The University of California 



Magazine 



Volume VII SEPTEMBER, 1901 No. 5 



JOSEPH LE CONTE. 

 The Measure of Our Love for Him. 



by wm. e. ritter 



He is gone beyond the reach of our voices. 

 A mysterious love that uutil now we did not know 

 We would tell him but cannot. 



Tell him! Love that bindeth beyond the grave is not told ! 

 Such love tilleth into rich fruitage 

 The seeds of his immortality to whom it goeth out — 

 Seeds planted by his own hand 

 In the eager soil of other lives — 

 And so uttereth itself. 



THE GREATNESS OF JOSEPH EE CONTE. 



BY THOMAS R. BACON. 



TT7HEN the news came to us that he, whom we all loved, 

 ^ ^ the great teacher and good man, had passed from "the 

 utmost bound of the everlasting hills" he loved so well into 

 the immediate presence of the eternal verities in which he had 

 already so largely lived, no one could feel a real regret that 

 so fitting a life was so fittingly ended. The history of the 

 University of California has not been an untroubled one. 

 There have been times of tumult and dispute. But across it 



