The University Record Memorial Number March 1906 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The University Record: Memorial Number; March, 1906 More clearly than anywhere else was this simplicity seen in his home. He was the com rade of his family and the best friend of his own children. We may not lift the veil of do mestic privacy. Yet how many times he lifted it to welcome distinguished scholars, authors, statesmen, from all parts of the world! Each of these in turn discovered in that family cir cle, bound fast in mutual service, one source of our leader's power, and each was greeted with an unaffected friendship which grappled the visitor as with hooks of steel. Out of this simplicity of character sprang a marvelous complexity of enterprise and or ganization. The immense variety of his under takings bewildered or dazzled those who could not perceive that these were all branchings from the single stem of one great purpose: It was an inner passion for unity which'led him to undertake so many tasks and formulate so elaborate plans. The wheels within wheels really formed a closely articulated mechanism for conveying a single purpose and ideal over a vast extent of territory and through many sec tions of society. He could not endure loose ends in thought or action. He would not trust his ideas to the long result of time, or the slow processes of evolution. He was not content, in Milton's phrase, to let truth and error grapple, and hope that in some future age the truth might win by its own inherent strength. He must embody that truth in some immediate visible organization, must give it hands and feet, and construct for it a pathway into all the ends of the earth. _he was instinct with the spirit of the crusader. But his crusade against the powers of darkness was no planless outburst of zeal. The hosts were marshaled, captained, provisioned; with tireless vigilance each station in the journey was determined, and the end crowned the work. No man of our generation was more greatly dowered with the constructive imagination. The same power has enabled others to con struct mentally cathedrals, bridges, tunnels, or great industrial enterprises; the power, which in others gave birth to ideal creations in art, philosophy, or literature, in his mind blossomed into far-reaching schemes for the education of the people. On a certain porch by the shore of an inland lake he sat day after day for many successive summers, and in silence dreamed out his plans for this University. Indeed, he was always dreaming, and his spirit was far in advance of any associate. I have seen him summon a stenographer and in a single hour plan a new institution of learning, with all ofii cers and departments, down to the minutest detail, doing this partly as a recreation from more difficult tasks. I have seen him stand by asand-heap and paint in vivid sentences the building that was to rise, and the work to be done there a century hence. In_these visions. He united the imagination of the artist with the faith of the Christian. He carried with him daily the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.