PROF. YOUNGMAN'S LONG LIFE ENDED
Lafayette College Professor Was a Very Popular Member of the Faculty.
The long and useful life of Professor Robert Barber Youngman was concluded at his home on the Lafayette campus last night at 10:45 o'clock. The death of Professor Youngman removed from Lafayette one of her oldest and most honored landmarks. For sixty-one years he has been at Lafayette and in his loyalty he never swerved.
Professor Youngman was born in Danville, Pa., November 18, 1836. Shortly after he became a member of the Lafayette faculty he married Miss Kate Opdyke, of Easton. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F.A. March, Jr., of New York city, Miss Ethel Youngman, of New York city, and Miss Kate Youngman of Easton. Professor Youngman will be buried from his home on the Lafayette campus at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Interment will be private.
Professor Youngman had a slight stroke over a year ago, but was in comparatively good health until a few days ago when he had a slight paralytic stroke. On Wednesday of this week he lasped into unconsciousness from which he rallied only a few times. He passed away quietly and without suffering.
Professor Youngman entered Lafayette as a Freshman in the year 1846. Among the honors of his undergraduate life were the winning of the Junior oratorial prize attaining membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and delivering the valedictory at the graduation of his class.
Through the brillance of his attainments as a student, Robert B. Youngman was called to the faculty immediately after graduation. He was to have received the munificent salary of $400 per year. When he actual work as tutor began, Mr. Youngman found that his salary would be divided with another tutor and so he started his connection with the Layayette faculity with an annual salary of $266.66. Mr. Youngman became a tutor in 1860 - the year of his graduation - and almost immediately followed the great war which nearly crushed Lafayette. Through that trying time Professor Youngman was among the few who held Lafayette together and saved it from extinction. In 1863 the rank of the young tutor was raised to adjunct professor of Latin and Greek. In 1869 he became Professor of Greek language and literature, which title he held until 1909, when he practically retired and was made professor emeritus. Professor Youngman, thus rendered forty-nine consecutive years as teacher at Lafayette and even after his nominal retirement in 1909 he continued to give a course in Greek Bible to the Sophomores for a year or two.
Throughout the period of his connection with the Lafayette faculty, Professor Youngman was clerk of that body.
While the great and long life of Professor Youngman was spent in the class romm, he had many activities and honors outside of it. In 1864 he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Ten years later he was ordained by the Presbytery of Lehigh. In 1880 Professor Youngman received the honorary degree of Ph.D from
Princeton College. Professor Youngman worked most industriously on the preparation of the Standard Dictionary and of the Thesame Dictionary. He wrote a large number of magazine articles.
But after all it is not Professor Youngman the teacher; not Professor Youngman, the literary man; not Professor Youngman, the scholar, whom Lafayette men will always remember, but Professor Youngman, the man. His Kindly disposition and sunny temperament and that rare a bility to appreciate a student viewpoint, drew out the confident love and respect of Lafayette boys at their first entrance to the college. As the course went on from year to year, he appeared more and more an intrinsic part of the life at Lafayette. Never did he miss, when his health would permit, a ball game. He attended the practices of the various teams frorm day to day. He never missed a smoker which preceded one of the big games. This buoyant and sympathetic spirit whose presence the boys felt through the four years of their life at Lafayette, was not forgotten after graduation. And of all of members of the faculty, "Bobbie" Youngman has always been among the most popular of the speakers at alumni dinners. And now that this long life on earth has been brought to an end, its influence will move on through the years, for a personality like that of Robert Barber Youngman immpressed many youth for many years, will not sink to oblivion, but will live in the lives of those it has touched. Nor will his name ever pass from among Lafayette's treasured memories, for the sons of the Maroon and White will always sing.
Easton Daily Express, Friday Evening, March 2, 1917, Page 5
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Prof. Youngman at Rest
The funeral of the late Professor Robert B. Youngman was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his home on the college campus. Rev. L.W. Eckert, of Philadelphia, a former pastor of Brainerd-Upton Presbyterian Church this city, conducted the services and interment was made in the Easton Cemetery. Rev. W.W. Edge, pastor of Brainerd-Union Church, had charge of the services at the grave.
The honorary pall-bearers were Dr. John H. MacCracken, presiden t of Lafayette College; Hon. W.S. Kirkpatrick, E.J. Fox, Dr. E. Green, Professor W.B. Owen, Professor J. Madison Porter, Professor Edward Hart and Dr. J.D. Updegrove, all of this city; Alden March, of York, and Dr. H.W. Cattell, of Philadelphia, Professors Tupper, Peck, Marquard, Graves, Smith and Hatch officiated as the active pall-bearers.
