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WII.LIAM RAINEY HARPER. 



measured up to the full requirements of ordinary life. In the 

 organization, establishment and administration of the great 

 university he accomplished in sixteen years what might well 

 have been the labor of two generations of men. Not all that 

 he planned and did will remain, but there is so much that will 

 endure that there can be little room for regrets. 



" By their fruits ye shall know them," is the divine test and 

 measuring-rod that is ultimately applied to every man. Thus 

 tested and measured, Dr. Harper stands pre-eminent. He died 

 without worldly estate, but the historian will administer upon 

 his possessions and find riches that neither time nor rust can 

 corrupt nor the vicissitudes of human events diminish or take 

 away. He belonged to the elite who are born into the world 

 to do quickly some great work. These have little time for 

 what the world calls pleasures. They begin with almost super- 

 human faith. They labor with masterful energy and take a 

 direct line to the cross. But in the final accounting it is found 

 that the world is vastly richer, that humanity has new aims 

 and new impulses, and God and truth are more clearly appre- 

 hended because these men with dynamic souls have lived for 



a few years. 



Charles Willis Needham. 



