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purpose. It was an inner passion for unity which lead him to undertake so many tasks and formulate so elaborate plans. The wheels within wheels really formed a closely articulated mechanism for conveying a single purpose and idea over a vast extent of territory and through many sections of society. He could not endure loose ends in thought or action. He would not. trust his ideas to the long result of time, or the slow processes of evolution. He was not content, in Miltonts phrase, to Hlet truth and error grapplef and hope that in some future age the truth might win by its own inherent strength. He must embody that truth in some immediate visible organization, must give it hands and feet, and construct for it a pathway into all the ends of the earth. He was instinct with the spirit of the crusade. But his crusade against the powers of darkness was no planless outburst of zeal. The hosts were marshalled, captained, provisioned; with tireless vigilance each station in the journey was determined, and the end crowned the work. No man in our generation was more greatly dowered with constructive imagination. The same power which has enabled others to construct mentally cathedrals, bridges, tunnels, or great industrial enterprise, the power which in others gave birth to ideal creations in art, philosophy, or literature, in his mind blossomed into farareaching schemes for the education of the people. On a certain porch by the shore of an inland lake he sat day after day for many successive summers, and in silence dreamed out his plans for this University. Indeed he was always dreaming, and his spirit was far in advance of any associate. I have seen him summon a stenographer and in a single hour plan a new institution of learning, with all officers and departments down to the minutest detail, doing this partly as recreation from more difficult tasks. I have seen him stand by a sand heap and paint in Vivid sentences the building that was to rise and the work to be done a century hence. In these visions he united the imagination of, the artist With the faith of the Christian. He carried with him daily the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Men have said that he had extraordinary resources at his command and therefore accomplished extraordinary results. In truth he had no resources until he proved to the world that he could wisely use them. When he organized thousands of students through- out the country for the study of a subject that was esteemed the dryest and dullest of all disciplines he had no resources whatever. When he was a professor at Denison and Morgan Park, he was almost destitute of resource. When he came to Chicago he had no assurances but such as might be withdrawn at any time, if he failed to evince a mastery of the situation. Through his whole life this man Hwent out not knowing whither he went. lf others placed in later years large means at his disposal the question remains why they gave it to him and not to others. All over the land were institutions calling for supportwwhy was it granted here rather than elsewhere? Because the man was here and not elsewhere. Hlnstitutions are but the shadows of men. Wealth alone is powerless to establish a seat of learning. It can no more create a university than it can create a human being. We may put millions into a treasury and the heart of youth still be unstirred; the voice of scholarship may still be silent and the fountains of inspiration lb
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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
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