VAN HISE 



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VAN HORNE 



English literature at Princeton. In 1908-1909 

 he served as American lecturer at the Univer- 

 sity of Paris, and in 1913 President Wilson ap- 

 pointed him minister of the United States to 

 the Netherlands. From this position he re- 

 turned in 1916 to 

 resume his liter- 

 si ry work. 



As a writer he 

 has covered a 

 wide range of 

 subjects, includ- 

 ing fiction, liter- 

 ary criticism, re- 

 ligious works. 



poetry and es- 

 says. His stories 

 are noteworthy 



HENRY VAN DYKE 



e *u A ! He held the important post 

 for their delicate of m i n i ste r from the United 

 art vivid charac- States to the Netherlands 

 , during the most critical pe- 

 ters and ethical riod of the War of the Na- 



uplift; his verses l 



possess the same qualities, and are among the 



most popular of twentieth-century American 



poems. 



Dr. Van Dyke, both as a lecturer and as a 

 writer, possesses what Matthew Arnold thought 

 all leaders should have "sweetness and light" 

 and his manner is winning because of its ap- 

 peal to the reason as well as to the emotions. 

 His scholarly though popularly written appre- 

 ciations of the books of the Bible and other 

 classics are among the best specimens of lit- 

 erary criticism. Most important of his books 

 are The Poetry of Tennyson, Little Rivers, 

 The Other Wise Man, The Ruling Passion, 

 The Blue Flower, Le Genie de I'Amerique (de- 

 livered as lectures at the University of Paris), 

 The. Poetry of the Psalms, Fisherman's Luck, 

 The Toiling of Felix and Other Poems and 

 Grand Canyon and Other Poems. 



VAN HISE, CHARLES RICHARD (1857-1918), a 

 distinguished American geologist and univer- 

 sity president, born at Fulton, Wis. He was 

 graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 

 1879, since which date he has been continuously 

 associated with that institution, at first as in- 

 structor, and later professor of metallurgy, then 

 as professor of geology. In 1903 he was elected 

 president of the university, and at the same 

 time resigned a nonresident professorship at 

 the University of Chicago, which he had held 

 since 1892. 



His work has not been entirely in the schools, 

 however, for he has been connected since 1883 

 with the United States Geological Survey, hav- 



CHARLES R. VAN HISE 



ing been appointed in 1909 geologist in charge 

 of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology. 

 Meanwhile he has served in various capacities 

 with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural His- 

 tory Survey and has been a member of sev- 

 eral scientific so- 

 cieties. His pub- 

 lications, which 

 are standard in 

 their field, in- 

 clude Archaean 

 and Algonkian, 

 Principles of 

 Xorth American 

 Pre- Cambrian 

 Geology, Some 

 Principles Con- 

 trolling the 

 Deposition of Ores, The Conservation of the 

 Natural Resources of the United States and 

 Concentration and Control. 



President Van Hise had much to do with 

 shaping the policies of the University of Wis- 

 consin which since 1900 have made it one of 

 the most notable institutions of learning in the 

 United States. Particularly effective has been 

 the plan he put into execution to carry exten- 

 sion work to people in all parts of the state 

 who could not attend the university. 



VAN HORNE, SIR WILLIAM CORNELIUS (1843- 

 1915), a Canadian railway official, for many 

 years president of the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way Company. Van Home was born in the 

 United States, near Joliet, Illinois, and more 

 than half of his 

 active career was 

 spent in that 

 country. He en- 

 tered the railway 

 service at the age 

 of fourteen, and 

 by the time he 

 was thirty - nine 

 had risen to and 

 left behind the 

 general superin- SIR WILLIAM VAN 

 tendency of the HORNE 



Chicago & Alton Railroad, the presidency of 

 the Southern Minnesota Railway, and the gen- 

 eral superintendency of the Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee & Saint Paul Railway. He left the last 

 position in 1882 to become general manager of 

 the Canadian Pacific, whose completion was 

 due in no small measure to his energy and 

 executive ability. From 1884 to 1888 he was 

 vice-president, from 1888 to 1899 president, and 



