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In Memoriam
no compensation. An aged mother, an orphaned daughter in whose future the father’s heart was wrapped up, are plunged in unavailing sorrow. In the thinning ranks of the friends who loved him “this side idolatry,” there is a gap that can never be filled. The influence which stimulated a host of pupils to the pursuit of knowledge and of lofty ideals has vanished. It is a memory which they will cherish, but what avails this to the number to whom that influence and guidance can never come? The passing away of so nobly unselfish a nature, so well-equipped an intellect, made the more attractive by every quality that can endear a man to his fellows, is a source of abiding grief.
