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honesty in all work which they might be called upon to perform either 

 as students or in professional life. He is remembered by them with the 

 most affectionate regard. 



Reference has already l>een made to the interference of ill-health with 

 the prosecution of the labors of Professor Bolman. In fact, after reach- 

 ins manhood he was never in good health, and during almost the whole 

 of his active life a> a teacher be struggled with a painful chronic disease, 

 whicli gradually, though with some intermissions, sapped his strength. 

 His cheerful disposition and persistence iu carrying on his work were 

 Buch thai none but t li< >><• who knew him well wen- aware of the fact that 

 it was only hi> indomitable courage which prevented him from yielding 

 to his malady for som<- years before it finally overcame him. In the 

 sprinir <>f I *'.•<• lie was obliged to discontinue work for a time. He spent 

 the following year abroad, and came home much improved in health, hut 

 the relief was only temporary. In 1895 he finally gave up his work of 

 Instruction. For some years after this, however, though confined to his 

 chair, and at last even deprived of sight, he continued to labor diligently, 

 and published the tables of logarithms and the work on Matter and Euergj 



mentioned above. Hi~ mind was clear to the last, and his cheerful: 

 never forsook him. His latest years were his best ones, and his whole 

 life was a fine illustration of the manner in which a noble spirit may rise 

 Ruperior to circumstances and produce the best results under conditions 

 to which an ordinary mind would utterly succumb. 



Chas. R. Ckoss. 



SYLVESTER R. KOEHLER. 



SylveBTI B R. Kor.in.ru was born in Leipsic in 1887. He came to 

 America at the age of twelve years. Son of an artist, grandson of a 

 musician, he was destined by inheritance to an artistic career. Its bent 

 was determined by his moving to Boston in isc.s and entering the estab- 

 lishment of L. Prang & Co. as technical manager. Tliis position, after 

 ten years, was given up, that he mi'_ r ht devote himself exclusively to his 

 art Btudies. With Charles C. Perkins and William ('. Prime as asso- 

 ciate editor-, he launched the " Art Review," the most dignified and 



scholarly periodical devoted to art thai has 1 n published in the United 



States. It was aimed, to quote the preface, "to dwell upon the larger, 

 more robust, more serious features ofi lern art," but it was in advance 



of it- ti — the circle tO which it appealed Was small, and when alter 



