Colgate University - Salmagundi Yearbook (Hamilton, NY)

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'PR OLOG UE O you, students of Colgate, to you also, alumni and friends, we pre- sent this record of our work. We hope that it will please you, that it will bring not only a transient smile but will be the means of reviving in you many happy memories of your college days. If it meets with your approval, say for us a good Word-it will be our best rewarcl. If it does not merit your approbation, close the book in silence, for Whatever its faults, We have done our best.

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3 THF: S.-u,M.aoUNn1 long abide, though he himself is gone. As ai man, he was true to t.he r-ore, superbly unselfish, singly, simply, and in ai most exemplary manner 21 Chris- tian. All his relations here manifested his fidelity, loyalty, and unselnsh devotion to the work which he had undertzilcen, In manners simple yet dig- nified, possessed ot' elevated and refined tastes, himself an example ot' vulture derived from study, t1'nrel, nnd nssovintion with the wise and good, he was in his person an influence for vulture, and wisely encfoumged as well :ts un- conscfiously exemplified in all the relations of University life at worth and dig- nity of tone whit-h even solid merit too often lacks. On the material side of University ziffnirs, there wus large and cfonstant advance during his ndministration. The first work to which -he devoted himself was the tasteful renovation ot' the College Chapel formerly so hzrrreng and the first- gift whir-h he secured was the cfhnpel organ, Iininediuitely upon his coming, Mr. James B. Colgate erected the I'resident's House, Soon utter followed the gift of our admirable zxitliletiii- field, named for its donor, the Whit- nall Field. Two years ago, Lathrop Hall, with its admirable facilities for the depzirtinents ot' physivs, geology, und hiology, was vompleted: and al- most Simultaneously the Laboratory was douhled in size and fitted for pres- ent demands in the department of c-hemistrv. During these yezirs, the work of campus improvement has gone steztdily forwfirdg and some of this worlc, the-setting out of much of the Shruhhery, has been pec-ulinrly due to the Presi- dent. In the Stedman Memorial Pollen-tion of Casts, more than 21 heginning has been made for nrt c-ollevtions. Lust of ull, President Merrill saw the erection of ai cent-ral heating plant, sufficient, when fully equipped and con- nected, to heart :ill the huildings upon the c-nmpus. The htting up of in social room in West College some years sin:-e wns intended hy him as :ii heginning of the remodelling ot' that venerable pile into n modern dormitory, the need ot' which he saw long before most others, und upon the ziccomplishment of which his heart wus strongly set. His life was well livedg his work was l'nitlil'ully and nohly done, :ind will long aihideg and we gladly honor his memory. IJ.-win Fos'l'ic1e. ld!-1'l'l'IS.

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