Easton Daily Express, March 5, 1917, Page 6
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Lafayette College Professor Was a Very Popular Member of the Faculty.
The long and useful life of Professor Robert Barber Youngman was concluded at his home on the Lafayette campus last night at 10:45 o'clock. The death of Professor Youngman removed from Lafayette one of her oldest and most honored landmarks. For sixty-one years he has been at Lafayette and in his loyalty he never swerved.
Professor Youngman was born in Danville, Pa., November 18, 1836. Shortly after he became a member of the Lafayette faculty he married Miss Kate Opdyke, of Easton. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F.A. March, Jr., of New York city, Miss Ethel Youngman, of New York city, and Miss Kate Youngman of Easton. Professor Youngman will be buried from his home on the Lafayette campus at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Interment will be private.
Professor Youngman had a slight stroke over a year ago, but was in comparatively good health until a few days ago when he had a slight paralytic stroke. On Wednesday of this week he lasped into unconsciousness from which he rallied only a few times. He passed away quietly and without suffering.
Professor Youngman entered Lafayette as a Freshman in the year 1846. Among the honors of his undergraduate life were the winning of the Junior oratorial prize attaining membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and delivering the valedictory at the graduation of his class.
Through the brillance of his attainments as a student, Robert B. Youngman was called to the faculty immediately after graduation. He was to have received the munificent salary of $400 per year. When he actual work as tutor began, Mr. Youngman found that his salary would be divided with another tutor and so he started his connection with the Layayette faculity with an annual salary of $266.66. Mr. Youngman became a tutor in 1860 - the year of his graduation - and almost immediately followed the great war which nearly crushed Lafayette. Through that trying time Professor Youngman was among the few who held Lafayette together and saved it from extinction. In 1863 the rank of the young tutor was raised to adjunct professor of Latin and Greek. In 1869 he became Professor of Greek language and literature, which title he held until 1909, when he practically retired and was made professor emeritus. Professor Youngman, thus rendered forty-nine consecutive years as teacher at Lafayette and even after his nominal retirement in 1909 he continued to give a course in Greek Bible to the Sophomores for a year or two.
Throughout the period of his connection with the Lafayette faculty, Professor Youngman was clerk of that body.
While the great and long life of Professor Youngman was spent in the class romm, he had many activities and honors outside of it. In 1864 he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Ten years later he was ordained by the Presbytery of Lehigh. In 1880 Professor Youngman received the honorary degree of Ph.D from
Princeton College. Professor Youngman worked most industriously on the preparation of the Standard Dictionary and of the Thesame Dictionary. He wrote a large number of magazine articles.
But after all it is not Professor Youngman the teacher; not Professor Youngman, the literary man; not Professor Youngman, the scholar, whom Lafayette men will always remember, but Professor Youngman, the man. His Kindly disposition and sunny temperament and that rare a bility to appreciate a student viewpoint, drew out the confident love and respect of Lafayette boys at their first entrance to the college. As the course went on from year to year, he appeared more and more an intrinsic part of the life at Lafayette. Never did he miss, when his health would permit, a ball game. He attended the practices of the various teams frorm day to day. He never missed a smoker which preceded one of the big games. This buoyant and sympathetic spirit whose presence the boys felt through the four years of their life at Lafayette, was not forgotten after graduation. And of all of members of the faculty, "Bobbie" Youngman has always been among the most popular of the speakers at alumni dinners. And now that this long life on earth has been brought to an end, its influence will move on through the years, for a personality like that of Robert Barber Youngman immpressed many youth for many years, will not sink to oblivion, but will live in the lives of those it has touched. Nor will his name ever pass from among Lafayette's treasured memories, for the sons of the Maroon and White will always sing.
Easton Daily Express, Friday Evening, March 2, 1917, Page 5
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Prof. Youngman at Rest
The funeral of the late Professor Robert B. Youngman was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his home on the college campus. Rev. L.W. Eckert, of Philadelphia, a former pastor of Brainerd-Upton Presbyterian Church this city, conducted the services and interment was made in the Easton Cemetery. Rev. W.W. Edge, pastor of Brainerd-Union Church, had charge of the services at the grave.
The honorary pall-bearers were Dr. John H. MacCracken, presiden t of Lafayette College; Hon. W.S. Kirkpatrick, E.J. Fox, Dr. E. Green, Professor W.B. Owen, Professor J. Madison Porter, Professor Edward Hart and Dr. J.D. Updegrove, all of this city; Alden March, of York, and Dr. H.W. Cattell, of Philadelphia, Professors Tupper, Peck, Marquard, Graves, Smith and Hatch officiated as the active pall-bearers.
