University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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MINETEEN-TEN MICHIGANEMSI A.M U II President Emeritus James B. Angell PRESIDENT AXGELL tendered the resignation of his office to. the Board of Regents in January, 190.5. The Board persuaded him to withdraw his resignation, believing that in spite of his advanced; years he was still able to render the University great service. Last year, after passing his eightieth birthday, he renewed his request with so much insistence that it could not be denied. In granting it the Board of Regents expressed their strong desire that the President should retain some relation to the University, to which he had devoted so much of his life, and thereby should continue to give it the benefit of his wise counsels. This relation was officially designated by the title of President Emeritus, a title implying not only the honor and dignity l elonging to that office, but the added crown of approval in view of the long period of distinguished service now- closed. By this action the governing Board paid a deserved tribute of praise to the beloved and venerable man who for so many years had so successfully admin- istered the affairs of the University. There is a certain pleasure, not wholly free from a tinge of sadness, in seeing the game you once played go on while you sit by as a spectator. Or, to change the figure to one more appropriate, the Emeritus is like a wise husbandman who sees the seed of his sowing coming to a happy fruitage. Or, to change the figure once more, the satisfaction that comes to a man who has spent his life in building up some noble structure and lives to see it completed, must be immeasurably great. To few men has it been given to reap these rewards and to enjoy this satisfaction so fully as to President Angell. In his hours of quiet meditation on the past there must come trooping before him a host of happy memories. Not the least cherished among these, I am sure, are the happy faces of boys and girls, unnumbered but unforgotten, who once trod the paths of the old Campus and who remember with grateful emotion the man whom they affectionately called Prexy, whose gracious words and noble virtues have perceptibly shaped their lives and moulded their character. Their kindest thoughts and best wishes attend him in his retirement, and they hope that he may still entertain many a harmless day with a well-chosen book or friend. To us who meet him in his daily walks on the Campus and the streets he is a living witness to the beauty of a serene old age, and a shining example of those whose life can never fall into the sear and yellow leaf, where love, obedience and troops of friends one must not look to have. M. L. D ' OoGE. a

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