60 Alumni Reunion 



duty it is to seek the truth and proclaim it freely. Nor 

 could any but a man of the finest practical sense have 

 solved its problems. Truly he has built his own monu- 

 ment, like Sir Christopher Wren. If you seek it, look 

 around you. 



Fellow alumni, I think that eulogy from us is super- 

 fluous. There is only one effective way for us to show our 

 genuine appreciation both of Oilman and of whatever is 

 best in the University, and that is to emulate its high 

 ideals and help to realize them in this world. If all the 

 alumni of this distinguished University will seek after 

 truth, battle for the right, and habitually ally themselves 

 to those things that are worthy and of good report, 

 Oilman will need no eulogist ; for his life-work will then 

 have borne fruit and his labor will not have been in vain. 



FABIAN FRANKLIN, PH. D. 

 OF BALTIMORE 



To speak about President Oilman to an audience of 

 Johns Hopkins alumni is to me a difficult task. It is easy 

 to speak of him and his work to outsiders, for one has, 

 with them, the feeling that they may not know what the 

 work here accomplished thirty years ago really was, nor 

 what his part in achieving it. It is always with a glow 

 of pride and enthusiasm that one repeats the many-times- 

 told tale of the making of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 when occasion offers for reciting it afresh to the outside 

 public; and surely no occasion for recalling that memo- 

 rable history could be more appropriate than that pre- 

 sented by the passing away of its presiding genius. But 

 in speaking to Johns Hopkins men I cannot escape the 

 feeling is something like that which led to the gradual 

 known to them as well as to myself ; that to recapitulate 

 it would be to perform at most a conventional duty. The 

 feeling is something like that which led to the gradual 



