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 Pror. Craic’s letters that he 
was a matured, advanced thinker along agricultural lines, both 
educationally and experimentally . . . In himI 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 Craic 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.” 
