PROF. CHARLES E.FM, ! 

 ON TUFTS FACULTY 3 | 

 SCORE YEARS, RESIGNS! 



Was Dean of the College's Graduate 

 School from 1912 to 

 1923 



The resignation of Professor Cliarles 

 B. Fay, for sixty years a teaoher at 

 Tufts, was accepted today by the Irustoef? 

 at their December meeting'. When 

 )iad seen fifty years of servle* ho nt- 

 tcmptnd to reslKn from the faculty, but 

 hia resignation was refused by the trus- 

 tees. During his career as a teacher, 

 begun when a boy In his teens, as master 

 of a little red schoolhouse In Nashua. 

 N. H., he has successfully become 

 scholar, educator, alpinist, writer and 

 lecturer. 



Professor Fay was born in Roxbury, 

 on the tenth of March, 1846. His father, 

 Rev. Cyrus H. Fay, was then pastor of 

 the Univ^rsallst Church In Roxbury; his 

 mother was a native of Tavistock, Eng- 

 land. She died when he was only four 

 years old. and his childhood was passed 

 partly at the home of his grandparents 

 in Concord, N. H., and partly with his 

 father. 



Education Began at Early Period | 



His et^ucatlon began at an early period, ■ 

 as ho entetipd a private school In New ' 

 York city at the age of four. Owing to ' 

 the alternation between one home and 



Dr. Charles E. Fay 



After SUty Year» on the Faculty 

 Tufts Ho Rsatgned Todny 



of t ht, iiiKh schools at Concord N H 

 ' Middlclown, Conn., and Providence it i 

 TlZ 'X l"f ' «-aua,cd: 



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interfered with tho unity of his course 

 and delayed its completion, it had, never- 

 heletis, many advantafc-e.s, and Profes.sor 

 fay hun.selt is convinced that his expcri- 

 ence of the world was in this way ren- 

 J.^red tho fuller, and that, on the whole, 

 ne was a gainer rather than a loser bv 

 the process. He was the youngest mem- 

 ber Of most of his classes, and f fondness ! 

 for mischief was as characteristic of 

 him as his readiness in learning. The 

 later enabled liim to maintain a position 

 at or very near thejiead of the class. 



First Tauglit In Bl.strict School 



f,.^ months after his graduation 



tiom high school he was offered tho po- 

 sition of teacher at a district school in 

 hif the advice of 



his father, he accepted the position, and 

 his career as teacher began. 



'l'^ "'"f** °^ ^ seventeen: 

 weeks there he returned to his homo in 

 Providence, and ehortly after became 



?A T^°^T,'*',^^"''^'*' Grammar 

 School in Bristol, R. I., where he taught 

 for somewhat more than a year Tliis 

 sojourn In Bristol was perhaps the criti- 

 cal point in his life. Here he made tho 

 acquaintance of Joshua Kendall, who 

 tJILV-J-}''!-* x?""® P'-lncipal of the Rhode 

 Island State Normal School. Constant In- 

 tercourse with this scholarly man led Mr 

 Fay to reconsider a former determina- 

 tion not to take a college course, and 

 under Mr. Kendall's instruction, ha began 

 tho study of Ca!sar. 



ic^" ^'^11 ^"^""^ Bristol in 



1864, and turned his attention wholly to 

 preparation for college, lie decided to 

 ot*^86-° entered In the fail 



Was Graduated In 1868 



Since he had previously covered a larea 

 number of the regular college require- 

 ments, he was able to gain one year in 

 ;)ls course and to graduate in 1868, when 

 lie at once received from Tufts the ap- 

 r.ointment of Walker Special Instructor 

 m Mathematics. Literature and the lan- 

 guages, however, had .appealed to his 

 tastes far more than mathematics, and 

 had received the best of his efforts It 

 was the ministry that seemed destined 

 to furnish his life-work, for, in addition 

 to his work as instructor at the college 

 he supplied the pulpit of what w.as then 

 the Allen Street Unitarian Church at 

 North Cambridge. • 



In the summer of 1869 the new pro. 

 fes.sor8hlp of French and German at I 

 lufts was offered Professor Fav with i 

 leave of absence for one year in Fiirone 

 This year was spent in travel and^studv 

 in France, Germany and Italy, and In 

 next autumn he took up tho work of 

 organizing his department. During his 

 stay in Kurope he mot in Florence Mi.ss 

 Mary W. Lincoln, of Boston, to whom 

 ho was married after their return from, 

 abroad. | 

 ■On his return to Tufts, Profes.sor Fay' 

 was m,ado Wade Professor of Modern 

 Languages In 1871. was secretary of the, 

 bchool of Arts and Sciences, 1873-81 and' 



