1895.] ^^"^ * [Rosengarteu. 



met with success and distinction. Along with Vassar, Smith and Welles- 

 ley Colleges, it may claim peership with the strongest of American col- 

 leges for either sex, in the ability of its professors, the quality of its 

 material equipment, and the scholarship of its graduate and postgraduate 

 students. Among the honors achieved by the latter is the recent 

 appointment of one of its fellows to the headship of Barnard College, a 

 Department for Women in connection with Columbia Colle2,e in New 

 York. 



President Rhoads' labor and responsibility, with his unsparing devotion 

 to every duty, were very exacting; and, after an illness which impaired 

 his strength, he felt compelled to resign the Presidency of the college in 

 1894. He was retained as Professor of Ethics, which he had long taught, 

 and as President of the Board of Trustees. In the department of Ethics 

 he was unquestionably a superior teacher. Although, in his own convic- 

 tion, the "ethics of Jesus" are sufficient for all human needs, his breadth 

 of mind led him to do justice to all side lights upon his subject, from 

 Confucius, Plato and Marcus Aurelius down to Marlineau and Herbert 

 Spencer. There was a warmtli and radiance in his personality ; the man 

 being more always than his teaching or his preaching ; so that it was said 

 that no one could be an hour in his company without being the better 

 for it. 



In 1890, Union College, in the State of New York, awarded to him the 

 well deserved honorary degree of LL. D. With an increased measure of 

 rest, though still maintaining his interest in philanthropic work, espe- 

 cially in connection with the Indians, and being often engaged in the 

 ministry of the gospel, he seemed, at the beginning of the year 1895, to 

 be gaining in health. On the second of January of this year, however, 

 having walked from his residence to the railway station at Bryn Mawr, 

 intending to go to the city to attend a lecture on a sociological subject, 

 while seated awaiting the coming of the train, his head fell forward, and 

 almost in a moment he expired. 



His work was done. Although not a very aged man, it may be said, 

 changing somewhat the words of a familiar line, that "his toil was as the 

 toil of ten, because his heart was pure ;" not only pure, but animated by 

 a noble devotion to God and to his fellow-men. 



Obituary Notice of Henry Coppee, LL.D. 



By J. 0. Rosengarten. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, May 17, 1S95.) 



Henry Coppee, LL.D., was born in Savannah, Ga., October 13, 1831. 

 He spent two years at Yale College, in the class of 1839, then studied 

 engineering, and was employed in the construction of the Georgia Central 



