OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 79 



At the time of his resignation from Oklahoma, Dean Henry 

 wrote a friend: "The thing that pleased me more than words 

 can express, was the showing in Prof. Craig's letters that he 

 was a matured, advanced thinker along agricultural lines, both 

 educationally and experimentally ... In him I saw a leader, 

 one who was making good and leaving his mark. I felt that 

 under his guidance Oklahoma would soon have an agricultural 

 development that would serve as a model for the whole south- 

 western United States, if not for a much larger region . . . 

 Does Oklahoma realize that she is losing in the passing of 

 Professor Craig one of the all too few really intellectually 

 mature, unselfish leaders in agricultural education and research. 

 Does she realize that to replace such a man she cannot find half 

 a dozen in the whole United States, and they are fixtures and 

 not seeking positions. Men in agricultural teaching and research 

 who have the right makeup in intellect, spirit and training are 

 oh! so rare." 



Not long before his death. Professor Craig sent to some of 

 his friends the following beautiful sentiment, a sentiment he 

 had lived more significantly than he knew: 



"Lord, make me respect my material so much that I dare not 

 slight my work. Help me to deal very honestly with words and 

 with people, because they are both alive. Show me that as in a 

 river, so in a writing, clearness is the best quality, and a little 

 that is pure is worth more than much that is mired. Teach me 

 to see the local color without being blind to the inner light. 

 Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into 

 human stuff on the loom of the real. Keep me from caring 

 more for books than for folks, for art more than for life. Steady 

 me to do my full stint of work as well as I can, and when that 

 is done, stop me, pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say 

 from a quiet heart, a grateful Amen." 



