Albany Law School - Verdict Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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Uriitratinn . Lewis R. Parker—our teacher, our friend—has reached the end of his journey: and we, his students, who admired and respected him for his capa- bilities, his scholarship and legal attainments, and loved him for his demo- cratic friendliness, his unfailing kindness and gentlemanly consideration for all of us, are dedicating our book to his memory. There are men the value of whose lives cannot be measured in the vulgar terms of success. There was an intangible something in Lewis Parker—probably best understood by the word character—that challenges our estimate of him. He stood for courage, high purpose and cheerful self- discipline, loyalty and stainless integrity. He was healthy and sane and well balanced. He was a practical idealist. His strong, intrepid personality was but the outward manifestation of firmly molded character. He instructed the classes of twenty-five years; and he must have taught them more than could be found in the syllabi of his courses. Contact with such a personality is bound to leave a mark on other lives. He would not tolerate pretense, the marshaling of good and sufficient reasons for unmanly acts or thoughts. He was an honest man and he demanded honesty—honest thinking, honest effort, honest dealing—from us. We did not always give it to him, but he never lost patience. His broad and sympathetic understanding commanded our affection. As has been said, he was a practical idealist. It is fitting that our gratitude and respect should be noted here; but a sincere attempt to keep alive within ourselves his ideals and to make his aspirations for us, as lawyers and as men, come true, will be our best tribute to his worth.