LETTERS FROM COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS 



"While words are a poor solace at such a time as this, there 

 must be some degree of satisfaction in knowing that your brother, 

 Dr. Cyril Hopkins, had a wonderful career, a career of which you 

 may feel very proud and to which we South Dakotans, especially 

 those of us who have a personal connection with the State College, 

 point with the greatest satisfaction. As a pioneer in the study of 

 soils, he may almost be called the father of permanent agriculture. 

 As a teacher and an inspirer of young people, he had no superior, and 

 as a man, a gentle man, deeply interested in the personal problems of 

 his pupils and filled with the spirit of serving them and helping them 

 surmount their difficulties, I doubt whether he had an equal. I have 

 heard many of his former pupils speak of him with the greatest rev- 

 erence and affection. 



"It seems to us that we cannot let him go. We can but wonder 

 why a man like him should be stricken down when he was apparently 

 at the height of his powers. But we know that the world is better 

 because Cyril Hopkins lived." 



Robert L. Slagle 

 President, University of South Dakota 

 {Written to Mr. H. L. Hopkins) 



"Agricultural work in this country has lost one of its foremost 

 workers, and he will be sadly missed in our agricultural work." 



B. W. Kilgore 

 Director, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 



"I had considerable acquaintance with Dr. Hopkins and always 

 admired his sturdy common sense and tenacity of purpose. His un- 

 timely death was a great shock and was a real loss to practical and 

 scientific agriculture. Such men as he are far too few, and can be 

 illy spared." 



J. T. WlLLARD 

 Vice-President, Kansas State Agricultural College 

 Vice-Director, Agricultural Experiment Station 



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