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which, as in the case of the one of Secretary Henry, might 

 be placed in the Regents' Room in perpetual remembrance 

 of him. 



Senator Morrill then read the following resolution, 

 which was adopted: 



Resolved: That the Secretary be requested to have a 

 life-size portrait of the late Secretary of the Institution 

 (Spencer F. Baird) painted by some competent artist, 

 which, when finished, may be preserved in the room occu- 

 pied by the Regents for their meetings. 



From a Letter of Hon. George F. Edmunds to William H. 



DalL 



PASADENA, CAL., Nov. 19, 1913. 



For myself " I wish to say that I knew Professor Baird 

 intimately from the first year of my service in the Senate 

 until the end of his life. I have never known a man who 

 largely exercised public duties who combined more than 

 he, great technical skill and ordered discipline in the sphere 

 of all his activities with personal gentleness and sympathy, 

 or who was more readily supported by his subordinates 

 in hard work and in affectionate and almost reverent 

 feeling. 



11 1 never heard him speak unkindly to or of any of his 

 official associates, or indeed of anybody else, and he was 

 always ready to assist people both in and out of his official 

 career in respect of everything they submitted to his 

 notice. In all the intercourse of our two families I felt 

 toward him as if he were an elder brother. 



"With his great accomplishments he united great 

 modesty, and never self-assertion, a true man in the 

 best and broadest sense of the term." 



