University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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FRANCIS HUNTINGTON SNOW A.B., A.M., Ph.D., LL.D.

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3ln Utemnrtam On September 21, 1908, died a man who has literally woven his life into the University of Kansas, a man toward whom the great host of University people have always looked with the profoundest rever- ence and affection. Coming to the University when it was first found- ed, and constituting one of the first four professors in the original fac- ulty of the institution, Dr. Snow was actively engaged in the most ar- duous work for a period of over forty-one years. In that time he saw the University grow from a preparatory school into one of the best universities of the country; and it is largely to his faithful and un- tiring efforts, as a teacher and scientific investigator, that the State of Kansas owes the present position of her University. No man had a kinder, more lovable character; perhaps few men have been broader scholars. Dr. Snow belonged to the old generation of ample education, before men concentrated their efforts in one field of work without the wider view gained only by wider experience. Dr. Snow was trained in literature and language far as well as many spe- cialists in those subjects today. He was a world-famous scientist. His accomplishments were many and varied, his learning dee]) and pro- found. But none of these would have bound to him the affections of such a multitude of men and women in all walks and departments of life if he had not been primarily and consistently throughout his whole life, a wholesome, honorable man. A life of such beauty and useful- ness as his, does not end with the closing of the flower-strewn tomb, but lives with a more wonderful and increasing vitality as the influ- ence of his character and manhood persists in the lives of those who love him. The University of Kansas is fortunate in the memories she may cherish of the life and work of Dr. Snow. He gave that life to the University, little thinking to find it again in the hearts of those who learned to love him. 29