5q?? f ""Jq,".? ""tx ^■•^''"^t^ School from 

 1912 to 1923 He received his master's ' 

 degree in 1877 and later a degree of Litt 

 D. was conferred upon him in 1900. " ! 



Ih I'loneer lOdncalnr 



J\H (III Anwi'lciiii mliiciih.r I'rofi.minr 

 Fay wuH iinmng Ihn pIopimtm JIo wiim n, 

 rounder nC the Miulcrn I-unKiuiKO Amhii- 

 clatioM of America and also of the New 

 F.ngland Modern Language AssiiclaHon 

 and of the New Fngland As.soclation of 

 Colleges and Trepariitory .Sr'hools, nf 

 Whirli be prr-r.lili-nt 111 INKS' Kn. I 



work III df'vi'loiihig lliise oi-k.'i iilz;i( io 



Iheh 



thoHO of an earlier 

 It is perhaps as 

 lessor F.ay is best I 

 Ifo began climbing, 

 of nfly years as a i 

 sin 



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■cU kii 

 •r.'illo; 



all 



itilst that i-'ro- 

 ivorld over, 

 at the apto 

 ■arly 



, that time Iins scon 

 him mounting the heights in ellher Ku- 

 rope or western America. So well kn 

 have been his ascents that a huge m, 

 I tain in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, 



has been 

 honor. 



n.amed Mount Fay in his ■ 



In Aniriuan IMoiiiilaineorlnB i 



In American moiuitalneering ho has , 

 held an especially prominent place, tak- 

 ing part In the founding of the Appa- 1 

 lachlan Mountain Club, 1876, and the I 

 American Alpine Club, 1902. Ho was 

 president of tho Appalachian " 'Club in 

 1878, 1881, 1893 and 1905, and has served I 

 as president of the Alpine. Club. Ho also 

 edited their publications, "Appalachia" ' 

 (for forty years) and "Alpina jSmericana," 

 furnishing numerous articles for the 

 former and a richly Illustrated mono- 

 graph, entitled "Tho Rocky Mountains 

 of Canada," for the latter. His writ- 

 ings include also numerous other 

 monograplis and m.azazlne articles?. 

 He is cotunted among the pion- 

 eers in the exploration of the Alpine 

 regions of the Dominion. His activity in 

 this field has been recognized abroad by 

 his election as an honorary member of 

 the English, Italian and Canadian Alpine 

 Clubs, .and of the Ccntro lOxcursionista 

 do Cataluna of Siniln. He was a delegate ! 

 of the American Alpine Club and the Ap- 

 palachian Mountain Club to the fiftieth 

 anniversary of the Alpine Club of Lon- 

 don, and to the International Congress 

 of Alpine Clubs at Monaco, in 1920, 

 where he was, by order of the prince, 

 knighted and made an officer in the 

 Order of St. Charles. 



His First Ascents 



His first Jiscents in the Canadian 

 Rockies Include Jlounts Hector (189:,); 

 Lefroy, Victoria, and Gordon (1S97); Niles 

 (1898); Vaux (1901); Goodsir and Daly 

 (1903): Castor (1895); Pollux (1897); Daw- 

 son (1899); and his second ascents. Mount 

 Fay, named in his honor by the Canadian 

 Government. His other ascents Include: 

 third ascent of Stephen (1895); Temple, 

 which ho was the first to ascend by the 

 southeast arete, in 1904; first ascent by 

 the southeast arete of Eagle Peak, 1904; 

 the first crossing of Cathedral Pass in 

 1903; and Mumm's Peak, 1913. 



Four Pcalis in One Day 



In tho autumn of 1910, he ascended in 

 one day four peaks of tho Sandwich 

 range, covering ten thousand feet of alti- 

 tude, eighteen miles of trails — in one day, 

 and in his sixty-fifth ye.ar. In his .sev- 

 enty-sixth year ho took charge of a 

 tramping party of young people going up 

 loma of the high passes, and set the 

 pace and kept it for :"chlldren" of 

 twenty-five and thirty, who had all they 

 lid do to keep up with the pacing 

 professor. "Old? Not a bit of it," he 

 said at that time, "a' man is as old as 

 his arteries are, and I believe mine are 

 as young as they ever were. I have all 

 the recuperative power tliat I had when 

 fifty years old, and that was wlien I be- 

 gan mountain climbing." 



