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EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY
Portrait of an Historian

EDWARD
POTTS
CHEYNEY
>iX

Edited by
William E. Lingelbach

University of Pennsylvania Press

PHILADELPHIA
1935
 Copyright 1935

U N I V E R S I T Y OF P E N N S Y L V A N I A PRESS

Manufactured in the United States of A merica

London
Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
EDWARD POTTS C H E Y N E Y

Contents
PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR CHEYNEY frontispiece
By the late Adolph Borie, Jr.
Page
PREFATORY NOTE vii

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ι
By Provost Josiah H. Penniman

PRESENTATION OF T H E PORTRAIT 3
By Cheesman A. Herrick

ACCEPTANCE OF T H E PORTRAIT 6
By President Thomas S. Gates

EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY

As a Member of the American Historical Association 9

By J. Franklin Jameson

As a Writer 14
By Conyers Read

Last Will and Testament (Academic) 25

A Few Excerpts from Tributes to the Teacher, the
Scholar, and the Man 32
Photograph Taken in 1904 facing page 37
Bibliography 37
[v]
EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY

Prefatory N o t e

^ ί N H I S little volume was first projected as a brochure to

I serve as an informal report to Professor Cheyney's
many friends whose cooperation made possible the suc-
cess of the plan for a fitting memorial upon his retirement from
active teaching at the University. It gradually developed, how-
ever, into something much finer, and now includes not only a
reproduction of the portrait, the addresses in connection with
its presentation, and a few typical words of appreciation, but
two new and hitherto unpublished items of rare interest. The
first, "Last Will and Testament (Academic)," is by Professor
Cheyney himself; the second is a bibliography of his writings.
Together they give added color and expression to the man and
his work, and thus help to complete the "Portrait of an His-
torian."
T h e painting of which the frontispiece is a photogravure re-
production is by the late Adolph Borie, Jr., one of America's
foremost portrait painters, whose untimely death leaves Dr.
Cheyney's as the last of a series of portraits done by this
distinguished son of Pennsylvania. It was presented to the
University on Alumni Day, February 21, 1934, and is now
satisfactorily hung in the main room of the University Library.
On behalf of the contributors to the Edward Potts Cheyney
[vii]
Portrait the Committee submits this book as an expression of ad-
miration and affection for a great scholar, an inspired teacher,
and a cherished friend.
HERMAN V. AMES

W I T T BOWDEN

CHEESMAN A. HERRICK
{Chairman)
W I L L I A M E. LINGELBACH

J A M E S F. WILLARD

[ viii ]
EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY

Introductory Remarks

by

Provost Josiah H. Penniman

XA

Ε have met this afternoon to do honor to one who,

for nearly half a century, has been a member of the
faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and dur-
ing the greater part of that time has, by his wonderful qualities
as a man, his stimulating power as a teacher, and his sound
scholarship, as evidenced by the important volumes that have
come f r o m his pen, occupied among professors in American
universities a very distinguished position. Professor Cheyney is
not only a great teacher and a great scholar, but is also greatly
beloved for his personal qualities by all who have served as his
colleagues or been privileged to sit under his teaching. It is only
fitting on the eve of his retirement f r o m active teaching duties,
to devote himself to f u r t h e r study and research in his chosen
field, English History, that those who have known him best
should perpetuate, through the skill of the artist, the memory
of the physical appearance of the man who has been and is so
important a part of the University. It is my pleasant duty as

[i]
Provost to preside at this meeting of friends of Professor Chey-
ney and to present to you those who are to speak on behalf of
the donors of the portrait, and on behalf also of his colleagues.
So important a position does Dr. Cheyney occupy that it has
been necessary for the University to appoint two men to succeed
him in his work, one to succeed him in the title so modestly
borne by him as Henry C. Lea Professor of Medieval History.
To this position, the University has appointed Dr. Cheyney's
distinguished colleague, Dr. Arthur C. Howland, whose record
as a scholar and teacher in the field of medieval European his-
tory is widely known. The second man, whom it has been an
honor to the University itself to appoint as a successor to Pro-
fessor Cheyney, is Dr. Conyers Read, whose long experience in
University teaching and whose valuable contributions to knowl-
edge have been in the field in which Professor Cheyney has
made himself eminent, the history of England.
On behalf of the donors of the portrait, Dr. Cheesman A.
Herrick, a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and the
distinguished President of Girard College, will speak. Concern-
ing the work of Professor Cheyney as an historian, Dr. Conyers
Read will tell us.

