No teacher in my day preserved better order in the class room, and 

 no one was more successful with his classes. 



We have heard to-day, or shall hear, of his work in connection 

 with the establishment and upbuilding of this College, and of his 

 scientific and practical work in the field of agriculture, but after all, 

 I feel, as you all must feel, that his most beneficent influence, his 

 greatest achievement, was his personal, close relationship to the stu- 

 dent body of this institution ; for while he was a natural instructor, 

 clear, brilliant and enthusiastic, yet he was greatest and best as friend 

 and adviser. The College was extremely fortunate in having at the 

 start such a man — healthful, helpful, courageous, buoyant and opti- 

 mistic, but always possessed of good judgment. He was sunny, 

 hopeful, sane. In all my thirty-seven years' acquaintance with him 

 I never saw him cast down. 



Many of us found him a helpful friend in a substantial way. I do 

 not know how many young men owe the completion of their college 

 course to his financial aid. I fear many would not have gone through 

 this institution if he had not helped them. We can all see him now, 

 at least some of us can, when we were strapped — and what young 

 man does not get in that fix now and then ? — we can see him, after 

 he had asked us a few leading questions, put in such a way as never 

 to disclose his feelings but always ours — he was as keen as the keen- 

 est lawyer — we can see him pull out his old leather wallet from a 

 pair of ungainly-fitting trousers, leisurely unstrap it, and hand out a 

 five or a ten dollar bill without further comment. How relieved we 

 were ! How the clouds lifted, and how life took on a new hope for 

 us ! I sometimes think he took a secret delight in our temporary 

 discomfiture, and in our manifest pleasure when the ordeal was over, 

 for the twinkle of his eye and the smile of his lip were very expres- 

 sive and will ever be remembered by his numerous boys. I wonder 

 if he always kept account of the aid which he gave. I hope and be- 

 lieve that the boys did, and returned it with interest ; but whether 

 that was the case or not, he enjoyed helping them, for he had been 

 there himself. Moreover, he had been taught that it was good to 

 cast his bread upon the w r aters, knowing that it would come back to 

 some one, if not to him, in God's own way and time. He wanted no 

 young man to fail of going through his beloved institution for lack 

 of funds ; and yet he believed in every man helping himself. If he 

 had been a millionaire he would not have been lavish in his aid — he 