Easton Daily Express, March 5, 1917, Page 6
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PROF. YOUNGMAN'S LONG LIFE ENDED
Lafayette College Professor Was a Very Popular Member of the Faculty.
The long and useful life of Professor Robert Barber Youngman was concluded at his home on the Lafayette campus last night at 10:45 o'clock. The death of Professor Youngman removed from Lafayette one of her oldest and most honored landmarks. For sixty-one years he has been at Lafayette and in his loyalty he never swerved.
Professor Youngman was born in Danville, Pa., November 18, 1836. Shortly after he became a member of the Lafayette faculty he married Miss Kate Opdyke, of Easton. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F.A. March, Jr., of New York city, Miss Ethel Youngman, of New York city, and Miss Kate Youngman of Easton. Professor Youngman will be buried from his home on the Lafayette campus at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Interment will be private.
Professor Youngman had a slight stroke over a year ago, but was in comparatively good health until a few days ago when he had a slight paralytic stroke. On Wednesday of this week he lasped into unconsciousness from which he rallied only a few times. He passed away quietly and without suffering.
Professor Youngman entered Lafayette as a Freshman in the year 1846. Among the honors of his undergraduate life were the winning of the Junior oratorial prize attaining membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and delivering the valedictory at the graduation of his class.
Through the brillance of his attainments as a student, Robert B. Youngman was called to the faculty immediately after graduation. He was to have received the munificent salary of $400 per year. When he actual work as tutor began, Mr. Youngman found that his salary would be divided with another tutor and so he started his connection with the Layayette faculity with an annual salary of $266.66. Mr. Youngman became a tutor in 1860 - the year of his graduation - and almost immediately followed the great war which nearly crushed Lafayette. Through that trying time Professor Youngman was among the few who held Lafayette together and saved it from extinction. In 1863 the rank of the young tutor was raised to adjunct professor of Latin and Greek. In 1869 he became Professor of Greek language and literature, which title he held until 1909, when he practically retired and was made professor emeritus. Professor Youngman, thus rendered forty-nine consecutive years as teacher at Lafayette and even after his nominal retirement in 1909 he continued to give a course in Greek Bible to the Sophomores for a year or two.
Throughout the period of his connection with the Lafayette faculty, Professor Youngman was clerk of that body.
While the great and long life of Professor Youngman was spent in the class romm, he had many activities and honors outside of it. In 1864 he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Ten years later he was ordained by the Presbytery of Lehigh. In 1880 Professor Youngman received the honorary degree of Ph.D from
Princeton College. Professor Youngman worked most industriously on the preparation of the Standard Dictionary and of the Thesame Dictionary. He wrote a large number of magazine articles.
But after all it is not Professor Youngman the teacher; not Professor Youngman, the literary man; not Professor Youngman, the scholar, whom Lafayette men will always remember, but Professor Youngman, the man. His Kindly disposition and sunny temperament and that rare a bility to appreciate a student viewpoint, drew out the confident love and respect of Lafayette boys at their first entrance to the college. As the course went on from year to year, he appeared more and more an intrinsic part of the life at Lafayette. Never did he miss, when his health would permit, a ball game. He attended the practices of the various teams frorm day to day. He never missed a smoker which preceded one of the big games. This buoyant and sympathetic spirit whose presence the boys felt through the four years of their life at Lafayette, was not forgotten after graduation. And of all of members of the faculty, "Bobbie" Youngman has always been among the most popular of the speakers at alumni dinners. And now that this long life on earth has been brought to an end, its influence will move on through the years, for a personality like that of Robert Barber Youngman immpressed many youth for many years, will not sink to oblivion, but will live in the lives of those it has touched. Nor will his name ever pass from among Lafayette's treasured memories, for the sons of the Maroon and White will always sing.
Easton Daily Express, Friday Evening, March 2, 1917, Page 5
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Prof. Youngman at Rest
The funeral of the late Professor Robert B. Youngman was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his home on the college campus. Rev. L.W. Eckert, of Philadelphia, a former pastor of Brainerd-Upton Presbyterian Church this city, conducted the services and interment was made in the Easton Cemetery. Rev. W.W. Edge, pastor of Brainerd-Union Church, had charge of the services at the grave.
The honorary pall-bearers were Dr. John H. MacCracken, presiden t of Lafayette College; Hon. W.S. Kirkpatrick, E.J. Fox, Dr. E. Green, Professor W.B. Owen, Professor J. Madison Porter, Professor Edward Hart and Dr. J.D. Updegrove, all of this city; Alden March, of York, and Dr. H.W. Cattell, of Philadelphia, Professors Tupper, Peck, Marquard, Graves, Smith and Hatch officiated as the active pall-bearers.
