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to his fathers. If there was ever a self-sacrificing 

 moral hero it was this same brave, frail, crippled 

 JOHN A. CRAIG. 



Dean DAVENPORT, of the University of Illinois, 

 the little giant of one of the hardest-fought battles 

 in the history of western agricultural college work, 

 will ever be remembered as the man who has made 

 the Illinois institution, over which he still presides, 

 one of the greatest of all existing schools of its 

 class. How he did it none but himself will ever really 

 know. Surrounded by such able, conscientious co- 

 workers as MUMFORD, GOFFEY, and a faculty of alto- 

 gether exceptional strength, he lives to enjoy his 

 richly -merited success as he plans still greater 

 things for Illinois. 



The portraits of Dean HENRY, JERE RUSK, JOHN 

 DRYDEN and JAMES WILSON look down upon me as 

 I pass and seem to say, "There is one of our 

 company here we v/ould not wish you to ignore. 

 We knew him well, and in the old days labored often 

 side by side. Forget not the days of thy youth." 

 My father! Yes, it is true he is also here. To be 

 sure the artist has not done as well with this por- 

 trait as he did in the case of the one that hangs in 

 my own private office; but it serves. But what am 

 I to say and where am I to begin? I can only yield 



