XVI MEMORIAL ADDRKSS 



affectionate obligation for the lasting benefits received 

 at his hand. He did not try to educate us. He did 

 better. With deeper insight, he taught us to use 

 our own faculties in educating ourselves, the begin- 

 ning and the end of real education, and if we have 

 not profited by the lesson it is no fault of the master. 

 It is the good fortune of the teacher that the stuff 

 in which he works is not of clay, but imperishable. 

 His material is the human mind, the youthful mind, 

 plastic and sensitive, " wax to receive and marble to 

 retain." Every pupil becomes a new center of his 

 influence, taking up his work, perhaps unconsciously, 

 and carrying it out to a wider circle and on to a new 

 age. His harvest is reaped only to be resown and 

 gathered an hundred fold. Such was the happy lot of 

 our old mentor and friend to whom we now bid fare- 

 well. So shall he live again, long after his body 

 has mingled with its native dust, as the seed of his 

 sowing blossoms anew and bears fruit in regions 

 which his foot never trod, for those who never heard 

 the sound of his name. 



