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teaching were presented in Science under date 

 of September 11, 1908. 



Shaw's ability to see a subject from the stu- 

 dent's standpoint was a natural consequence 

 of a sympathetic nature, a youthful and 

 buoyant spirit and his simple-mindedness. 

 There -u is nothing subtle about his mind and 

 nothing i overt about his nature. He was the 

 soul of candor. 



Clear exposition depends necessarily upon 

 a clear grasp of a subject in the essentials. It 

 depends also on sharpness of memory pictures 

 and upon strong language powers. In all 

 these Shaw excelled. Facts seemed to fall 

 into his mind in their proper relationship al- 

 most without effort on his part. The knitted 

 brow was not a characteristic of his face. Ef- 

 fort to clear up a thought was evinced rather 

 by a wide-open movement of the eyes as if 

 merely to take in all the elements of a situa- 

 tion and the answer was given immediately 

 all were included. His memory for names and 

 for essential facts was almost unfailing. The 

 only fault in Shaw's exposition came on the 

 expressive side. He gave the impression often 

 of hesitation when the real trouble was not 

 lack of a word, but lack of his own word. He 

 was not content with the usual mode of ex- 

 pressing a thought. The truth to him was so 

 engaging that it always seemed to require a 

 special search for a word good enough to give 

 it utterance. However, this fault, if fault it 

 may be called, was seldom a hindrance. There 

 was a certain clarity of thought in his very 

 manner and his obvious sincerity won instant 

 attention. He became quite a favorite in 

 many places about Philadelphia as a popular 

 lecturer. 



Shaw's emotional side was as strong as his 

 intellect. Truth for him was not merely the 

 solution of a puzzle, nor merely beautiful, it 

 was a sort of blessing. He cared most for 

 that knowledge which had meaning for the 

 largest life of the human spirit; but that 

 meaning for him could not be expressed by 

 any dogma; he must find it for himself. It 

 was this quality — this deep appreciation of 

 truth — that made his teaching inspiring. His 

 class room was popular because through his 



clear vision his students got a new insight 

 into nature, the universe, themselves. 



Few men have a stronger love of nature in 

 all her moods than had Charles Shaw. Since 

 the age of nineteen, when first he saw the 

 mountains he had spent some time almost 

 every year among them. The Blue Mountains, 

 Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Sel- 

 kirks, Eockies, Alps he knew thoroughly. 

 Nearly always he was accompanied by a party 

 of students who learned to camp and to be 

 content under the simplest of conditions — a 

 shelter, a fire, a blanket. They acquired self- 

 reliance and hardihood. They caught his love 

 of life in the open. 



Large and strong of body, Shaw was large 

 and strong in his personality. He and I were 

 classmates in college, were post-graduate stu- 

 dents together and had been intimate friends 

 ever since. He was the cleanest man I ever 

 knew, and was the best illustration I could 

 give of the beatitude, " Blessed are the pure 

 in heart." 



On Christmas day, 1901, Dr. Shaw was 

 married to Miss Blanche Jackson at her home 

 in Waterloo, Iowa. This union had the great- 

 est influence in developing him to full, noble 

 stature. Two most promising children are 

 left with Mrs. Shaw. J. R. Muelin 



tht: unifebsity of Illinois move- 

 ment FOB A VNIVEBSITY 

 CONSTITUTION 



The first step toward carrying out the plan 

 devised by President James of forming a con- 

 stitution for the University of Illinois was 

 taken on Monday evening, March 13, 1911. 



President James on that evening met with a 

 committee of the senate consisting of fifteen 

 members of the faculty and outlined to them 

 what he conceived to be the situation, the 

 underlying problems and the possibilities. 

 After speaking of the organization of foreign 

 universities, including those of England and 

 Prussia, President James called the com- 

 mittee's attention to the changing and shift- 

 ing conditions in the universities of the 

 United States and particularly in the states 

 immediately surrounding Ulinois. 



