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

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En William 182mm; Earpvr Bravest of hearts beneath the shining sun, Thou servant of the living God, well done! jehovah's law within thee young was writ; Forfifty years thou has been living it. 'Twas Moses first Who caught thy listening ear And lighted thee with visions of a seer. Then David sang his lyric soul to thine And rapt Isaiah his inspired line; While Amost wrath enkindled wrath in thee For sin and every form of infamy. Twas Job who gently taught thee how to bear The suffering sent of God and not despair; While Paul's great labors stirred thee through and through With valor great, to work, to dare, to do; But more than all the Master's toil and strife We see both in thy labors and thy life. A battle-planner thou hast planned a war 'Gainst ignorance, as prophets did of yore; A battle-fighter, thou hast conquered sin, Unyielding hero trusting God within. A high-souled courage thine to do, to bear, To die, and dying still to do, to dare. Thy will hath triumphed and thy crown is won, Thou servant of the living God, well done! LINCOLN HULLEY. 27

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mpmnrial Ahhrwz By Harry Pratt Judson ' O-DAY WE STAND face to face with the great mystery of the Q, t ages- the mystery which eludes philosophy, which has given the deepest thrill to the song of the poet, its most somber tones to music and art. 6 Life now flows with abundant tide through every Veinathought and joy and strife, the tender touch of the hand of a friend, the countless emotions and Visions and busy planning which fill the living souI- these all are pulsing strong in the riotous vigor of rugged Vitality. But noweethe great silence-and for those who remain on this side the veil, Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is stilllii The mystery envelopes us now. Its shadow dims the sight and chills the heart. Is it mere darkness-the darkness of a limitless void? Is the speech of the old Northum- brian Ealdorman true? itSo seems the life of man. 0 King, as a sparrow's flight through the hall when you are sitting at meat in winter-tide, with the warm fire lighted on the hearth, but the icy rainstorm without. The sparrow flies in at one door, and tarries for a moment in the light and heat of the hearth-fire and then flying forth from the other, vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came. 50 tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight; but what is before it, what after it, we know notf' The intellectual and spiritual founder of our University was above all the incarnation of intense life. He was cheerful energy personified. His delight was in varied and unremitting worka-his rest was in some other work. His zest in activity was keenahe had eager relish in grappling with difficulty. In fact, to him a difficulty was not a thing to evade nor to surmount-it was a thing to go straight through. Against adverse circumstance he was a very Andrew jackson, 0f joyous and tenacious pugnacity. Beaten once, he returned again and again to the attack with ever renewed spirit and determin- ation. It was the spirit of the conquerorwthe very ichor of Victoryawhich flowed in his veins. New forms of truth, new experience, new outlooks on life, roused always his eager interest. He was not impatient with the commonplace-he ignored it, as he was always so absorbed in the unusual and the striking. He found the world full of delightful problems and of the most fascinating studies. He had the seeing eye, which pierced the surface right to the soul of things. And this was Iife-life in its fullness and in its rich variety. In every teeming sense of the word the President was distinctively a live man and a man who rejoiced in life. A few phases of this busy and complex life of his I wish to discuss briefly to-day. 29