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He was one of those decorated by the King of the Belgians 

 as a member of the Belgian Relief Committee of 1914, which 

 antedated Mr. Hoover's later and larger measures. 



He held public office but once, when he served as commis- 

 sioner of works for Brooklyn from 1894 to 1896, and made a 

 notable contribution to the solution of Brooklyn's water supply. 



He gave buildings to his own college, the Rensselaer Polytech- 

 nic. It has only recently become known that he endowed the 

 chair of Social Ethics at Harvard. 



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When Mr. White resigned as president of the Brooklyn 

 Bureau of Charities he made an address which seemed to me 

 so singularly appropriate that I have kept a copy of it. He 

 began by saying — " This is not a farewell address. I am not 

 proposing to retire from this board so long as you wish me 

 to remain a member of it, or to lessen my interest in the helpful 

 work of this society." And he closed it by saying — '' For myself, 

 I have the rare felicity described by Wordsworth in his ' Happy 

 Warrior/ of the man Svho hath wrought upon the plan that 

 pleased his youthful thought and seen what he foresaw.' Few 



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live to enjoy the privilege of seeing early dreams and visions grow 

 in some measure into helpful realities." And with characteristic 

 modesty he added, *' That I have that privilege I owe to your 

 cordial cooperation, the self-denying efforts of a wonderful stafif 

 of workers and volunteers, and the confidence and support of 

 this great communit} 



The Flappy Warrior has now gone to his rest honored and 

 beloved by all who have come to know him, and they are many. 



Robert W. de Forest. 



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RESOLUTION 

 Adopted hy the Board of Trustees 



(From the minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board 



of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 



Sciences, February 10, 1921) 



,r. A. Augustus Healy, Chairman of the Committee of Three, 

 appointed by President Babbott to draft appropriate resolutions 



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