University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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J O H N M U I A Student at the Uniwersitj of Wisconsin iti thi early (So.s Discoiifrer of Muir Glacier (atUTaItst Ex Iorer Author John Muir ' s study at Wisconsin and his wanderings in her woods and over her hills gave him glimpses of a new knowledge beyond the trail ' s end. He left, in his own word8, one university for another— the University of Wisconsin for the University of the Wilderness. He dramatized the out-of-doors; he put the woods into prose and the flowers into poetry; he gave a silver tongue to the waves and he heard a divine anthem in the winds — ven the shadows to him had a secret meaning. He saw a deeper gold and a more vivid crimson in the rays of the setting sun. He sought answer to his questions in the wise and intimate voices of lofty crags and blue-veined glaciers; he made friends of them and their storms and fastnesses; they told him the secrets of the structure of earth and the upward struggle of man. We associate with him the ousel-song, the rose-of- morn, abloom on snowy heights, as well as the silent places, the big trees, the mountain summits; through him all nature takes on a new beauty, a bigger meaning, a grander life. And he was one of us ' He lived aloft, apart. He talked with God In all the myriad tongues of God ' s sweet world: But still he came anear and tal ed with us. Inter [rreting for God to listening men. —Dr. S. Hall Toung. niii itimkmimi gut; . tt;aiusiu «.. ■. TS

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1QQ5 BADGER V e Annual f The UniVGrsitu of d ci isconsin an ass Book of the Graduates of lQa4 Madison c xxiv TOIRTY-NINE