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as is now evident since so many of them 

 have been carried into practical affairs. 



At other times he worked out problems 

 in his laboratory with consuming intensity. 

 It would seem as if while under what I 

 have called the spell of his reflective mood, 

 a problem would formulate itself more 

 definitely, or some barring obstacle give 

 way to a revealed point of view. However 

 that may be, my notion was that the 

 periods of reflection were signs that he 

 would attack a new or solve an old prob- 

 lem; and I always looked for new ideas 

 and accomplishments when the mood 

 changed. 



If I have at all succeeded in revealing 

 Doctor jMall as he appeared to me, then I 

 have presented to you a complex person- 

 ality. The remarkable thing is the way in 

 which all the pronounced qualities that 

 characterized him were fused into a simple, 

 harmonious, kind and lovable individual- 

 ity. I have referred already to Mall's 

 democratic spirit. He was an intense lover 

 and active exponent of liberty. His belief 

 and confidence in freedom extended far 

 beyond the confines of the university and 

 laboratorj', and into the world of politics 

 and government. Freedom within the uni- 

 versity he held as the first condition of the 

 successful struggle of the forces of light 

 over superstition and darkness. Within 

 the walls of his laboratory the fullest 

 liberty prevailed. Once outside the realm 

 of the prescribed task for training, each 

 man followed the bent of his own talents 

 and tastes. However, his principles as 

 well as his practise sharply differentiated 

 between liberty and license; hence the rise 

 under him of a group of strong, independ- 

 ent, but sound teachers and investigators. 

 Mall M'ould probably have combated the 

 suggestion that he produced a school of 

 anatomists, using the term in its u.sual 

 significance. He would probably have in- 



sisted that he merely continued in Amer- 

 ica the system which he pursued or saw in 

 force in Switzerland and Germany. But 

 I believe rather that he made such definite 

 contributions to the higher education and 

 training of anatomists, and produced in, 

 alas! a few brief years so large a number 

 of varied and capable teachers and investi- 

 gators, as to mark a new era in the his- 

 tory of higher educational endeavor. 



I said that his deep convictions of free- 

 dom carried him into the wider domain of 

 social liberty, ilall never propagandized 

 on this subject. He however felt intensely 

 about it. It is noteworthy that with all 

 the admiration for the freedom of migra- 

 tion from universitj' to university and the 

 wide election of subjects and ideas in the 

 German university, to the social and polit- 

 ical conditions of that country he was anti- 

 pathetic. To so strong a "democrat," to 

 use that term in its wider and better sig- 

 nificance, a studied paternalism and im- 

 perialistic tendency were deeply unsym- 

 pathetic. 



Mall's sincerity, self-effacement, and 

 never-failing consideration were at the root 

 of his noble qualities and made companion- 

 ship with him a rare privilege. I have 

 already spoken of my own good fortune 

 in possessing in some degree his intimate 

 friendship. It is a rare possession indeed 

 and one to be cherished. But I owe him 

 also an educational impress, none the less 

 valuable because of its subtle nature. I 

 am of the opinion that his pupils were in- 

 fluenced by this unusual quality which be- 

 cause of its elusiveness seems an emana- 

 tion — so little was it given off or received 

 with immediate conscious perception. 



]\Iall was absorbed in ideas. They 

 formed the substance of his serious talk, 

 but he was by no means a stranger to the 

 ligliter side of human relations, for he 

 possessed a gentle and engaging humor 



