DECEMBER 20, 1918] 
simple in his tastes, delighting in the curling smoke 
of the campfire and the small, still voices of the 
wild woods. He was accessible to every one and 
sought advice from all who would offer it; he re- 
spected honest opponents and worked with them as 
harmoniously after a conflict as before; he endured 
even malicious personal criticism with serenity. 
His tolerance was indeed amazing, and it sprang, 
not from indifference or disdain, but from single- 
hearted devotion to the larger, benign purposes that 
he cherished for men, and from the concentration 
of his strength upon the effort to realize them. 
It was characteristic of the steady and consist- 
ent broadening of his interests that he passed from 
the study of the forces which have knit the outer 
fabric of the earth to the investigation of some of 
the potent influences which make or mar the wel- 
fare of men. The well-being of the people of Wis- 
eonsin, of the people of the nation, engaged the 
productive energies of his mature manhood. 
When the great war came and threatened the de- 
struction of western civilization, he bent all the 
powers of his mind and heart to the great prob- 
lem of gaining the victory for liberty and justice, 
and then, in these later, stupendous weeks, to a 
greater problem of making that victory secure 
through the organization of a brotherhood of free 
nations. The leader who began his presidency with 
the noble ideal of freeing human capacity through- 
out the commonwealth of Wisconsin fittingly 
crowned his too brief days, in the fulness of his 
powers, with well-wrought plans for ensuring to na- 
tional and to individual capacity a free oppor- 
tunity throughout a liberated world. 
We rejoice that he has dwelt among us and that 
his spirit has moulded and will continue to mould 
the life of the university. ‘‘They may rest from 
their labors; and their works do follow them.’’ 
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 
THE PRODUCTION OF MARBLE IN 1917 
Tue value of marble sold in the United 
States in 1917, according to reports made by 
the producers to G. F. Loughlin, United States 
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, 
was $6,330,387, a decrease of 10 per cent. 
($702,784) from the value in 1916 and the 
lowest annual value for our marble output 
since 1904. The quantity produced in 1917 
was about 3,627,750 cubic feet (310,130 tons), 
as against about 4,795,000 cubie feet (409,970 
tons) in 1916—a decrease of 24 per cent. The 
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quantity produced in 1917 included a small 
proportion of serpentine, as shown in a later 
paragraph, but no “ onyx marble.” 
Of the marble sold in 1917, 2,156,351 cubic 
feet (about 184,370 tons), valued at $6,100,280, 
was building and monumental marble—a de- 
crease of 33 per cent. in quantity and 11 per 
cent. in value compared with 1916. The aver- 
age price of this stone per cubic foot was 
$2.83 in 1917 and $2.13 in 1916. 
The marble sold for use as flux, terrazzo and 
mosaic work, and ornamental stone, and the 
pulverized marble sold for use in agriculture 
and in manufactures amounted to 125,764 
tons, valued at $280,107. The marble sold for 
these purposes in 1916 amounted to 136,217 
short tons valued at $209,155. 
The total value of marble sold in 1917 for 
use as building stone (3,702,563) was 22 per 
cent. less than that sold in 1916, and the total 
quantity (1,470,793 cubie feet) was 35 per 
cent. less. Exterior building stone, which 
represented 36 per cent. of the total quantity 
of building stone, decreased 37 per cent. in 
quantity and 25 per cent. in value; stone for 
interior work, which represented 64 per cent. 
of the total quantity, decreased 34 per cent. in 
quantity and 20 per cent. in value. Marble 
sold dressed for use in the exterior of build- 
ings was the only building stone product that 
showed increase in quantity (13,549 cubic 
feet) in 1917; but the value of this product 
decreased $38,328 (4.7 per cent.). The general 
average price of marble sold as building stone 
(rough and dressed) in 1917 was $2.52 per 
cubic foot; the average value of exterior stone 
was $2.05 and of interior stone $2.77. Ver- 
mont and Tennessee produced over 56 per 
cent. of the quantity of marble quarried for 
use as building stone, each state reporting 
over 390,000 cubic feet. Vermont’s output was 
nearly equally divided between exterior and 
interior stone, whereas 97 per cent. of Ten- 
nessee’s product was interior building stone. 
About 37 per cent. of the Vermont and over 
50 per cent. of the Tennessee marble was sold 
as rough stone. Georgia and Missouri were 
the next largest producers of building marble, 
