136 Kansas Academi/ of Science. 



To show something of his educational work, it may be noted 

 that he was active in the organization of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education, and in 1891 was elected 

 as the president of that organization. He was a fellow of the 

 A. A. A. S., and one of the vice presidents in 1896 ; a member 

 of the Civil Engineering Society and the Society for Testing 

 Materials, president of the Society of the Sigma Xi and en- 

 gineer for the Kansas State Board of Health, At the same 

 time he was contributirig numerous articles to scientific publi- 

 cations. 



As a member of the Kansas Academy of Science, Dean Mar- 

 vin was elected treasurer in 1891, vice president in 1892, and 

 president in 1906. His address as retiring president of the 

 Academy was an exhaustive study of "The Recent Growth of 

 Engineering Colleges." He showed his faith in the future of 

 engineering schools in one of the closing paragraphs of this 

 address when he said : "The speaker further believes that 

 applied-science colleges are but beginning their career of use- 

 fulness, not only as places for the higher education of youth, 

 but as centers of applied science, where investigations of utili- 

 tarian questions go on side by side with those of pure science — 

 not simply side by side, rather hand in hand ; for no new truth 

 of science is discovered but that sooner or later it is found to 

 have its practical application somehow or somewhere." In 

 the Transactions of the Academy will be found numerous 

 papers by Dean Marvin on such topics as "Magnetic Declina- 

 tion in Kansas," "The Second Setting of Cement," "Precision 

 of the Solar Attachment to the Engineer's Transit," "Water 

 Supply from a Sanitary Standpoint," "Tests on the Strength 

 of Building Materials," and "Notes on Some Kansas Paving 

 Brick." 



In private life Professor Marvin was quiet and undemon- 

 atrative. He had an artist's eye for beauty in form and color 

 and a musician's ear for harmony of sounds. He had accu- 

 mulated a rare collection of etchings, and for many years 

 played the organ in one of the churches of Lawrence. Al- 

 though to the casual acquaintance he might have seemed cold, 

 the student in trouble over his work soon found that he had 

 in Dean Marvin a most sympathetic friend. He devoted his 

 Jife to teaching engineering, and his success is shown by the 

 faithful and conscientious work of the hundreds of young men 



