ADDRESSES COMMEMORATIVE OF DR. OILMAN 



DELIVERED BY ALUMNI IN McCOY HALL 



NOVEMBER 20, 1908 



CHARLES M. ANDREWS, PH. D. 

 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY 



I deem it an especial privilege to be allowed to take 

 part in the exercises this afternoon, honoring the memory 

 of Dr. Oilman and recalling the aspects of his life which 

 relate to the upbuilding of this University. We did not 

 think, when but nine months ago we voiced in a formal 

 resolution our regret at his absence from the yearly 

 banquet, that before another year had passed we should 

 gather to pay tribute to his memory. His absence from 

 our dinner of February 22 was not due to ill health, and 

 when we took action on that occasion expressing our re- 

 gret that, at the last moment, he found himself unable to 

 be present, it was but the putting into formal words the 

 feeling of loyalty and affection which we all had for him. 

 It is, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that I read here, 

 to-day, the last communication that the Alumni as a body 

 received from him, his answer to my letter conveying to 

 him the resolution of the Association. He wrote as 

 follows: "I thank you and through you the members of 

 the Alumni Association for the kind expression conveyed 

 to me in your note of yesterday. Such tokens of regard 

 are among the most gratifying incidents of advancing 

 years, and this, the latest, I value among the pleasantest 

 that I have ever received." Dr. Oilman valued very highly 

 the good-will of the Alumni of the University and was 

 proud of the loyalty which they had for him. I recall his 

 pleasure when, last February, he received a telegram of 

 greeting from an association of the Western Alumni, 



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