[2]
EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY

Presentation o f the Portrait

by

Cheesman A. Herrick

A S a representative of a Committee of the Alumni it be-

comes my pleasant duty to present to the University of
Pennsylvania a portrait of one of her honored sons and
a beloved teacher for fifty years.
Edward Potts Cheyney had conferred upon him by this Uni-
versity a baccalaureate degree in 1883, a master's degree in
1884, and an honorary L L . D . in 1911. He became a teacher
here in 1884, and long continued as the useful and highly re-
spected Professor of English History. In 1929 he was ap-
pointed as the first incumbent of the Henry C. Lea Professor-
ship of European History, and it is from the active duties of
this position that he has just retired.
The late Charles W . Eliot was once interrogated as to
whether old men or young men were the more desirable mem-
bers of a teaching staff. Eliot replied that two types of men
make excellent teachers—young men, and men who never grow
old. Many of the older men here present have vivid remem-

[3]
brances of Professor Cheyney as a young man, but a larger host
of those of more recent years know him as the one who will
never grow old. H e is one of the teachers who discovered the
secret of carrying his youth along with him. While his business
has been to teach history, we can never think of him as living in
that past of which he has been so faithful and learned an inter-
preter.
The Trustees of this University are still studying the true
function of professors. One group champions research, discov-
ery, adding to the sum of knowledge. Another adheres to teach-
ing—the communication of thought and the stimulation of in-
terest in knowledge, as the great desideratum of the work of
professors. As exemplified in the careers of Professor Cheyney,
his colleague of many years, Professor Schelling, and many
others at this University, we have ample warrant for saying that
the greatest service of a professor is rendered when both these
functions are combined and balanced in one and the same indi-
vidual. Professor Cheyney has been a great teacher. Generations
of students bear witness to the inspiration and challenging in-
terest of his classroom. But he has also ornamented the field of
scholarship. His investigations and contributions in the later
years of Queen Elizabeth's reign have given him a place in the
select group of historians of the first rank. In honoring Edward
Potts Cheyney, the University of Pennsylvania primarily hon-
ors herself.
This portrait is a gift of one hundred and twenty-five of Pro-
fessor Cheyney's former students, who count it a privilege to
present this as a memorial to one whom they hold in the highest
esteem. It is the work of an alumnus of the University, Mr.
Adolph Borie. In it we feel that the artist has caught the gentle,

[4]
kindly humor of our teacher-friend. But with this he has also
depicted the confident bearing of the man who knows, and who
knows he knows. Mr. President, as an expression of our sincere
regard for our old teacher, and our affection for his Alma
Mater and ours, we ask you to accept this portrait of Edward
Potts Cheyney.

[5]
EDWARD P O T T S C H E Y N E Y
Acceptance of the Portrait

by

President Thomas S. Gates

I T is a matter of real satisfaction, on behalf of the Trustees

of the University of Pennsylvania, to accept this portrait of
a member of the College Faculty who for nearly half a cen-
tury has been one of its distinguished teachers. By his wise coun-
sel he has contributed in no small degree toward the develop-
ment of the educational policies of the University during this
period, and by his writings on history and public affairs gener-
ally, has brought great credit and distinction to his Alma Mater.
I speak for the many Pennsylvania men who have sat under
Professor Cheyney, when I say that we are particularly pleased
that the memorial has taken the form of an oil portrait. Better
than anything else, it perpetuates the rugged, kindly person-
ality of the man, whom so many are delighted to honor. It will
be hung in the library at an appropriate place associated with
Professor Cheyney's work as Henry C. Lea Professor of Euro-
pean History.
As a further expression of my sentiments, I will read into the
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