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Show fb16~ for example, he ranks as an authority. He contributed the article on Utah to the tenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, has edited an edition of one of Drydenis longer poems and has Eady for publication now a text on English grammar which is to be issued first as an Extension Division bulletin for distribution among the schools of Utah. 4. Professor Marshall has waged his influence in the University faculty in the interest of the maintenance of es- tablished university standards. 5. Professor Marshall's influence on the intellectual life of the state has been distinctive, resulting from his constructive insistence on the inspirational values in education as well as from his abiding belief in the worth of habits of accuracy as a means of educational growth. 6. Professor Marshall has years of service yet to give to his University and State, sure to be the richer for the reason that an intimate contact with the literary and historical associations of England and the continent, the goal of his year's leave of absence, will touch into new life the fountains of learning and culture already his. From the UTAH EDUCATIONAL REVIEWJ JUNE 1921. Profggsor George M. Marshall. Following graduation from the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, the subject of this sketch, "boarded round" for two years as teacher of an ungraded country school in Pennsylvania, was teacher then for three years in a high school also in Pennsylvania, and later was English master for five years in the Shattuck Military School of Fairbault, Minnesota. Between these years of early youth in Pennsylvania and the experience of the military school in Minnesota came four years of study in Cornell University, earning for him honors in history, honors for general excellence, the first place as commencement speaker and the degree of Ph.B.; yielding, too, close contact with great teachers in English, history, mathematics and philosophy. Professor Marshall's graduate work consisted of a year at Cornell, and two years at Harvard, the first year of the latter bringing the degree of A. M., both years giving intimate contact with the literary and historical associations of New England which he developed with loving enthusiasm. The West is Professor Marshall's by adoption; how well he knows it and how highly he regards it show plainly in his article on an aspect of the history of Utah, furnished upon request to the tenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, by his fine collection of photographs, in the main the work of his own camera, of Utah's scenic attractions, especially those of Big Cottonwood canyon, in which is his beautiful summer home, and by his sympathetic presentations in lecture |
