866 WILLIAM ROBERT WARE. 



acquired intimate knowledge of the history of the Institute and its 

 affairs, and was personally acquainted with many scholars in all parts 

 of the country. He had a rare gift for friendship. His administra- 

 tion of the Institute was eminently successful and he had large plans 

 for the promotion of its growth and efficiency. He had expected to 

 attend its annual meeting held in Chicago during the Christmas 

 holidays of 1907, but he fell ill and died, while the Institute was in 

 session, on the last day of the old year. 



Thomas Seymour's life is an inspiring example of noble service and 

 high achievement. Its controlling impulse was an ardent desire for 

 knowledge, yet his activity was remarkably varied. He was not only 

 a learned man who spoke with recognized authority, but also an 

 earnest teacher, a wise adviser in college councils, a writer and editor 

 of distinction, and an able administrator of important interests. His 

 influence as a scholar steadily widened and strengthened as he grew 

 older, and enhanced the reputation of Yale University as a great seat 

 of learning. 



He belonged to the finer and gentler type of scholars. He avoided 

 fruitless controversy, but never shirked a duty. And thus it was that 

 all who knew him loved him — for his candor, his modesty, his con- 

 siderateness, his unselfishness, his unswerving devotion to truth. 



John Williams White, 



WILLIAM ROBERT WARE (1832-1915) 



Fellow in Class III, Section 4, 18(J6. 



In two important fields Professor Ware performed services of almost 

 unique importance to his chosen profession of architecture. In the 

 educational field he laid firmly the foundations of architectural train- 

 ing in this country ; and in the field of active professional work he was 

 largely instrumental in putting architectural competition on a digni- 

 fied and secure basis which commanded the respect both of the building 

 public and the profession. In both these fields he was a pioneer. 

 That he was able to perform such signal service was due on the one 

 hand to his attainments and character, and on the other to the fortu- 

 nate circumstance that his active life fell in the formative period of 



