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A Woo AION Ph.D: 
Intelligence comes from India that Dr. Stratton passed away at 
Gulmarg, Kashmir, whither he had gone for his summer vacation. 
From 1899 to the time of his death, Mr. Stratton was Principal of 
the Oriental College in Lahore, and Registrar of the Punjab Univer- 
sity, a position of marked responsibility and honor, in which he was 
immediately preceded by Dr. Stein, an Indianist of high reputation. 
By the death of Dr. Stratton, at the early age of thirty-eight years, 
Oriental scholarship loses from its ranks an earnest worker of great 
promise, and the native born alumni of government colleges in the 
Northwest Provinces of British India mourn the loss of an able, 
sympathetic and conscientious educationalist. 
Dr. Stratton graduated at the Toronto University in 1887, was 
appointed to a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 1893, and 
was docent in sanskrit to the University of Chicago from 1896 to 
1898, when he received his Indian appointment to Lahore. 
For some years Mr. Stratton was on the teaching staff of the 
Collegiate Institute of this city, and was Secretary of the Hamilton 
Association for the promotion of science. In both these positions, 
his kindly disposition and love of learning won him the esteem and 
affection of those who knew him. The dirge of Matthew Arnold 
over the beloved brother, who also died at his post as instructor of 
his Indian fellow subjects, now alas, supplies a too fitting epitaph for 
Dr. Stratton. 
** Pondering God’s mysteries untold 
And tranquil as the glacier-snows, 
He by those Indian mountains old 
Might well repose.” 
