Wittenberg University - Witt Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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IN MEMORIAM Victor g. a. tressler. d. d., ph. d. ------------1865—1923 ------------ E are likely to say that the genial Dr. Tressler has been taken away, and that now we have to go alone, without his cheer and courage, but our better thought is that he has not fallen—he still leads on. It is great to live with such momentum that work, plans, ideals, purposes carry on. tho the worker has gone to his long rest. We make no mistake in speaking of his geniality. It was rich. It was genuine. He lifted people up, as he met them on the way, and carried them along with him. Of course Dr. Tressler was gifted. His mind was not the ordinary make. He pierced his subject through, dashed on to the end. grasped the whole thought, and as teacher placed the living, pointed truth in the minds of his students. But the greatness of a man is not to be measured by his gifts. It is only as those gifts are given away, that life becomes large. Dr. Tressler gave his gifts to the Church in splendid service and to Hamma Divinity School, in which for eighteen years he was a forceful teacher, and of which at the time of his death he was the honored and far-visioned Dean.

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