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with them were producing that state of mental worry which is the usual 

 precursor of waning vigor. But besides these he still kept up his other 

 appointments, save that of Physiology, in the Biological Department of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. This he relinquished to Dr. Hobart 

 Hare. 



The surf bath which ordinarily infused fresh life into him failed to do so 

 on Saturday morning. On Sunday, as the bathing hour approached, ac- 

 companied by his wife and little daughter, he went down to the beach. 

 The party lingered there until all the bathers had retired, and then he and 

 his wife went in for a "final dip." After a few minutes his wife noticed 

 a change in his countenance. Probably they had ventured further than 

 was safe, but, as they had often done so before, nothing was thought of 

 it. After a few minutes struggling, in which he became separated from 

 !Mrs. Randolph, he fell forward, and — was dead. 



From the account given by his wife, it is certain that there was a sud- 

 den heart failure, to which, and not to drowning, in the ordinary sense 

 of the term, his death was due. 



Though relief came as promptly as could be expected, all hope was 

 gone. For two hours friends labored to restore him, feeling, however, 

 that it was in vain. His devoted companion, taken from the water insen- 

 sible, was saved almost by a miracle. 



Thus, in his twenty-ninth year, was taken from us one who had already 

 left his impress on the scientific character of the city in which he lived. 

 His friend and associate. Prof. Harrison Allen, touchingly writes : "Ran- 

 dolph's name is to be added to the long list of young men we have lost in 

 Philadelphia, in our own time — to Hare, George Pepper, Parry, Jenks, 

 Rhoads and Hunter — a loss that is simply irreparable to us. His death 

 came as a shock to the community in which he had, but a few days earlier, 

 moved so full of activity and of promise. The leading daily papers spon- 

 taneously echoed the sentiments of those who knew him best, when they 

 deplored his death as a public calamity." 



It may not be improper to allude to the one indulgence of his life, that 

 of cigarette smoking, and to ask whether it may not have been partly 

 responsible for his death? This, probably, never can be answered, though 

 we do know that he had long had a tendency to cardiac trouble ; that his 

 use of cigarettes was far from moderate, and that under such circum- 

 stances the pliysiological effects (or pathological effects) of tobacco upon 

 tlie heart might almost be expected. 



We are accustomed to regard this as an exceptional age, but, save when 

 the world slumbered from wickedness and weakness just before the six- 

 teenth century, there never has been a time when men did not think much 

 the same of the period in which they lived. But may we not at least say 

 that this has in some sense been an age of transition. It seems to be so 

 notably in the relation of the woman to tlie world. We no longer ask, 

 by how narrow limits can her life be circumscribed, but how wide a range 

 can we open to her, or help her to open for herself? Dr. Randolph was 

 "advanced " in his views on this question. 



