Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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WILLIAM MILLER BEARDSHEAR

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Tribute By HAM LIN GARLAND IT is with profound grief that I read of the death of Professor Beardshear. He was a splendid type of American, and though I did not know him well, I honored him. I met him first at a college banquet at Drake University, and as he rose to speak he seemed a powerful, brusque and serious man. It was only later when a guest in his home that I learned to know his essentially fine, poetic nature. Every hour he could snatch from his manifold duties he spent with me wandering over the fields or lying prone in the shadow of full foliaged maples, cushioned upon the sward. Though a man of reticent mood, he opened his heart to me there, disclosing his love for poesy and nature, hinting at such sweetness and subtility, such aspira- tions and hope, that I fell silent in wonder ofthe wide contrast between his tall, broad-shouldered, physical self and his essen- tially poetic soul. It is nearly ten years since that glorious June day, but I have carried the picture of him in my mind almost undimmed by the multitudes of other personalities I have faced and felt. His was a most exceptional mind, and I feel that death has cut short a really great career. I join all those who knew him in a feeling of grief so profound that it takes on the pain of a personal loss. I think the many students who knew him do well to set him over warriors and those who seek for place and power. Such lives as his are good to think of in this day of eager and not too scrupulous pursuit of wealth. He was fitted for higher honors than ever came to him, and his recog- nition as a great educator came late. But of those things he made no complaint. HAMLIN GARLAND.