Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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VOLUME NINETY-TWO There is a sense in which President Dixon Ryan Fox was just as much a casualty of this war as any Union man who has gone down before a hail of bullets or bombs. For he met the challenge of war time acceleration and uncertainty by redoubling a tireless devo- tion to duity that had long been a marvel, and a source of concern, to his associates. Never one to spare himself in any good cause, he gave Union twenty or thirty years of normal servi-ce in the space of ten, by packing extra hours of toil into each day, extra days into each month, and extra months into each year. For the college and the country which he so ardently loved, he labored to the last ounce of his strength. He died in harness and would not have had it otherwise. Colleges like Union inevitably take their shape and their color from their presidents, and that is particularly true of a leader like Dr. Fox. It is useless to attempt to put into words what the pres- ence of his warm and rich personality on the campus has meant to the men of Union for the past decade. Prexy has entered into the immortality of the living legend of Union that dwells in the hearts N MEMURIA and minds of all of us. For we are what we are, in part, because he spent himself utterly in our behalf. The only way we can repay that debt is to keep on striv- ing for the goals he cherished, and for which he freely gave himself. President Dixon Ryan Fox, adminis- trator, historian, author, dramatist, and moderator will be remembered long, and for many constructive achievements, but perhaps longest in the minds of many of us 'because he was so unfailingly kind in little unexpected ways. He went out of his way to make people feel that they were appreciated. He really loved to find occasions for praising others. He must have written thousands of such letters in the course of his incredibly active life. Wherever he went he made friends for Union. Few men have been liked so much by so many difllerent kinds of people. A leader has fallen, and our hearts are heavy with grief. But the war goes on- the never ending war which he fought against ignorance and ill-will and apathy and 'pettiness of spirit. A leader has fallen, but we must close our ranks and go forward, even as he would: have gone. HAROLD A. LARRABEE

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