Two courses of lectures on modern history: the English government, and The rise of Prussia, outlines prepared for the use of the senior class in the University of Michigan
The English government: and the rise of Prussia. Outlines prepared for the use of the senior class in the University of Michigan
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Charles Kendall Adams was an American educator and historian. He served as the second president of Cornell University and as president of the University of Wisconsin.
Background
Charles Kendall Adams was born on January 24, 1835 in the township of Derby, Vermont, United States, the only only son of Charles and Maria Shedd Adams. His father was a farmer and was assisted by his son.
In 1856 the family emigrated to Iowa.
Education
Adams attended the district school. His preparation for college, received at Denmark Academy, was so meager that when he applied for entrance at the University of Michigan he was admitted only, as he himself stated, through the leniency of his examiners. He was poor and had to work his way through college, but he was always diligent. In his freshman year he bought with his hard-earned savings a dozen good books in general literature. The chief influence of his college days was undoubtedly Andrew D. White, professor of history.
Career
After four years as assistant professor of history (1863-1867) at the University of Michigan, he was advanced to the full professorship, with leave of absence of a year and a half to study in German and French universities.
He was a stimulating and popular teacher, his lectures attracting citizens from the town until there was no longer space to receive them, and he was prominent on building committees and in other university activities.
It was doubtless his success as a university lecturer and his general influence in the faculty that caused President White to invite him to give several successive courses of lectures at Cornell University (1881-1885), and his success in these probably led to his nomination by White to succeed him in the presidency of Cornell (1885). Of sixty-three professors constituting the faculty when he left Cornell in 1892, thirty-two had been appointed during his administration. He was an extraordinary judge of character, and he never showed jealousy in having able scholars about him.
He resigned from Cornell with the intention of devoting himself to literary work, but found the offer of the presidency of the University of Wisconsin too tempting to resist. This offer was doubtless due again to Andrew D. White. Altogether about a million and a half was expended in building during his ten years, and appropriations for other university needs were in proportion.
After eight years of service his health broke down in January 1900, and after that he was never at the helm more than a day or two consecutively. His physicians sent him finally to Italy and Germany for recuperation. He returned from Europe in September 1901 seemingly much improved in health, but in the opening convocation address to the students the collapse came. His old trouble returned and serious illness followed. He realized that his health was broken, and as soon as the regents could be assembled he resigned (October 11, 1901) and went to California. On the whole, his health seemed to improve there and he built a house at Redlands. The Adams moved into their new residence on July 13, 1902, but on July 26 he died.
His love of the University of Wisconsin was shown most significantly in the bequest of his whole property to it as a fellowship fund to promote graduate work in English, Greek, and history.
His first book was Democracy and Monarchy in France (1874). It was based on a university course of lectures, and attracted considerable attention, being translated into German. His Manual of Historical Literature (1882) passed through several editions. He edited also a collection of representative British orations, in three volumes, with biographical sketches and explanatory notes. After he assumed the presidency of Cornell University executive work left little time for writing except baccalaureate and other occasional addresses. To the Cornell period belongs his little volume, Christopher Columbus (1892). He was editor-in-chief of the revision of Johnson's Cyclopædia. A History of the United States, by Charles Kendall Adams and W. P. Trent, was published in 1903.
Quotations:
"A university is chiefly an inspiration and an opportunity. "
"To the inspiration of your lectures and your advice, more than to any other cause, I owe my fondness for historical study. "
Membership
In 1887 Adams became a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Personality
Adams was a man of distinguished presence; about six feet in height, one hundred and eighty pounds in weight, with steel-gray eyes and heavy eyebrows. His leonine head, that somewhat reminded one of Tennyson's, always attracted attention. Dean Birge described him as one of the first men of this country to catch the spirit and temper of true university work.
Quotes from others about the person
"My first choice would be Charles Kendall Adams, my second choice would be Charles Kendall Adams, my third choice would be Charles Kendall Adams. " - Andrew D. White
Connections
On August 13, 1883 Adams married a widow, Abigail Disbrow Mudge. She died at Cornell July 5, 1889, and July 9, 1890, he married Mary Mathews Barnes, the widow of Albert S. Barnes.