Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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PRESIDENT JOSEPH H. HILL -low

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A LIFE AS IT LOOKS TO NIE Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his charming series of breakfast talks, says that every John is three johns-the john he thinks he is, the john others think he is and the john he really is. lf this be true of the Johns, then I suppose it is true of the Josephs, too. There is the Joseph that he thinks he is, there is the Joseph that others think he is, and there is the joseph that we know he is. This Joseph whom I have in mind, would tell you, if you asked, that he was born within the last century and in the state of Pennsylvania. VVhen this little American lad was nine years old, his linglish father, his linglish brothers and his English sisters, turned with him their faces toward the setting sun, and journeyed westward until they reached the broad expanse of the Kansas prairies, Modesty would prevent him from telling you much of his career, for from an early period in his life, honors crowded thick and fast upon him. lle was graduated from this institution, and other great educational institutions were honored by his graduation until he was many times a bachelor. But truth is stranger than fiction. It took all these great colleges to make him a bachelor, but it took only the light heart and the happy smile of a Winsome Kansas las- Sie to persuade him that he ought no longer to he a bachelor. Today five little sun- kissed Hills look up to him 'who is to them the top-most summit of all that is kind and good in a father and a friend. 0 The tributes paid by others, for every opinion will be found to be a tribute, can be summed up in the words of the immortal Shapespeare: The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best conditioned and unwearied spirit in doing courtesiesf' ' But now the horizon of our friend and teacher has widened, the mists have rolled back, and the mounts of toil are crowned. He is now the president of our three Normal Schools. The life that has been one slow, steady march of triumph, will not fail in the greater duty. We predict that he will be to each individual student a friend and a counsellor, that his love will be big enough and broad enough to include each of us, and each of us will be glad to walk in the footsteps of our president. And when we receive from his hand the parchment which certifies our graduation, in striking contrast to the dead black of the signature of his name on the paper, will be the illuminating glory of the engraving of his character on our hearts.