Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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l am THE connx tmaiail long conversation with an old-time friend upon the meaning of defeat. It was no easy task for him to give up anything upon which he had set his soul. He felt that he had been chosen, not merely to do his best, but to win, and that without the ver- dict on his side the ideal was not attained. Through what hard struggles he won self-mastery 5 at what a price he gained his freedom! So with unconquerable energy he came back once more to Beloit, cherishing a vision of a yet greater Beloit. He pressed impetuously through the first stage of the campaign, and went to Lake Geneva to snatch a few days rest before it was time for the second stage. There, at the sight of a young life in peril, he flung himself into the lake, and in the supreme effort to save was himself overborne. In spite of all the resources of devotion and skill lavished upon him in days and nights of agon- izing effort, he passed beyond the reach of eager hands and the sight of loving eyes, in his delirium dictating letters and yet more letters about the College, of which he had spoken in his last letter to his parents as the dearest place in all America to him. Could a young life fulnll more completely the high aspirations which the poet has imagined for us: In some good cause, not in mine own, To perish, wept for, honored, known, And like a warrior overthrownf, But not to perish! Such a life as that of Henry Dickinson Smith transcends the measures of the local and transitory. It requires-the background of a universe to render it explicable, and eternity for its field of action. Springing from a far-reach- ing and widely influential past, it beckons toward a life worthy of its hopes, its strug- gles, its equipment for service. Into what ampler opportunities, what larger minis- tries, what higher leadership our friend has been called, we cannot know, but the thought of him challenges us to look forward, to strive, and to expect. I EDWARD DXVIGHT EATON. I , Qr- vl4Xbl 56:51:29 . 553:62 , 5: 140122293 ' iV'f I fax W 'lla -all ' 3,5 +' 'I' E71

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