Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Paul van Dyke
Professor of Modern History
Centurion, 1900–1933
Arthur H. Scribner and George Alexander
New York (Brooklyn), New York
Washington, Connecticut
Age forty-one
Princeton, New Jersey
Archivist’s Notes
Brother of Henry van Dyke
Century Memorial
Every one who knew Paul Van Dyke will remember first of all his unfailing friendliness, accompanied with the touch of dignity that was natural to him. Invariably good-humored and not in the least self-conscious, it was his personality quite as much as his literary and historical scholarship which made impression. But his qualities as a scholar were out of the ordinary. He was by instinct not only thorough in his methods, but surprisingly impartial in conclusions. That a writer with Van Dyke’s social antecedents should have entered thus sympathetically into the spirit of the French Renaissance was sufficiently interesting. But that he, a Calvinist clergyman, should have received from a Roman Catholic university its doctorate degree for his life of Ignatius Loyola, was in all respects unusual.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
