Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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3n jHemortant Bernard C. Bondurant, Ph.D., professor of Ancient Languages in this college from 1905 to 1909, died in Asheville, N. C, August 19th, at the age of thirty-nine. The debt owed by the State College for Women to Professor Bondurant can scarcely be overestimated. His scholarship was admirable; his teaching, highly efficient. But this was not all: the noble and devoted spirit of the man made him a light among us — a friend and guide to all, faithful, tender, and wise. No one in our midst ever did more for the real and permanent upbuilding of the College; glad and unwearied, he labored early and late for her interests. He was ever filled with a divine discontent with his own achievements as man and scholar, and the ardent and aspiring soul did at last in very truth wear out its human tenement. He seemed to be on the threshold of accomplishments larger and finer than any that had yet marked his way through life; these were not to be wrought out here. Yet the good work he did will not pass away; and the sweet and tender memory of him will help to hallow our labors and encourage our hearts. He himself would have asked no more than this — and, indeed, what truer and higher tribute could we pay? With all who knew and loved Professor Bondurant — and to know him was to love him — there remains a sense of peculiar and irreparable loss. But dead, such a man is not, cannot be: one feels that his strong and fervent spirit must somewhere in God ' s universe be working out its immortal destiny and adding the crown of completeness to its labors! O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labor-house vast Of being, is practiced that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm. 12

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Co ur Jformcr resilient Dr. A. A. Murphree, now president of the University of Florida, was the first president of the Florida State College for Women and continued so to be until July, 1 909, when he was succeeded by our present excellent Head, Dr. Edward Conradi. The first issue of Flastacowo must not appear without some tribute of appreciation of the gentleman and scholar, the teacher and the friend, who labored continually to make our College what it is to-day. Sir, through the years of our infancy and weakness, your time, your energy, your fine abilities, were entirely devoted to what you rightly considered a great cause — the making of a permanent institution for the education of the young women of Florida. What you accomplished is obvious to all the world: HERE SHE STANDS! You yourself have, with characteristic modesty and self-effacement, written the history of the College for the present volume. But you fail to tell the whole story: to your faculty, you were always the loyal and generous colleague; to your students, you were never other than the sure trusty, and kindly friend. Here ' s to you, President Murphree, from the girls you left behind you! Your successor is altogether to our liking; your mantle has fallen upon worthy shoulders; no better man could have followed you, nor will your good work suffer in his able hands; to the carrying-on of your labors he brings all you and we and the public could ask (and much more than anyone has a right to expect!) And President Conradi has captured our hearts. We doubt if this assertion will bring more satisfaction to Dr. Conradi himself than to you. But in these hearts there is, luckily, room for you both. You left us, but you did not desert us ! Though you now guide the destinies of our brother institution, well we know you have not for- gotten us. Be sure, too, that we love and remember you! Here ' s to you, Albert A., Far away! Come to see us, and recall (Some sweet day) Pleasant memories of the past, When we worked together all ; Why so long, why so long Stay away? 11

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3n JHemortam Mrs. W. H. Reynolds, Lady Principal of the Florida State College for Women from its foundation in 1905, died in Baltimore, Nov. 26, 1909. The influence of a good woman is incalculable; and when, to sheer rectitude of character, she adds wisdom, sympathy, and love of her kind, then indeed her way through life becomes radiant with the light that never was on sea or land — the light that dwells only in the heart — lovely, spiritual, divine. Such a source of light for years in our midst was Mrs. Reynolds. Unwearied in the discharge of her duty (and to her duty meant the doing of all possible good), instant in sympathy, how gentle yet strong, innocent yet wise, sweet yet firm, she wasl She ministered alike to the body and the soul — nursed the sick, comforted the distressed, counselled the bewildered, ones. The eternal good she did is beyond all human estimate: only to the vision of the infinite is it manifest. Here let us bring our poor tribute of love and praise and gratitude to the memory of her — memory undying, because now and forever incarnate in the lives of those upon whom fell the quickening influence of her gracious personality. We have lost one of our best friends; the world is poorer by her leaving it. And yet, she has but gone To join the choir invisible, Whose music is the gladness of the world. 13 ■oA QTATF UNIVERSE