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eluded in that category. However, Meltzer was not of the type 

 to grow out of touch with the young men whom he had always so 

 greatly encouraged and his judgment of them was not to be 

 ignored. 



He said to me one day, "Your ideas concerning medical edu- 

 cation are certain to be accepted — not because you say them, but 

 because they are right." These heartening words only illustrate 

 the helpfulness of his spirit as vouchsafed to many. Honest 

 words of strong condemnation or criticism from his lips also 

 meant much to those of us who knew the texture of the mind 

 behind them. 



Last spring he said to me, "If my good friends at the Rocke- 

 feller Institute, out of affection for me and solicitude for my wel- 

 fare, insist that I leave my laboratory there, I want to know if 

 you will not permit me to work in your laboratory." He asked 

 the same privilege of others. In the face of pain and suffering 

 the indomitable spirit of the man could not be overcome. 



We remember how, time and time again, Meltzer has sat 

 among the front seats of this Academy next to his old friend, 

 Abraham Jacobi, and we are grateful to have known one who 

 has added by his own work and by his own personality so richly 

 to the growth of New York as a center of medical science. The 

 story of his life is of value to us all. Once he proudly remarked, 

 "I am of the race of which came Jesus Christ." And, in fact, 

 there are few men of our time who more completely embodied 

 all the Christian virtues. 



