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classes. In addition to the asset of an impressive personality he was 
always prepared to the smallest details for his lectures, labora- 
tories, or any other tasks. 
His students sought him as a friend and advisor and his office 
was at times an assembly for those wanting counsel on various 
matters. 
As an associate, his chief motive was to help others. If there 
was an opportunity to do something for his fellowmen that would 
make this world “seem better to live in” as he himself expressed 
it, he always saw the opportunity and turned it to account. 
He was unblemished morally and was guided by a high stand- 
ard of ideals. In his death, not only has science lost a young 
man of great promise, but to all humanity there befalls the loss of 
a young man, clean and with the noblest of aims, the type of man the 
world so much needs. T ™ 
John N. Martin 
