LETTERS FROM COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS 



Greece. The information has come to me thru the newspapers. I 

 beg pardon for not using ink inasmuch as such a thing does not exist 

 in this place." 



Antonios M. Lioses 

 Seaman, Central Training School, Poros, Greece 

 ( Translation of a letter addressed to the Di- 

 rector of the American Red Cross in Athens) 



"Those who believed very deeply in Doctor Hopkins' work feel 

 that our leader is taken away. His work amounted to a cause for all 

 peoples, for human advancement must go forward by such work as 

 was done by him. With him personally his work was part of an 

 abiding faith that inspired others — to believe in the soil, as the basis 

 of human life. His desire to preserve the land was his ruling passion. 

 "It is no sentimentality to say that the Great Spirit led him out 

 to spend a year among those Grecian peasants, stricken by war, 

 famine, starvation, pestilence — telling the Greeks how civilization 

 must be rebuilt on the basis of knowledge about the land. He finished 

 that report, and gave it to the Greeks; telling them again that 

 peoples must learn to use the earth and not abuse it — for that is the 

 law of life." 



Albert Nash Hume 



Agronomist and Superintendent of Substations, 



South Dakota State College of Agriculture 



and Agricultural Experiment Station 



(Extract from an editorial in the Farmer and Breeder) 



"Great as were his achievements in his chosen field, and their 

 effects will be felt for generations, still to us he was greater as a man 

 than as a scientist, for he had a breadth which was not always realized 

 because of his earnestness in advocating his cause ; he had a kindly, 

 genial spirit though he did not advertise it; and he was the soul of 

 honor and constancy. The country misses and mourns Doctor Hop- 

 kins as a scientist, a patriot, a diligent upbuilder of its fundamental 



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