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the matter, or even that he remembered it at all. One day, 

 meeting Mr. Oilman, I told him what a splendid thing I 

 thought he had done in saving the library. "I was think- 

 ing of your mother when I was doing it," he said. Seed 

 that was dropped in his mind fell on fruitful ground. 

 Opportunity to do good works and the actual doing of 

 them so far apart, alas, for most of us were to him the 

 nearest possible of neighbors. And so it came about that, 

 whatever other titles he may have to remembrance, he 

 deserves pre-eminently that most enviable of all epitaphs, 

 "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." 



MINUTE ADOPTED BY THE CLASS OF 1889 



The Class of 1889 of the Johns Hopkins University, in 

 reunion assembled at the Hotel Stafford, in Baltimore, on 

 November 20, 1908, desire to record herein their feeling of 

 personal grief and loss at the departure from this earthly 

 scene of their valued counselor and friend, Dr. Daniel 

 Coit Oilman. 



Entering the ranks of the student body as they did 

 when the University was still comparatively young, they 

 have watched with unabated interest through many years 

 the rapid growth and expansion of their well-beloved 

 Alma Mater under his skillful guidance. 



And now filling honorable positions in life as ministers, 

 physicians, teachers, lawyers, and business men, they feel 

 that no small portion of their success has been due to the 

 great personal interest which President Oilman took in 

 their welfare while they were students under his guidance, 

 as well as later when he watched their individual careers 

 with honest pride in their achievements in the varied 

 fields of their activity. 



