University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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V Z! 5 yywv 7' A ' lv 2 ,Z J 7'v ' 7-, ' Z Z Z Z Z Z Z cYRUs NoRTHRoP-THE MAN Z f Z Z Z Z sfegihwcvv'whn.:fmh N ANOTHER age o e o er e ex erna recor 0 r. f Z , p fThGph th t 1 dfo Z Z Northrop's long, honorable and beneficient career is set down. Z Z But such a record can never express the deeper truth about a Z Z human being. If it did, the task of the biographer and historian Z Z were an easier one Z Z Cyrus Northrop is a great personality. To say this, is to dis- Z Z criminate between a man's outward accomplishment and the direct Z Z personal impression he makes upon those who meet him. Accomplishment, to Z Z be sure, is often the result of character, but, one is tempted to say, not always. Z g ere are persona ities w ic , y t e acci ents o ortune, remain o scure, Z Z Th 1 h'hb h 'fi ff ' h Z Z never attaining what is called fame. Yet, upon all coming into contact with Z Z them, and capable of appreciation, they produce an effect which suggests indi- Z Z viduality, power, the ear-marks of true greatness. Z Z Dr. Northrop's gifts are many and their results conspicuous. ln a service Z Z of more than a quarter century, he has made our University one of the leading Z Z institutions of its kind in the land. l-low much of wise direction, of initiative Z Z and adjustment, of tact, firm will and broad interpretation of policy have been Z Z behind this achievement is best known to those most familiar with American Z Z education of the past generation. But even when this is said, the secret has not Z Z been completely revealed. Z Z A man of equal intellectual capacity and gift for affairs might not have Z Z brought his work to such fruition, nor won the place he occupies in state and Z Z nation. It is because of his superb endowment in the ranges of the heart and Z Z the spiritual nature, that Cyrus Northrop has been able to do great things for Z Z us. And this is why l say that he is a great character. l-lis relation to his Z Z students, to his faculty, to legislators and to his fellowmen at large, has been Z Z vital for good, just because he is more than a scholar, a fine administrator, a Z Z skilled educator, to-wit, a noble human being, thinking in terms of the clarified Z Z emotions and estimating life, not from a set angle of vision, but with a broadly Z Z genial grasp of all the relations that bind together the children of men. ln an Z age of specialization, behold a man! At a time when even great persons seem Z Z lop-sided in their power, behold one who is human first and all the rest after- Z Z ward! Z X Z Z Z Z , Z V f f, Z Z fif ZZ ,ffl Q ZZ Z Z f ff e, f Z a f' Z , ,,,, 20

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ZZZZ f Z fimpfw Z Z Z coterie of 'I am holler than thou' respectable believers. It must bear on itself Z Z the image of Christ, and must work as Christ worked, so that wherever it oes Z Z with its ministry of love and its proclamatlons of grace, the most unhelleving Z - as f Z shall feel and shall say that Christ has come. Z Z The eloquence of our President is the expression of the big heart of a Z Z reat ood man Z Z g f g - Z Z ul would rather have the glory which rests upon the memory of Dr. Z Arnold, of Rugby, said President Northrop, in his address at the Yale Bicen- Z Z tennial, than the halo which encircles the roudest don of Oxford. Have Z Z p Z Z then your wish, our Prexy sire! Every one of the thousands of your children, Z Z from the nineteen to whom ou handed di lomas in ISS5 down the uarter- Z Z Y P q Z Z century to the five-hundred and fifty this June, looks to you as a great force Z Z h' h h if rf f d ' h a d 1 h Z Z W ic touc ed IS 1 e or goo in t e under-gra uate ays, sa utes you as t e Z Z ideal of manhood to which he may well aspire, but hardly hope to reach. Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z f Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z U Z Z 73rexy Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z ZZ 'Z Z, ,Z Z ssss , Z Z ZZ .,,,.,,. 19

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V Z WZ AQZZ W , 4 ZW f Eff, ,Zi an-WZMIQ Z Z ' ' 7.77K ' Z Z Z This cardinal quality comes out splendidly in all Dr. Northrop s public Z Z F C1 d ' Z Z utterances. or years on en , every wor he has spoken in the chapel has gone Z Z straight to its mark-the students' heart. Why? Because it was freighted Z . . . . Z Z with a sense of personality, of the man behind the winged word. And the Z . . . f Z same is true wherever he has spoken. Wldel ln demand as a s eaker, Z Z y P Z Z reco nlzed as one of the finest orators in the United States, the earnestness and Z Z g . . . Z Z honest , the ma nlhcent common sense, the moral force in his messa e, have Z Y g g Z Z been felt in his addresses, extempore or formal, and placed them always far Z f . . . . Z above the cunning rhetoric of the professional haranguer. Simple vernacular, Z Z based on rl ht feelin and steadied by a robust grip on reality, unerrin , indeed, Z Z g g g Z Z in its feeling for the genuine things, his speech rises to eloquence because the Z Z man himself, inspired by some noble thought, has risen with it and stood behind Z . . . . f Z lt to reinforce its meaning. I have never known a speaker more capable of Z Z serzlng an occasion in danger of conventional treatment, specialized view or Z Z P . . . . . Z party asslon, and resorting it to what might be called its large, human values. Z Z p - Z Z And so, alon with res ect and honor, and over and above all that re uta- Z Z g P p Z Z tion can imply, has gone love, the love of all who know him. Life can give no Z Z nobler gift than this to any human being. What an example to the young, in Z . . . . Z Z how dee a sense such a ersonallty IS educatlve to every human soul with whom Z Z P P Z Z it is associated, nay even touches ln passing by! And what a big gap is left Z . . . . . . Z Z when such an 1nHuence is wrthdrawn. Harder, far, than any administrative Z Z problem for his successor, will be the task of filling the place in the hearts of Z Z his co-workers, friends and lovers made vacant by the de arture of C rus Z Z p y Z Z - as - Z Northrop, a character which, for so long, has stood four-square to every wind Z f n . . . Z that blows, and offered to young Americans a shining example of what they Z . . . . . . Z Z would fain be-a great American usm reat ifts ln the service of the eo le Z g g g g P P Z Z and of that people's God. Z Z RICHARD BURTON. Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . Z 21