University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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gm. memorium JAMES COMFORT Copy qf a minute adopted by the Board of Trustees of tlze University on Nov. 8, 1900. In the awful presence of death human words are in- adequate for expression. They are cold and empty. Yet it is fitting that they be employed as a poor means of embalming memories and treasuring the qualities which make us love the living. When a good man dies those of his associates who survive, lament him with one accord and place the tributes of their esteem in their archives to be read of coming generations. So are the works of the just made perfect and lasting. The board of trustees of the University of Tennes- see have been called many times to mourn losses from its ranks. Death has been no respecter of persons in choosing from its number. The brightest and best, those who could ill be spared have been taken. But never, perhaps, in the history of the board, has the visit of death seemed so unwelcome as when in the early afternoon of Sunday last its beloved treasurer, James Comfort, was called away. With affection the board desires to place upon its minutes its testimony to his worth and its apprciation of his virtues, as well as to record its sense of loss at his untimely summonsefor so it appearsebut, in the wisdom 0t God who can say that the death of such a man is untimely? It were bet- IO