" The facujty, being informed that Professor Eli 

 Whitney Blake, for twenty-five years professor of 

 physics in the University, has resigned his chair, sends 

 to him its greetings, and expresses to him from each 

 and every member of the board the best wishes for 

 his health and happiness, and at the same time the 

 most sincere regret that he has decided to withdraw 

 from the University. 



" Professor Blake's services to Brown University 

 have been such that no one who knows him can have 

 failed to recognize his devotion to his chosen branch 

 of science, most constant industry in that laboratory 

 which is a memorial of his thought and skill as well 

 as a monument to its generous donor, his deep interest 

 in the welfare of his pupils, and the conscientiousness 

 with which he applied himself to every task to which 

 his duty called him. While his high attainments as 

 a scholar and a man of science have secured for him 

 the respect alike of his colleagues and his pupils, his 

 genuiness of nature, his high sense of honor and duty 

 and truth, his sweetness of temper and his purity 

 of soul have added to respect an enduring and sincere 

 affection." 



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