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PHILANDER DERBY HODGMAN On the twenty-sixth of April, 1902, Philander Derby Hodgman died at the Infirmary after a short, but exceedingly painful illness of one week. From the first, most serious apprehensions had been felt as to his recovery and more than once had hope given way to despair in the hearts of those who watched beside him, yet so remarkably had he rallied from the most dangerous relapses, so tenacious had been his grip upon life, that it seemed as if, in the end, death must be fought off. When, therefore, the last sad news came, it brought with it a strange shock of surprise to those who had known and loved him. lt was hard to realize the truth. lt did not seem possible that we should see him no more nor hear the friendly greeting so familiar to us all. And the fact that he met his death so near the opening of the last term of our college course, when after our four years of comrade- Ship together we were each one looking eagerly forward to larger work and new responsibilities-this brought home with peculiar em- phasis the inexplicable and tragic elements of the event. Philander Derby Hodgman was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, April 14, 1879. At the time of his death, therefore he was just twenty-three years of age. He was prepared for college at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, and entered Williams in 1898 with the class Of 1902. His interests in undergraduate activities were several and varied. Besides serving on more than one class committee and being 21 member of the Banjo Club, he' played for all four years upon the Class baseball team and had been elected captain for the season of 1902. His positions had been pitcher and right field. In his Freshman year he played right-end on the class football eleven. He was a member of the A. K. 16. Fraternity. Hodgman was a man of singularly winning manners. ln all his relations he was genial, unassuming, and considerate of others. For everyone he had a good word, and those who had been with him knew that he would speak as kindly of them in their absence as in their presence. His generous nature and unfailing good spirits won for him a friend in every man who met him. Somewhat reserved and difiident, he never sought for himself a large circle of intimate friendsg E91 .
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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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