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A large concourse of mourning friends attended the 

 funeral services, held in the college chapel at Ames, on 

 August 7th, where addresses were made by President Book- 

 waiter, Professors Stanton and Loos, Superintendent Bar- 

 rett and Mr. Boyd. 



One of the best estimates of President Beardshear may 

 be found in what President Bookwalter said in speaking of 

 him as a man. "His strength lay as always, chiefly in his 

 greatness of heart. His whole career was marked and 

 made illustrious by his lofty, self-sacrificing devotion to 

 the good of others. He literally gave himself without 

 stint — alas, as it would seem, with too little thought of an 

 overtaxed body — to the great interests committed to his 

 care. But we would not have had him less the great 

 hearted servant he was, the follower of Him who 'came 

 not to be ministered but to minister.' What a noble soul 

 he was. How fit and valuable a teacher and leader of the 

 young. His life was emphatically an outpour. And what 

 an outpour, what an overflow, watering the waste places 

 and making everywhere the lilies to grow." 



Equally noble sentiments were expressed by Prof. Stan- 

 ton, in his address at the memorial services for the college 

 students on September 7th. "Two days in college history 

 — February 17, 1891, and August 5, 1902 — stand out before 

 me in a similar impressive way. On the one, a great and 

 lofty soul came into touch with a great and lofty mission. 

 On the other, undaunted, triumphant, glorified, with the 

 spirit of a true soldier, our beloved president answered the 

 summons which called him into higher fields of duty. 

 Between these dates lies the greatest work of Dr. Beard- 

 shear's life, a work sanctified by such full measure of devo- 

 tion, courage and self-sacrifice as lights up the grief and 

 mystery of to-day with a far reaching, prophetic hope, and 

 confirms our faith in the Clod-like possibilities of human 

 livingf." 



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