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3n emoriam TfeRr W, Xil ilbur 5-15. lS5t— 9-6. 1914 ■ i S editor, author, lecturer and preacher, Henry W. Wilbur did his utmost throughout a long life for the uplift of his fellow men ; as Secretary of the Advancement Committee of the Society of Friends, he devoted many years to increasing the knowledge and ■ application of Friends ' principles, and gave the chief impulse to the founding of the Friends ' School for Religious and Social Training, now located in the John Wool- man House in Swarthmore ; as a speaker before Swarthmore College audiences on many occasions, he endeared himself to his hearers by his regard for edu- cation, his clear insight into human nature, his broad sympathies, his keen wit and kindly humor, and by his profound and outspoken reverence for the Divine Goodness in heaven, on earth, and within the souls of his fellow men. He lived in a house by the side of the road, And xcas a friend to man. Page Nine
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THE mWfO OF THE COLLEGE Iowa-Nebraska Jesse ENTLE READER: We ' ve all heard of Kansas-Nebraska Bill ; let me now say a word or 2 to thee about our own Iowa-Nebraska Jesse. I. We are told that loTva signifies, in the Indian language, The Abode of Peace. Two distinguished Democrats are connected forever with that great State, — Thomas Jefferson, who in 1 803 added Iowa to our union by the Louisiana Pur- chase, and Jesse Herman Holmes, who was born in this abode of peace in the far-off year 1 864, in the village of West Liberty, noted for its windmills. Whether it was these windmills, or the fact that I.-N. Jesse attended college in Wm. J. Bryan ' s home-state, or both, that gave him his eloquence, — history does not record ; but I note that on the map, his birth-county is shaded green, and that many poetical names do abound in that fair and fortunate County of Muscatine, — such names as Wapsinonoc, melodious Montpelier, Fruitland, Sweetland, beautiful Ardon, and charming Atalissa of romantic name. How, then, can our hero be blamed for his oratory and for his poetic character, he whose childhood fancy was fed upon Indian legends and the stories and ballads of the frontier, he whose ear was early attuned to nature ' s harmonies by: ( I ) The rhythmic tread of the roving bisons that herded on the mighty pampas and the vast savannas abutting upon West Liberty; and (2) By the rolling waters of the Mississippi, whose turbid silver flood (washing the eastern confines of the emerald-tinted county aforesaid) may almost be seen by an as- siduous and soulful lad who clambers to the top of the loftiest of the windmills of West Liberty; — I say, how can he be blamed? and I also say Nil nisi bonum (these last words being from the Latin). II. From those remote early days to his present proud eminence as Dedicatee of the Halcyon (an honor, by the way, for which he had to wait some years longer than did the writer of this sketch), the career of Jesse Herman Holmes is well known (and I may say favorably known) to all good Democrats and to many others. Be it related to thee. Gentle Reader, that he graduated at the University of Nebraska in his twentieth summer ; that he browsed and dreamed in the library there for another year ; and that in 1890 he was made Phil-o-sophi-ae Doctor by Johns Hopkins University; and that, best of all, in the year 1 892 he joined the ranks of old Swarthmore ' s sons-in-law by marrying Rebecca S. Webb, ex- ' 89. From now on, his success in engrafting his Western ideals upon our effete East, is a story that covers his years of teaching at the Washington Friends School, at George School, and since 1 900 at Swarthmore College. What all this means for Democracy, for Ethics, for the Societ} ' of Friends, is beyond my powers of appraisal. I am content to leave it to future historians; and so, I opine, is the genial Jesse. HI. Look upon his portrait. Gentle Reader, at the front of this Halcyon. Is it not a speaking likeness ? — although it was taken in one of those rare moments when he was not speaking. Page Ten
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