Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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The Class

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PHILANDER DERBY HODGMAN nor did he often reveal to others the deeper seriousness and maturity of his nature. Some there were, however, whom he admitted into this closer intimacy of acquaintance and to them he was known not only as a man of winning and lovable personality, but as one marked by intellectual integrity, noble ambition, and high, manly purpose. From him much might reasonably be expected in the coming years. Had we not been directly informed of the fact, yet we should have known without further assurance-for we knew him-that he bore the intense suttering of his last sickness with the most heroic and uncomplaining fortitude, tenderly considerate to the end, of those who with breaking hearts, watched beside his bed, and never allowing him- self to give thoughtless expression to discouragement or pain. Of such stuti' are the heroes of this world made-men who in the common life of every day are found generous, courteous, modest, dignified, and manly, men who, when the occasion demands it, accept hardest conditions-death, if it must be-without cowardice, hesitation, or complaint. Such men are not at all times justly esti- mated nor appreciated, but when the time of their trial comes, then we see them at their true worth. HARRY JAMES SMITH. . . Thy sad farewell sublimes our love for thee, Up-gathered first of those that welcomed day. For we are humanized that thou did'st pray For little children's sake and those at sea, And for a dawn of endless purity. A new life sped thee on the upward way, And over all the hills and valleys lay, Symbolical of God's etemity. Dear classmate, though beyond all sight or sound, Thy comrades left thee sleeping underground g The see thee from thy tribula ion rise, And, stand before the throne with robes all white, With no more thirst, or heat, or tearful night, For God has wiped all tears from out thine eyes. GEORGE THURSTON LITTLE. T t 10 J

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