Excerpt from The Index, 1922, Vol. 52

From Assistant Professor at Williams, in 1911, Lewis came to M. A. C. As Assistant Dean and. Assistant Professor in English. He has held the position of Dean since 1914. In 1913-14 and also in 1918-19, Dean Lewis was Acting Presi dent of the college. Both administrations were unusually successful. In both he was able to secure new buildings and equipment. But it has been in his dailyservice as a patient, kindly friend of the student, knowing his interests and loving him; it is as an inspirer of students and faculty to generous fellowship and high aspirations; it is as an educator with vision, one who sees the path ahead but forgets not the dangers overcome; it is in this daily influence that Dean Lewis makes himself a force through all our college life.

One cannot refrain from mentioning his crystal candor - that which is, per haps, most striking to his friends - his poise and judgment, his white heat on any issue of righteousness, his simplicity, his noble talent as a reader and speaker, his inspiring power as a teacher, and his love of men, a loye that wherever he goes attracts like a magnet the love of all to' him. He is a born leader.

It is a period of challenge to-education. Every college requirement is called upon to prove its right to exist. A dean's special province in a-college is to main tain the standard. Of scholarship. Yet no attack is ever waged to raise the standard or to make it more difficult to enter the college or to graduate from it. Vision is needed. Dean Lewis has it. And he has courage and knowledge of the game. There will be no lowering by a single inch of the hill-top from which Aggie's banner flies.

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