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ing of an opportunist, very little of a politician. He fought in the 
open and won his battles not by indirection but because of the right- 
eousness of his cause. 
He was finely sensitive to the moralities of life and was persistent 
in efforts to improve the moral conditions surrounding the thousands 
of students under his direction and for whose welfare he was in a 
large measure held responsible. He felt the obligations of citizenship 
as few of us do, and whether called for duty by city, State or nation 
gave loyal and effective service. If the purpose of our Universities is 
to develop a trained citizenship, then President Stone was at once a 
matchless leader and a brilliant example. 
If we attempt to measure him by those things which appealed vo 
him in his moments of leisure and relaxation we may perhaps gain a 
truer conception of his fine and attractive personality. He was an 
intense lover of music, losing no opportunity of hearing great artists. 
His was a taste trained to the appreciation of the best both in theme 
and interpretation. He played no instrument, he did not sing, but he 
found in music that which answered needs of mind and heart and soul. 
He loved books, and here again his taste was of the best. It needed 
but a casual glance at his library to see how wide-ranging were his 
interests and what his books meant to him. But above all he loved 
nature. He loved flowers and trees and knew them; he loved birds and 
animals and understood their ways; he loved the outdoor world and 
revelled in its beauties, whether it was the serene and quiet beauty of 
the meadows and lakes and rivers, or the majestic, ineffable grandeur 
and beauty of glacier-clad mountains. One can readily understand 
what such a passion for nature meant to the tired man, not merely in 
satisfying his love for beauty, but as an actual recreation. 
If he had to leave us, there is something of comfort in the thought 
that in full vigor of body and mind, doing that which called him so 
compellingly, having won the summit he had sought to conquer, he 
entered upon the “great adventure.” 
President Stone became a member of the Academy in 1889, when 
he took the chair of Chemistry at Purdue University. In the earlier 
years of his membership he was regular in his attendance upon both 
the winter and spring meetings. As administrative duties crowded upon 
him he found himself unable to attend as frequently as he desired. In 
spite of this he never lost interest in the Academy, attending its sessions 
when it was possible for him to do so, and each year urging members 
of the faculty to an active participation in its affairs. In his early 
years he published quite largely, as will be seen by the following bibli- 
ography, for the compilation and use of which I am indebted to Dr. P. 
N. Evans: 
LIST OF PAPERS BY W. E. STONE. 
Abstracted in Chem. Zemtralblatt. 
Gans R., Stone, W. E., und Tollens, B. 
Zuckersawubild als Reaktion auf Dextrose in Raffinose, etc. 
Centr. 188 p. 1090. Ber 21 2148-52 1888. 
