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Rh professor of history and political history there from 1903. He has passed through all the offices of the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. His most profitable reading he has found in history, biography and sociology. He had in preparation in 1905 a series of volumes on American diplomatic history and international policy, based upon his research work along these Hues. The American Historical Association, of which he is a member, has published several of his papers. His published works issued by the Johns Hopkins Press include: "Neutrality of the American Lakes, and Anglo-American Relations" (1898); "Cuba and International Relations" (1899); American Relations in the Pacific and the Far East" (1901); "Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy" (1901) ; "History of the American Expansion Policy" (1903). The strongest impulse to strive for high honors in his branch of historical research (which work was primarily suggested to him by his father) came from the inspiration he received from Doctor Herbert B. Adams, whom he first met at Chautauqua, New York, in the summer of 1894, and who for several years thereafter encouraged his researches in the manuscript archives of the Department of State at Washington, and elsewhere. Contact with men in active life exerted the greatest influence upon his own success, and he always felt that his partial failures were sure to be followed by greater success although not always in the same direction. He has found that "opportunities are far greater than possibilities." His advice to young men is to make proper preparation for their work while young; he assures them that the attainment of true success is the sure result of energy, earnestness, honesty, promptness, regularity, persistence, cheerfulness and hopefulness.