Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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IN MEMCDRIAM DR. i-TANSFORD S. MacCURDY Dr. l-lansTord S. lVlacCurdy whose unTimely deaTh on lvlay FiTTh, The lasT, leTT The Biology DeparTmenT oT Alma College wiThouT The leadership and unTiring devoTion To duTy, oT The man who had given nearly halT oT his sixTy-nine years To The develop- menT oT a science division which Today sTands wiTh The besT in our naTion. The Tollowing guoTaTions serve besT To eulogize The man who conTribuTed so large a parT To The growTh oT our insTiTuTion during The pasT TiTTy years, The celebraTion OT which he musT have seen Through eyes noT Tar removed Trom our own. All ThaT'is harmony Tor Thee, O Universe, is in harmony wiTh me as well. NoThing ThaT comes aT The'righT Time Tor Thee is Too early or Too laTe Tor me. EveryThing is TruiT To me ThaT Thy seasons bring, O NaTure. All Things come OT Thee, have Their being in Thee, and reTurn To Thee. -lvlarcus Aurelius. A man Tinds in The producTion oT naTure an inexhaus'Tible sToclc'oT maTerial on which he can employ.himselT, wiThouT any TempTaTions To envy or malevolence, and has always a cerTain prospecT oT discovering new reasons Tor adoring The Sovereign auThor oT The Universe. -Johnson. l-le ThaT Tollows naTure is never ouT oT his way. NaTure is someTimes subdued buT seldom exTinguished. I , Q -Bacon. ln conTemplaTion oT creaTed'Things, by sTeps we .may ascend To God. -MilTon. Doing good is The one happy acTion oT a man's liTe. -Sir Phillip Sidney. Much wisdom oTTen goes wiTh TewesT words. -Sophocles. l-lis words are bonds, his oaThs are oracles: his love sincere, his Th'oughTs immacu- laTe, his Tears, p'ure messengers senT Trom his hearT: his hearT as Tar Trom Traud as heaven Trom earTh. -Shakespeare.

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Back row: H. Iv1.Crooks, Pres. E. C. Warriner, Prof. C. D. Brolcenslwire. Froni' row: Miss Cora Dunlap, Sup? C. F. Milier, Senaror Vanden- berg, Rev. George Irving. f-xNNlvEr2sA1Qv QELEBIU-xrlon Senafor Vandenberg receiving degree from Presiclenf Crooks.

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