Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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subject, direct buildings, superintend accounts, reg- ulate expenses, and yet enter heart and soul into the smallest detail of joy or sorrow in the life of each individual about him, must, necessarily, wear out before his time from simple exhaustion of vital force. When we returned in the fall of ' 97, it was under circumstances the most auspicious. The last building, upon which our friend had so set his heart was completed, the prospects for the school were good, and the session had begun with promises the most flattering. We knew not that we were under the shadow of a great cloud. The first announcement of Dr. Cunningham ' s illness caused no alarm, we thought it a slight attack like many he had had before. But in a few days it was only too apparent that all was over. It was like a total eclipse at high noon, sud- denly darkness, deep and dismal, enveloped us. He had lived his life, giving to others the best that was in him, strengthening the weak, cheering the des- ponding, awakening the dull, giving out with every breath more or less nervous force. On the ninth of October his spirit returned to the God who gave it. On Tuesday, the twelfth, he was laid to rest in his own loved cemetery, Hollywood. Surely it is true that the void one ' s departure makes in the world is proportioned to the place one holds in it. Some there are whose voices leave no echo, whose footsteps leave no trace. Others have a person- ality so pervasive that they are always with us, influencing our thoughts, controlling our actions, constraining us to exclaim, There is no death. To this latter class belongs unquestionably the sub ■ ject of our sketch. It is impossible, having known him, to forget him, impossible to efface the impres- sion he, unconsciously, made upon all associated with him. He rests from his labors, but his works do follow him.

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