Alexander Hogg

Testimonials.

From Hon.M.A. Newell, State Supt. Maryland. Office of the State Board of Education, Baltimore, Oct. 18,1880. I have know Prof. Alex Hogg for a number of years, and have had ample opportunity for forming an accurate judgement of his character. He is a gentleman of great business capacity, a good scholar, a teacher of established reputation, abounding in energy and patient continuance in well doing. As a Superintendent of schools he would be in just the element in which his large and varied powers would find full scope. M.A. Newell, State Superintendent Public Instruction Maryland.

Office of Superintendent of Instruction, Dayton, O.,August 15, 1881. To Whom It May Concern: I have had the pleasure of an acquaintance with Prof. Alexander Hogg for several years. I think his entitled to very high esteem as an educator. He has taken an active part in the proceedings of the National Educational Association, and his views are those of a wise, and at the same time, those of a progressive educator. He is fully abreast of the times in the things pertaining to his profession, and is a vigorous thinker and worker. I have entire confidence, that he would manage any institution of learning, or system of schools placed in his charge with eminent success. John Hancock, Supt. Public Instruction Dayton, O.

From Professor Jno. T. Hand, M.A. Office Superintendent Brenham Graded Schools, Brenham, Texas, July 9th, 1881. To Whom It May Concern: It affords me a real pleasure to bear testimony to the scholarship and merit of Professor Alex Hogg. Prof. H. is a gentleman of great purity of character, splendid literary attainments, and large and successful experience as an Educator. J.T. Hand. Late Professor Ancient Languages, State A. and M. College, Texas.

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From C.S. Venable, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics. University of Virginia, July 29,1875. His Excellency, Governor Richard Coke, Rector, etc., Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College: Hearing that Professor Alexander Hogg, of Alabama, is a candidate for the Chair of Mathematics, under that distinguished mathematician and writer, Dr.A.T. Bledsoe; that he has had long experience as an instructor in mathematics, having taught it successfully in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, and elsewhere. Mr.H. is a man of capacity and energy, who has shown his administrative talents while in charge of the Public Schools of Montgomery, Alabama. I recommend his name as one which can come into honorable competition for the Chair of Mathematics in the Texas A. & M. College. Very respectfully submitted, C.S. Venable

From President B.S. Ewell. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA., July 23, 1875. To His Excellency Richard Coke, Governor of Texas: Governor - Learning that Professor Alexander Hogg will be a candidate for the Professorship of Mathematics in the Texas Agricultural and Military College, I take pleasure in asking your favorable attention to his merits. He is a native of this part of Virginia, and is a credit to his birthplace. As an accurate and improving scholar; as an experienced, enthusiastic teacher, and as a gentleman of fine capacity and unimpeachable character, I recommend him for the position, and with the utmost respect and esteem, I remain, Your obedient servant, B.S. Ewell.

Licentiaeship. At a meeting of the faculty of the University of Virginia held November 17, 1859: Resolved, That Alexander Hogg be licensed to form a class for private instruction in Latin. Attest: W.M. Wertenbecker, Secretary.

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From Doctor Edward Olney. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 18, 1881. From a somewhat extended acquaintance with Prof. Alex Hogg, as well as from his writings, and the uniform testimony of men of science, I am satisfied of his high fitness for the position of Professor of Mathematics, Pure or Applied. He is abundantly qualified in his knowledge of the subject matter, has excellent ability in "putting things," is thorough and earnest. As to his notions of a University, so far as I have seen them, I endorse them heartily - it is men, not architectural piles, which make a University - and I think Mr.Hogg one of the men who would help Texas to build up an Institution of which she would soon have reason to be proud. Edwd. Olney, Prof. Math U. of M.

From Doctor Elias Loomis Yale College, Jan 18, 1882. For many years I have had occassional correspondence with Prof. A. Hogg on mathematical subjects, and have formed the opinion that he is well qualified to fill the position of Professor of Mathematics in the University of Texas. Elias Loomis, Professor of Natural Philosophy.

I cordially concur in the foregoing statement of Prof. Loomis. E.L. Youmans, Ed. Popular Science Monthly.

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From Gen. Jno. T. Murfee, (Va. Mil. In.) President Howard College, Marion, Ala. (In Howard Collegion, June 1878.) Lacks and Needs of the South Educationally - An address delivered before the Centennial Bureau of Education, Philadelphia, September 1st, 1876, by Professor Hogg, A.M., Texas A. and M. College, Texas, formerly of Alabama.

Prof. Hogg is an educatpr of distinguished ability. He possesses the energy, zeal and intellectual quickness which carries him with the foremost. In this address he disabuses the Northern mnid of the mistaken notions they entertain in regard to the education in the South. We are much better educated than they have been willing to acknowledge. The cost of college education is less in Alabama than in the Northern States, and the number of young men seeking higher college education is greater in proportion to population. The Professor thinks wisely that the development of Southern resources should be the leading object in our educational system. He contends for practical education - for an education that "produces producers." He does not underrate the value of liberal and thorough education, but contends for training which will give a larger proportion of business men.

(Editorial in Brazos Pilot, Bryan, Texas, June 18, 1880.) Prof. Alex Hogg has accepted a position in the land office of the Texas & Pacific Railway, at Marshall, and will in a few days enter upon the discharge of his duties there. His family will remain in Bryan a short time. The Professor's many friends here will be glad to hear of his prosperity, though they had hoped to have him permanently in their midst. In quitting the profession of teaching, and engaging in an entirely new business, we are constrained to believe he is influenced by pecuniary considerations, and not by inclination. He has ever been devoted to his profession, and doubtless relinquishes it with sore regret. Science, and especially the cause of industrial education, sustain a severe loss, while the railroad interest - that great absorbent of capital, talent and genius - secures the services of a man who is capable of valuable achievements in any field of enterprise and labor.

January 29th 1880 Hon Leland Stanford: San Francisco

Dear Governor: I [congratulate?] you [upon?] the selection of your Legislature. Senatorship usually follows that of Governor and is a verybefitting rounding up of political life. I trust with the incoming [complexion?] of the U.S. Senate with [?] yourself [there?] may be an era of [conservative?] consideration for [corporations?] In my first [?] of which the copy I send you, is a second issue only of "the [Rubicon?] as an element in Education", I did not argue at all the points of control of the state in general government. My