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other countries. His valuable services in the realm of public health 

 were recognized by the United States Government, which appointed 

 him a member of the Advisory Board of the Hygienic Laboratory and 

 Public Health Service, by the American Public Health Association 

 which elected him President in 1905, and by his nomination as Presi- 

 dent of the section upon State and Municipal Hygiene at the Inter- 

 national Congress of Hygiene and Demography held at Washington 

 in 1912. 



Notwithstanding the influential position which was his in the 

 United States, the call in 1913 to be President of the new University 

 of British Columbia was too attractive to be resisted. He saw the 

 opportunity to direct the establishment of a noble institution along 

 noble lines. When he accepted, everything was full of promise, but 

 almost immediately the financial and labour crisis smote the province 

 and following upon this came the Great War, His strong inclinations 

 were to offer himself for service, where as an expert in epidemic 

 disease and sanitation he could have been of great value. He longed 

 intensely to take his part at the front, but he realized full well that 

 his first duty was with the young university and that by remaining at 

 his post he could give effective assistance by training university men. 

 But the strain told upon him; it manifested itself during the last year 

 by increasing blood pressure and evidences of arteriosclerosis, that 

 bane of those who overdrive their brains. The end came on October 

 20th, 1918. 



There was nothing formal or academic in his personality. He 

 was sane in mind as he was strong in body, as loyal to his principles 

 as to his friends, and there was no more. loyal friend. He was one whom 

 men accepted as a leader, because being whole-hearted he inspired 

 trust, such trust as intellectual brilliance alone can never command. 



The following resolution passed by the Board of Governors of 

 the University of British Columbia at their first meeting after his 

 death is evidence that he carried into his new position the qualities 

 that had everywhere made him eminent in friendship and science. 



"During the too short period of his Presidency, much was ac- 

 complished, and though the ideal on which his heart was set is still 

 far from achievement and progress has been delayed by war and other 

 causes, he always met impediments with resolute courage and dis- 

 appointments with manly fortitude. This Board found him ever 

 resourceful, never sparing of his own strength, or time, or comfort, 

 always passionately devoted to the purpose of making this University 

 one of the great schools of the British Empire and a source of strength 

 and progress to this Province. 



