The calm, high energy,—
They will not fail the goal.
Large will be our content
If it be ours to go
One day the path he went
Into the dusk and snow.
Professor Van Ingen.
Dear Professor Van Ingen! Why does everybody who knew him well say this at the mere mention of his name?
He was a Hollander who had come to this country in the studio of an artist friend in Rochester about the time the college was completed, and was the accepted candidate in 1865 for the art professorship. A clever artist; an inspiring teacher; a true gentleman; a good friend. Tennyson's lines once quoted of him express most nearly the common sentiment concerning him,—"One too wholly true to dream untruth."
He was here at the opening of the college, and made one of the resident (unmarried) members of the Faculty that year. In the summer vacation of 1866, he returned to Holland to be married, and brought his wife back with him.