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ments enough to secure them, then there is the open world where con- 

 scious integrity and fearless purpose will win their way to large success. 

 Courage which stops short of aggressiveness by only a little, along with 

 transparent honesty and a much greater than average mental activity, 

 can always take the world, by storm if need be. These men require no 

 favors. 



During the last years in which Prof. Harrison Allen held the Chair of 

 Phj'siology in the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Randolph was made 

 Assistant Demonstrator of Physiology, Dr. Allen writes of him: "I 

 knew Randolph very well, and loved him dearly. He was faithful to 

 trust, loj^al in friendship, sagacious, affectionate and zealous. His career 

 was one of preparation for the most part ; but usefulness and honor were 

 certainly to be his. His intellectual work showed great promise. His 

 record as a teacher was already made at the time of his death. He was 

 very popular with students and exerted a remarkable influence upon 

 them. There is no doubt he would have attained a high rank as a plat- 

 form lecturer." 



After the resignation of Prof. Allen, Dr. Randolph abandoned his posi- 

 tion as Demonstrator to the Chair of Physiology in the Medical Depart- 

 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and was made, in 1884, Instruc- 

 tor in Phj'siology in the Biological Department of the same University. 

 July 18, lie was elected to membership in the American Philosophical 

 Society. He was also a member of the College of Physicians of Philadel- 

 phia. 



His value was fast becoming recognized, and as he had filled his posi- 

 tions in the University to the entire satisfaction of the Trustees and the 

 pupils, it is not strange that he was elected, in 18S(>, to fill the vacancy 

 in the Chair of Hygiene, caused by the death of Dr. Joseph Richardson. 

 In the very first meeting of the Faculty after he was elected to this posi- 

 tion in the Auxiliary Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Randolph requested per- 

 mission of his colleagues to show bis respect to the memory of his prede- 

 cessor by delivering that course of lectures in Dr. Richardson's name, and 

 to turn the fees over to Mrs. Richardson. It was a graceful thing, not a 

 charity, but simply one of those spontaneous acts which were so thor- 

 oughly characteristic of Randolph. It would never have been done, or 

 even thought of, by any one less generous than he, and no one wondered 

 at it — in him. Selfishness, or even the appearance of it, he abhorred. 



The ease with which he wrote, the force, clearness and elegance of his 

 style, combined to mark him as the man when, in December, 1885, an 

 Assistant Editor was sought for the Philadelphia Medical Netcs. He held 

 the place until May, 1887, when he resigned it to take the Chief Editorship 

 of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, published in the same city, and 

 which, under the distinguished Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, had attained a very 

 wide circulation. 



Dr. Randolph's publications had not been very numerous. He had just 

 entered upon the productive part of his life when he was taken hence. 



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