all could look at nature through his 

 eyes the world would indeed be a fasci- 

 nating place. 



The Sunmier School management is 

 to be complimented upon securing such 

 a man as Dr. Bigelow for an entire 

 week. His lectures have proven an in- 

 spiration to hundreds here and his ob- 

 ject, which as he said was to make 

 people think, has certainly been ac- 

 complished for one cannot sit for five 

 days and listen to this speaker without 

 thinking. — "The Journal and Tribune," 

 Knoxville. Tennessee. 



The Teachers of the Summer School of 

 the University of Chattanooga. 



r,Y DAN'm R. LEE, DIRECTOR. 

 (by UNANnrOl^S \'OTE OF THE ENTIRE 



SCHOOL.) 

 An Appreciation. 



To the man who is al)le to dignify 

 the common wayside weed with a 

 name : who can paint the lih^ and gild 

 refined gold without it being called 

 "ridiculous excess ;" "who in big heart- 

 ed sympathy finds songs in running 

 l^rooks and sermons in stones and good 

 in everything" — 



To such a man. represented in the 

 ])erson of om- distinguished guest. Doc- 

 tor Edward F. Bigelow. who has for 

 five davs taken us through the fertile 

 fields of thought and opened our eyes, 

 long closed, to see the beautiful in 

 God's out-of-doors, we offer this word 

 of grateful appreciation for his splen- 

 did services in our behalf. 



May he live long and prosper! ]\Iay 

 his shadow never grow less ! 



