Prof. Joseph H. Drake, son of the late Dr. I. L. Drake, of Lebanon, reached New York a few days ago after studying for two years in some of the great universities of Germany. He has been in Lebanon since Saturday last, but he will at once go to Ann Arbor, where he will enter upon his duty as assistant professor of Latin. It was arranged when he left the university at that place that after two years of study abroad he would return and take this assistant professorship.
Lebanon people may justly be proud of their former town-boy, Jo Drake. He is mentally a strong man. He is something more than a scholar-he is a student. He comes from Germany, after hard work there for two years, morally, physically and intellectually equipped for the important task which will devolve upon him at Ann Arbor. He brings home a high estimate of the maturity, perhaps we might almost say the perfection, of German scholarship, and yet he says the German student is never n a hurry, never in a fret, but, is always a patient and thorough toiler.
This absence of hurry is characteristic of all classes in Germany as it is especially so of the German student, and because of this, in the opinion of Prof. Drake, the German lives longer, accomplishes greater results and enjoy life more than the American who drives the pace that unduly wears and too soon kills.
There are many good boys In Lebanon, coming up a little later than Jo Drake, who would honor their parents, their friends and their town, by aiming at an eminence as high as that which he has reached, though he is a young man yet. Will they not go up the ladder, round by round, after him? There is glorious reward at the top.