Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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TO THE CENTERS OF LEARNING LD EWING, the administrative overlord of the campus . . . Fine Arts friendly doorway . . . The Fountain, once said to be, where pigeons and students drink daily , but now just a student meeting place . . . Ohio women get a build-up here . . . another view of Fine Arts. 2.» i J

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7, HE following paragraphs are extracts from the tribute to President E. B. Bryan by Dean E. W. Chubb at the funeral service held in the Memorial Auditorium on October 18, 1934: The gift that President Bryan gave Ohio University is above the price of rubies. It is the gift of a vigorous, rare, lovable personality. I shall not call it a memory; it is a vital, beautiful force that moves and lives and has its im- mortal being here and now. No president of any college or university from the days of Mark Hopkins of Williams to the present has been more respected and beloved by students and faculty than has President Bryan. I make that uneguivocal statement without fear of contradiction. Where can we find the secret of this great power? In the first place, he had an alert, comprehensive mind. He was guick to grasp the essentials of the problem presented. He understood human nature. Quicker than any one I know, he could detect the weaknesses and foibles of a man, as well as appraise his power and strength. Then, too, he had a genius for friendship; a genuine sincerity that expressed itself in a love of mankind. He impressed a stranger with his friendliness. No one left his presence as a stranger. Little children believed he was their especial friend, for he knew each one by name. He had the greatest ability to remember people and their names. At a convention at which people would be gathered from all parts of the country, he was always the center of a group, and as additions were made to the group he could call each newcomer by name. He had one unusual but lovely fault: he exaggerated the virtues and accomplishments of his friends. But we loved him for it, for we felt his sin- cerity. When he appeared before the finance committee of the legislature he was successful because the members had great faith in his sincerity. A third fine guality was his generosity, his sympathetic attitude. I never knew a man who seemed to take responsibility more easily. ' ' That country is fairest which is inhabited by the noblest minds. ' Ohio Uni- versity and the State of Ohio are fairer, because after years of absence this radiant personality returned to his native state to live the last fourteen years with us. -:|I2J:-