Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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November 24, 1923 Dean Tot. man: C uiradt risli I’ichirc . “ The bell has rung out the hours t his life’s duties for thirty years. ‘His office is empty; but you can find him. it you know where to k» . Chancellor .1. II. Kirkland. I lie who has vanished loved the very sod. And he loved laughter on this weary earth. Steadfastly inarching, he possessed his God, And, smiling, passed into another birth. Wisdom lie had. yet was to hot-headed youth Gentle and kind ; the very man he acted ; And now this priest, this acolyte of truth, Practitioner of peace, peace has contracted. None can restore him life who now has peace, The hoys, the books, these well-beloved halls; Hut from the silence that will never cease, Out of no darkness, no despair there falls A golden legend long on many a tongue, It wisdom still he sought or beaut) sung. II Now lives the tender April afternoon: A voice, living, moves like the gentle trees, Singing a slow, a sweet, archaic tune Of I'roy, well-greaved Achaeans, wine- dark seas. Words wing the dusky blue; high in the air Poseidon, Hector, Zeus the leonine, Plato the calm, and Aphrodite fair, Mingle and float, brimming a heady wine. 1‘he wisdom-drinkers sit intoxicate; Feet of descended gods trample the press. Where is the rumor that the day is late? And who has tasted well his happiness? A voice ceases speaking that ancient glory, Gone, gone, like gestures in a traveler’s story. Ai.ec B. Stevenson'.

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THE LATE Herbert Cushing Tolman Beloved Dean of the College of Ails and Science Whose revered place in the hearts of the student body can never be filled, this THE 1924 COMMODORE Is Reverently Dedicated. v

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 l()l I AIS 01 Pl.OKAI. i KHit lES OVER lilt CJRAVK Ot 1 EA I'd.MAN Resolutions on the Death of Dean Tolman Ai)on'i:i) in mi Putin ai a Special Meeting, Wednesday, Movemher 19.13 lu tin- Providence of Almighty (Jod our beloved colleague and Dean has been taken from us In tin- band of Death. We are conscious that in such an extremity human consolations «lo not avail, hut we desire to spread upon our records some expression of our affection and esteem for our devoted leader. lie was a scholar of rare attainments, an authority in hi' field, an author whose distinction was reflected upon this institution. lie was a preacher of eloquence and power, and his deliverances in our chapel were of the noblest influence in molding the lives of bis hearers. lie was a teacher by instinct and by training, lie kindled the flame of learning in the breasts of all his pupils, and out of the gifted few who chose his particular field of scholarship he founded a school of research whose volumes, already pub- lished. are a monument to his memory. lie was an administrator, lie took his decisions with unswerving courage and carried them out with unfailing courtesy and tact. lie was a gentleman. He emlrodicd the virtues of his Puritan ancestry, sup- plemented In the traditional graces of the best manhood of the South. lie was a Christian. If we were asked to define Christianity, we would do well to say: Christianity is the way Dean Polman lived. lie was our friend. 1'he world will never know how often individual members of this body went to him, and not in vain, for counsel and encouragement. T herefar,. hr il rrsolvfil. That this facidly hereby record its sense of personal bereavement and official loss in the death of Herbert Cushing Polman. And H, il furt nt rrsolvrJ. That we extend to the members of his family our deepest sympathy in their loss, and that they be furnished with a copy of these resolutions, properly attested by the Secretary of thi' body and by the Chancellor of the I niversity.