Easton Daily Express, March 5, 1917, Page 6
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Lafayette College Professor Was a Very Popular Member of the Faculty.
The long and useful life of Professor Robert Barber Youngman was concluded at his home on the Lafayette campus last night at 10:45 o'clock. The death of Professor Youngman removed from Lafayette one of her oldest and most honored landmarks. For sixty-one years he has been at Lafayette and in his loyalty he never swerved.
Professor Youngman was born in Danville, Pa., November 18, 1836. Shortly after he became a member of the Lafayette faculty he married Miss Kate Opdyke, of Easton. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F.A. March, Jr., of New York city, Miss Ethel Youngman, of New York city, and Miss Kate Youngman of Easton. Professor Youngman will be buried from his home on the Lafayette campus at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Interment will be private.
Professor Youngman had a slight stroke over a year ago, but was in comparatively good health until a few days ago when he had a slight paralytic stroke. On Wednesday of this week he lasped into unconsciousness from which he rallied only a few times. He passed away quietly and without suffering.
Professor Youngman entered Lafayette as a Freshman in the year 1846. Among the honors of his undergraduate life were the winning of the Junior oratorial prize attaining membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and delivering the valedictory at the graduation of his class.
Through the brillance of his attainments as a student, Robert B. Youngman was called to the faculty immediately after graduation. He was to have received the munificent salary of $400 per year. When he actual work as tutor began, Mr. Youngman found that his salary would be divided with another tutor and so he started his connection with the Layayette faculity with an annual salary of $266.66. Mr. Youngman became a tutor in 1860 - the year of his graduation - and almost immediately followed the great war which nearly crushed Lafayette. Through that trying time Professor Youngman was among the few who held Lafayette together and saved it from extinction. In 1863 the rank of the young tutor was raised to adjunct professor of Latin and Greek. In 1869 he became Professor of Greek language and literature, which title he held until 1909, when he practically retired and was made professor emeritus. Professor Youngman, thus rendered forty-nine consecutive years as teacher at Lafayette and even after his nominal retirement in 1909 he continued to give a course in Greek Bible to the Sophomores for a year or two.
Throughout the period of his connection with the Lafayette faculty, Professor Youngman was clerk of that body.
While the great and long life of Professor Youngman was spent in the class romm, he had many activities and honors outside of it. In 1864 he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Ten years later he was ordained by the Presbytery of Lehigh. In 1880 Professor Youngman received the honorary degree of Ph.D from
Princeton College. Professor Youngman worked most industriously on the preparation of the Standard Dictionary and of the Thesame Dictionary. He wrote a large number of magazine articles.
But after all it is not Professor Youngman the teacher; not Professor Youngman, the literary man; not Professor Youngman, the scholar, whom Lafayette men will always remember, but Professor Youngman, the man. His Kindly disposition and sunny temperament and that rare a bility to appreciate a student viewpoint, drew out the confident love and respect of Lafayette boys at their first entrance to the college. As the course went on from year to year, he appeared more and more an intrinsic part of the life at Lafayette. Never did he miss, when his health would permit, a ball game. He attended the practices of the various teams frorm day to day. He never missed a smoker which preceded one of the big games. This buoyant and sympathetic spirit whose presence the boys felt through the four years of their life at Lafayette, was not forgotten after graduation. And of all of members of the faculty, "Bobbie" Youngman has always been among the most popular of the speakers at alumni dinners. And now that this long life on earth has been brought to an end, its influence will move on through the years, for a personality like that of Robert Barber Youngman immpressed many youth for many years, will not sink to oblivion, but will live in the lives of those it has touched. Nor will his name ever pass from among Lafayette's treasured memories, for the sons of the Maroon and White will always sing.
Easton Daily Express, Friday Evening, March 2, 1917, Page 5
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Prof. Youngman at Rest
The funeral of the late Professor Robert B. Youngman was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his home on the college campus. Rev. L.W. Eckert, of Philadelphia, a former pastor of Brainerd-Upton Presbyterian Church this city, conducted the services and interment was made in the Easton Cemetery. Rev. W.W. Edge, pastor of Brainerd-Union Church, had charge of the services at the grave.
The honorary pall-bearers were Dr. John H. MacCracken, presiden t of Lafayette College; Hon. W.S. Kirkpatrick, E.J. Fox, Dr. E. Green, Professor W.B. Owen, Professor J. Madison Porter, Professor Edward Hart and Dr. J.D. Updegrove, all of this city; Alden March, of York, and Dr. H.W. Cattell, of Philadelphia, Professors Tupper, Peck, Marquard, Graves, Smith and Hatch officiated as the active pall-bearers.
Easton Daily Express, March 5, 1917, Page 6
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