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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



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RECORD 



Vol. X 



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July, 192 1 



No. 3 



ALFRED TREDWAY WHITE 



To liiiikl the city is the great accomphshnient, not to possess it. 



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1921, the Brooklyn Bo- 



tanic Garden met with its greatest possihle loss. The *' father " 

 of the Garden, its greatest benefactor and stannchest friend, Al- 

 fred T. White, was drowned while skating on Forest Lake, near 

 Central Valley, N. Y. There was something fine in the manner 

 of his death. That a man seventy-five years of age should have 

 been skating in the open country, like a boy, is an unusual thing; 

 but it w^as not an unusual thing for this man. lie was ever a 

 man of action, in business, in philanthropy, in religious life, in 

 recreation. In a way not common he was the embodiment of 

 BrowniuL^^'s ideal of manhood: 



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"Oh, our manhood's prime vigor! No spirit feels waste, 

 Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. 

 Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, 

 How good is man's life the mere living! How fit to emplo}' 

 All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! " 



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With his residence on Brooklyn Heights and his office in ^^ ail 

 Street it had been his custom for many years to walk daily to 

 and from his offiee, over the Brooklyn Bridge, a distance of 



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