University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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5112 Matthew A mist has fogged the air All the day: Dark and drear the world has grown Everywhere; In the gleaming street, Wet and gray, Shadows lengthen on and on Till they meet. Nearer like a doom Draws the night, Sure and silent, lurking slow, Full of gloom. Watchers oIer the dead, Till the light Pace like spectres to and fro Round his bed. On his quiet sleep, Just begun, Gaze his friends who loved and knew; Then they weep. All that death eIer could, Death has done; What is left we strive to do As he would. Watchers through the night, In our love, Doubt and weep because he tell In his might, Sleeping where he trod, Where he strove; Is he watchingewho can telle With his God? ELIZABETH MUNGER.

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the invited guests, the Dean of the Divinity School and the University Chaplain, the Vice-president of the Board of Trustees and the University Preacher. the President of the Board of Trustees and the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, the Dean of the Faculties and the President of Brown University. The Reverend Eri B. Hulbert. dean of the Divinity School, led in prayer. followed by a quartette, composed of Melbourne Clements, Arthur E. Lord, Lester B. jones, and Philip Van Zandt. which rendered HLead, Kindly Light. The scripture reading. by the Reverend Charles R. Henderson, and the prayer by the Reverend Lyman Abbott, were followed by an address by the Reverend William H. P. Faunce, President of Brown University. HAbide with Me!' was sung by the quartette, and addresses were made by the Reverend E. Benjamin Andrews, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, and Doctor Harry Pratt Judson. The service concluded with HNearer, My God, to Thee. by the quartette, the benediction by the University Chaplain, and the recession, to the Chopin Funeral March. The interment was private.

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mrmnrial Ahhrwa at igrwihvnt Earprr'a Elitmm'al By William H. P. Faunce W OUR YOUNG MEN shall see visions, said the Hebrew prophet. . Q Because one young man began to see visions some thirty years ago, and was true to what he saw, we are here today and the Universitfis a E here for centuries to come. A great personality, like a great l T mountain, is many-sided. Those who dwell on different sides of the b . mountain all alike see it looming large against the sky; but they see different outlines, form various impressions, and their reports must vary. A rarely gifted soul, a born leader of men, can be understood only when all reports are united, and his services to the nation and to the world can be evaluated only when seen through the long perspective of many years. Leaving to others, or to the future, the estimate of our departed leader's place in history, we may occupy these moments simply with the utter- ance of affection and gratitude. No one could know William Rainey Harper without admiring the rare simplicity of his spirit. He had something of the simple sturdiness of the Old Testament heroes that he loved so well. This simplicity appeared in his manner, He was always approachable, genial, unaffected as a Child. It appears in his speech, whether public or private, and in all his writings. He never attempted any special force or brilliancy of style. Oratory was to him impossible. The striking phrase or paragraph was never an object in itself. He spoke lucidly, solidly, forthrightly, and the simple language of the fireside was the language in which he addressed listening thousands. This native simplicity was seen in his philosophy and religion. l-lis mind was distinctly concrete and nonemetaphysical. He declined to dwell in the Clouds of philosophic discussion. A companion all his life of metaphysicians and theologians, he propounded no philosophic theory and defended no dogmatic system. l-lis religious faith was not the outcome of logic, it was the product of instinct and wide experience. His conduct of worship in the home or church was marked by a naivete and childlike sincerity that was touching and convincing. l-le approached the infinite, not by the pathway of speculation or sacrament, but as confidently and simply as a child reaches out to a father. More clearly than anywhere else was this simplicity seen in his home. He was the comrade of his family and the best friend of his own children. We may not lift the veil of domestic privacy; yet how many times he lifted it to welcome distinguished scholars, authors, statesmen from all parts of the world! Each of these in turn discovered in that family circle, bound fast in mutual service, one source of our leader's power, and each was greeted with an unaffected friendship which grappled the visitor as with hooks of steel. Out of this simplicity of character sprang a marvelous complexity of enterprise and organization. The immense variety of his undertakings bewildered or dazzled those who could not perceive that these were all branchings from the single stem of one great 15