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65 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1950)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry65 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume LXV POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD AS A TEACHER N 1909 when Columbia's veteran college dean, John Howard Van Amringe, was about to retire, the campus paper polled the students on his successor. Charles Beard was the overwhelming preference. He had been teaching hardly more than four years; his own pioneer courses in politics had begun in 1907. Though always accessible, he cared as little as any man about academic management. His easy ways belied how fiercely intent he was on research, writing, and practical service. Yet students, graduate and undergraduate alike, turned to this man as to the light. The warmth about the mouth complementing the glint of the eagle eyes, the spare simplicity, the unstudied attitude of proud and equal deference to all human beings of whatever age and position, all radiated beyond his own classes. As I think back on the magic of it, I recall that when I was a junior I found myself suddenly think- ing one day-unbidden by any personal situation-that if I did not have a father and were free to choose one in all the world, he would be Charles Beard. I had not been in his courses, nor indeed did I take work in his department until I was a graduate student and already an instructor, but I had enjoyed something like substitute contacts as a member of debating teams to which he gave much time as an adviser. The impres- sive thing about the idea I mention is that at the time it seemed to me natural and obvious; I took it for granted that many if not all students felt exactly the same way. I Charles Beard's influence as a teacher was not confined to the dozen years he was a professor at Columbia. A country [I] March 1950 Number I

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