Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Tribute to Dr. Morehouse DANIEL WALTER MOREHOUSE is woven into more than two-thirds of the total years of Drake University. In those years he has run a valiant gamut, as athlete, student, instructor, professor, dean of men, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, acting president and president. Seldom has a man achieved such complete identification of himself with his institution as has Dr. Morehouse with Drake University. And he had an inordinate ambition for the University. He probably has never put it more stirringlv than he did in his address to the alumni on the University's forty-third anniversary: Let us make Drake a veritable dynamo whose field of force will be intensified, whose potential level will be raised, whose magnetic power will transform the untutored and unstimulated mass of humanity into radiating centers which will produce leaders in all walks of life. As our leader Dr. Morehouse was impelled always by a strict determination to make higher education at Drake Uni- versity a deeply serious enterprise. He believed that higher education should beget in men and women a dignity, a dignit so absorbed in genuine beauty and truth as never to be attracted by the fetid and the cheap. A fellow-educator voicedlit in words our president liked often to' quote: 'The real student detests fashions, reveres permanence. He cares nothing for the fact that a man has a million dollars, everything for the fact that he has some moral principles and is not incorrigibly stupid. He measures men and women by their preferences for perfection-and their knowledge that they will always tall a little short of it.' Through the years and especially in recent days, men have talked much of the greatness Daniel Walter Morehouse achieved in the world of overt deeds and substance. But just now we pay tribute to the greatness he achieved within himself. For, within the subtle, intrinsic texture of a man's own inner being is the true reality of him and the full measure of life's meaning and of human greatness. Herein he achieved greatness: in his extreme sensitivity to human suffering: in his responsiveness to the magnet of perfection: in his staunchness to standards of personal purity and nobility ot character. Here was a man who could reach out into magnitudinous universes in stellar contemplation. Inspired by a universe of such permanence and perfection he could reach back with dreams of perfection for men. To the end he kept a vigil of yearning, yearning for answer to his dreams of perfection, of completeness. He loved so much to quote Alfred Noyes' The Watchers of the Sky. Might he not have found his answer glimmering there? For there the poet puts into the mouth of his revered Copernicus these lines: . . . . . ln the noon Of life's brief day, I could not see the need As l now see it, when the night shuts down. I was afraid, perhaps, it might confuse The lights that guide us for the souls of men. But now l see three stages in our life. At first, we bask contented in our sun - And take what daylight shows us for the truth. Then we discover, in some midnight grief, How all day long the sunlight blinded us To depths beyond, where all our knowledge lies. Then. last, as death draws nearer, comes a night ln whose majestic shadow men see God, Absolute Knowledge, reconciling all. -Luther W. Stalnaker. Bust of Dr. Morehouse sculptured by Pasquale Sposeto. B.E. '37. I t 2 I